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Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Franklin & Associates International Inc has a career history of 419 applications, primarily within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate pct of 83.75. On average, the firm navigates the prosecution process with an avg office actions per allowance of 2.41, suggesting a path to allowance for its clients.
There are currently 419 career applications on record, with 4 pending office actions currently requiring attention. The resolved allowance rate pct of 83.75 reflects the firm's results in the Chemistry & Materials sector. Furthermore, the avg office actions per allowance of 2.41 provides a metric for the firm's efficiency in responding to examiner rejections. These data points collectively illustrate the firm's established presence in chemical patent prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 2 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUMAR, NATHAN | 1 | 78.8% | +14.4% |
| FERNANDES, ERROL V | 1 | 85.4% | +10.8% |
| STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 1 | 54.4% | +26.1% |
| DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 1 | 90.3% | +2.0% |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.0% | +15.2% |
| HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 1 | 67.0% | +21.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18764470 | Display Panel and Manufacturing Method Thereof | FERNANDES, ERROL V | — |
| 18434831 | Display Panel, Preparation Method and Display Apparatus | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656524 | FALSE EYELASH APPARATUS AND METHODS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 89d overdue |
| 18905094 | LUGGAGE SMART DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | CUMAR, NATHAN | 16d overdue |
| 18032175 | AN ELEMENT FOR A CO-ROTATING TWIN-SCREW PROCESSOR | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 14d |
| 18595348 | AEROSOL CONTAINMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656524 | FALSE EYELASH APPARATUS AND METHODS | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 89d overdue |
| 18905094 | LUGGAGE SMART DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | CUMAR, NATHAN | 16d overdue |
| 17610693 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, CAMERA MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 8d |
| 18032175 | AN ELEMENT FOR A CO-ROTATING TWIN-SCREW PROCESSOR | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 14d |
| 18764470 | Display Panel and Manufacturing Method Thereof | FERNANDES, ERROL V | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| HKC | 2 |
| Package, Inc. | 1 |
| Hal J HANSEN | 1 |
| Airsolve LLC | 1 |
| STEER ENGINEERING PRIVATE LIMITED | 1 |
| JIANGXI JINGCHAO OPTICAL CO., LTD. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18905094 | LUGGAGE SMART DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREOF | Package, Inc. | CUMAR, NATHAN | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18764470 | Display Panel and Manufacturing Method Thereof | HKC Corporation Limited | FERNANDES, ERROL V | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 | |
| 18656524 | FALSE EYELASH APPARATUS AND METHODS | Hal J Hansen | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3772 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18595348 | AEROSOL CONTAINMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Airsolve LLC | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 | |
| 18434831 | Display Panel, Preparation Method and Display Apparatus | HKC Corporation Limited | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18032175 | AN ELEMENT FOR A CO-ROTATING TWIN-SCREW PROCESSOR | Steer Engineering Private Limited | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 15, 2023 |
| 17610693 | OPTICAL SYSTEM, CAMERA MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | Jiangxi Jingchao Optical Co., Ltd. | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Nov 11, 2021 |
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