Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

DISCOVERY PURCHASER CORPORATION

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
0
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.

3
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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.

1
Hard (25%)
2
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (25%)
§103 only2 (50%)
No statute on record1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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
HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA 1 45.8% +40.0%
LEE, JENNIFER V 1 25.5% +40.4%
CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C 1 60.1% +17.2%
GRUBY, RANDALL A 1 62.4% +43.8%

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
18423860 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING MULTIDIMENSIONAL VALUE SHARING PURCHASE APPLICATION SPECIFIC TO AGRONOMIC CARE PRODUCTS FOR PROFESSIONAL TURF AND ORNAMENTAL MANAGERS LEE, JENNIFER V 14d

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
17425860 APPLICATOR FOR PESTICIDES GRUBY, RANDALL A 43d overdue
18587616 METHODS FOR THE CONTROL OF POA ANNUA IN WARM SEASON TURFGRASS USING THIENCARBAZONE-METHYL HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA 23d overdue
18253524 DEVICE AND METHOD TO DISTRIBUTE AIR TREATMENT SUBSTANCE CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C 5d overdue
18423860 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING MULTIDIMENSIONAL VALUE SHARING PURCHASE APPLICATION SPECIFIC TO AGRONOMIC CARE PRODUCTS FOR PROFESSIONAL TURF AND ORNAMENTAL MANAGERS LEE, JENNIFER V 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1616 1
3688 1
1774 1
3754 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18587616 METHODS FOR THE CONTROL OF POA ANNUA IN WARM SEASON TURFGRASS USING THIENCARBAZONE-METHYL HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA 1616 Other Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2024
18423860 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING MULTIDIMENSIONAL VALUE SHARING PURCHASE APPLICATION SPECIFIC TO AGRONOMIC CARE PRODUCTS FOR PROFESSIONAL TURF AND ORNAMENTAL MANAGERS LEE, JENNIFER V 3688 §101 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18253524 DEVICE AND METHOD TO DISTRIBUTE AIR TREATMENT SUBSTANCE CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C 1774 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 18, 2023
17425860 APPLICATOR FOR PESTICIDES GRUBY, RANDALL A 3754 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2021

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