Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Black Hills Ip Holdings LLC

10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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.

4
Hard (40%)
5
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (40%)
§103 only4 (40%)
§102 only1 (10%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
10% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
90% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RUIZ, ANGELICA 1 83.0% +14.7%
GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER 1 16.2% +34.0%
HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA 1 0.0% +0.0%
HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P 1 24.6% +17.1%
RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY 1 4.9% +8.4%
ARAQUE JR, GERARDO 1 9.6% +15.9%
BOND, REED MADISON 1 5.0% +25.0%
NEWLON, WILLIAM D 1 44.3% +27.9%
MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO 1 16.7% -3.9%
LAKHANI, ANDREW C 1 22.2% +30.7%

Hard Cases (8)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18205982 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A BACK-UP DOCKET BOND, REED MADISON 89d overdue
17722178 PRE-CODED AUTOMATIC DOCKETING LAKHANI, ANDREW C 50d overdue
18645124 ALERTS FOR PATENT PROSECUTION METHOD AND TOOL HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P 10d overdue
18651366 ANALYTICS GENERATION FOR PATENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA 3d overdue
18892016 DATA INTERCHANGE SYSTEM GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER 7d
18108387 PATENT FAMILY CITATION LANDSCAPE TOOL MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO 42d
18369711 PATENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS HAVING EXPERT DOCKETING RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY 63d
18351425 STRUCTURED ANALYSIS RELATING TO DEADLINE DRIVEN PROJECT MANAGEMENT ARAQUE JR, GERARDO 71d

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
18205982 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A BACK-UP DOCKET BOND, REED MADISON 89d overdue
17722178 PRE-CODED AUTOMATIC DOCKETING LAKHANI, ANDREW C 50d overdue
18122875 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PORTFOLIO BUDGETING TOOL NEWLON, WILLIAM D 16d overdue
18645124 ALERTS FOR PATENT PROSECUTION METHOD AND TOOL HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P 10d overdue
18892016 DATA INTERCHANGE SYSTEM GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER 7d
19212480 DOCUMENT SPLITTING TOOL RUIZ, ANGELICA 26d
18351425 STRUCTURED ANALYSIS RELATING TO DEADLINE DRIVEN PROJECT MANAGEMENT ARAQUE JR, GERARDO 71d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3626 3
3629 3
2154 1
3628 1
3624 1
3696 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19212480 DOCUMENT SPLITTING TOOL RUIZ, ANGELICA 2154 Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending May 19, 2025
18892016 DATA INTERCHANGE SYSTEM GILKEY, CARRIE STRODER 3626 §101 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Sep 20, 2024
18651366 ANALYTICS GENERATION FOR PATENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT HATCH, ANGELA MAIDA 3626 §101 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18645124 ALERTS FOR PATENT PROSECUTION METHOD AND TOOL HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P 3628 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2024
18369711 PATENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS HAVING EXPERT DOCKETING RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY 3626 §101 Final Rejection 63d Pending Sep 18, 2023
18351425 STRUCTURED ANALYSIS RELATING TO DEADLINE DRIVEN PROJECT MANAGEMENT ARAQUE JR, GERARDO 3629 §102 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18205982 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A BACK-UP DOCKET BOND, REED MADISON 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2023
18122875 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PORTFOLIO BUDGETING TOOL NEWLON, WILLIAM D 3696 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18108387 PATENT FAMILY CITATION LANDSCAPE TOOL MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO 3629 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Feb 10, 2023
17722178 PRE-CODED AUTOMATIC DOCKETING LAKHANI, ANDREW C 3629 §101 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2022

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