Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Gary L Sharpe

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 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.

1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
No statute on record1 (25%)

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
25% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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
BURGDORF, STEPHEN R 1 63.8% +43.3%
LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY 1 68.9% +36.2%
POON, ROBERT 1 41.7% +26.7%
STEVENS, ALLAN D 1 41.6% +50.0%

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
18408968 CONFIGURABLE TRAY SYSTEM AND RELATED COMPONENTS AND METHODS POON, ROBERT 60d overdue
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

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2685 1
3731 1
3735 1
3736 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18958757 TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICE BURGDORF, STEPHEN R 2685 Other Non-Final OA 30d Pending Nov 25, 2024
18936120 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLISTER PACKAGING LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY 3731 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Nov 04, 2024
18408968 CONFIGURABLE TRAY SYSTEM AND RELATED COMPONENTS AND METHODS POON, ROBERT 3735 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2024
17991106 TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE STEVENS, ALLAN D 3736 §103 Final Rejection 78d Pending Nov 21, 2022

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