Burr & Forman LLP (Primary Customer Number)

Portfolio Summary

66

Total Pending OAs

43

Non-Final OAs

18

Final Rejections

5

Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 66 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

38

Overdue

1

Due this week

15

Due this month

11

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. 66 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

Overdue (38)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (15)Due ≤ 60 days (11)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%)

60

Medium (91%)

1

Easy (2%)

5

Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

Bucket	Cases
§103 only	53 (80%)
§102 only	7 (11%)
§112 only	1 (2%)
No statute on record	5 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

28

Life Sciences

42% of docket

6

Information Tech

9% of docket

7

Communications

11% of docket

6

Semiconductors

9% of docket

18

Mechanical / Eng

27% of docket

1

Business / Other

2% 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.

660 h

Manual time on pending OAs

132 h

Time saved (low, 20%)

231 h

Time saved (mid, 35%)

5.8 wks

FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

Examiner	Apps on this docket	Allow rate	Interview lift
EFTA, ALEX B	3	59.1%	+25.8%
FULTON, MICHAEL TIMOTHY	3	69.6%	+5.6%
SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA	3	73.7%	+9.9%
DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI	2	53.1%	+18.8%
MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN	2	60.4%	+37.4%
KESSIE, JENNIFER A	2	64.1%	+24.9%
KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K	2	55.4%	+15.6%
WHITTINGTON, KENNETH	1	70.9%	-16.6%
KRYUKOVA, ERIN	1	64.1%	+28.9%
HUANG, JAY	1	53.0%	+20.3%

Interview Candidates (13)

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 #	Title	Examiner	Due in
17754911	AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM AND METHOD	DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI	81d overdue
17309282	DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD	KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K	30d overdue
19114042	AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM WITH TRANSACTION FUNCTIONALITY	HUANG, JAY	17d overdue
17655346	AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM	KESSIE, JENNIFER A	8d overdue
17754941	ELECTRONIC AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM AND METHOD	EFTA, ALEX B	4d overdue
17800666	AEROSOL PROVISION DEVICE, AEROSOL GENERATING ARTICLE AND AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM	KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K	3d overdue
18841159	SHAPED PART AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SHAPED PART	KRYUKOVA, ERIN	5d
18234192	APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACCESS CONTROL OF AN AEROSOL PROVISION DEVICE	MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN	12d

Client Portfolio (18 clients)

Client (Assignee)	Pending OAs
NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED	38
CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY	7
British American Tobacco	4
CRUNCHFISH DIGITAL CASH AB	2
Heads Stockholm	2
Witricity Corporation	1
NOVEM CAR INTERIOR DESIGN GMBH	1
Nordic Aerowash Equipment AB	1
TC Tech Sweden AB (PUBL.)	1
CFS Materials, LLC	1
PCI-Pal (U.K.) Limited	1
Galtronics USA, INC.	1
Hochiki	1
Skeletal Axes Assistive Robots Inc.	1
SHANGHAI JUNSHI BIOSCIENCES CO., LTD.	1
Chomarat North America	1
AETHER OPTICS, LLC	1
Cambridge University Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust	1

Top Art Units

Art Unit	Apps
1747	8
1755	6
1745	3
1741	3
2115	3
3689	2
1749	2
3791	2
1700	2
3992	1

