Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Providence St Joseph Health

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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.

1
Hard (11%)
8
Medium (89%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
44% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
44% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HANKS, BENJAMIN L 1 21.0% +29.9%
PATEL, SHREYANS A 1 88.9% +7.7%
PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 1 58.1% +31.7%
BADAWI, ANGIE M 1 58.9% +38.5%
KIM, HEE SOO 1 79.1% +0.0%
NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C 1 76.3% +10.7%
BARTLEY, KENNETH 1 36.3% +28.8%
HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 1 2.9% +0.7%
SITTNER, MICHAEL J 1 11.1% +14.7%

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
18757256 CONSTRUCTING AND APPLYING COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHODS REPRESENTING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE PATEL, SHREYANS A 17d overdue

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17950867 RECEIVING PRESCRIPTION REFILL REQUESTS VIA VOICE AND/OR FREE-TEXT CHAT CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN A PATIENT AND AN AUTOMATED AGENT HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 60d overdue
17955298 CONSTRUCTING AND APPLYING COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHODS REPRESENTING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C 4d overdue
17746820 AUTOMATIC PROJECT PLANNING, BUDGETING, AND TRACKING TOOL SITTNER, MICHAEL J 13d
18763361 IDENTIFYING AND ADVANCING PROGRESS THROUGH ANALYTIC METHODS REPRESENTING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE BASED ON MONITORING A SPOKEN CONVERSATION HANKS, BENJAMIN L 28d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17950861 OPTIMIZING MESSAGING TO SERVICE PRINCIPALS USING MACHINE LEARNING BARTLEY, KENNETH 18d overdue
18618986 CLUSTER INTERPRETATION USING A PERSISTENCE MEASURE PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 4d overdue
17955298 CONSTRUCTING AND APPLYING COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHODS REPRESENTING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C 4d overdue
17746820 AUTOMATIC PROJECT PLANNING, BUDGETING, AND TRACKING TOOL SITTNER, MICHAEL J 13d
18763361 IDENTIFYING AND ADVANCING PROGRESS THROUGH ANALYTIC METHODS REPRESENTING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE BASED ON MONITORING A SPOKEN CONVERSATION HANKS, BENJAMIN L 28d
18311757 AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING ERRORS IN COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHOD ROUTING OBJECTS BADAWI, ANGIE M 30d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3684 2
2659 1
2169 1
2179 1
2443 1
2459 1
3686 1
3621 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18763361 IDENTIFYING AND ADVANCING PROGRESS THROUGH ANALYTIC METHODS REPRESENTING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE BASED ON MONITORING A SPOKEN CONVERSATION HANKS, BENJAMIN L 3684 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18757256 CONSTRUCTING AND APPLYING COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHODS REPRESENTING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2024
18618986 CLUSTER INTERPRETATION USING A PERSISTENCE MEASURE PEREZ-ARROYO, RAQUEL 2169 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2024
18311757 AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING ERRORS IN COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHOD ROUTING OBJECTS BADAWI, ANGIE M 2179 §102 Non-Final OA 30d Pending May 03, 2023
18182248 USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO ROUTE CONSUMER INTERACTIONS FROM AN AUTOMATED MODE OF COMMUNICATION TO A SECOND MODE OF COMMUNICATION KIM, HEE SOO 2443 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Mar 10, 2023
17955298 CONSTRUCTING AND APPLYING COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTIC METHODS REPRESENTING MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C 2459 §101 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2022
17950861 OPTIMIZING MESSAGING TO SERVICE PRINCIPALS USING MACHINE LEARNING BARTLEY, KENNETH 3684 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2022
17950867 RECEIVING PRESCRIPTION REFILL REQUESTS VIA VOICE AND/OR FREE-TEXT CHAT CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN A PATIENT AND AN AUTOMATED AGENT HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 3686 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2022
17746820 AUTOMATIC PROJECT PLANNING, BUDGETING, AND TRACKING TOOL SITTNER, MICHAEL J 3621 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending May 17, 2022

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