Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Ocient Inc.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 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
1
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.

2
Hard (50%)
2
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (50%)
§103 only2 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
75% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
25% 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
CHEUNG, HUBERT G 3 63.2% +48.0%
MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 1 50.0% +19.5%

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
19318514 DATA SLABS AND SORTED SLABS OF A PARALLELIZED DATABASE SYSTEM CHEUNG, HUBERT G
19286847 GENERATION OF AN OPTIMIZED QUERY PLAN WITH MULTIPLE EXECUTION PATHS CHEUNG, HUBERT G

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
18648342 DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEM CHEUNG, HUBERT G 12d
19318514 DATA SLABS AND SORTED SLABS OF A PARALLELIZED DATABASE SYSTEM CHEUNG, HUBERT G
19286847 GENERATION OF AN OPTIMIZED QUERY PLAN WITH MULTIPLE EXECUTION PATHS CHEUNG, HUBERT G
18796490 DIVIDED MAIN MEMORY WITH COMPUTING DEVICE MEMORY SECTION AND DATABASE MEMORY SECTION MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2161 1
2159 1
2152 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19318514 DATA SLABS AND SORTED SLABS OF A PARALLELIZED DATABASE SYSTEM CHEUNG, HUBERT G 2161 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 04, 2025
19286847 GENERATION OF AN OPTIMIZED QUERY PLAN WITH MULTIPLE EXECUTION PATHS CHEUNG, HUBERT G §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2025
18796490 DIVIDED MAIN MEMORY WITH COMPUTING DEVICE MEMORY SECTION AND DATABASE MEMORY SECTION MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 2159 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 07, 2024
18648342 DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEM CHEUNG, HUBERT G 2152 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 27, 2024

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