Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Alford Law Group, Inc.

10 pending office actions • 7 clients • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
4
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (4)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%)
10
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
30% of docket
4
Communications
40% of docket
3
Semiconductors
30% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 2 74.1% +15.4%
BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE 2 64.2% +32.4%
SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM 1 73.1% +14.1%
MEMON, OWAIS IQBAL 1 76.6% +18.5%
SHALU, ZELALEM W 1 29.1% +20.3%
STREGE, JOHN B 1 86.8% +14.0%
LIPMAN, JACOB 1 83.4% +13.6%
COOK, JONATHON 1 81.6% +17.6%

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
17994395 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR AN OPTICAL FIBER FORWARD SCATTER CHANNEL IN FLOW CYTOMETERS COOK, JONATHON 77d overdue
18173051 ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH A STATIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR CONTEXTUAL SITUATIONS, INCLUDING AGE BLOCKING FOR VAPING AND IGNITION START, USING DATA ANALYSIS AND OPERATING METHODS THEREOF LIPMAN, JACOB 56d
18215158 AUTO HIGH CONTENT SCREENING USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DRUG COMPOUND DEVELOPMENT STREGE, JOHN B 86d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18239137 ADAPTABLE SYSTEMS FOR DISCOVERING INTENT FROM ENTERPRISE DATA SHALU, ZELALEM W 55d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18508219 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ANALYZE FAILURE MODES OF MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISION MODELS USING ERROR FEATURIZATION MEMON, OWAIS IQBAL 98d overdue
17994395 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR AN OPTICAL FIBER FORWARD SCATTER CHANNEL IN FLOW CYTOMETERS COOK, JONATHON 77d overdue
18583866 APPARATUS TO ANALYZE FAILURE MODES OF MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISION MODELS SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM 4d overdue
16992489 SYSTEM AND METHOD USING CLOUD STRUCTURES IN REAL TIME SPEECH AND TRANSLATION INVOLVING MULTIPLE LANGUAGES, CONTEXT SETTING, AND TRANSCRIPTING FEATURES JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 12d
16418942 FAST RECOMPENSATION OF FLOW CYTOMETERY DATA FOR SPILLOVER READJUSTMENTS BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE 14d
18478925 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FAST RECOMPENSATION OF FLOW CYTOMETERY DATA BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE 33d
18507074 BOOSTING, CORRECTING, AND BLOCKING TO PROVIDE IMPROVED TRANSCRIBED AND TRANSLATED RESULTS OF CLOUD-BASED MEETINGS JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 39d
18239137 ADAPTABLE SYSTEMS FOR DISCOVERING INTENT FROM ENTERPRISE DATA SHALU, ZELALEM W 55d

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28773
26572
21721
26631
21451
26691
24311

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18583866 APPARATUS TO ANALYZE FAILURE MODES OF MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISION MODELS Akridata, Inc. SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM 2172 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18508219 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ANALYZE FAILURE MODES OF MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISION MODELS USING ERROR FEATURIZATION Akridata, Inc. MEMON, OWAIS IQBAL 2663 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18507074 BOOSTING, CORRECTING, AND BLOCKING TO PROVIDE IMPROVED TRANSCRIBED AND TRANSLATED RESULTS OF CLOUD-BASED MEETINGS Wordly, Inc. JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 2657 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Nov 12, 2023
18478925 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FAST RECOMPENSATION OF FLOW CYTOMETERY DATA Cytek Biosciences, Inc. BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE 2877 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18239137 ADAPTABLE SYSTEMS FOR DISCOVERING INTENT FROM ENTERPRISE DATA Predii, Inc. SHALU, ZELALEM W 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Aug 29, 2023
18215158 AUTO HIGH CONTENT SCREENING USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DRUG COMPOUND DEVELOPMENT Viqi, Inc. STREGE, JOHN B 2669 §103 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18173051 ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH A STATIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR CONTEXTUAL SITUATIONS, INCLUDING AGE BLOCKING FOR VAPING AND IGNITION START, USING DATA ANALYSIS AND OPERATING METHODS THEREOF Aerendir Mobile Inc. LIPMAN, JACOB 2431 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Mar 04, 2023
17994395 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR AN OPTICAL FIBER FORWARD SCATTER CHANNEL IN FLOW CYTOMETERS Cytek Biosciences, Inc. COOK, JONATHON 2877 §103 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2022
16992489 SYSTEM AND METHOD USING CLOUD STRUCTURES IN REAL TIME SPEECH AND TRANSLATION INVOLVING MULTIPLE LANGUAGES, CONTEXT SETTING, AND TRANSCRIPTING FEATURES Wordly Inc. JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 2657 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Aug 13, 2020
16418942 FAST RECOMPENSATION OF FLOW CYTOMETERY DATA FOR SPILLOVER READJUSTMENTS Cytek Biosciences, Inc. BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE 2877 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending May 21, 2019

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