Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Vanguard Automation GmbH has 1 pending office action currently active. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Steven H Whitesell. Whitesell is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review.
The data reports 0 distinct art units for this portfolio. With 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution profile is very narrow. This single action constitutes the company's entire current office action workload. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the single examiner handling the active matter. The presence of 1 distinct examiner for the single case ensures a direct line of communication.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 1 | 81.9% | +12.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079616 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTICALLY PROCESSING AN OBJECT | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079616 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTICALLY PROCESSING AN OBJECT | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079616 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTICALLY PROCESSING AN OBJECT | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
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