Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Hand Held Products Inc.

12 pending office actions • 7 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 69 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
4
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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 (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

3
Hard (25%)
7
Medium (58%)
2
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (58%)
Double-patenting only2 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
8% of docket
2
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
6
Semiconductors
50% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
17% of docket
1
Business / Other
8% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MAI, THIEN T 1 59.2% +20.0%
HAUPT, KRISTY A 1 87.8% +12.2%
HESS, DANIEL A 1 80.2% +7.5%
SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP 1 76.9% +17.0%
WALSH, DANIEL I 1 64.3% +11.9%
MCMILLION, TRACEY M 1 87.8% +2.3%
WECKER, JENNIFER 1 71.1% +35.8%
MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY 1 83.6% +13.1%
ZAMAN, FAISAL M 1 67.3% +13.3%
BASOM, BLAINE T 1 43.3% +20.0%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19363753 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR COMPREHENSIVE FOCUSING IN IMAGING ENVIRONMENTS HAUPT, KRISTY A
19353171 AUGMENTED AIMER FOR SYMBOLOGY READERS HESS, DANIEL A
18957006 PRINTHEAD FOR A PRINTING APPARATUS MCMILLION, TRACEY M
18796112 LOGISTIC SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17812671 EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE FOR A WIRELESS BATTERY PACK WITH SELF-CHARGING CAPABILITY WEINMANN, RYU-SUNG PETER 2d overdue
19408571 CONFIGURABLE DOCKING DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEMS MAI, THIEN T
19251478 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN FOR CONSUMER DEVICE BASED SCANNING AND MOBILITY WALSH, DANIEL I

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
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
19408571 CONFIGURABLE DOCKING DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEMS MAI, THIEN T
19363753 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR COMPREHENSIVE FOCUSING IN IMAGING ENVIRONMENTS HAUPT, KRISTY A
19251478 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN FOR CONSUMER DEVICE BASED SCANNING AND MOBILITY WALSH, DANIEL I
18811632 APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SAMPLE TESTING WECKER, JENNIFER
18796112 LOGISTIC SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2876 5
1797 1
3653 1
2175 1
2141 1
3645 1
2859 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19408571 CONFIGURABLE DOCKING DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE SYSTEMS MAI, THIEN T 2876 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 04, 2025
19363753 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR COMPREHENSIVE FOCUSING IN IMAGING ENVIRONMENTS HAUPT, KRISTY A 2876 DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 21, 2025
19353171 AUGMENTED AIMER FOR SYMBOLOGY READERS HESS, DANIEL A 2876 DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 08, 2025
19269814 RFID COUPLER AND ASSOCIATED RFID ENABLED DEVICE SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP 2876 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jul 15, 2025
19251478 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN FOR CONSUMER DEVICE BASED SCANNING AND MOBILITY WALSH, DANIEL I 2876 §103§112Other Final Rejection Pending Jun 26, 2025
18957006 PRINTHEAD FOR A PRINTING APPARATUS MCMILLION, TRACEY M §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 22, 2024
18811632 APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SAMPLE TESTING WECKER, JENNIFER 1797 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2024
18796112 LOGISTIC SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY 3653 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 06, 2024
18775635 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ACTIVATING OR DEACTIVATING A RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READER ZAMAN, FAISAL M 2175 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2024
18774319 MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE WITH DATA COGNITION SOFTWARE BASOM, BLAINE T 2141 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2024
18598578 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETECT IMPROPER MEDIA LOADING ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 07, 2024
17812671 EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE FOR A WIRELESS BATTERY PACK WITH SELF-CHARGING CAPABILITY WEINMANN, RYU-SUNG PETER 2859 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2022

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