Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
K&L GATES LLP-Pittsburgh focuses on Chemistry & Materials. It has 34213 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 84.55 percent. It averages 3.82 office actions per allowance. There are 41 pending office actions.
The 84.55 percent allowance rate is based on 34213 career applications. The average of 3.82 office actions per allowance reflects the prosecution effort required in the chemistry sector. The 41 pending office actions represent the firm's current workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALEXANDER, WILLIAM R | 1 | 87.9% | +7.0% |
| BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY | 1 | 78.5% | +16.9% |
| COOK, BRIAN S | 1 | 62.2% | +29.2% |
| OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1 | 52.4% | +43.3% |
| BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL | 1 | 92.3% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17663031 | METHOD FOR NEURAL SIGNALS STABILIZATION | BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL | 6d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977073 | PHASE CHANGE MIRRORS | ALEXANDER, WILLIAM R | — |
| 18950604 | PHASE-CONTRAST ENHANCED X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEMS | BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY | — |
| 18532202 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMING AND DISPLAYING AN ANALYTE LOCATION MAP | COOK, BRIAN S | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17663031 | METHOD FOR NEURAL SIGNALS STABILIZATION | BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL | 6d |
| 18950604 | PHASE-CONTRAST ENHANCED X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEMS | BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY | — |
| 18532202 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMING AND DISPLAYING AN ANALYTE LOCATION MAP | COOK, BRIAN S | — |
| 18322845 | VESSEL FOR A FUEL CELL, A FUEL CELL SYSTEM, AND A METHOD FOR MAINTAINING A NON-EXPLOSIVE ATMOSPHERE IN A VESSEL FOR A FUEL CELL | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC | 2 |
| Teledyne Dalsa B.V. | 1 |
| Teledyne | 1 |
| Teledyne Energy Systems, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 2 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 2126 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18977073 | PHASE CHANGE MIRRORS | Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC | ALEXANDER, WILLIAM R | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 | |
| 18950604 | PHASE-CONTRAST ENHANCED X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEMS | Teledyne Dalsa B.V. | BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY | 2884 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18532202 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMING AND DISPLAYING AN ANALYTE LOCATION MAP | Teledyne Flir Defense, Inc. | COOK, BRIAN S | 2884 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18322845 | VESSEL FOR A FUEL CELL, A FUEL CELL SYSTEM, AND A METHOD FOR MAINTAINING A NON-EXPLOSIVE ATMOSPHERE IN A VESSEL FOR A FUEL CELL | Teledyne Energy Systems, Inc. | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 17663031 | METHOD FOR NEURAL SIGNALS STABILIZATION | Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC | BRACERO, ANDREW ANGEL | 2126 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
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