Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zeus Company Inc. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
MIGGINS, MICHAEL C is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners assigned to 4 pending office actions, the prosecution workload is distributed across different personnel within the 2 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1 | 80.8% | +16.6% |
| LAN, YAN | 1 | 63.1% | +21.9% |
| GRAY, PHILLIP A | 1 | 74.4% | +10.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18413570 | PTFE LINERS WITH REDUCED COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18230421 | TIE-LAYER COATING FOR CATHETER LINERS | GRAY, PHILLIP A | 26d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18238034 | UHMWPE PASTE EXTRUDED TUBES | LAN, YAN | 5d |
| 18230421 | TIE-LAYER COATING FOR CATHETER LINERS | GRAY, PHILLIP A | 26d |
| 18413570 | PTFE LINERS WITH REDUCED COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18413570 | PTFE LINERS WITH REDUCED COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1782 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18238034 | UHMWPE PASTE EXTRUDED TUBES | LAN, YAN | 1782 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18230421 | TIE-LAYER COATING FOR CATHETER LINERS | GRAY, PHILLIP A | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
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