Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
NEWHOPE LAW, PC operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm has managed 1348 career applications and currently oversees 3 pending office actions. These figures indicate the firm's historical experience and its current level of engagement with the USPTO. This data provides a baseline for understanding the firm's presence in this sector.
The firm's resolved allowance rate is 83.24. On average, the firm receives 1.6 office actions per allowance. Practitioners can use this average to estimate the frequency of examiner interactions required to reach a grant for applications in this portfolio. These metrics offer an overview of the firm's prosecution results.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1 | 65.8% | +51.9% |
| LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | 1 | 66.9% | +11.1% |
| SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | 1 | 29.5% | +54.6% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.7% |
| ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | 1 | 64.0% | +38.4% |
| SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L | 1 | 37.3% | +16.2% |
| SPAMER, DONALD R | 1 | 59.2% | +32.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18191440 | METHOD FOR TREATING CEREBRAL APOPLEXY AND HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA BY COMPOUND FOR INHIBITING COMBINATION OF BILIRUBIN AND TRPM2 CHANNEL | SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L | 19d overdue |
| 18261166 | INVERT EMULSION HAVING DOUBLE PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | 10d overdue |
| 18840989 | INTEGRATED WATERBOARD FOR A WATER PURIFIER | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | — |
| 18620120 | CHARGER WITH INTEGRATED ENGINE START FUNCTION | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | — |
| 18694458 | ELECTROCHEMICALLY ASSISTED ION EXCHANGE WATER TREATMENT DEVICE HAVING SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENT OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS | MENON, KRISHNAN 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18156299 | HEXAHEDRAL HEATING HIGH-TEMPERATURE STERILIZATION BIOLOGICAL SHAKING TABLE | SPAMER, DONALD R | 36d overdue |
| 18191440 | METHOD FOR TREATING CEREBRAL APOPLEXY AND HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA BY COMPOUND FOR INHIBITING COMBINATION OF BILIRUBIN AND TRPM2 CHANNEL | SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L | 19d overdue |
| 18261166 | INVERT EMULSION HAVING DOUBLE PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | 10d overdue |
| 18840989 | INTEGRATED WATERBOARD FOR A WATER PURIFIER | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | — |
| 18677416 | MIRROR MILLING PROCESSING AND MEASUREMENT PROCESS AND CONTROL PROCESS METHOD, AND SYSTEM THEREOF | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | — |
| 18620120 | CHARGER WITH INTEGRATED ENGINE START FUNCTION | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | — |
| 18694458 | ELECTROCHEMICALLY ASSISTED ION EXCHANGE WATER TREATMENT DEVICE HAVING SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENT OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1628 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18840989 | INTEGRATED WATERBOARD FOR A WATER PURIFIER | Zhejiang Qinyuan Water Treatment S. T. Co., Ltd. | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 | |
| 18677416 | MIRROR MILLING PROCESSING AND MEASUREMENT PROCESS AND CONTROL PROCESS METHOD, AND SYSTEM THEREOF | Shanghai Top Numerical Control Technology Co., Ltd. | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | 3722 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18620120 | CHARGER WITH INTEGRATED ENGINE START FUNCTION | New Focus Lighting & Power Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. | SILVA, FRANK ALEXIS | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 | |
| 18694458 | ELECTROCHEMICALLY ASSISTED ION EXCHANGE WATER TREATMENT DEVICE HAVING SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENT OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS | Zhejiang Qinyuan Water Treatment S. T. Co., Ltd. | MENON, KRISHNAN S | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 | |
| 18261166 | INVERT EMULSION HAVING DOUBLE PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | Jiangsu Feymer Technology Co., Ltd. | ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | 1762 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18191440 | METHOD FOR TREATING CEREBRAL APOPLEXY AND HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA BY COMPOUND FOR INHIBITING COMBINATION OF BILIRUBIN AND TRPM2 CHANNEL | Shanghai Sixth People'S Hospital | SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L | 1628 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18156299 | HEXAHEDRAL HEATING HIGH-TEMPERATURE STERILIZATION BIOLOGICAL SHAKING TABLE | Shanghai Zhichu Instrument Co., Ltd. | SPAMER, DONALD R | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
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