Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Aob Products Company

11 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (2)

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%)
10
Medium (91%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (82%)
Double-patenting + other1 (9%)
No statute on record1 (9%)

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
1
Communications
9% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
10
Mechanical / Eng
91% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, PHONG H 2 70.7% +20.2%
NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R 2 72.8% +21.1%
MORGAN, DERRICK R 1 72.2% +27.8%
IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E 1 80.5% +14.1%
GEHMAN, BRYON P 1 73.6% +30.7%
LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW 1 56.6% +22.9%
FREEMAN, JOSHUA E 1 82.2% +11.8%
NGUYEN, NAM V 1 78.1% +14.6%
BOECKMANN, JASON J 1 48.9% +28.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19021897 RECOIL-REDUCING FIREARM SHOOTING REST HAVING TANK FREEMAN, JOSHUA E 13d
19086576 POST DRIVER IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E 84d

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18943348 SMART HOME AND SECURITY SYSTEM NGUYEN, NAM V 3d overdue
17659460 ELECTRIC KNIFE NGUYEN, PHONG H 3d overdue
19066383 SECURITY ENCLOSURE GEHMAN, BRYON P 13d
19021897 RECOIL-REDUCING FIREARM SHOOTING REST HAVING TANK FREEMAN, JOSHUA E 13d
18735327 KNIFE HAVING REMOVABLE BLADE NGUYEN, PHONG H 15d
18091630 HANDHELD SHOOTING TARGET THROWER NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R 19d
17444282 MATERIAL SPREADER BOECKMANN, JASON J 29d
18614850 SHOOTING TARGET THROWER NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R 30d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3641 2
3724 2
3711 2
3731 1
3736 1
3734 1
2685 1
3752 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19242844 DISPENSER FOR FIREARM AMMUNITION POWDER MORGAN, DERRICK R 3641 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 18, 2025
19086576 POST DRIVER IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E 3731 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Mar 21, 2025
19066383 SECURITY ENCLOSURE GEHMAN, BRYON P 3736 Other Non-Final OA 13d Pending Feb 28, 2025
19021664 TOOL SHEATH LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW 3734 DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jan 15, 2025
19021897 RECOIL-REDUCING FIREARM SHOOTING REST HAVING TANK FREEMAN, JOSHUA E 3641 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Jan 15, 2025
18943348 SMART HOME AND SECURITY SYSTEM NGUYEN, NAM V 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 11, 2024
18735327 KNIFE HAVING REMOVABLE BLADE NGUYEN, PHONG H 3724 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jun 06, 2024
18614850 SHOOTING TARGET THROWER NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18091630 HANDHELD SHOOTING TARGET THROWER NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Dec 30, 2022
17659460 ELECTRIC KNIFE NGUYEN, PHONG H 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2022
17444282 MATERIAL SPREADER BOECKMANN, JASON J 3752 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 02, 2021

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