Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAYRE, JAMES G | 1 | 84.0% | +12.8% |
| CARROLL, DAVID P. | 1 | 80.3% | +14.4% |
| YAO, THEODORE N | 1 | 66.9% | +38.7% |
| THOMPSON, KENNETH L | 1 | 87.4% | +7.1% |
| MACDONALD, STEVEN A | 1 | 80.1% | +13.2% |
| SCHIMPF, TARA E | 1 | 78.6% | +7.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19036310 | RETRIEVABLE BRIDGE PLUG WITH DUAL CHECK VALVES | THOMPSON, KENNETH L | 45d overdue |
| 18954059 | MULTISTAGE COMPLETION TOOL | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19320178 | LUBRICATOR ASSEMBLY WITH FLANGE OR FLOW BLOCK MOUNTED CATCHER | CARROLL, DAVID P. | 34d |
| 19376389 | STEAM DIVERTER APPARATUS AND EXPANSION JOINT | SAYRE, JAMES G | — |
| 19279887 | LUG LATCHING SYSTEM FOR COUPLING A LUBRICATOR TO A WELLHEAD | YAO, THEODORE N | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19320178 | LUBRICATOR ASSEMBLY WITH FLANGE OR FLOW BLOCK MOUNTED CATCHER | CARROLL, DAVID P. | 34d |
| 19376389 | STEAM DIVERTER APPARATUS AND EXPANSION JOINT | SAYRE, JAMES G | — |
| 19279887 | LUG LATCHING SYSTEM FOR COUPLING A LUBRICATOR TO A WELLHEAD | YAO, THEODORE N | — |
| 18954059 | MULTISTAGE COMPLETION TOOL | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 3 |
| 3674 | 2 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19376389 | STEAM DIVERTER APPARATUS AND EXPANSION JOINT | SAYRE, JAMES G | 3672 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19320178 | LUBRICATOR ASSEMBLY WITH FLANGE OR FLOW BLOCK MOUNTED CATCHER | CARROLL, DAVID P. | 3674 | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19279887 | LUG LATCHING SYSTEM FOR COUPLING A LUBRICATOR TO A WELLHEAD | YAO, THEODORE N | 3676 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19036310 | RETRIEVABLE BRIDGE PLUG WITH DUAL CHECK VALVES | THOMPSON, KENNETH L | 3676 | §102 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18954059 | MULTISTAGE COMPLETION TOOL | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | 3674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18610500 | THERMAL LINER TOP ANCHOR PACKER | SCHIMPF, TARA E | 3676 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
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