Pending Office Actions

App #	Title	Client	Examiner	Art Unit	Statutes	Status	Due in	AI	Filed
19272567	FOREIGN OBJECT DETECTION IN WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSFER SYSTEMS	Witricity Corporation	WHITTINGTON, KENNETH	3992	Other	Non-Final OA	36d	Pending	Jul 17, 2025
18841159	SHAPED PART AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SHAPED PART	Novem Car Interior Design GmbH	KRYUKOVA, ERIN	2875	§103	Final Rejection	5d	Pending	Apr 09, 2025
19114042	AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM WITH TRANSACTION FUNCTIONALITY	Nicoventures Trading Limited	HUANG, JAY	3619	§103	Non-Final OA	17d overdue	Pending	Mar 21, 2025
19078758	VAPING POLICY ALERT SYSTEM AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	BAHL, SANGEETA	3626	§103	Non-Final OA	18d overdue	Pending	Mar 13, 2025
18858950	CONTAINER	Nicoventures Trading Limited	MORTELL, JOHN F	2689	§102	Non-Final OA	9d	Pending	Oct 22, 2024
18894058	Tiling Based Approach for Unified Destination Entry	Cerence Operating Company	PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN	3658	§103	Non-Final OA	3d overdue	Pending	Sep 24, 2024
18845687	METHOD AND COMPUTING DEVICE	Nicoventures Trading Limited	DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN	3689	§103	Non-Final OA	77d overdue	Pending	Sep 10, 2024
18845668	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECYCLING ARTICLES OF AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEMS	Nicoventures Trading Limited	JOSEPH, TONYA S	3628	§103	Final Rejection	28d	Pending	Sep 10, 2024
18810644	AIRCRAFT CLEANING ROBOT	Nordic Aerowash Equipment AB	BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN	1713	Other	Non-Final OA	50d	Pending	Aug 21, 2024
18807513	METHOD, SYSTEM, DEVICES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR HANDLING DIGITAL PAYMENTS BETWEEN PAYERS AND PAYEES BEING IN PHYSICAL PROXIMITY TO EACH OTHER	Crunchfish Digital Cash AB	JACOB, WILLIAM J	3696	§102	Non-Final OA	79d overdue	Pending	Aug 16, 2024
18837584	A CASE FOR AN AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE	Nicoventures Trading Limited	BENLAGSIR, AMINE	2688	Other	Non-Final OA	13d	Pending	Aug 10, 2024
18772530	EMERGENT DRIVING ASSISTANT BASED ON EMOTION AND GAZE	Cerence Operating Company	DYER, ANDREW R	3662	§102	Final Rejection	63d	Pending	Jul 15, 2024
18772459	ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT COMPANION FOR ENGAGING WITH A PERSON IN A MOTOR VEHICLE	Cerence Operating Company	KAZEMINEZHAD, FARZAD	2653	§103	Non-Final OA	15d	Pending	Jul 15, 2024
18765762	Method and Tool for Embossing	Tc Tech Sweden AB (Publ.)	MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H	1743	Other	Non-Final OA	14d	Pending	Jul 08, 2024
18679804	WALL REINFORCEMENT SYSTEMS	Cfs Materials, LLC	MAESTRI, PATRICK J	3635	§103	Non-Final OA	30d overdue	Pending	May 31, 2024
18710301	Adaptation and training of neural speech synthesis	Cerence Operating Company	YAMAMOTO, JOSEPH JEREMY	2656	§103	Non-Final OA	13d	Pending	May 15, 2024
18707272	FEEDBACK PROVISION SYSTEM COMPRISING AN AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM AND A HEARING AID	Nicoventures Trading Limited	WANG, JACK K	2686	§103	Non-Final OA	42d overdue	Pending	May 03, 2024
18654236	Multi-Level Warning Based on Driver Sentiment	Cerence Operating Company	BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M	3665	§103	Final Rejection	16d overdue	Pending	May 03, 2024
18514843	PROCESSING SENSITIVE INFORMATION OVER VOIP	Pci-Pal (U.K.) Limited	TRAN, NAM T	2455	§103	Non-Final OA	19d overdue	Pending	Nov 20, 2023
18377852	Decentralized Identity Storage for Tobacco Products	Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc.	GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE	3689	§103	Final Rejection	31d overdue	Pending	Oct 09, 2023
18285940	Noise Reduction Based on Dynamic Neural Networks	Cerence Operating Company	DESIR, PIERRE LOUIS	2659	§103	Final Rejection	26d overdue	Pending	Oct 06, 2023
