Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
13 pending office actions • 7 clients • 13 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Wood IP LLC operates in the Computing & Software sector, with 425 career applications. The firm currently has 10 pending office actions. It maintains a high resolved allowance rate of 90.91 percent, which is particularly notable in the software field where patentability can be complex. The firm averages 3.87 office actions per allowance, suggesting a prosecution style that involves significant persistence and multiple rounds of communication with examiners.
This average of 3.87 indicates that the firm is willing to engage in extensive dialogue to secure the 90.91 percent allowance rate. For clients with 425 career applications, these metrics suggest a firm that is highly successful at overcoming the hurdles of software patenting. Practitioners can interpret the 10 pending office actions as a sign of a focused and active practice. The firm's ability to achieve a 90.91 percent allowance rate while averaging 3.87 office actions per allowance across 425 career applications demonstrates a strong commitment to securing intellectual property rights, even when the examination process requires multiple iterations with the USPTO.
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 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 3 (23%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (38%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, LY D | 1 | 94.0% | +3.4% |
| MILLER, JONATHAN | 1 | 79.9% | +18.1% |
| WEINER, ARIELLE E | 1 | 43.6% | +53.3% |
| WOOLWINE, SHANE D | 1 | 86.5% | +20.6% |
| WESTBROOK, MICHAEL L | 1 | 74.3% | +6.3% |
| SAVLA, ARPAN P | 1 | 59.0% | +9.2% |
| UNELUS, ERNEST | 1 | 77.2% | +38.7% |
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 1 | 41.3% | +7.9% |
| TANG, RONG | 1 | 77.6% | +16.3% |
| MILEF, ELDA G | 1 | 41.1% | +8.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780055 | INFINITE RESERVOIR TRANSFORMER | WOOLWINE, SHANE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780139 | RETAILER LINKED DIALOGUES: CHATTING, CARTING, AND CARING | WEINER, ARIELLE E | 140d overdue |
| 18224716 | REUSABLE POD FOR STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND MIXING OF POWDERS | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 51d overdue |
| 17622354 | Product Containing Cocoa and One or More Sweetening Agents, Method For The Production of Such Products, in Particular Chocolate Products or Chocolate-Like Products, Use of Products of Said Type, For Example To Make Chocolate Products or Chocolate Like Products | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 5d overdue |
| 18754923 | MAINTAINING INTEGRITY OF A MEMORY COMPONENT | WESTBROOK, MICHAEL L | 15d |
| 18976962 | ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATOR | MILLER, JONATHAN | — |
| 18419252 | METHOD FOR THE COMBINED CONTINUOUS MIXING AND METERING OF DOUGHS OR PASTES ENRICHED WITH GAS UNDER STATIC PRESSURE, CONTROL AND/OR REGULATING DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SUCH A METHOD, DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD AND PRODUCTS OBTAINED BY THIS METHOD, AND USE OF SUCH PRODUCTS | LEFF, STEVEN N | — |
| 18480411 | VIRTUAL SOCIAL BANKING NETWORKS BY PLATFORM UTILIZING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY | MILEF, ELDA G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780139 | RETAILER LINKED DIALOGUES: CHATTING, CARTING, AND CARING | WEINER, ARIELLE E | 140d overdue |
| 18976962 | ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATOR | MILLER, JONATHAN | — |
| 18780055 | INFINITE RESERVOIR TRANSFORMER | WOOLWINE, SHANE D | — |
| 18678973 | ACCELERATING COMMAND LATENCIES USING A HYBRID INTERCONNECT MEMORY DEVICE | UNELUS, ERNEST | — |
| 18415628 | COLLABORATIVE DECODING WITH ERASURE SEARCH TO RECOVER CORNER FAILS | TANG, RONG | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Micron | 6 |
| YE Ventures | 2 |
| Hydronomy, Inc. | 1 |
| Erich Windhab | 1 |
| Wellthi Technologies, Inc. | 1 |
| Stone Wolf LLC | 1 |
| ETH Zurich | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1772 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| 2139 | 1 |
| 2100 | 1 |
| 2181 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 2111 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 2114 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19012470 | FINITE TIME COUNTING PERIOD COUNTING OF INFINITE DATA STREAMS | Micron Technology, Inc. | PHAM, LY D | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 | |
| 18976962 | ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATOR | Hydronomy, Inc. | MILLER, JONATHAN | 1772 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18780139 | RETAILER LINKED DIALOGUES: CHATTING, CARTING, AND CARING | Ye Ventures, LLC | WEINER, ARIELLE E | 3689 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 140d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18780055 | INFINITE RESERVOIR TRANSFORMER | Ye Ventures, LLC | WOOLWINE, SHANE D | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 | |
| 18754923 | MAINTAINING INTEGRITY OF A MEMORY COMPONENT | Micron Technology, Inc. | WESTBROOK, MICHAEL L | 2139 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18733535 | FABRIC FAULT TOLERANCE IN A CLUSTER USING AN RAID DESIGN | Micron Technology, Inc. | SAVLA, ARPAN P | 2100 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18678973 | ACCELERATING COMMAND LATENCIES USING A HYBRID INTERCONNECT MEMORY DEVICE | Micron Technology, Inc. | UNELUS, ERNEST | 2181 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18419252 | METHOD FOR THE COMBINED CONTINUOUS MIXING AND METERING OF DOUGHS OR PASTES ENRICHED WITH GAS UNDER STATIC PRESSURE, CONTROL AND/OR REGULATING DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SUCH A METHOD, DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD AND PRODUCTS OBTAINED BY THIS METHOD, AND USE OF SUCH PRODUCTS | Erich Windhab | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18415628 | COLLABORATIVE DECODING WITH ERASURE SEARCH TO RECOVER CORNER FAILS | Micron Technology, Inc. | TANG, RONG | 2111 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18480411 | VIRTUAL SOCIAL BANKING NETWORKS BY PLATFORM UTILIZING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY | Wellthi Technologies, Inc. | MILEF, ELDA G | 3694 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18224716 | REUSABLE POD FOR STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND MIXING OF POWDERS | Stone Wolf, LLC | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 17897037 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFF-LINE REPAIRING AND SUBSEQUENT REINTEGRATION IN A SYSTEM | Micron Technology, Inc. | TRUONG, LOAN | 2114 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2022 |
| 17622354 | Product Containing Cocoa and One or More Sweetening Agents, Method For The Production of Such Products, in Particular Chocolate Products or Chocolate-Like Products, Use of Products of Said Type, For Example To Make Chocolate Products or Chocolate Like Products | ETH ZÜRICH | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2021 |
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