Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Government Of The United States Of America AS Represented By The Secretary Of Commerce

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 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
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)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.

1
Hard (20%)
3
Medium (60%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only3 (60%)
§112 only1 (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
1
Communications
20% of docket
3
Semiconductors
60% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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
JOHNSON, RYAN 1 83.7% +15.9%
MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 1 85.8% +14.0%
CAI, PHUONG HAU 1 79.8% +20.6%
CONNELLY, MICHELLE R 1 80.0% +14.0%
BRAHMACHARI, MANDRITA 1 76.5% +29.8%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18844011 MICROFABRICATED ALKALINE EARTH VAPOR CELL AND METHOD OF FABRICATION JOHNSON, RYAN 117d overdue
18368886 TANTALA-RING-RESONATOR-BASED PHOTONIC DEVICE AND FREQUENCY-COMB GENERATION METHOD CONNELLY, MICHELLE R 71d overdue
18711809 ANALYTE PROBE AND DETERMINING WATER VAPOR TRANSMISSION RATE MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 3d overdue

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
18709705 DETECTING FACE MORPHING BY ONE-TO-MANY FACE RECOGNITION CAI, PHUONG HAU 35d

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
18844011 MICROFABRICATED ALKALINE EARTH VAPOR CELL AND METHOD OF FABRICATION JOHNSON, RYAN 117d overdue
18368886 TANTALA-RING-RESONATOR-BASED PHOTONIC DEVICE AND FREQUENCY-COMB GENERATION METHOD CONNELLY, MICHELLE R 71d overdue
18711809 ANALYTE PROBE AND DETERMINING WATER VAPOR TRANSMISSION RATE MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 3d overdue
18028154 RAY-BASED CLASSIFIER APPARATUS AND TUNING A DEVICE USING MACHINE LEARNING WITH A RAY-BASED CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK BRAHMACHARI, MANDRITA 3d overdue
18709705 DETECTING FACE MORPHING BY ONE-TO-MANY FACE RECOGNITION CAI, PHUONG HAU 35d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2849 1
2858 1
2673 1
2874 1
2144 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18844011 MICROFABRICATED ALKALINE EARTH VAPOR CELL AND METHOD OF FABRICATION JOHNSON, RYAN 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Sep 04, 2024
18711809 ANALYTE PROBE AND DETERMINING WATER VAPOR TRANSMISSION RATE MCANDREW, CHRISTOPHER P 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 20, 2024
18709705 DETECTING FACE MORPHING BY ONE-TO-MANY FACE RECOGNITION CAI, PHUONG HAU 2673 §101 Non-Final OA 35d Pending May 13, 2024
18368886 TANTALA-RING-RESONATOR-BASED PHOTONIC DEVICE AND FREQUENCY-COMB GENERATION METHOD CONNELLY, MICHELLE R 2874 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
18028154 RAY-BASED CLASSIFIER APPARATUS AND TUNING A DEVICE USING MACHINE LEARNING WITH A RAY-BASED CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK BRAHMACHARI, MANDRITA 2144 §112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2023

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