Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Agency For Defense Development

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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.

1
Hard (14%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§103 only6 (86%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
2
Information Tech
29% of docket
2
Communications
29% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 1 40.0% +37.7%
LIN, KATHERINE Y 1 91.2% +7.0%
PANWALKAR, VINEETA S 1 91.1% +8.6%
LAWRENCE, JOHN CALEB 1
VAZQUEZ, ANA M 1 79.9% +17.5%
WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST 1 57.3% +34.9%
CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T 1 80.1% +30.4%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18955172 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RESETTING INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXECUTION OF APPLICATION SOFTWARE PROVIDED IN A MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR-BASED AVIONICS COMPUTER DEVICE LIN, KATHERINE Y 127d overdue
18205162 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING BIDIRECTIONAL KEY AGREEMENT PROTOCOL AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T 21d
18669937 WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON DISTRIBUTED BEAMFORMING PANWALKAR, VINEETA S 28d

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
19193437 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING COUNTER FORCE BASED ON MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR MILITARY OPERATION GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 28d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18519495 LOW-PRESSURE BOILING COOLING SYSTEM VAZQUEZ, ANA M 17d overdue
18205162 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING BIDIRECTIONAL KEY AGREEMENT PROTOCOL AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T 21d
19193437 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING COUNTER FORCE BASED ON MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR MILITARY OPERATION GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 28d
18241801 ANODE FOR THERMAL BATTERY, APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE ANODE FOR THERMAL BATTERY, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE ANODE FOR THERMAL BATTERY WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST 62d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3711 1
2113 1
2635 1
2646 1
3763 1
1723 1
2431 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19193437 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING COUNTER FORCE BASED ON MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR MILITARY OPERATION GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 3711 §101 Final Rejection 28d Pending Apr 29, 2025
18955172 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RESETTING INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXECUTION OF APPLICATION SOFTWARE PROVIDED IN A MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR-BASED AVIONICS COMPUTER DEVICE LIN, KATHERINE Y 2113 §103 Non-Final OA 127d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2024
18669937 WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON DISTRIBUTED BEAMFORMING PANWALKAR, VINEETA S 2635 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 21, 2024
18598494 Electronic Apparatus for Jamming and Operation Method Thereof LAWRENCE, JOHN CALEB 2646 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Mar 07, 2024
18519495 LOW-PRESSURE BOILING COOLING SYSTEM VAZQUEZ, ANA M 3763 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2023
18241801 ANODE FOR THERMAL BATTERY, APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING THE ANODE FOR THERMAL BATTERY, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE ANODE FOR THERMAL BATTERY WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Sep 01, 2023
18205162 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING BIDIRECTIONAL KEY AGREEMENT PROTOCOL AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T 2431 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jun 02, 2023

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