Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON, LEE D | 1 | 80.0% | +18.7% |
| NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 1 | 76.5% | +32.3% |
| FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 1 | 52.5% | +28.0% |
| NORTON, JOHN J | 1 | 67.4% | +28.8% |
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 61.5% | +38.3% |
| FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 1 | 40.7% | +33.3% |
| SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 1 | 52.9% | +30.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18048781 | SPHERICAL ABERRATION ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR OBJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM, OBJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM AND LASER MACHINING DEVICE | NIGAM, NATASHA | 24d overdue |
| 18140452 | LASER MACHINING APPARATUS AND LASER MACHINING METHOD | NORTON, JOHN J | 3d overdue |
| 18899620 | EXPANSION RETAINING RING | WILSON, LEE D | — |
| 18324151 | METHOD OF FORMING TRUER | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18048781 | SPHERICAL ABERRATION ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR OBJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM, OBJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM AND LASER MACHINING DEVICE | NIGAM, NATASHA | 24d overdue |
| 18140452 | LASER MACHINING APPARATUS AND LASER MACHINING METHOD | NORTON, JOHN J | 3d overdue |
| 17902995 | PROCESSING DEVICE | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 16d |
| 18899620 | EXPANSION RETAINING RING | WILSON, LEE D | — |
| 18281941 | PROCESSING APPARATUS | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — |
| 18324151 | METHOD OF FORMING TRUER | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | — |
| 18047389 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND LASER MACHINING DEVICE | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 3 |
| 3761 | 2 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18899620 | EXPANSION RETAINING RING | WILSON, LEE D | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18281941 | PROCESSING APPARATUS | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18324151 | METHOD OF FORMING TRUER | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18140452 | LASER MACHINING APPARATUS AND LASER MACHINING METHOD | NORTON, JOHN J | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18048781 | SPHERICAL ABERRATION ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR OBJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM, OBJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM AND LASER MACHINING DEVICE | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2022 |
| 18047389 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND LASER MACHINING DEVICE | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
| 17902995 | PROCESSING DEVICE | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Sep 05, 2022 |
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