Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Boston Consulting Group Inc.

9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
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
2
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (2)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.

3
Hard (33%)
5
Medium (56%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (33%)
§103 only4 (44%)
§102 only1 (11%)
§112 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
89% 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
OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 1 16.3% +14.3%
ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E 1 51.7% +46.4%
MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 1 25.8% +25.4%
KANAAN, LIZA TONY 1 22.4% +35.2%
BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 1 17.6% +37.5%
LAKHANI, ANDREW C 1 22.2% +30.7%
CHOY, PAN G 1 24.2% +35.1%
KARTHOLY, REJI P 1 64.7% +72.1%
HO, THOMAS Y 1 16.1% +30.7%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18345200 GENERATIVE TRANSFORMER MODELS FOR DETERMINING PRODUCT PREDICTIONS BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 60d overdue
18430096 Customer-Enabled Bank Platform For Use with Carbon Calculator MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 38d overdue
18158597 Efficient Feature Engineering for Recommender Systems CHOY, PAN G 5d overdue
18172572 CARBON EMISSIONS AND POWER FOOTPRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM LAKHANI, ANDREW C 6d
18420188 GENERATIVE AI SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING CONTENT USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS KANAAN, LIZA TONY 7d
17666320 OVERFLOW MANAGEMENT CONFIGURATION ENGINE IN A MATERIAL PROCESSING SYSTEM HO, THOMAS Y 27d
18758870 Computing Nodes for Performing Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Integer Programming OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 41d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17970865 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DRILLING ADVISORY ENGINE IN A MATERIAL PROCESSING SYSTEM KARTHOLY, REJI P 149d overdue
18345200 GENERATIVE TRANSFORMER MODELS FOR DETERMINING PRODUCT PREDICTIONS BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 60d overdue
18615769 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ITEM SUBSTITUTIONS ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E 58d overdue
18430096 Customer-Enabled Bank Platform For Use with Carbon Calculator MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 38d overdue
18158597 Efficient Feature Engineering for Recommender Systems CHOY, PAN G 5d overdue
18172572 CARBON EMISSIONS AND POWER FOOTPRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM LAKHANI, ANDREW C 6d
18420188 GENERATIVE AI SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING CONTENT USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS KANAAN, LIZA TONY 7d
17666320 OVERFLOW MANAGEMENT CONFIGURATION ENGINE IN A MATERIAL PROCESSING SYSTEM HO, THOMAS Y 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3624 3
3622 1
3688 1
3628 1
3683 1
3629 1
2143 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18758870 Computing Nodes for Performing Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Integer Programming OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 3622 §101 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jun 28, 2024
18615769 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ITEM SUBSTITUTIONS ZIMMERMAN, MATTHEW E 3688 §102 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2024
18430096 Customer-Enabled Bank Platform For Use with Carbon Calculator MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 3628 §101 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2024
18420188 GENERATIVE AI SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING CONTENT USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS KANAAN, LIZA TONY 3683 §112 Final Rejection 7d Pending Jan 23, 2024
18345200 GENERATIVE TRANSFORMER MODELS FOR DETERMINING PRODUCT PREDICTIONS BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18172572 CARBON EMISSIONS AND POWER FOOTPRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM LAKHANI, ANDREW C 3629 §101 Final Rejection 6d Pending Feb 22, 2023
18158597 Efficient Feature Engineering for Recommender Systems CHOY, PAN G 3624 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2023
17970865 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DRILLING ADVISORY ENGINE IN A MATERIAL PROCESSING SYSTEM KARTHOLY, REJI P 2143 §103 Non-Final OA 149d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2022
17666320 OVERFLOW MANAGEMENT CONFIGURATION ENGINE IN A MATERIAL PROCESSING SYSTEM HO, THOMAS Y 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 07, 2022

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