Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hand Held Products Inc.

9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 77 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
22% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
4
Semiconductors
44% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
22% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP 1 76.9% +16.8%
NGUYEN, CHAN T H 1 86.2% +2.8%
ZAMAN, FAISAL M 1 67.2% +14.1%
BASOM, BLAINE T 1 42.9% +22.7%
SHENDEROV, ALEXANDER D 1 90.4% +6.0%
TAN, DING Y 1 76.2% +16.9%
ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D 1 53.1% +3.0%
PICHLER, MARIN 1 63.6% +8.3%
WEINMANN, RYU-SUNG PETER 1 63.6% +4.2%

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
18752204 PRINTER FOR IDENTIFYING A TYPE OF THERMAL PRINTHEAD (TPH) AND A METHOD THEREOF SHENDEROV, ALEXANDER D 12d
18894706 ILLUMINATION CONTROL FOR IMAGING SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE IMAGE SENSORS NGUYEN, CHAN T H 57d

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
18625641 WEARABLE AND ROTATABLE METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR MOUNTABLE DEVICES TAN, DING Y 110d overdue
18775635 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ACTIVATING OR DEACTIVATING A RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READER ZAMAN, FAISAL M 44d overdue
18774319 MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE WITH DATA COGNITION SOFTWARE BASOM, BLAINE T 3d overdue
19269814 RFID COUPLER AND ASSOCIATED RFID ENABLED DEVICE SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2876 1
2638 1
2175 1
2141 1
2853 1
3632 1
3645 1
2872 1
2859 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19269814 RFID COUPLER AND ASSOCIATED RFID ENABLED DEVICE SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP 2876 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jul 15, 2025
18894706 ILLUMINATION CONTROL FOR IMAGING SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE IMAGE SENSORS NGUYEN, CHAN T H 2638 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Sep 24, 2024
18775635 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ACTIVATING OR DEACTIVATING A RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READER ZAMAN, FAISAL M 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2024
18774319 MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE WITH DATA COGNITION SOFTWARE BASOM, BLAINE T 2141 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2024
18752204 PRINTER FOR IDENTIFYING A TYPE OF THERMAL PRINTHEAD (TPH) AND A METHOD THEREOF SHENDEROV, ALEXANDER D 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 24, 2024
18625641 WEARABLE AND ROTATABLE METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR MOUNTABLE DEVICES TAN, DING Y 3632 §103 Final Rejection 110d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2024
18598578 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETECT IMPROPER MEDIA LOADING ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 07, 2024
18544993 VARIABLE FOCUS ASSEMBLIES AND APPARATUSES HAVING CROSSED BEARING BALLS PICHLER, MARIN 2872 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 19, 2023
17812671 EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE FOR A WIRELESS BATTERY PACK WITH SELF-CHARGING CAPABILITY WEINMANN, RYU-SUNG PETER 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2022

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