Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Provigate Inc.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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 (25%)
2
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (25%)
§103 only2 (50%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

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
HUANG, MICKEY NMN 1 61.5% +50.4%
GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER 1 35.0% +69.0%
MONTGOMERY, ANN Y 1 69.5% +26.5%
HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA 1 36.0% +46.8%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17258670 HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT METHOD HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA 9d

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
17998339 DEVICE FOR CAUSING TEARS TO BE SECRETED GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER 118d overdue
17425150 ANTIGEN MEASURING METHOD AND MEASURING APPARATUS MONTGOMERY, ANN Y 113d overdue
18262043 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING DEGREE OF GLYCATION OF PROTEIN HUANG, MICKEY NMN 19d overdue
17258670 HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT METHOD HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA 9d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1758 1
3791 1
1678 1
3684 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18262043 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING DEGREE OF GLYCATION OF PROTEIN HUANG, MICKEY NMN 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
17998339 DEVICE FOR CAUSING TEARS TO BE SECRETED GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 118d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022
17425150 ANTIGEN MEASURING METHOD AND MEASURING APPARATUS MONTGOMERY, ANN Y 1678 §112 Non-Final OA 113d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2022
17258670 HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT METHOD HRANEK, KAREN AMANDA 3684 §101 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jun 16, 2021

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