Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Capsum

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (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%)
3
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
No statute on record1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

4
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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LIU, SUE XU 1 20.6% +15.4%
ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE 1 35.3% +68.8%
SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE 1 31.4% +51.7%
HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE 1 60.4% +23.0%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18584735 Product comprising a liquid composition and a solid composition comprising at least one cavity LIU, SUE XU 41d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18058557 MACROSCOPIC SOLAR DISPERSION WITHOUT SHELL HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE 36d overdue
18251833 DEVICE FOR DECONTAMINATING A HOLLOW OBJECT DEFINING AN INTERNAL CAVITY, AND ASSOCIATED DISPENSING MACHINE AND METHOD SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE 8d overdue
18264210 COMPOSITION IN THE FORM OF A STABLE MACROSCOPIC EMULSION COMPRISING A PERCENTAGE OF INGREDIENTS OF NATURAL ORIGIN THAT IS GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 95% ACCORDING TO ISO STANDARD 16128 ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE 28d
18584735 Product comprising a liquid composition and a solid composition comprising at least one cavity LIU, SUE XU 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1616 1
1611 1
1799 1
1612 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18584735 Product comprising a liquid composition and a solid composition comprising at least one cavity LIU, SUE XU 1616 Other Non-Final OA 41d Pending Feb 22, 2024
18264210 COMPOSITION IN THE FORM OF A STABLE MACROSCOPIC EMULSION COMPRISING A PERCENTAGE OF INGREDIENTS OF NATURAL ORIGIN THAT IS GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 95% ACCORDING TO ISO STANDARD 16128 ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE 1611 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18251833 DEVICE FOR DECONTAMINATING A HOLLOW OBJECT DEFINING AN INTERNAL CAVITY, AND ASSOCIATED DISPENSING MACHINE AND METHOD SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE 1799 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending May 04, 2023
18058557 MACROSCOPIC SOLAR DISPERSION WITHOUT SHELL HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2022

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