Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 4 clients • 8 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Laabs Intellectual Property has managed 420 career applications, primarily in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 98.11. This result is achieved with an avg of 3.43 office actions per allowance, which defines the typical path to a grant.
Currently, the firm is managing 5 pending office actions. These 5 pending office actions represent the firm's active workload. With a 98.11 resolved allowance rate pct across 420 career applications, the firm maintains a record of securing grants for its patent filings in this field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 + other | 2 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | 3 | 72.8% | +21.9% |
| NEWTON, JASON TODD | 1 | 82.7% | +22.4% |
| ELLIOTT, ANDREW JAMES | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 59.0% | +23.3% |
| PRICE, MITCHELL JAMES | 1 | 83.3% | +25.0% |
| RUFO, LOUIS J | 1 | 54.4% | +22.9% |
| UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 61.9% | +9.7% |
| CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1 | 44.8% | +24.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18032173 | AN AUTONOMOUS NANOFLUIDIC ANALYSIS DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF DNA MOLECULES | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 56d |
| 19056570 | Archery Bowstring with Multiple Portions | NEWTON, JASON TODD | — |
| 19049910 | Archery Bow with Pass Through Cabling | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | — |
| 18991013 | Arrow Bending Axis Orientation | ELLIOTT, ANDREW JAMES | — |
| 18984805 | Archery Bow Stand | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18946765 | Archery Bow Limb Cup Attachment | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | — |
| 18927573 | Archery Bow with Limb Spacing Adjustment | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | — |
| 18829224 | AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE AND STEERING SYSTEM | PRICE, MITCHELL JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267445 | METHOD FOR LOCALLY APPLYING A METAL NANOLAMINATE IN THE REGION OF A WELD SEAM OF A METAL WORKPIECE | RUFO, LOUIS J | 26d overdue |
| 18032173 | AN AUTONOMOUS NANOFLUIDIC ANALYSIS DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF DNA MOLECULES | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 56d |
| 19056570 | Archery Bowstring with Multiple Portions | NEWTON, JASON TODD | — |
| 19049910 | Archery Bow with Pass Through Cabling | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | — |
| 18984805 | Archery Bow Stand | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18946765 | Archery Bow Limb Cup Attachment | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | — |
| 18927573 | Archery Bow with Limb Spacing Adjustment | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | — |
| 18829224 | AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE AND STEERING SYSTEM | PRICE, MITCHELL JAMES | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| MCP IP, LLC | 7 |
| Ontario Drive & Gear Limited | 1 |
| TU Hamburg | 1 |
| Universität Hamburg | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3632 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19056570 | Archery Bowstring with Multiple Portions | Mcp Ip, LLC | NEWTON, JASON TODD | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 | |
| 19049910 | Archery Bow with Pass Through Cabling | Mcp Ip, LLC | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | §101§102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 | |
| 18991013 | Arrow Bending Axis Orientation | Mcp Ip, LLC | ELLIOTT, ANDREW JAMES | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| 18984805 | Archery Bow Stand | Mcp Ip, LLC | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 3632 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18946765 | Archery Bow Limb Cup Attachment | Mcp Ip, LLC | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 | |
| 18927573 | Archery Bow with Limb Spacing Adjustment | Mcp Ip, LLC | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | §101§102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 | |
| 18829224 | AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE AND STEERING SYSTEM | Ontario Drive & Gear Limited | PRICE, MITCHELL JAMES | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 | |
| 18267445 | METHOD FOR LOCALLY APPLYING A METAL NANOLAMINATE IN THE REGION OF A WELD SEAM OF A METAL WORKPIECE | Technische Universitat Hamburg | RUFO, LOUIS J | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18209378 | Laminate Faced Honeycomb Bracing Structure for Stringed Instrument | Mcp Ip, LLC | UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J | 3619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 96d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18032173 | AN AUTONOMOUS NANOFLUIDIC ANALYSIS DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF DNA MOLECULES | Universität Hamburg | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1758 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Apr 15, 2023 |
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