Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Blank Rome LLP - Houston General

10 pending office actions • 7 clients • 9 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

1
Hard (10%)
7
Medium (70%)
1
Easy (10%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§103 only7 (70%)
§112 only1 (10%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
10% of docket
3
Information Tech
30% of docket
4
Communications
40% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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
NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH 2 79.1% +31.6%
KING, DAVIDA LEE 1 33.3% +41.7%
APONTE, FRANCISCO JAVIER 1 88.1% +24.7%
KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 1 63.0% +21.4%
SUH, ANDREW 1 79.8% +39.0%
CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY 1 71.1% +16.0%
BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID 1 78.2% +59.4%
SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D 1 71.9% +28.3%
PATEL, SHIVANG I 1 74.6% +17.4%

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
18770190 TOKEN TRANSACTION AGGREGATOR FOR MINTING TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK KING, DAVIDA LEE 28d

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
18150049 Multiplayer Debugger BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID 155d overdue
18299044 UPDATING A MODEL OF A PARTICIPANT OF A THREE DIMENSIONAL VIDEO CONFERENCE CALL NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH 73d overdue
18056252 GENERATING AN AVATAR HAVING EXPRESSIONS THAT MIMICS EXPRESSIONS OF A PERSON SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D 10d overdue
18536548 Vehicle Vending Machine With Fire Protection System KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 9d overdue
18018671 OXIDATIVE PROCESSES FOR SELF-HEATING AND PYROPHORIC CATALYSTS CONTAINING ACTIVE METAL SULFIDES, AND MITIGATION OF HALIDE AND POLYTHIONIC ACID STRESS CORROSION CRACKING MECHANISMS IN PROCESS EQUIPMENT CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY 4d overdue
17653034 MOVING A DIRECTION OF GAZE OF AN AVATAR PATEL, SHIVANG I 9d
18431962 STORAGE MANAGEMENT FOR ONLINE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND HOSTING APONTE, FRANCISCO JAVIER 26d
18770190 TOKEN TRANSACTION AGGREGATOR FOR MINTING TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK KING, DAVIDA LEE 28d

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26912
36991
21511
37521
24931
17321
21921
26131
26151

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18770190 TOKEN TRANSACTION AGGREGATOR FOR MINTING TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK Magic Labs, Inc. KING, DAVIDA LEE 3699 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 11, 2024
18431962 STORAGE MANAGEMENT FOR ONLINE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND HOSTING Replit, Inc. APONTE, FRANCISCO JAVIER 2151 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Feb 03, 2024
18536548 Vehicle Vending Machine With Fire Protection System Carvana, LLC KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 3752 §112 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2023
18354608 GENERATING A SOUND REPRESENTATION OF A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT FROM MULTIPLE SOUND SOURCES Cavendish Capital LLC NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH 2691 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18334167 Enhanced Synthetic Data and a Unified Framework for Quantifying Privacy Risk in Synthetic Data Anonos IP LLC SUH, ANDREW 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Jun 13, 2023
18299044 UPDATING A MODEL OF A PARTICIPANT OF A THREE DIMENSIONAL VIDEO CONFERENCE CALL True Meeting Inc. NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH 2691 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2023
18018671 OXIDATIVE PROCESSES FOR SELF-HEATING AND PYROPHORIC CATALYSTS CONTAINING ACTIVE METAL SULFIDES, AND MITIGATION OF HALIDE AND POLYTHIONIC ACID STRESS CORROSION CRACKING MECHANISMS IN PROCESS EQUIPMENT Refined Technologies, Inc. CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2023
18150049 Multiplayer Debugger Replit, Inc. BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID 2192 §103 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2023
18056252 GENERATING AN AVATAR HAVING EXPRESSIONS THAT MIMICS EXPRESSIONS OF A PERSON Cavendish Capital LLC SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2022
17653034 MOVING A DIRECTION OF GAZE OF AN AVATAR Cavendish Capital LLC PATEL, SHIVANG I 2615 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Mar 01, 2022

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