18482111	ANTENNA HAVING A SPATIAL BANDPASS STRUCTURE AND PARASITIC RADIATOR	Galtronics Usa, Inc.	KARACSONY, ROBERT	2845	§102	Non-Final OA	197d overdue	Pending	Oct 06, 2023
18467873	ELECTRONIC AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	EFTA, ALEX B	1745	§103	Non-Final OA	33d	Pending	Sep 15, 2023
18549971	AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM SECURITY	Nicoventures Trading Limited	MOORTHY, ARAVIND K	2407	§103	Non-Final OA	41d	Pending	Sep 11, 2023
18243958	FIRE DETECTION APPARATUS	Hochiki Corporation	TON, TRI T	2877	§103	Final Rejection	46d	Pending	Sep 08, 2023
18547008	APPARATUS FOR A NON-COMBUSTIBLE AEROSOL PROVISION DEVICE	Nicoventures Trading Limited	DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI	1755	§103	Non-Final OA	53d	Pending	Aug 18, 2023
18234192	APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACCESS CONTROL OF AN AEROSOL PROVISION DEVICE	Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc.	MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN	1747	§103	Non-Final OA	12d	Pending	Aug 15, 2023
18234217	AUTO-LOCK OF AN AEROSOL PROVISION DEVICE	Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc.	SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK	1749	§103	Non-Final OA	32d overdue	Pending	Aug 15, 2023
18228967	LOWER EXTREMITY EXOSKELETON WITH INTEGRATED POLES AND SIT TO STAND CHAIR	Skeletal Axes Assistive Robots Inc.	HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA	3785	§103	Non-Final OA	54d	Pending	Aug 01, 2023
18274604	TRANSFER OF DIGITAL CASH BETWEEN MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SMART CARD	Crunchfish Digital Cash AB	OUSSIR, EL MEHDI	3699	§103	Final Rejection	24d overdue	Pending	Jul 27, 2023
18257427	CASE FOR AN AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE	Nicoventures Trading Limited	PHAM, VU PHI	1755	§103	Non-Final OA	3d overdue	Pending	Jun 14, 2023
18257370	CASE FOR AN AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE	Nicoventures Trading Limited	KESSIE, JENNIFER A	1747	§102	Final Rejection	54d	Pending	Jun 14, 2023
18265095	VISUAL FIELD TESTING	Heads Stockholm AB	TRAN, THO Q	3791	§112	Non-Final OA	20d	Pending	Jun 02, 2023
18254510	ELECTRONIC AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM	Nicoventures Trading Limited	EFTA, ALEX B	1745	§103	Non-Final OA	12d	Pending	May 25, 2023
18252732	CAP FOR SIMULATED SMOKING SYSTEMS	Nicoventures Trading Limited	FULTON, MICHAEL TIMOTHY	1747	§103	Non-Final OA	26d	Pending	May 12, 2023
18248135	ELECTRONIC AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM WITH SURFACE LAYER	Nicoventures Trading Limited	ILUYOMADE, IFEDAYO B	2624	§103	Non-Final OA	24d overdue	Pending	Apr 06, 2023
18245475	USER INTERFACE MODULE FOR AN AEROSOL PROVISION DEVICE	Nicoventures Trading Limited	SPARKS, RUSSELL E	1755	§103	Non-Final OA	42d overdue	Pending	Mar 15, 2023
18245482	MODULE FOR AN AEROSOL PROVISION DEVICE	Nicoventures Trading Limited	SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA	1741	§103	Non-Final OA	17d overdue	Pending	Mar 15, 2023
18245264	APPARATUS FOR AN AEROSOL GENERATING DEVICE	Nicoventures Trading Limited	BACHNER, ROBERT G	2898	§103	Non-Final OA	60d overdue	Pending	Mar 14, 2023
18043754	A SYSTEM COMPRISING A NON-COMBUSTIBLE AEROSOL PROVISION DEVICE	Nicoventures Trading Limited	SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA	1741	§103	Final Rejection	41d	Pending	Mar 02, 2023
18016279	ANTI-CLDN-18.2 ANTIBODY AND USE THEREOF	Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd.	STONEBRAKER, ALYSSA RAE	1642	Other	Non-Final OA	26d	Pending	Jan 13, 2023
18016022	EYE MOVEMENT EVALUATION	Heads Stockholm AB	HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN	3791	§102	Final Rejection	44d overdue	Pending	Jan 13, 2023
18004891	AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM	Nicoventures Trading Limited	SZEWCZYK, CYNTHIA	1741	§103	Non-Final OA	93d overdue	Pending	Jan 10, 2023
