Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

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6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 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
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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
WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN 2 27.7% +65.0%
HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN 1 43.1% +51.0%
BALDRIGHI, ERIC C 1 41.5% +42.4%
ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA 1 63.6% +24.1%
NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA 1 29.7% +40.4%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18409454 CONTAINER WITH TUBULAR SKIRT NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA 44d overdue
17558382 REFILL FOR A COSMETIC PRODUCT DISPENSING RECEPTACLE MADE OF A SINGLE PLASTIC MATERIAL WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN 17d overdue
17558482 RECEPTACLE FOR COSMETIC PRODUCT MADE OF SINGLE PLASTIC MATERIAL WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN 17d 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
18409454 CONTAINER WITH TUBULAR SKIRT NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA 44d overdue
17558382 REFILL FOR A COSMETIC PRODUCT DISPENSING RECEPTACLE MADE OF A SINGLE PLASTIC MATERIAL WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN 17d overdue
17558482 RECEPTACLE FOR COSMETIC PRODUCT MADE OF SINGLE PLASTIC MATERIAL WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN 17d overdue
18985881 APPLICATOR FOR COSMETIC PRODUCT, IN PARTICULAR MASCARA, AND ASSOCIATED APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN 2d overdue
18602381 HINGED CAPSULE EQUIPPED WITH AN TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE BALDRIGHI, ERIC C 27d
18584500 ASSEMBLY FOR CLOSING A TUBE BY SCREWING A CAP ONTO A NECK, COMPRISING MEANS FOR CENTERING THE CAP ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA 83d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3772 3
3733 1
3736 1
3735 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18985881 APPLICATOR FOR COSMETIC PRODUCT, IN PARTICULAR MASCARA, AND ASSOCIATED APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN 3772 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2024
18602381 HINGED CAPSULE EQUIPPED WITH AN TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE BALDRIGHI, ERIC C 3733 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 12, 2024
18584500 ASSEMBLY FOR CLOSING A TUBE BY SCREWING A CAP ONTO A NECK, COMPRISING MEANS FOR CENTERING THE CAP ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA 3736 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Feb 22, 2024
18409454 CONTAINER WITH TUBULAR SKIRT NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA 3735 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2024
17558382 REFILL FOR A COSMETIC PRODUCT DISPENSING RECEPTACLE MADE OF A SINGLE PLASTIC MATERIAL WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN 3772 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2021
17558482 RECEPTACLE FOR COSMETIC PRODUCT MADE OF SINGLE PLASTIC MATERIAL WOODHOUSE, SARAH ANN 3772 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2021

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