Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Bull SAS

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
4
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.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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 (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

1
Hard (12%)
7
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§103 only7 (88%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
62% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHELEHEDA, JAMES R 1 67.9% +20.3%
BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL 1 74.4% +11.7%
WERONSKI, MATTHEW S 1 9.2% +19.4%
HUYNH, EMILY 1 19.5% +40.1%
SCHMIDT, KARI L 1 74.2% +42.9%
GUTMAN, JENNIFER MARIE 1 61.1% +36.2%
TSANG, HENRY 1 79.3% +17.5%
FARAMARZI, GITA 1 52.6% +19.1%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18761242 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS WERONSKI, MATTHEW S 16d overdue
18641300 METHOD FOR DETERMINING A FUTURE HEALTH CONDITION OF AN INDIVIDUAL HUYNH, EMILY 29d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
17941149 Computing system for executing quantum programs on analog and digital quantum computers GUTMAN, JENNIFER MARIE 19d overdue
18772811 SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO WITH POWER AMPLIFIER PROTECTION BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL 17d overdue
18761242 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS WERONSKI, MATTHEW S 16d overdue
17858029 METHOD OF DETECTING ANOMALIES IN A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK AND BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK IMPLEMENTING SUCH A METHOD FARAMARZI, GITA 9d overdue
18955423 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTRA- AND INTER-CLUSTER COMMUNICATION SHELEHEDA, JAMES R 7d
18491307 METHOD FOR MANAGING ACCES BY A USER TO AT LEAST ONE APPLICATION, ASSOCIATED COMPUTER PROGRAM AND SYSTEM SCHMIDT, KARI L 22d
18641300 METHOD FOR DETERMINING A FUTURE HEALTH CONDITION OF AN INDIVIDUAL HUYNH, EMILY 29d
17882509 METHOD OF EDGE-BASED AUTO CONTAINMENT TSANG, HENRY

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2424 1
2632 1
3627 1
3683 1
2439 1
2194 1
2495 1
2496 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18955423 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTRA- AND INTER-CLUSTER COMMUNICATION SHELEHEDA, JAMES R 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Nov 21, 2024
18772811 SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO WITH POWER AMPLIFIER PROTECTION BURD, KEVIN MICHAEL 2632 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2024
18761242 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS WERONSKI, MATTHEW S 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2024
18641300 METHOD FOR DETERMINING A FUTURE HEALTH CONDITION OF AN INDIVIDUAL HUYNH, EMILY 3683 §101 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Apr 19, 2024
18491307 METHOD FOR MANAGING ACCES BY A USER TO AT LEAST ONE APPLICATION, ASSOCIATED COMPUTER PROGRAM AND SYSTEM SCHMIDT, KARI L 2439 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Oct 20, 2023
17941149 Computing system for executing quantum programs on analog and digital quantum computers GUTMAN, JENNIFER MARIE 2194 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2022
17882509 METHOD OF EDGE-BASED AUTO CONTAINMENT TSANG, HENRY 2495 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 05, 2022
17858029 METHOD OF DETECTING ANOMALIES IN A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK AND BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK IMPLEMENTING SUCH A METHOD FARAMARZI, GITA 2496 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2022

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