Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Bruce Stone LLP

16 pending office actions • 12 clients • 15 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 88 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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%)
16
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (81%)
§102 only3 (19%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
7
Semiconductors
44% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
56% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 2 76.5% +23.1%
NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER 1 43.9% +47.0%
LE, TUNG X 1 86.9% +3.2%
LEWIS, JUSTIN V 1 55.1% +17.6%
KENNEDY, JOSHUA T 1 51.2% +48.3%
ALLGOOD, ALESA M 1 82.3% +18.4%
DABBI, JYOTSNA V 1 62.1% +23.4%
THOMAS, DAVID B 1 76.8% +21.3%
JIN, GEORGE C. 1 84.3% +12.7%
JEN, MINGJEN 1 80.1% +13.6%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18964660 LIGHTING DEVICE WITH CURRENT SELF-BALANCING FUNCTION LE, TUNG X 19d overdue
18420818 DRIVING APPARATUS OF AN ELECTRICALLY ASSISTED BICYCLE JIN, GEORGE C. 11d overdue
18677854 TEST SOCKET FOR IC TESTING AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF ALLGOOD, ALESA M 28d
18401776 CLEANING ROBOT CAPABLE OF DETECTING TRANSPARENT OBSTACLE AND MOVING PARALLEL TO OBSTACLE JEN, MINGJEN 56d

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
18233889 TOOL FOR PEELING A WEIGHT FROM A RIM HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 131d overdue
18239760 CROWBAR FOR PULLING A PLASTIC NAIL HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 60d overdue
18764134 TREADMILL KENNEDY, JOSHUA T 17d overdue
18420818 DRIVING APPARATUS OF AN ELECTRICALLY ASSISTED BICYCLE JIN, GEORGE C. 11d overdue
18923564 MAILING WAYBILL LEWIS, JUSTIN V 10d overdue
18427750 OIL FILTER-USED APPARATUS THOMAS, DAVID B 12d
18677854 TEST SOCKET FOR IC TESTING AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF ALLGOOD, ALESA M 28d
18610300 DUAL PASS BAND FILTER ELEMENT DABBI, JYOTSNA V 34d

Client Portfolio (12 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28725
37233
37321
28441
36371
37841
28581
37471
36571
36111

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19218384 GOGGLE STRUCTURE Argus Vision International Limited NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER 3732 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending May 26, 2025
18964660 LIGHTING DEVICE WITH CURRENT SELF-BALANCING FUNCTION Xiamen Pvtech Co., Ltd. LE, TUNG X 2844 §102 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2024
18923564 MAILING WAYBILL Chime Beauty Co., Ltd. LEWIS, JUSTIN V 3637 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2024
18764134 TREADMILL Tung Keng Enterprise Co., Ltd. KENNEDY, JOSHUA T 3784 §102 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jul 03, 2024
18677854 TEST SOCKET FOR IC TESTING AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF He Chou Technology Inc. ALLGOOD, ALESA M 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 29, 2024
18610300 DUAL PASS BAND FILTER ELEMENT VACTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES INC. DABBI, JYOTSNA V 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Mar 20, 2024
18427750 OIL FILTER-USED APPARATUS U-CAR INDUSTRY CO., LTD. THOMAS, DAVID B 3723 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18420818 DRIVING APPARATUS OF AN ELECTRICALLY ASSISTED BICYCLE Enerstro Tech. Corp. JIN, GEORGE C. 3747 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2024
18401776 CLEANING ROBOT CAPABLE OF DETECTING TRANSPARENT OBSTACLE AND MOVING PARALLEL TO OBSTACLE Pixart Imaging Inc. JEN, MINGJEN 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jan 02, 2024
18484447 OFF-AXIS DUAL MIRROR FOCUSING BACKLIGHT DISPLAY DEVICE AND HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE E-Lead Electronic Co., Ltd. HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Oct 11, 2023
18473298 MULTI-MODE WHEELCHAIR Tung Keng Enterprise Co., Ltd. MEDANI, MOHAMED NMN 3611 §103 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18239760 CROWBAR FOR PULLING A PLASTIC NAIL Comlock Enterprise Co., Ltd. HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 3723 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2023
18233889 TOOL FOR PEELING A WEIGHT FROM A RIM U-CAR INDUSTRY CO., LTD. HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 3723 §102 Non-Final OA 131d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2023
18232322 GLASSES STRUCTURE Argus Vision International Limited BOURQUINE, MACKENZI TATE 2872 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Aug 09, 2023
17981456 OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY AND A PHOTOGRAPHING MODULE Newmax Technology Co., Ltd. HUANG, WEN 2872 §103 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2022
17515544 OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY AND PHOTOGRAPHING MODULE Newmax Technology Co., Ltd. NGUYEN, THONG Q 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2021

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