Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Delaware Capital Formation Inc.

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
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.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 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
1
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
40% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% 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
SHEIKH, ASFAND M 1 46.2% +48.2%
LE, JOHN H 1 87.9% +7.4%
RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE 1 76.9% +15.4%
DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 1 85.3% +5.5%
BARRETT, RYAN S 1 64.6% +43.2%

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
18095485 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING LOAD ON WINCH HOOK DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 107d overdue
18285449 PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE OF INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT LE, JOHN H 10d overdue

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18087630 INDUSTRIAL MONITORING PLATFORM BARRETT, RYAN S 112d overdue
18226098 SYSTEM FOR BOOM AND EXTENSION GEOMETRY DETERMINATION AND REPORTING RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE 59d overdue
18287624 AFTER-MARKET SERVICE PROCESS DIGITIZATION SHEIKH, ASFAND M 15d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3626 1
2857 1
3666 1
2855 1
2148 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18287624 AFTER-MARKET SERVICE PROCESS DIGITIZATION SHEIKH, ASFAND M 3626 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 19, 2023
18285449 PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE OF INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT LE, JOHN H 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Oct 03, 2023
18226098 SYSTEM FOR BOOM AND EXTENSION GEOMETRY DETERMINATION AND REPORTING RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE 3666 §103 Final Rejection 59d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18095485 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING LOAD ON WINCH HOOK DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 107d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2023
18087630 INDUSTRIAL MONITORING PLATFORM BARRETT, RYAN S 2148 Other Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022

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