Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, PHILLIP A | 1 | 81.5% | +12.9% |
| WAITS, ALAN B | 1 | 68.9% | +29.6% |
| WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 1 | 52.1% | +41.0% |
| CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 1 | 63.6% | +32.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19241161 | BEARING ASSEMBLIES CONFIGURED TO ACCOMMODATE AXIAL MOVEMENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | JOHNSON, PHILLIP A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18979206 | EXTRUDER DRIVER GEARS AND RELATED ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS INCLUDING EXTRUDER DRIVER GEARS | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | — |
| 18844758 | POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND ELEMENT INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE LEACHING FEATURE, CUTTING TOOL INSERTS AND SYSTEMS INCORPORATING SAME, AND RELATED METHODS | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19241161 | BEARING ASSEMBLIES CONFIGURED TO ACCOMMODATE AXIAL MOVEMENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | JOHNSON, PHILLIP A | — |
| 19188257 | ATTACHMENT OF BEARING MEMBERS AND RELATED BEARING ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS | WAITS, ALAN B | — |
| 18979206 | EXTRUDER DRIVER GEARS AND RELATED ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS INCLUDING EXTRUDER DRIVER GEARS | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | — |
| 18844758 | POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND ELEMENT INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE LEACHING FEATURE, CUTTING TOOL INSERTS AND SYSTEMS INCORPORATING SAME, AND RELATED METHODS | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19241161 | BEARING ASSEMBLIES CONFIGURED TO ACCOMMODATE AXIAL MOVEMENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | JOHNSON, PHILLIP A | 3617 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19188257 | ATTACHMENT OF BEARING MEMBERS AND RELATED BEARING ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS | WAITS, ALAN B | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 18979206 | EXTRUDER DRIVER GEARS AND RELATED ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS INCLUDING EXTRUDER DRIVER GEARS | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 1754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18844758 | POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND ELEMENT INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE LEACHING FEATURE, CUTTING TOOL INSERTS AND SYSTEMS INCORPORATING SAME, AND RELATED METHODS | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
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