Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES

8 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 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.

2
Hard (25%)
5
Medium (62%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (25%)
§103 only3 (38%)
§102 only2 (25%)
§112 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
2
Communications
25% of docket
4
Semiconductors
50% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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
TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE 1 49.1% +9.1%
MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 1 85.8% +14.0%
RHIM, WOO CHUL 1 78.8% +20.8%
MUSE, ISMAIL A 1 86.5% +8.0%
BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS 1 79.0% +26.3%
ALUNKAL, THOMAS D 1 72.0% +15.5%
KIM, JONATHAN J 1 42.9% +66.7%
GORDON, BRYAN P 1 76.9% +14.3%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18764209 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHARACTERIZING A METAL POWDER MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 23d overdue
18381038 Method for fabricating radiation-hardened heterojunction photodiodes MUSE, ISMAIL A 69d

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
18770798 METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TRAJECTORY OF A MOVABLE CARRIER IN REAL-TIME AND IN NON-REAL-TIME TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE 70d overdue
18376097 METHOD FOR EVALUATING A TRANSMISSION LINE THROUGH AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF A REFLECTOGRAM ALUNKAL, THOMAS D 58d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18545916 METHOD FOR ANNOTATING TRACKS OF INDIVIDUALS IN A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES RHIM, WOO CHUL 73d overdue
18376097 METHOD FOR EVALUATING A TRANSMISSION LINE THROUGH AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF A REFLECTOGRAM ALUNKAL, THOMAS D 58d overdue
18764209 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHARACTERIZING A METAL POWDER MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 23d overdue
18081563 PIEZOELECTRIC SYSTEM GORDON, BRYAN P 11d overdue
18122665 PROCESSING METHOD IN A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR, AND ASSOCIATED ACCELERATOR KIM, JONATHAN J 28d
18381027 MEMS RESONANT SENSOR ADAPTED TO GENERATE A PULSE OUTPUT SIGNAL BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS 71d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3667 1
2858 1
2676 1
2812 1
2857 1
2686 1
2141 1
2837 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18770798 METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TRAJECTORY OF A MOVABLE CARRIER IN REAL-TIME AND IN NON-REAL-TIME TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE 3667 §101 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2024
18764209 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHARACTERIZING A METAL POWDER MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 04, 2024
18545916 METHOD FOR ANNOTATING TRACKS OF INDIVIDUALS IN A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES RHIM, WOO CHUL 2676 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18381038 Method for fabricating radiation-hardened heterojunction photodiodes MUSE, ISMAIL A 2812 §112 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18381027 MEMS RESONANT SENSOR ADAPTED TO GENERATE A PULSE OUTPUT SIGNAL BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18376097 METHOD FOR EVALUATING A TRANSMISSION LINE THROUGH AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF A REFLECTOGRAM ALUNKAL, THOMAS D 2686 §101 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Oct 03, 2023
18122665 PROCESSING METHOD IN A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR, AND ASSOCIATED ACCELERATOR KIM, JONATHAN J 2141 §102 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 16, 2023
18081563 PIEZOELECTRIC SYSTEM GORDON, BRYAN P 2837 §102 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022

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