Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
9 pending office actions • 3 clients • 9 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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. 9 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 | 8 (89%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 1 | 64.7% | +13.6% |
| SINGH, KAVEL | 1 | 83.6% | +14.0% |
| CHEIN, ALLEN C | 1 | 44.0% | +40.3% |
| SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 1 | 68.1% | +45.5% |
| WALKER, OLIVIA | 1 | 28.6% | +0.0% |
| DANG, CHRISTINE | 1 | 48.8% | +50.2% |
| BEKELE, MEKONEN T | 1 | 79.3% | +13.1% |
| SUMLAR, JOURNEY F | 1 | 69.0% | +10.4% |
| PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 64.6% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923690 | CAUTIONING METHOD, RESTAURANT SYSTEM, RESTAURANT PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | SINGH, KAVEL | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18474620 | OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT DEVICE | WALKER, OLIVIA | 77d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18319372 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING OPTOMETRY CONTROL PROGRAM AND SUBJECTIVE OPTOMETRY SYSTEM | SUMLAR, JOURNEY F | 49d overdue |
| 18345275 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, OPHTHALMOLOGIC IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING OPHTHALMOLOGIC IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | BEKELE, MEKONEN T | 24d overdue |
| 18902612 | FOOD PROVIDING SYSTEM AND EVENT PROCESSING METHOD | CHEIN, ALLEN C | 23d overdue |
| 18271740 | VOTING SYSTEM AND VOTING PROGRAM | DANG, CHRISTINE | 4d overdue |
| 18319367 | STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING OPTOMETRY CONTROL PROGRAM, SUBJECTIVE OPTOMETRY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SELF-OPTOMETRY | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 14d |
| 18928187 | RESTAURANT SYSTEM, ALERTING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING ALERTING PROGRAM | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 22d |
| 18923690 | CAUTIONING METHOD, RESTAURANT SYSTEM, RESTAURANT PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | SINGH, KAVEL | 29d |
| 18477067 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 69d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| NIDEK CO., LTD. | 5 |
| Kura Sushi | 3 |
| Asteria | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3698 | 1 |
| 2699 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18928187 | RESTAURANT SYSTEM, ALERTING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING ALERTING PROGRAM | Kura Sushi, Inc. | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18923690 | CAUTIONING METHOD, RESTAURANT SYSTEM, RESTAURANT PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | Kura Sushi, Inc. | SINGH, KAVEL | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18902612 | FOOD PROVIDING SYSTEM AND EVENT PROCESSING METHOD | Kura Sushi, Inc. | CHEIN, ALLEN C | 3627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18477067 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | Nidek Co., Ltd. | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 2668 | — | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18474620 | OPHTHALMIC LASER TREATMENT DEVICE | Nidek Co., Ltd. | WALKER, OLIVIA | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18271740 | VOTING SYSTEM AND VOTING PROGRAM | Asteria Corporation | DANG, CHRISTINE | 3698 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18345275 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, OPHTHALMOLOGIC IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING OPHTHALMOLOGIC IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | Nidek Co., Ltd. | BEKELE, MEKONEN T | 2699 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18319372 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING OPTOMETRY CONTROL PROGRAM AND SUBJECTIVE OPTOMETRY SYSTEM | Nidek Co., Ltd. | SUMLAR, JOURNEY F | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 18319367 | STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING OPTOMETRY CONTROL PROGRAM, SUBJECTIVE OPTOMETRY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SELF-OPTOMETRY | Nidek Co., Ltd. | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 2896 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
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