Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Aclara Technologies LLC

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
50% of docket
2
Communications
33% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BALSECA, FRANKLIN D 1 60.2% +30.7%
LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H 1 72.6% +23.6%
SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU 1 84.1% +23.9%
NDIAYE, CHEIKH T 1 78.7% +19.0%
CHANG, KAI J 1 73.4% +40.0%
BARNIE, REXFORD N 1 14.0% +20.6%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18893161 RATE-BASED PACKET WINDOWING TECHNIQUE WITH IMPLICIT SYNCHRONIZATION SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU 9d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18137764 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION HAVING ADVANCED METERING SYSTEM BARNIE, REXFORD N 16d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18137764 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION HAVING ADVANCED METERING SYSTEM BARNIE, REXFORD N 16d overdue
18893161 RATE-BASED PACKET WINDOWING TECHNIQUE WITH IMPLICIT SYNCHRONIZATION SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU 9d overdue
18205905 EXPLICIT DATA PACKET CONTENT IDENTIFICATION FOR UTILITY DEVICES NDIAYE, CHEIKH T 8d overdue
19251256 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTANCE-BASED ASSIGNMENT OF METERS TO TRANSFORMERS BALSECA, FRANKLIN D 27d
18205884 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLICIT DEVICE IDENTIFICATION CHANG, KAI J 41d
19043169 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REPORTING PIPELINE PRESSURES LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2688 1
2685 1
2455 1
2447 1
2468 1
2836 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19251256 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTANCE-BASED ASSIGNMENT OF METERS TO TRANSFORMERS BALSECA, FRANKLIN D 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jun 26, 2025
19043169 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REPORTING PIPELINE PRESSURES LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H 2685 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jan 31, 2025
18893161 RATE-BASED PACKET WINDOWING TECHNIQUE WITH IMPLICIT SYNCHRONIZATION SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU 2455 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2024
18205905 EXPLICIT DATA PACKET CONTENT IDENTIFICATION FOR UTILITY DEVICES NDIAYE, CHEIKH T 2447 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2023
18205884 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLICIT DEVICE IDENTIFICATION CHANG, KAI J 2468 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Jun 05, 2023
18137764 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION HAVING ADVANCED METERING SYSTEM BARNIE, REXFORD N 2836 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2023

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