Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
12 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 | 7 (58%) |
| §102 only | 2 (17%) |
| §112 only | 2 (17%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, MICHAEL S | 5 | 63.4% | +20.5% |
| LAVINDER, JACK W | 2 | 65.3% | +28.1% |
| MERCADO, LOUIS A | 2 | 79.4% | +18.1% |
| SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 1 | 62.9% | +22.3% |
| WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1 | 61.6% | +29.9% |
| MILLER, WILLIAM L | 1 | 79.0% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566966 | Surface Fastener | LEE, MICHAEL S | 104d overdue |
| 18706094 | SURFACE FASTENER MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SURFACE FASTENER | LEE, MICHAEL S | 37d overdue |
| 18950186 | SLIDER AND FASTENER | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 8d overdue |
| 18292433 | FASTENER CHAIN AND SLIDING FASTENER | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 3d overdue |
| 18725281 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SURFACE FASTENER | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 2d overdue |
| 18776351 | SEAT FASTENER AND INCORPORATION METHOD | LEE, MICHAEL S | 15d |
| 18861940 | SLIDE FASTENER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING STRINGER FOR SLIDE FASTENER | LAVINDER, JACK W | 29d |
| 18840191 | FASTENER STRINGER PROVIDED WITH ROWS OF METAL ELEMENTS, SLIDE FASTENER PROVIDED WITH SAME, AND ARTICLE PROVIDED WITH SLIDE FASTENER | LEE, MICHAEL S | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 11 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18950186 | SLIDER AND FASTENER | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 3677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18861940 | SLIDE FASTENER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING STRINGER FOR SLIDE FASTENER | LAVINDER, JACK W | 3677 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18856338 | Slider | LAVINDER, JACK W | 3677 | Other | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18840191 | FASTENER STRINGER PROVIDED WITH ROWS OF METAL ELEMENTS, SLIDE FASTENER PROVIDED WITH SAME, AND ARTICLE PROVIDED WITH SLIDE FASTENER | LEE, MICHAEL S | 3677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18834273 | Clip and Clip Assembly | LEE, MICHAEL S | 3677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18776351 | SEAT FASTENER AND INCORPORATION METHOD | LEE, MICHAEL S | 3677 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18725281 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SURFACE FASTENER | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18721504 | CLIP ENGAGING MEMBER FOR COVER MATERIAL FIXTURE AND COVER MATERIAL FIXTURE | MILLER, WILLIAM L | 3677 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18706094 | SURFACE FASTENER MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SURFACE FASTENER | LEE, MICHAEL S | 3677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18292433 | FASTENER CHAIN AND SLIDING FASTENER | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 3677 | §112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18566966 | Surface Fastener | LEE, MICHAEL S | 3677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 104d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18032106 | WATERPROOF SLIDE FASTENER AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 3677 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
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