Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BL Technologies, Inc.

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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%)
7
Medium (78%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (22%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (67%)
§102 only1 (11%)
No statute on record2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN 1 62.2% -17.0%
ROTONDI, CONNOR JON 1
NORRIS, CLAIRE A 1 65.6% +28.0%
MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 1 65.4% +51.9%
ORME, PATRICK JAMES 1 59.3% +15.1%
MENON, KRISHNAN S 1 59.8% +11.8%
KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K 1 55.4% +15.6%
SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED 1 86.7% +14.7%
FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON GIONTA 1 47.6% +16.0%

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
17791159 ION EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF AQUEOUS LITHIUM SOLUTION SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED 13d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18026815 POLYPHOSPHORIC ACID (PPA) RESISTANT SULFIDE SCAVENGERS FOR ASPHALT KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K 146d overdue
18495373 PROCESS FOR MANAGING WORMS IN MEMBRANE AERATED BIOFILM MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 86d overdue
17640521 SILICA ANTISCALANT COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR SILICA SCALING INHIBITION IN MEMBRANE APPLICATIONS FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON GIONTA 9d overdue
18547660 BYPASS CONTROL SLEEVE FOR SANITARY SPIRAL WOUND FILTER MENON, KRISHNAN S 2d overdue
17791159 ION EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF AQUEOUS LITHIUM SOLUTION SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED 13d
18508983 WASTEWATER TREATMENT WITH PRIMARY TREATMENT AND MBR OR MABR-IFAS REACTOR NORRIS, CLAIRE A 21d
18552116 HOLLOW FIBER IMMERSED MEMBRANE MODULE AND CASSETTE WITH HIGH PACKING DENSITY AND VERTICAL PERMEATE PORT CONNECTIONS ORME, PATRICK JAMES 79d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1779 3
1773 2
1711 1
1777 1
1700 1
1736 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18695704 UNDERDRAIN FOR MEDIA VESSEL AND METHOD OF CLEANING CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN 1711 Other Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2024
18569582 CONTROL OF OZONE DOSING WITH BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR ROTONDI, CONNOR JON 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Dec 12, 2023
18508983 WASTEWATER TREATMENT WITH PRIMARY TREATMENT AND MBR OR MABR-IFAS REACTOR NORRIS, CLAIRE A 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Nov 14, 2023
18495373 PROCESS FOR MANAGING WORMS IN MEMBRANE AERATED BIOFILM MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 1773 §103 Final Rejection 86d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2023
18552116 HOLLOW FIBER IMMERSED MEMBRANE MODULE AND CASSETTE WITH HIGH PACKING DENSITY AND VERTICAL PERMEATE PORT CONNECTIONS ORME, PATRICK JAMES 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18547660 BYPASS CONTROL SLEEVE FOR SANITARY SPIRAL WOUND FILTER MENON, KRISHNAN S 1777 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2023
18026815 POLYPHOSPHORIC ACID (PPA) RESISTANT SULFIDE SCAVENGERS FOR ASPHALT KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K 1700 §103 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2023
17791159 ION EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF AQUEOUS LITHIUM SOLUTION SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED 1736 §102 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jul 06, 2022
17640521 SILICA ANTISCALANT COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR SILICA SCALING INHIBITION IN MEMBRANE APPLICATIONS FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON GIONTA 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2022

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