Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
0
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.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
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 (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

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

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (17%)
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 only2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
33% 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
MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M 2 30.6% +20.4%
MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 1 66.9% +23.9%
NGUYEN, CINDY 1 78.4% +9.2%
WERONSKI, MATTHEW S 1 9.2% +19.4%
BAHL, SANGEETA 1 20.5% +19.1%

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
17722075 REGULATORY OBLIGATION IDENTIFIER BAHL, SANGEETA 17d overdue
17854338 AI-AUGMENTED AUDITING PLATFORM INCLUDING TECHNIQUES FOR APPLYING A COMPOSABLE ASSURANCE INTEGRITY FRAMEWORK WERONSKI, MATTHEW S 4d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18300934 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO EXTRACT CLIENT DATA WITH CONTEXT USING ENTERPRISE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH FRAMEWORK MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M 50d overdue
18947092 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT USING A GENERATIVE AI SYSTEM MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M 42d overdue
17722075 REGULATORY OBLIGATION IDENTIFIER BAHL, SANGEETA 17d overdue
17854338 AI-AUGMENTED AUDITING PLATFORM INCLUDING TECHNIQUES FOR APPLYING A COMPOSABLE ASSURANCE INTEGRITY FRAMEWORK WERONSKI, MATTHEW S 4d overdue
18321538 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING TOPIC-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 7d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3625 2
2163 1
2156 1
3627 1
3626 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18947092 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT USING A GENERATIVE AI SYSTEM MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M 3625 §102 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2024
18321538 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING TOPIC-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS MIAN, MUHAMMAD U 2163 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 22, 2023
18300934 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO EXTRACT CLIENT DATA WITH CONTEXT USING ENTERPRISE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH FRAMEWORK MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M 3625 §102 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
17937442 METHOD FOR DIGITAL TWIN BASED DATA MERGING NGUYEN, CINDY 2156 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 30, 2022
17854338 AI-AUGMENTED AUDITING PLATFORM INCLUDING TECHNIQUES FOR APPLYING A COMPOSABLE ASSURANCE INTEGRITY FRAMEWORK WERONSKI, MATTHEW S 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2022
17722075 REGULATORY OBLIGATION IDENTIFIER BAHL, SANGEETA 3626 §101 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2022

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