Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Smarter Reality LLC

3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)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.

1
Hard (33%)
2
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (33%)
§103 only2 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A 1 58.1% +25.5%
MCCLELLAN, JAMES S 1 79.1% +12.9%
LANE, DANIEL E 1 4.1% +8.6%

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
18604462 TECHNIQUES FOR UTILIZING VIDEO GAMES TO IDENTIFY AND RECRUIT CANDIDATES FOR JOB POSITIONS MCCLELLAN, JAMES S 2d overdue
18050456 Methods and Systems for a Conflict Resolution Simulator LANE, DANIEL E 26d

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18604462 TECHNIQUES FOR UTILIZING VIDEO GAMES TO IDENTIFY AND RECRUIT CANDIDATES FOR JOB POSITIONS MCCLELLAN, JAMES S 2d overdue
18653792 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A TRAINING FUSION SIMULATOR MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3715 3

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18653792 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A TRAINING FUSION SIMULATOR MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A 3715 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 02, 2024
18604462 TECHNIQUES FOR UTILIZING VIDEO GAMES TO IDENTIFY AND RECRUIT CANDIDATES FOR JOB POSITIONS MCCLELLAN, JAMES S 3715 §101 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2024
18050456 Methods and Systems for a Conflict Resolution Simulator LANE, DANIEL E 3715 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 27, 2022

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