Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

McKesson Corporation

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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.

3
Hard (75%)
1
Medium (25%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (75%)
§103 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
75% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHEIN, ALLEN C 1 44.7% +40.0%
MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA 1 9.7% +26.1%
WEHOVZ, OSCAR 1 64.2% +29.1%
ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 1 22.9% +32.9%

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
18920584 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IDENTIFYING SPLIT ELECTRONIC DATA RECORDS CHEIN, ALLEN C
17839224 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTIVE MODELING MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA
17499976 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME PRICING INFORMATION ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA

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
17546744 DETECTION OF ANOMALOUS RECORDS WITHIN A DATASET WEHOVZ, OSCAR 34d
18920584 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IDENTIFYING SPLIT ELECTRONIC DATA RECORDS CHEIN, ALLEN C
17839224 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTIVE MODELING MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA
17499976 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME PRICING INFORMATION ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3627 1
3681 1
2161 1
3692 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18920584 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IDENTIFYING SPLIT ELECTRONIC DATA RECORDS CHEIN, ALLEN C 3627 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2024
17839224 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTIVE MODELING MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA 3681 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 13, 2022
17546744 DETECTION OF ANOMALOUS RECORDS WITHIN A DATASET WEHOVZ, OSCAR 2161 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 09, 2021
17499976 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME PRICING INFORMATION ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 3692 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 13, 2021

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