Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP (Phoenix)

7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
5
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
3
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

1
Hard (14%)
5
Medium (71%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§103 only5 (71%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DONDERO, WILLIAM E 1 73.4% +16.5%
WRIGHT, KRYSTEN NIKOLE 1 0.0% +0.0%
TRAN, TUYETLIEN T 1 67.6% +33.5%
COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 1 75.9% +15.2%
NEWLON, WILLIAM D 1 44.3% +27.9%
HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R 1 83.8% +7.9%
KESSIE, DANIEL 1 61.3% +24.7%

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
18244796 AUTOMATED TRANSPORT OF CROPS HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R 40d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18439640 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADMINISTERING LIFE INSURANCE PRODUCTS WITH DEATH BENEFITS AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTED WITHOUT UNDERWRITING BASED ON INDEPENDENT DATA CORRELATED WITH AN INSURED INDIVIDUALS NEED FOR LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS NEWLON, WILLIAM D 97d overdue
18794666 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT HEALTHCARE UTILITY WRIGHT, KRYSTEN NIKOLE 22d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18439640 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADMINISTERING LIFE INSURANCE PRODUCTS WITH DEATH BENEFITS AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTED WITHOUT UNDERWRITING BASED ON INDEPENDENT DATA CORRELATED WITH AN INSURED INDIVIDUALS NEED FOR LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS NEWLON, WILLIAM D 97d overdue
18679140 GRAPH-BASED STATE MANAGEMENT IN CLIENT-SIDE WEB APPLICATIONS TRAN, TUYETLIEN T 13d
18821448 MOBILE FUELING SYSTEM AND METHOD DONDERO, WILLIAM E 40d
18138933 ENERGY SOURCE SUPPLY SYSTEMS, ENERGY SOURCE SUPPLY DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS KESSIE, DANIEL 56d
18667835 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING VIA INTEGRATION OF CASE-SPECIFIC AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 86d

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
39931
36821
21791
26551
36961
36721
28361

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18821448 MOBILE FUELING SYSTEM AND METHOD A3 Labs LLC DONDERO, WILLIAM E 3993 Other Final Rejection 40d Pending Aug 30, 2024
18794666 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT HEALTHCARE UTILITY Docsnap, Inc. WRIGHT, KRYSTEN NIKOLE 3682 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Aug 05, 2024
18679140 GRAPH-BASED STATE MANAGEMENT IN CLIENT-SIDE WEB APPLICATIONS Ip Holdings 2017 LLC TRAN, TUYETLIEN T 2179 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending May 30, 2024
18667835 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING VIA INTEGRATION OF CASE-SPECIFIC AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Epiq Ediscovery Solutions, Inc. COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 2655 §103 Final Rejection 86d Pending May 17, 2024
18439640 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADMINISTERING LIFE INSURANCE PRODUCTS WITH DEATH BENEFITS AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTED WITHOUT UNDERWRITING BASED ON INDEPENDENT DATA CORRELATED WITH AN INSURED INDIVIDUALS NEED FOR LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS AmerUs Group Inc. NEWLON, WILLIAM D 3696 §101 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2024
18244796 AUTOMATED TRANSPORT OF CROPS Harvest Croo, LLC HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R 3672 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Sep 11, 2023
18138933 ENERGY SOURCE SUPPLY SYSTEMS, ENERGY SOURCE SUPPLY DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS A3 Labs LLC KESSIE, DANIEL 2836 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Apr 25, 2023

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