Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 4 clients • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.9% | +14.6% |
| MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1 | 71.4% | +11.1% |
| PATEL, PREET BAKUL | 1 | 20.0% | -33.3% |
| SHOMER, ISAAC | 1 | 63.1% | +30.7% |
| WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1 | 64.0% | +18.4% |
| GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1 | 53.9% | +14.2% |
| VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | 1 | 28.8% | +47.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18030837 | CURVED LIGHTGUIDE AND APPARATUS AND METHODS EMPLOYING A CURVED LIGHTGUIDE | PATEL, PREET BAKUL | 42d overdue |
| 16612647 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING THE PRESENCE OF ALLELIC DROPOUT USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573512 | STEERABLE ROBOTIC NEEDLES WITH TUNABLE STIFFNESS SEGMENTS FOR LARGE CURVATURE MANEUVERS | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 168d overdue |
| 17807549 | Longpass Distributed Bragg Reflector (LPDBR) | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 155d overdue |
| 18140075 | SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY WITH FERROMAGNETIC POLYMER PILLARS CAPABLE OF MOVEMENT IN RESPONSE TO MAGNETIC FIELDS | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 11d overdue |
| 18122221 | SUGAR-COATED MELANIN NANOPARTICLES AND METHOD FOR TARGETING METASTATIC CANCER CELLS | SHOMER, ISAAC | 5d overdue |
| 17872833 | ENHANCEMENT OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY VIA RESONANT ANTI-SHIELDING | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 28d |
| 16612647 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING THE PRESENCE OF ALLELIC DROPOUT USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | 3 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE | 2 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | 1 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573512 | STEERABLE ROBOTIC NEEDLES WITH TUNABLE STIFFNESS SEGMENTS FOR LARGE CURVATURE MANEUVERS | Syracuse University | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | — | Non-Final OA | 168d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18140075 | SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY WITH FERROMAGNETIC POLYMER PILLARS CAPABLE OF MOVEMENT IN RESPONSE TO MAGNETIC FIELDS | Syracuse University | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18030837 | CURVED LIGHTGUIDE AND APPARATUS AND METHODS EMPLOYING A CURVED LIGHTGUIDE | UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | PATEL, PREET BAKUL | 2874 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 18122221 | SUGAR-COATED MELANIN NANOPARTICLES AND METHOD FOR TARGETING METASTATIC CANCER CELLS | The Trustees of Boston College | SHOMER, ISAAC | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 17872833 | ENHANCEMENT OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY VIA RESONANT ANTI-SHIELDING | The Trustees of Boston College | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jul 25, 2022 |
| 17807549 | Longpass Distributed Bragg Reflector (LPDBR) | Rochester Institute Of Technology | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1721 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 155d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 16612647 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING THE PRESENCE OF ALLELIC DROPOUT USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS | Syracuse University | VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT | 1687 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2019 |
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