Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Carrie Nystrom

1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Carrie Nystrom currently has 1 pending office action in her patent portfolio. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which represents the entire active prosecution effort at the USPTO. The data indicates 0 distinct art units, suggesting a specific or specialized technical focus for the pending application.

The busiest examiner, PARSLEY, DAVID J, is handling the 1 pending office action. With only one examiner involved, the prosecution path is centralized. The success of this patent filing depends on navigating the specific requirements and preferences of this individual examiner. Practitioners should focus on the examination history of this examiner to move the single pending action toward allowance.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

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

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 (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

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
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% 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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PARSLEY, DAVID J 1 54.0% +28.7%

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
18853898 SOLAR PANEL WASHER PARSLEY, DAVID J —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18853898 SOLAR PANEL WASHER PARSLEY, DAVID J —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18853898 SOLAR PANEL WASHER PARSLEY, DAVID J — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 03, 2024

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