Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Metal Industries Research & Development Centre

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)

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.

1
Hard (17%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (17%)
§103 only5 (83%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
17% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
67% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1 4.5% +25.0%
MARC, MCDIEUNEL 1 91.1% +7.3%
BARNES-BULLOCK, CRYSTAL JOY 1 86.1% -13.1%
CASS, JEAN PAUL 1 73.3% +25.5%
BURGESS, MARC R 1 34.2% +22.1%
SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS 1 31.3% +20.3%

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
18528786 SURGICAL ROBOT ARM CONTROL SYSTEM AND SURGICAL ROBOT ARM CONTROL METHOD MARC, MCDIEUNEL 114d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18396449 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FUNCTIONAL OIL POWDER DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 86d overdue
18528822 ELECTROMECHANICAL INTEGRATION ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION METHOD OF SERVO PUNCH PRESS KINEMATIC MECHANISM BARNES-BULLOCK, CRYSTAL JOY 23d overdue

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
18074520 SHIP DOCKING SYSTEM AND SHIP DOCKING METHOD SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS 111d overdue
18396449 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FUNCTIONAL OIL POWDER DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 86d overdue
18527370 UNMANNED AERIAL DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF CASS, JEAN PAUL 74d overdue
18075413 MULTIHULL MODULE BURGESS, MARC R 72d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1792 1
3656 1
2117 1
3666 1
3615 1
3663 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18396449 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FUNCTIONAL OIL POWDER DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1792 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Dec 26, 2023
18528786 SURGICAL ROBOT ARM CONTROL SYSTEM AND SURGICAL ROBOT ARM CONTROL METHOD MARC, MCDIEUNEL 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 114d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2023
18528822 ELECTROMECHANICAL INTEGRATION ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION METHOD OF SERVO PUNCH PRESS KINEMATIC MECHANISM BARNES-BULLOCK, CRYSTAL JOY 2117 §101 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2023
18527370 UNMANNED AERIAL DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF CASS, JEAN PAUL 3666 §103 Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18075413 MULTIHULL MODULE BURGESS, MARC R 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2022
18074520 SHIP DOCKING SYSTEM AND SHIP DOCKING METHOD SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS 3663 §103 Final Rejection 111d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2022

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