Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ingram Micro Inc.

8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (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 (38%)
4
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (38%)
§103 only3 (38%)
§102 only1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
88% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZEROUAL, OMAR 3 34.0% +40.0%
PRASAD, NANCY N 2 21.5% +18.2%
OBAID, FATEH M 1 67.9% +35.3%
NGUYEN, MERILYN P 1 87.0% +5.2%
NELSON, FREDA ANN 1 42.6% +5.6%

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
19258861 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AGNOSTIC DATA FORMS FOR VENDORS NGUYEN, MERILYN P 55d

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
18793346 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED PREDICTION OF INSIGHTS FOR VENDOR PRODUCT ROADMAPS ZEROUAL, OMAR 147d overdue
18829232 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AI-DRIVEN INTEGRATED INSIGHTS PRASAD, NANCY N 53d
18768971 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT INCLUDING SPECIAL PRICING DETERMINATION NELSON, FREDA ANN 60d
18614517 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING HARDWARE-SOFTWARE-CLOUD TO AS-A-SERVICE (AAS) PRASAD, NANCY N

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18793346 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED PREDICTION OF INSIGHTS FOR VENDOR PRODUCT ROADMAPS ZEROUAL, OMAR 147d overdue
18949952 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING REAL-TIME BUSINESS INSIGHTS ZEROUAL, OMAR 34d
18829232 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AI-DRIVEN INTEGRATED INSIGHTS PRASAD, NANCY N 53d
18732227 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT INCLUDING ERP AGNOSTIC REALTIME DATA MESH WITH CHANGE DATA CAPTURE ZEROUAL, OMAR 62d
19258877 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC SKU GENERATION IN DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT OBAID, FATEH M 70d
18614517 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING HARDWARE-SOFTWARE-CLOUD TO AS-A-SERVICE (AAS) PRASAD, NANCY N

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3628 4
3624 2
3627 1
2153 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19258877 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC SKU GENERATION IN DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT OBAID, FATEH M 3627 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jul 02, 2025
19258861 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AGNOSTIC DATA FORMS FOR VENDORS NGUYEN, MERILYN P 2153 §102 Final Rejection 55d Pending Jul 02, 2025
18949952 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING REAL-TIME BUSINESS INSIGHTS ZEROUAL, OMAR 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 15, 2024
18829232 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AI-DRIVEN INTEGRATED INSIGHTS PRASAD, NANCY N 3624 §103 Final Rejection 53d Pending Sep 09, 2024
18793346 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED PREDICTION OF INSIGHTS FOR VENDOR PRODUCT ROADMAPS ZEROUAL, OMAR 3628 §101 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2024
18768971 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT INCLUDING SPECIAL PRICING DETERMINATION NELSON, FREDA ANN 3628 §101 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Jul 10, 2024
18732227 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT INCLUDING ERP AGNOSTIC REALTIME DATA MESH WITH CHANGE DATA CAPTURE ZEROUAL, OMAR 3628 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Jun 03, 2024
18614517 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING HARDWARE-SOFTWARE-CLOUD TO AS-A-SERVICE (AAS) PRASAD, NANCY N 3624 §101 Final Rejection Pending Mar 22, 2024

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