Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Thomson Licensing

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)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%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
§102 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
57% of docket
2
Communications
29% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PAPE, ZACHARY 1 72.4% +19.4%
SAMLUK, JESSE PAUL 1 49.1% +49.6%
SMALL, NAOMI J 1 63.7% +24.3%
BLAIR, DOUGLAS B 1 72.7% +7.7%
MIZRAHI, DIANE D 1 92.2% +5.4%
TRUONG, THONG P 1 82.2% +14.9%
RECEK, JASON D 1 70.9% +23.2%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18376548 ACCESS POINT DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING AN INITIAL BACKHAUL CONNECTION MIZRAHI, DIANE D 8d
18124734 THREAT CONTROL AND PREVENTION FOR ANDROID SYSTEMS TRUONG, THONG P

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
17036025 SMART MEDIA DEVICE RECEK, JASON D 155d overdue
18681945 APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING THERMAL MANAGEMENT AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING PAPE, ZACHARY 66d overdue
18539573 DYNAMIC AND INDEPENDENT POWER SAVING FOR A GATEWAY DEVICE SAMLUK, JESSE PAUL 5d overdue
18511011 SMART ACTION SYSTEM FOR SMART ACTION SELECTION AND INITIATION SMALL, NAOMI J 40d
18124734 THREAT CONTROL AND PREVENTION FOR ANDROID SYSTEMS TRUONG, THONG P

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2835 1
2411 1
2685 1
2454 1
2647 1
2433 1
2458 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18681945 APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING THERMAL MANAGEMENT AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING PAPE, ZACHARY 2835 §103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2024
18539573 DYNAMIC AND INDEPENDENT POWER SAVING FOR A GATEWAY DEVICE SAMLUK, JESSE PAUL 2411 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18511011 SMART ACTION SYSTEM FOR SMART ACTION SELECTION AND INITIATION SMALL, NAOMI J 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18376544 USING TELEMETRY METRICS FOR REMEDIATING NETWORK ISSUES BLAIR, DOUGLAS B 2454 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2023
18376548 ACCESS POINT DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING AN INITIAL BACKHAUL CONNECTION MIZRAHI, DIANE D 2647 §102 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Oct 04, 2023
18124734 THREAT CONTROL AND PREVENTION FOR ANDROID SYSTEMS TRUONG, THONG P 2433 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 22, 2023
17036025 SMART MEDIA DEVICE RECEK, JASON D 2458 §103 Final Rejection 155d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2020

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