Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 only | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 4 (67%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYRD, EUGENE G | 1 | 69.6% | +9.6% |
| LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | 1 | 69.8% | +13.2% |
| LIOTT, CAROLINE DUSHECK | 1 | 51.5% | -1.7% |
| ZHANG, JIALAN | 1 | 61.1% | +6.7% |
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1 | 44.9% | +32.6% |
| FERNSTROM, KURT | 1 | 65.9% | +14.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16961068 | System, Method, Process and Apparatus for Assisting in Formulating and Attaining Healthy Weight Management Goals | FERNSTROM, KURT | 114d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17607748 | Alcohol Alkoxylate Mixtures as Concentrated Aqueous Defoamers | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 161d overdue |
| 16961068 | System, Method, Process and Apparatus for Assisting in Formulating and Attaining Healthy Weight Management Goals | FERNSTROM, KURT | 114d overdue |
| 18548219 | Formulations Containing Non-Ionic Surfactants as Emulsion-Modifiers in Oil Treatments | LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | 41d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Sasol Germany GmbH | 2 |
| Batfer Investment | 1 |
| Sasol Chemicals GmbH | 1 |
| Sasol Chemicals Gmnh | 1 |
| The Engineered Non-Diet, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 2 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19068187 | Metallic Dynamic Seal | Batfer Investment S.A. | BYRD, EUGENE G | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18548219 | Formulations Containing Non-Ionic Surfactants as Emulsion-Modifiers in Oil Treatments | Sasol Chemicals GmbH | LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | 3674 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
| 18247876 | A Bitumen Additive Comprising an Aqueous Wax Dispersion and Its Use to Obtain a Foamed Bitumen | Sasol Germany GmbH | LIOTT, CAROLINE DUSHECK | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 17778742 | Alumina Bismuth Catalyst Support and Method for Its Production | Sasol Germany GmbH | ZHANG, JIALAN | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2022 |
| 17607748 | Alcohol Alkoxylate Mixtures as Concentrated Aqueous Defoamers | Sasol Chemicals Gmnh | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 161d overdue | Pending | Oct 29, 2021 |
| 16961068 | System, Method, Process and Apparatus for Assisting in Formulating and Attaining Healthy Weight Management Goals | The Engineered Non-Diet, LLC | FERNSTROM, KURT | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | 114d overdue | Pending | Jul 09, 2020 |
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