Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cdw LLC

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
60% of docket
2
Communications
40% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZHANG, LESHUI 1 77.7% +35.5%
UNG, LANNY N 1 71.3% +25.4%
FARAMARZI, GITA 1 52.6% +19.1%
BAKHIT, CHRISTIAN MAMDOUH 1 90.0% +33.3%
PHAM, TOAN NGOC 1 86.4% +12.3%

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
18139092 EMULATED NETWORK ENVIRONMENT GENERATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CYBERWARFARE TRAINING REALISM BAKHIT, CHRISTIAN MAMDOUH 22d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18139097 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATING CYBERWARFARE TRAINING SCENARIOS FARAMARZI, GITA 9d overdue
18656113 COMPUTING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING CUSTOMER INQUIRIES USING SPEECH-TO-TEXT, LANGUAGE MODEL ANALYSIS, AND TEXT-TO-SPEECH SERVICES ZHANG, LESHUI 13d
18416793 CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-CODE METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING ACCESS AND VISIBILITY OF USERS ACROSS DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL GROUPS UNG, LANNY N 21d
18139092 EMULATED NETWORK ENVIRONMENT GENERATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CYBERWARFARE TRAINING REALISM BAKHIT, CHRISTIAN MAMDOUH 22d
17827326 AVAILABLE PARKING SPACE DISPATCH PHAM, TOAN NGOC 36d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2695 1
2197 1
2496 1
2199 1
2685 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18656113 COMPUTING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING CUSTOMER INQUIRIES USING SPEECH-TO-TEXT, LANGUAGE MODEL ANALYSIS, AND TEXT-TO-SPEECH SERVICES ZHANG, LESHUI 2695 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending May 06, 2024
18416793 CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-CODE METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING ACCESS AND VISIBILITY OF USERS ACROSS DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL GROUPS UNG, LANNY N 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jan 18, 2024
18139097 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATING CYBERWARFARE TRAINING SCENARIOS FARAMARZI, GITA 2496 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2023
18139092 EMULATED NETWORK ENVIRONMENT GENERATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CYBERWARFARE TRAINING REALISM BAKHIT, CHRISTIAN MAMDOUH 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Apr 25, 2023
17827326 AVAILABLE PARKING SPACE DISPATCH PHAM, TOAN NGOC 2685 Other Final Rejection 36d Pending May 27, 2022

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