Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 1 | 80.3% | +10.4% |
| KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 1 | 63.8% | +19.2% |
| PONTON, JAMES D | 1 | 80.4% | +32.5% |
| ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 1 | 68.1% | +31.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836455 | CLOSED-LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17764191 | MULTI-RATE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE | PONTON, JAMES D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836455 | CLOSED-LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
| 18578366 | LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICE WITH VALVE | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | — |
| 17764191 | MULTI-RATE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE | PONTON, JAMES D | — |
| 17549971 | LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICE WITH DUAL LUMEN IV SPIKE | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18836455 | CLOSED-LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18578366 | LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICE WITH VALVE | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 17764191 | MULTI-RATE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE | PONTON, JAMES D | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2022 |
| 17549971 | LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICE WITH DUAL LUMEN IV SPIKE | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2021 |
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