Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (2)

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 (8%)
12
Medium (92%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§103 only10 (77%)
§102 only2 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
15% of docket
11
Information Tech
85% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SMITH, PAULINHO E 1 80.3% +9.6%
LI, LIANG Y 1 61.3% +69.2%
PREGLER, SHARON 1 78.1% +20.8%
GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K 1 72.5% +25.2%
TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN 1
ALHIJA, SAIF A 1 72.3% +18.6%
MAPAR, BIJAN 1 67.6% +28.9%
HAO, YI 1 34.9% +43.8%
HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 1 28.8% +35.5%
YOUNG, MICAH PAUL 1 55.1% +30.1%

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
17684100 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESES HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 38d overdue
18394656 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELATIONAL TIME SERIES LEARNING WITH THE AID OF A DIGITAL COMPUTER SMITH, PAULINHO E 84d

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
18514866 LOCALIZED VISUAL GRAPH FILTERS FOR COMPLEX GRAPH QUERIES LI, LIANG Y 59d overdue
17684100 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESES HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 38d overdue
17978917 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING BASED SYSTEM DESIGN GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K 30d overdue
17815998 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF GENERATING GEOMETRIC DESIGNS BASED ON SYSTEM-LEVEL DESIGNS ALHIJA, SAIF A 10d overdue
17551289 VISCOSIFIED FLUIDS FOR MEDICAMENT DELIVERY YOUNG, MICAH PAUL 27d
18157311 TUNABLE, RAPID UPTAKE, AMINOPOLYMER AEROGEL SORBENT FOR DIRECT AIR CAPTURE OF CO2 PREGLER, SHARON 34d
17706068 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN GENERATION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING BASED SURROGATE MODEL FOR CRACKING HAO, YI 56d
17831790 CO-GENERATION OF COLLISION-FREE SHAPES IN ARBITRARY RELATIVE MOTION MAPAR, BIJAN 72d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2188 3
2143 2
2189 2
2127 1
1772 1
2186 1
2187 1
1618 1
2161 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18394656 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELATIONAL TIME SERIES LEARNING WITH THE AID OF A DIGITAL COMPUTER SMITH, PAULINHO E 2127 §101 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18514866 LOCALIZED VISUAL GRAPH FILTERS FOR COMPLEX GRAPH QUERIES LI, LIANG Y 2143 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Nov 20, 2023
18157311 TUNABLE, RAPID UPTAKE, AMINOPOLYMER AEROGEL SORBENT FOR DIRECT AIR CAPTURE OF CO2 PREGLER, SHARON 1772 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jan 20, 2023
17978917 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AND NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING BASED SYSTEM DESIGN GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K 2189 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2022
17946826 TRANSFERABLE HYBRID PROGNOSTICS BASED ON FUNDAMENTAL DEGRADATION MODES TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN 2188 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2022
17815998 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF GENERATING GEOMETRIC DESIGNS BASED ON SYSTEM-LEVEL DESIGNS ALHIJA, SAIF A 2186 §102 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2022
17831790 CO-GENERATION OF COLLISION-FREE SHAPES IN ARBITRARY RELATIVE MOTION MAPAR, BIJAN 2189 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Jun 03, 2022
17706068 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN GENERATION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING BASED SURROGATE MODEL FOR CRACKING HAO, YI 2187 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Mar 28, 2022
17684100 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESES HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 2188 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2022
17551289 VISCOSIFIED FLUIDS FOR MEDICAMENT DELIVERY YOUNG, MICAH PAUL 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 15, 2021
17552132 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AI-ASSISTED SYSTEM DESIGN DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL 2188 §102 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2021
17484309 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED ACTIVITY DETECTION GLASSER, DARA J 2161 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Sep 24, 2021
17400016 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LEARNING AN ENSEMBLE OF NEURAL NETWORK KERNEL CLASSIFIERS BASED ON PARTITIONS OF THE TRAINING DATA PHUNG, QUOC LY PHU 2143 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Aug 11, 2021

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