Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Gary L Sharpe

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (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.

4
Hard (80%)
1
Medium (20%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (20%)
Double-patenting + other1 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (60%)

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
1
Communications
20% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
80% 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
SMITH, JACOB A 1 81.7% +17.9%
BURGDORF, STEPHEN R 1 64.1% +43.0%
LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY 1 69.0% +35.7%
STEVENS, ALLAN D 1 41.3% +49.8%
MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA 1 9.7% +26.1%

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
19282677 BOTTLE ADAPTER PRESS AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD SMITH, JACOB A

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18936120 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLISTER PACKAGING LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY 6d
18958757 TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICE BURGDORF, STEPHEN R 30d
17991106 TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE STEVENS, ALLAN D 78d
17899153 INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA

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
18936120 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLISTER PACKAGING LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY 6d
18958757 TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICE BURGDORF, STEPHEN R 30d
17991106 TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE STEVENS, ALLAN D 78d
19282677 BOTTLE ADAPTER PRESS AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD SMITH, JACOB A
17899153 INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3731 2
2685 1
3736 1
3681 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19282677 BOTTLE ADAPTER PRESS AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD SMITH, JACOB A 3731 §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 28, 2025
18958757 TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICE BURGDORF, STEPHEN R 2685 §103§112 Final Rejection 30d Pending Nov 25, 2024
18936120 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLISTER PACKAGING LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY 3731 §102§103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Nov 04, 2024
17991106 TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE STEVENS, ALLAN D 3736 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 78d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17899153 INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA 3681 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 30, 2022

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