Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
16 pending office actions • 5 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 14 (88%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 2 | 40.9% | +39.9% |
| KIM, YUNJU | 1 | 55.6% | +34.8% |
| WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1 | 54.7% | +17.1% |
| MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG | 1 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
| ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 1 | 63.2% | +21.7% |
| CHOU, JIMMY | 1 | 71.3% | +15.0% |
| NORTON, JOHN J | 1 | 67.2% | +29.0% |
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 59.9% | +37.1% |
| LIU, CHRIS Q | 1 | 69.0% | +39.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18393748 | METHOD FOR TRAVERSING A WELDING CONTOUR MULTIPLE TIMES USING MULTIPLE LASER SPOTS | PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | — |
| 18302008 | METHOD FOR LASER WELDING TWO THIN WORKPIECES IN A REGION OF OVERLAP | PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18156413 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A LASER WELDING PROCESS FOR WELDING TWO WORKPIECES WITH REGARD TO A BRIDGED GAP | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 66d overdue |
| 18503204 | MEASURING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH A MEASURING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MANUFACTURING DEVICE FOR GENERATIVE MANUFACTURING OF A COMPONENT PART FROM A POWDER MATERIAL | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 58d overdue |
| 18067746 | PROCESSING OPTICAL UNIT, LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LASER PROCESSING | LIU, CHRIS Q | 22d overdue |
| 18906276 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AT LEAST ONE OBJECT IN LAYERS, WITH STEP-BY-STEP UPDATING OF THE COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION OF SCANNERS | KIM, YUNJU | 11d overdue |
| 18149169 | MANUFACTURING DEVICE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF COMPONENT PARTS FROM A POWDER MATERIAL, METHOD FOR CHANGING A BEAM PROFILE OF AN ENERGY BEAM, AND USE OF AT LEAST ONE ACOUSTO-OPTIC DEFLECTOR | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 27d |
| 18331971 | LASER PROCESSING OF A PARTLY TRANSPARENT WORKPIECE USING A QUASI-NON-DIFFRACTIVE LASER BEAM | NORTON, JOHN J | 28d |
| 18798856 | LASER CLADDING METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF COATING LAYERS ON MUTUALLY OPPOSITE SURFACES OF A COMPONENT | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18393755 | METHOD FOR MEDIA-IMPERMEABLE WELDING OF ALUMINUM-CONTAINING COMPONENTS | MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 10 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18906276 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AT LEAST ONE OBJECT IN LAYERS, WITH STEP-BY-STEP UPDATING OF THE COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION OF SCANNERS | KIM, YUNJU | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18798856 | LASER CLADDING METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF COATING LAYERS ON MUTUALLY OPPOSITE SURFACES OF A COMPONENT | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18393755 | METHOD FOR MEDIA-IMPERMEABLE WELDING OF ALUMINUM-CONTAINING COMPONENTS | MACEDA, KRYSTENE NHE BANDONG | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18393748 | METHOD FOR TRAVERSING A WELDING CONTOUR MULTIPLE TIMES USING MULTIPLE LASER SPOTS | PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18503204 | MEASURING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH A MEASURING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MANUFACTURING DEVICE FOR GENERATIVE MANUFACTURING OF A COMPONENT PART FROM A POWDER MATERIAL | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 1743 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18338357 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING A WORKPIECE | CHOU, JIMMY | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18331971 | LASER PROCESSING OF A PARTLY TRANSPARENT WORKPIECE USING A QUASI-NON-DIFFRACTIVE LASER BEAM | NORTON, JOHN J | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18302008 | METHOD FOR LASER WELDING TWO THIN WORKPIECES IN A REGION OF OVERLAP | PARK, JE HWAN JOHN | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 18156413 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A LASER WELDING PROCESS FOR WELDING TWO WORKPIECES WITH REGARD TO A BRIDGED GAP | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
| 18149169 | MANUFACTURING DEVICE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF COMPONENT PARTS FROM A POWDER MATERIAL, METHOD FOR CHANGING A BEAM PROFILE OF AN ENERGY BEAM, AND USE OF AT LEAST ONE ACOUSTO-OPTIC DEFLECTOR | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
| 18067746 | PROCESSING OPTICAL UNIT, LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LASER PROCESSING | LIU, CHRIS Q | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2022 |
| 18053384 | LASER CUTTING METHOD AND LASER CUTTING APPARATUS | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
| 17878310 | METHODS AND LASER WELDING DEVICES FOR DEEP WELDING A WORKPIECE | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2022 |
| 17719445 | LASER WELDING FOR CORNER JOINS OF WORKPIECE PARTS | HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2022 |
| 17719461 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A LITHIUM FOIL OR A LITHIUM-COATED METAL FOIL BY A LASER BEAM | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2022 |
| 17313010 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A DEVICE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2021 |
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