Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Secretary of State for Defence

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
§102 only2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
20% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% 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
KO, TONY 1 87.8% +2.5%
PAUL, DISLER 1 82.2% +8.7%
KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1 46.6% +52.8%
JENNISON, BRIAN W 1 71.8% +22.0%
ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 1 80.6% +14.3%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18556982 A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIRECTIONAL PROCESSING OF AUDIO INFORMATION PAUL, DISLER 15d overdue
17641573 DECOY SYSTEM ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 14d
18682847 MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE SENSOR KO, TONY 29d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18156082 META-MATERIAL, DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF JENNISON, BRIAN W 105d overdue
18245957 APPARATUS, KITS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEPSIS KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 9d
17641573 DECOY SYSTEM ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2878 1
2695 1
1683 1
3761 1
3648 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18682847 MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE SENSOR KO, TONY 2878 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 09, 2024
18556982 A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIRECTIONAL PROCESSING OF AUDIO INFORMATION PAUL, DISLER 2695 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18245957 APPARATUS, KITS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEPSIS KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1683 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Mar 20, 2023
18156082 META-MATERIAL, DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF JENNISON, BRIAN W 3761 §102 Non-Final OA 105d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2023
17641573 DECOY SYSTEM ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 3648 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 09, 2022

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