Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Quicksilver Scientific Inc.

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL 2 45.4% +23.6%
WEBB, WALTER E 1 46.4% +18.6%
MACH, ANDRE 1 42.9% +54.4%
KIM, DANIELLE A 1 37.2% +58.0%

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
17967267 Microemulsion Delivery Systems for A Female Hormone Blend with Alcohol-Soluble Species Including Nonderivatized Hormones WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL 145d overdue
17672894 Microemulsion Delivery Systems for Alcohol-Soluble Species Including Nonderivatized Hormones WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL 38d overdue
18615236 MICROEMULSION DELIVERY SYSTEMS INCORPORATED INTO GUMMY CONFECTIONS WEBB, WALTER E 5d overdue
17672988 MICROEMULSION DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR CANNABIS EXTRACTS AND TERPENES KIM, DANIELLE A 23d
17707067 Self-Microemulsifying Multi-Deliverable Systems MACH, ANDRE 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1619 2
1612 1
1615 1
1613 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18615236 MICROEMULSION DELIVERY SYSTEMS INCORPORATED INTO GUMMY CONFECTIONS WEBB, WALTER E 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2024
17967267 Microemulsion Delivery Systems for A Female Hormone Blend with Alcohol-Soluble Species Including Nonderivatized Hormones WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL 1619 §103 Non-Final OA 145d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2022
17707067 Self-Microemulsifying Multi-Deliverable Systems MACH, ANDRE 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Mar 29, 2022
17672894 Microemulsion Delivery Systems for Alcohol-Soluble Species Including Nonderivatized Hormones WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL 1619 §112 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2022
17672988 MICROEMULSION DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR CANNABIS EXTRACTS AND TERPENES KIM, DANIELLE A 1613 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Feb 16, 2022

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