Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP (Tfs)

8 pending office actions • 2 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 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%)
8
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (88%)
§102 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
5
Communications
62% of docket
2
Semiconductors
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 3 85.7% +33.3%
HOANG, SON T 1 83.4% +35.0%
CHU, RANDOLPH I 1 80.3% +5.9%
KOETH, MICHELLE M 1 77.2% +16.3%
NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE 1
BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS 1 79.0% +26.3%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18662561 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 37d overdue
19172024 TIME SERIES MATCHING OF RAW SPECTRAL VECTOR DATA HOANG, SON T 31d overdue
18747753 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 31d overdue
18747764 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 28d overdue
18611256 Lamella End-Pointing Via Graph-Weighted Neural Networks CHU, RANDOLPH I 28d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18510047 INCREASING INFORMATION RESULTING FROM APODIZATION KOETH, MICHELLE M 50d overdue
18662561 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 37d overdue
19172024 TIME SERIES MATCHING OF RAW SPECTRAL VECTOR DATA HOANG, SON T 31d overdue
18747753 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 31d overdue
18747764 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 28d overdue
18362207 ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY PHASE SPECTRUM SYNTHESIS BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Merck KGaA 6
Thermo Fisher 2

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26563
28572
21691
26671
26711

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19172024 TIME SERIES MATCHING OF RAW SPECTRAL VECTOR DATA Thermo Scientific Portable Analytical Instruments Inc. HOANG, SON T 2169 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2025
18747753 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION Fei Company LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jun 19, 2024
18747764 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION Fei Company LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jun 19, 2024
18662561 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION Fei Company LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending May 13, 2024
18611256 Lamella End-Pointing Via Graph-Weighted Neural Networks Fei Company CHU, RANDOLPH I 2667 §102 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Mar 20, 2024
18510047 INCREASING INFORMATION RESULTING FROM APODIZATION Fei Company KOETH, MICHELLE M 2671 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18487306 METHOD USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TO CONTROL A MASS SPECTROMETER Thermo Finnigan LLC NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 16, 2023
18362207 ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY PHASE SPECTRUM SYNTHESIS Fei Company BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS 2857 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 31, 2023

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