Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

May Patents Ltd.

9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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%)
7
Medium (78%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (22%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
No statute on record2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
33% of docket
5
Communications
56% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% 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.

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
ALAM, MIRZA F 3 74.1% +34.0%
SHOLEMAN, ABU S 1 78.5% +27.2%
MEKY, MOUSTAFA M 1 93.4% +5.2%
SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 1 67.1% +37.3%
SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 1 69.7% +33.0%
DALBO, MICHAEL J 1 66.4% +18.8%
BUKOWSKI, KENNETH 1 67.7% +5.9%

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
18092349 Method and Apparatus for Cooperative Usage of Multiple Distance Meters DALBO, MICHAEL J 72d overdue
18100735 System and Method for a Motion Sensing Device ALAM, MIRZA F 14d
19303597 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING-BASED INTERNET SECURITY SHOLEMAN, ABU S 21d
18797584 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVER BASED CONTROL SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 21d
18797581 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVER BASED CONTROL SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 54d
18797576 System and Method for a Motion Sensing Device ALAM, MIRZA F 56d
19001676 System and Method for a Motion Sensing Device ALAM, MIRZA F 62d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2688 3
2496 1
2457 1
2459 1
2657 1
2857 1
2621 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19303597 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING-BASED INTERNET SECURITY SHOLEMAN, ABU S 2496 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Aug 19, 2025
19001676 System and Method for a Motion Sensing Device ALAM, MIRZA F 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Dec 26, 2024
18928057 System and Method for Server-Based Control MEKY, MOUSTAFA M 2457 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 27, 2024
18797584 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVER BASED CONTROL SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 2459 Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18797576 System and Method for a Motion Sensing Device ALAM, MIRZA F 2688 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18797581 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVER BASED CONTROL SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN 2657 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18100735 System and Method for a Motion Sensing Device ALAM, MIRZA F 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jan 24, 2023
18092349 Method and Apparatus for Cooperative Usage of Multiple Distance Meters DALBO, MICHAEL J 2857 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Jan 02, 2023
16788333 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL BASED ON FACE OR HAND GESTURE DETECTION BUKOWSKI, KENNETH 2621 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2020

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