Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

ZEPHYROS, INC.

14 pending office actions • 13 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due later (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%)
12
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (79%)
§102 only1 (7%)
No statute on record2 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

12
Life Sciences
86% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VO, HAI 1 57.0% +72.2%
FREEMAN, JOHN D 1 45.9% +7.1%
ZHANG, MICHAEL N 1 53.8% +24.7%
KRYLOVA, IRINA 1 36.4% +47.9%
CONDO, VERONICA MARIE 1 82.3% +5.5%
WU, ANDREA 1 70.9% +26.1%
SAHNI, VISHAL R 1 75.5% +19.2%
TATESURE, VINCENT 1 45.0% +31.2%
FIGG, LAURA B 1 57.3% +23.7%
BLAND, ALICIA 1 49.8% +11.6%

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
18198489 Composite Structures for Forming Vehicle Barrier Systems CONDO, VERONICA MARIE 6d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18022845 FLUID CONTAINMENT LAYER AND PAD CONTAINING FLUID CONTAINMENT LAYER TATESURE, VINCENT 79d overdue
17991904 CARRIER WITH LOCALIZED FIBROUS INSERT AND METHODS FIGG, LAURA B 72d overdue
18773318 ROOM TEMPERATURE FOAMED AND CURED CARRIERS VO, HAI 56d overdue
18034937 Energy Absorption Member SAHNI, VISHAL R 15d overdue
18282374 MULTI-LAYERED FIBROUS STRUCTURES FOR THERMOACOUSTICS APPLICATIONS ZHANG, MICHAEL N 9d
18273849 Low Odor Heat-Expandable Materials KRYLOVA, IRINA 29d
17914930 Foamable Continuous Filaments BLAND, ALICIA 29d
18037185 Acrylate Structural Adhesive Free of MMA WU, ANDREA 76d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1781 2
1788 1
1787 1
1764 1
3612 1
1763 1
3616 1
1786 1
1759 1
1723 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18773318 ROOM TEMPERATURE FOAMED AND CURED CARRIERS VO, HAI 1788 Other Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2024
18408917 THERMOSETTING ADHESIVE FILMS FREEMAN, JOHN D 1787 §103 Final Rejection 118d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2024
18282374 MULTI-LAYERED FIBROUS STRUCTURES FOR THERMOACOUSTICS APPLICATIONS ZHANG, MICHAEL N 1781 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 15, 2023
18273849 Low Odor Heat-Expandable Materials KRYLOVA, IRINA 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jul 24, 2023
18198489 Composite Structures for Forming Vehicle Barrier Systems CONDO, VERONICA MARIE 3612 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending May 17, 2023
18037185 Acrylate Structural Adhesive Free of MMA WU, ANDREA 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending May 16, 2023
18034937 Energy Absorption Member SAHNI, VISHAL R 3616 §102 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 02, 2023
18022845 FLUID CONTAINMENT LAYER AND PAD CONTAINING FLUID CONTAINMENT LAYER TATESURE, VINCENT 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2023
17991904 CARRIER WITH LOCALIZED FIBROUS INSERT AND METHODS FIGG, LAURA B 1781 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2022
17914930 Foamable Continuous Filaments BLAND, ALICIA 1759 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Sep 27, 2022
17622899 Heat Exchange Panel WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST 1723 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2021
17609117 Encapsulated Reactive Components for Use in Activatable Materials ROSEBACH, CHRISTINA H.W. 1766 §103 Final Rejection 128d overdue Pending Nov 05, 2021
17058700 FUNCTIONAL INSERT FOR NONWOVEN MATERIALS MCKENZIE, THOMAS B 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Nov 25, 2020
17025224 LOCALIZED PANEL STIFFENER VAN SELL, NATHAN L 1783 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Sep 18, 2020

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