Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sands Lab Inc.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
100% 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.

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
PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 1 80.4% +16.8%
HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS 1 75.7% +25.6%
POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 1 47.4% +81.8%
DHAKAD, RUPALI 1 38.2% +32.6%

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
18580786 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL DATA PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 84d overdue

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
18580786 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL DATA PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 84d overdue
17884146 CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM DHAKAD, RUPALI 10d overdue
18235780 APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION AND METHOD THEREOF HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS 13d
18132948 CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 15d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2409 1
2499 1
2436 1
2437 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18580786 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL DATA PYZOCHA, MICHAEL J 2409 §112 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2024
18235780 APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION AND METHOD THEREOF HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18132948 CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 10, 2023
17884146 CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CYBER THREAT INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM DHAKAD, RUPALI 2437 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2022

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