Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP handles 625 career applications in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 81.51 percent. It takes an average of 2.56 office actions to reach an allowance. There are 5 pending office actions currently.
The 81.51 percent allowance rate is a solid performance indicator. The 2.56 office actions per allowance provide a baseline for expected prosecution effort. With 625 career applications, the firm has a significant presence in this technology area. These metrics allow practitioners to anticipate the likely number of office actions and the probability of success.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
| MORELLO, JEAN F | 1 | 68.6% | +9.0% |
| ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 1 | 71.4% | +20.6% |
| BELAY, DILNESSA B | 1 | 62.1% | +26.0% |
| DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 1 | 55.3% | +30.0% |
| WHITE, DYLAN C | 1 | 77.0% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17951384 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROPOSAL AND DONATION OF AN OBJECT | WHITE, DYLAN C | 80d overdue |
| 18672720 | Trolley Single Point Adjustment System | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18109457 | VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE FOR FLASH JOULE HEATING SYSTEM AND METHOD | BELAY, DILNESSA B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17951384 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROPOSAL AND DONATION OF AN OBJECT | WHITE, DYLAN C | 80d overdue |
| 18232911 | Wire Rope Hoist With Swivel Sheave | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 2d overdue |
| 18095083 | Plumber's Neck Putter with a Double Offset | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 79d |
| 18672720 | Trolley Single Point Adjustment System | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18109457 | VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE FOR FLASH JOULE HEATING SYSTEM AND METHOD | BELAY, DILNESSA B | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Columbus McKinnon | 3 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | 1 |
| M Ogden Putter | 1 |
| Exchange Technologies International, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18672720 | Trolley Single Point Adjustment System | Columbus Mckinnon Corporation | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 | |
| 18592655 | Load Sensing Device for a Hoist | Columbus Mckinnon Corporation | MORELLO, JEAN F | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18232911 | Wire Rope Hoist With Swivel Sheave | Columbus Mckinnon Corporation | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18109457 | VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE FOR FLASH JOULE HEATING SYSTEM AND METHOD | William Marsh Rice University | BELAY, DILNESSA B | 1736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 18095083 | Plumber's Neck Putter with a Double Offset | M Ogden Putter Company LLC | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
| 17951384 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROPOSAL AND DONATION OF AN OBJECT | Exchange Technologies International, Inc. | WHITE, DYLAN C | 3625 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 80d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
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