Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Maersk A/S

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

6
Hard (86%)
1
Medium (14%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§101 + other1 (14%)
§103 only1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (57%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
57% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ALLEN, JEFFREY R 1 47.7% +27.0%
AZAD, ABUL K 1 85.4% +14.2%
LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H 1 72.7% +23.4%
BECK, KAREN 1 82.7% +11.0%
GLASS, RUSSELL S 1 71.4% +20.7%
MA, LISA 1 47.7% +44.2%
ALI, WAQAAS A 1 80.8% +18.1%

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18262084 A METHOD FOR MODIFYING BOOKING DATA FOR A SHIPPING SYSTEM AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE MA, LISA 4d overdue
19053057 CONTAINER ASSEMBLY ALLEN, JEFFREY R
18871443 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING TEXTUAL OUTPUTS FROM IMAGES AZAD, ABUL K
18736400 STRUCTURE FOR USE IN LASHING A SHIPPING CONTAINER TO A SUPPORT BECK, KAREN
18262077 A METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS RECONCILIATION OF INVOICE DATA AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE GLASS, RUSSELL S
18312956 FILTRATION SYSTEM ALI, WAQAAS A

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18262084 A METHOD FOR MODIFYING BOOKING DATA FOR A SHIPPING SYSTEM AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE MA, LISA 4d overdue
19053057 CONTAINER ASSEMBLY ALLEN, JEFFREY R
18871443 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING TEXTUAL OUTPUTS FROM IMAGES AZAD, ABUL K
18913216 ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H
18736400 STRUCTURE FOR USE IN LASHING A SHIPPING CONTAINER TO A SUPPORT BECK, KAREN
18262077 A METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS RECONCILIATION OF INVOICE DATA AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE GLASS, RUSSELL S
18312956 FILTRATION SYSTEM ALI, WAQAAS A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3733 1
2685 1
3676 1
3627 1
3628 1
1777 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19053057 CONTAINER ASSEMBLY ALLEN, JEFFREY R 3733 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 13, 2025
18871443 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING TEXTUAL OUTPUTS FROM IMAGES AZAD, ABUL K §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 03, 2024
18913216 ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H 2685 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 11, 2024
18736400 STRUCTURE FOR USE IN LASHING A SHIPPING CONTAINER TO A SUPPORT BECK, KAREN 3676 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 06, 2024
18262077 A METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS RECONCILIATION OF INVOICE DATA AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE GLASS, RUSSELL S 3627 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 19, 2023
18262084 A METHOD FOR MODIFYING BOOKING DATA FOR A SHIPPING SYSTEM AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE MA, LISA 3628 §101 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18312956 FILTRATION SYSTEM ALI, WAQAAS A 1777 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending May 05, 2023

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