Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Flexiv Ltd.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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 (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (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
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
75% 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
WATTS III, JAMES MILLER 1 73.9% +15.5%
DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 1 85.3% +5.5%
QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED 1 100.0% +0.0%
HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM 1 44.1% +35.3%

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
18000007 GRIPPING DEVICE, ROBOT AND METHOD FOR SENSING FORCE INFORMATION QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED 5d overdue
18272864 HARMONIC DRIVE, METHOD OF MEASURING TORQUE IN HARMONIC DRIVE, AND ROBOT DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 36d

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18564414 METHOD FOR DETERMINING EXTERNAL FORCE APPLIED TO ROBOTIC ARM, ROBOTIC ARM AND STORAGE MEDIUM WATTS III, JAMES MILLER 8d overdue
17699360 HAPTIC FEEDBACK SYSTEMS USING ONE OR MORE ROBOTIC ARMS HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3657 1
2855 1
3654 1
3658 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18564414 METHOD FOR DETERMINING EXTERNAL FORCE APPLIED TO ROBOTIC ARM, ROBOTIC ARM AND STORAGE MEDIUM WATTS III, JAMES MILLER 3657 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2023
18272864 HARMONIC DRIVE, METHOD OF MEASURING TORQUE IN HARMONIC DRIVE, AND ROBOT DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 2855 §103 Final Rejection 36d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18000007 GRIPPING DEVICE, ROBOT AND METHOD FOR SENSING FORCE INFORMATION QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2022
17699360 HAPTIC FEEDBACK SYSTEMS USING ONE OR MORE ROBOTIC ARMS HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 21, 2022

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