Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
10 pending office actions • 6 clients • 9 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
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%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, CHANGQING | 2 | 29.6% | +33.1% |
| SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 1 | 73.5% | +19.7% |
| CORMIER, DAVID G | 1 | 64.2% | +28.9% |
| SPAR, ILANA L | 1 | 45.8% | +26.8% |
| KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1 | 31.7% | +31.1% |
| BASICHAS, ALFRED | 1 | 72.1% | +3.8% |
| NGUYEN, THANH H | 1 | 18.4% | +34.4% |
| MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1 | 61.1% | +28.2% |
| MCCONNELL, AARON R | 1 | 45.0% | +54.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18191344 | Nozzle Height Adjustment Apparatus and Method for an Extruder Assembly | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 16d overdue |
| 19201056 | Method, Surgical Apparatus, and Surgical Implant for Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — |
| 18742277 | System and Method for Collaborative Book Creation | SPAR, ILANA L | — |
| 18507932 | Food Product Packaging and Method for Producing Food Product Packaging | NGUYEN, THANH H | — |
| 17903368 | Flavor Ferment to Produce Natural Cheese with Specific Flavor Attributes | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 17735665 | Two Hose Cryogenic/Abrasive Blasting System | MCCONNELL, AARON R | — |
| 17385140 | Flavor Ferment to Produce Natural Cheese With Specific Flavor Attributes | LI, CHANGQING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18191344 | Nozzle Height Adjustment Apparatus and Method for an Extruder Assembly | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 16d overdue |
| 18658216 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 26d |
| 18783800 | Deep Cleaning Alignment Equipment | CORMIER, DAVID G | 62d |
| 19201056 | Method, Surgical Apparatus, and Surgical Implant for Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — |
| 18742277 | System and Method for Collaborative Book Creation | SPAR, ILANA L | — |
| 18507932 | Food Product Packaging and Method for Producing Food Product Packaging | NGUYEN, THANH H | — |
| 17903368 | Flavor Ferment to Produce Natural Cheese with Specific Flavor Attributes | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 17735665 | Two Hose Cryogenic/Abrasive Blasting System | MCCONNELL, AARON R | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Sargento Cheese Inc. | 3 |
| Precision Iceblast Corporation | 2 |
| Sargento Foods Inc. | 2 |
| Relja Innovations, Inc. | 1 |
| Scriptive LLC | 1 |
| Alto-Shaam | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 3 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19201056 | Method, Surgical Apparatus, and Surgical Implant for Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures | Relja Innovations, Inc. | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 | |
| 18783800 | Deep Cleaning Alignment Equipment | Precision Iceblast Corporation | CORMIER, DAVID G | 1711 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18742277 | System and Method for Collaborative Book Creation | Scriptive LLC | SPAR, ILANA L | 3622 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18658216 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | Sargento Cheese Inc. | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18516211 | Gas Heat Exchanger with Baffle for a Combination Oven | Alto-Shaam, Inc. | BASICHAS, ALFRED | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 | |
| 18507932 | Food Product Packaging and Method for Producing Food Product Packaging | Sargento Cheese Inc. | NGUYEN, THANH H | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18191344 | Nozzle Height Adjustment Apparatus and Method for an Extruder Assembly | Sargento Foods Inc. | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1743 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 17903368 | Flavor Ferment to Produce Natural Cheese with Specific Flavor Attributes | Sargento Foods Inc. | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2022 |
| 17735665 | Two Hose Cryogenic/Abrasive Blasting System | Precision Iceblast Corporation | MCCONNELL, AARON R | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2022 |
| 17385140 | Flavor Ferment to Produce Natural Cheese With Specific Flavor Attributes | Sargento Cheese Inc. | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2021 |
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