Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Boulware & Valoir

9 pending office actions • 9 clients • 9 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (56%)
3
Easy (33%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (56%)
§112 only3 (33%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
56% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOCHNA, DAVID 1 79.8% +13.7%
SNELTING, ERIN LYNN 1 70.0% +33.4%
KWIECINSKI, RYAN D 1 68.2% +19.7%
CANFIELD, ROBERT 1 76.0% +18.0%
HAMID, AMMAR T 1 84.9% +10.0%
KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1 56.8% +17.3%
BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 1 59.2% +32.0%
AFREMOVA, VERA 1 50.6% +29.2%
GU, QINHUA 1 75.0% +30.4%

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
18714335 A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF TIMBRE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS HAMID, AMMAR T 16d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18963467 HIGH TORQUE CONNECTION WITH ENHANCED BREAK IN PERFORMANCE BOCHNA, DAVID 171d overdue
18311418 ORGAN PERFUSION PUMP RESERVOIR FILTER DEVICE BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 30d overdue
18834045 A 3D PRINTED BUILDING ELEMENT KWIECINSKI, RYAN D 18d overdue
18721408 A ROOFTOP TENT CANFIELD, ROBERT 16d overdue
18714335 A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF TIMBRE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS HAMID, AMMAR T 16d overdue
17670789 Novel oncolytic parvoviruses with enhanced cargo capacity, stable shRNA expression cassette and novel immunogenic properties GU, QINHUA 15d overdue
18800506 TEMPERING FURNACE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING TEMPERING FURNACE SNELTING, ERIN LYNN 7d
18563914 SELF-RELEASING FILTER CONNECTOR KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 40d

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36791
17411
36351
36361
26951
17791
17991
16531
16331

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18963467 HIGH TORQUE CONNECTION WITH ENHANCED BREAK IN PERFORMANCE VALORA ENGINEERING LTD. BOCHNA, DAVID 3679 Non-Final OA 171d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2024
18800506 TEMPERING FURNACE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING TEMPERING FURNACE Glaston Finland OY SNELTING, ERIN LYNN 1741 §112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Aug 12, 2024
18834045 A 3D PRINTED BUILDING ELEMENT Fantinelli S. R. L. KWIECINSKI, RYAN D 3635 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18721408 A ROOFTOP TENT Rebecca Goodwin CANFIELD, ROBERT 3636 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2024
18714335 A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF TIMBRE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Daniel Svensek, Intelektualne Storitve In Svetovanje, S. P. HAMID, AMMAR T 2695 §112 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending May 29, 2024
18563914 SELF-RELEASING FILTER CONNECTOR Filtration Technology Corporation KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1779 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Nov 23, 2023
18311418 ORGAN PERFUSION PUMP RESERVOIR FILTER DEVICE Burnett Stephens Kelly BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
17879014 REDUCED EMISSIONS USING SYNGAS FERMENTATION Conocophillips Company AFREMOVA, VERA 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Aug 02, 2022
17670789 Novel oncolytic parvoviruses with enhanced cargo capacity, stable shRNA expression cassette and novel immunogenic properties Alliance of Cardiovascular Researchers GU, QINHUA 1633 §112 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2022

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