Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ovh

8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
0
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (5)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 (88%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (88%)
§112 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
6
Semiconductors
75% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PAPE, ZACHARY 2 72.4% +19.4%
ALVARE, PAUL 1 57.5% +38.3%
BAUER, SCOTT ALLEN 1 82.5% +13.0%
DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER 1 39.2% +40.6%
SMITH, COURTNEY L 1 85.4% +11.7%
NGO, STEVEN 1 63.3% +41.1%
SHAIKH, MERAJ A 1 57.6% +22.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18373548 HYBRID LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM WITH LEAK DETECTION SMITH, COURTNEY L 27d
18781213 DATACENTER TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR LIQUID-COOLED RACK-MOUNTED ASSEMBLIES BAUER, SCOTT ALLEN 30d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18792329 DRY COOLER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING THEREOF ALVARE, PAUL 16d overdue
18373567 IMMERSION COOLING CONTAINER PAPE, ZACHARY 15d overdue
18588720 BAFFLING ASSEMBLY FOR MITIGATING MOVEMENT OF A HEAT-TRANSFER LIQUID IN AN IMMERSION CASE PAPE, ZACHARY 15d
18233922 DETECTION AND DEFLECTION OF FLUID LEAKAGES IN IMMERSION COOLING SYSTEMS SHAIKH, MERAJ A 19d
18373548 HYBRID LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM WITH LEAK DETECTION SMITH, COURTNEY L 27d
18236559 COOLING BLOCK FOR COOLING A HEAT-GENERATING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF NGO, STEVEN 28d
18781213 DATACENTER TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR LIQUID-COOLED RACK-MOUNTED ASSEMBLIES BAUER, SCOTT ALLEN 30d
18588745 HYBRID COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS AND IMMERSION COOLED RACKS DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2835 5
3763 2
2838 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18792329 DRY COOLER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING THEREOF ALVARE, PAUL 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2024
18781213 DATACENTER TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR LIQUID-COOLED RACK-MOUNTED ASSEMBLIES BAUER, SCOTT ALLEN 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jul 23, 2024
18588745 HYBRID COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS AND IMMERSION COOLED RACKS DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER 2835 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18588720 BAFFLING ASSEMBLY FOR MITIGATING MOVEMENT OF A HEAT-TRANSFER LIQUID IN AN IMMERSION CASE PAPE, ZACHARY 2835 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18373567 IMMERSION COOLING CONTAINER PAPE, ZACHARY 2835 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2023
18373548 HYBRID LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM WITH LEAK DETECTION SMITH, COURTNEY L 2835 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 27, 2023
18236559 COOLING BLOCK FOR COOLING A HEAT-GENERATING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF NGO, STEVEN 2835 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 22, 2023
18233922 DETECTION AND DEFLECTION OF FLUID LEAKAGES IN IMMERSION COOLING SYSTEMS SHAIKH, MERAJ A 3763 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Aug 15, 2023

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