Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Akona Ip - Bell

5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
5
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
0
Due this month
3
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 ≤ 60 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%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
§102 only1 (20%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

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
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
80% 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
SHUR, STEVEN JAMES 1 63.1% +34.3%
ISLAM, SYED A 1 67.4% +22.7%
SEOL, DAVIN 1 65.8% +14.9%
SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T 1 62.3% +26.5%
PRUITT, JUSTIN A 1 62.5% +14.8%

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
17089131 ZONED CONTACT BUSHING PRUITT, JUSTIN A 168d overdue
18410872 GUIDED AUTONOMOUS LANDING SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT SEOL, DAVIN 43d overdue
19055990 TILTING HEXROTOR AIRCRAFT SHUR, STEVEN JAMES 40d
18456858 TECHNIQUES FOR RELEASE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL FROM FORM LAYUP TOOL SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T 40d
18678354 AIRCRAFT PASSENGER SEAT AND HEADREST ISLAM, SYED A 55d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Textron 4
BELL TEXTRON INC. 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36471
36361
36621
17461
37451

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19055990 TILTING HEXROTOR AIRCRAFT Textron Innovations Inc. SHUR, STEVEN JAMES 3647 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Feb 18, 2025
18678354 AIRCRAFT PASSENGER SEAT AND HEADREST Textron Innovations Inc. ISLAM, SYED A 3636 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending May 30, 2024
18410872 GUIDED AUTONOMOUS LANDING SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT Textron Innovations Inc. SEOL, DAVIN 3662 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2024
18456858 TECHNIQUES FOR RELEASE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL FROM FORM LAYUP TOOL Textron Innovations Inc. SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T 1746 §102 Final Rejection 40d Pending Aug 28, 2023
17089131 ZONED CONTACT BUSHING BELL TEXTRON INC. PRUITT, JUSTIN A 3745 Final Rejection 168d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2020

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