18004984	AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM	Nicoventures Trading Limited	WORKU, KIDEST	2119	§103	Non-Final OA	46d overdue	Pending	Jan 10, 2023
18002999	USER FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	CONNOLLY, MARK A	2115	§103	Final Rejection	34d	Pending	Dec 22, 2022
18002966	USER FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	FARINA, MICHAEL VINCENT	2115	§103	Final Rejection	89d overdue	Pending	Dec 22, 2022
18002983	USER FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	WANG, ZHIPENG	2115	§103	Final Rejection	72d overdue	Pending	Dec 22, 2022
18002949	USER FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	FELTON, MICHAEL J	1747	§102	Non-Final OA	19d	Pending	Dec 22, 2022
18003006	USER FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	BARTLEY, KENNETH	3684	§103	Non-Final OA	79d overdue	Pending	Dec 22, 2022
17996331	AEROSOL PROVISION DEVICE AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	HENZE, DAVID V	2859	§103	Final Rejection	22d	Pending	Oct 14, 2022
17906737	ELECTRONIC AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM	Nicoventures Trading Limited	MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL	1755	§103	Final Rejection	114d overdue	Pending	Sep 19, 2022
17891212	Bio-Based Plastisol Compositions	Chomarat North America	MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T	1789	§103	Non-Final OA	84d overdue	Pending	Aug 19, 2022
17800666	AEROSOL PROVISION DEVICE, AEROSOL GENERATING ARTICLE AND AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM	Nicoventures Trading Limited	KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K	1700	§103	Non-Final OA	3d overdue	Pending	Aug 18, 2022
17789538	LOCATION-AWARE REMINDERS	Cerence Operating Company	MANSFIELD, THOMAS L	3624	§103	Final Rejection	23d overdue	Pending	Jun 28, 2022
17661443	CONSUMABLE IDENTIFICATION AND POWER CONTROL	Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc.	PAIK, SANG YEOP	3761	§103	Final Rejection	49d overdue	Pending	Apr 29, 2022
17754941	ELECTRONIC AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	EFTA, ALEX B	1745	§103	Non-Final OA	4d overdue	Pending	Apr 15, 2022
17769550	AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY	1755	§103	Non-Final OA	38d overdue	Pending	Apr 15, 2022
17754911	AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI	1755	§103	Non-Final OA	81d overdue	Pending	Apr 15, 2022
17753940	A CONSUMABLE ARTICLE FOR USE WITH AN APPARATUS FOR HEATING AEROSOLIZABLE MATERIAL	Nicoventures Trading Limited	FULTON, MICHAEL TIMOTHY	1747	§103	Non-Final OA	49d overdue	Pending	Mar 18, 2022
17655346	AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM	Nicoventures Trading Limited	KESSIE, JENNIFER A	1747	§103	Non-Final OA	8d overdue	Pending	Mar 17, 2022
17668683	Rapid Aperture Adjustment Device	Aether Optics, LLC	PASKO, NICHOLAS R	2896	§103	Non-Final OA	27d	Pending	Feb 10, 2022
17612025	Tissue Splayer	Cambridge University Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust	FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS	3786	§103	Non-Final OA	505d overdue	Pending	Nov 17, 2021
17594749	ELECTRONIC VAPOR PROVISION SYSTEM WITH OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS	Nicoventures Trading Limited	FULTON, MICHAEL TIMOTHY	1747	§103	Non-Final OA	126d overdue	Pending	Oct 28, 2021
17603228	VAPOR PROVISION SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	SMITH, KATELYN WHATLEY	1749	§103	Non-Final OA	34d	Pending	Oct 12, 2021
17309282	DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD	Nicoventures Trading Limited	KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K	1700	§103	Non-Final OA	30d overdue	Pending	May 14, 2021
16603356	ELECTRONIC VAPOR PROVISION DEVICE WITH VARIABLE POWER SUPPLY	Nicoventures Trading Limited	MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN	1747	§103	Non-Final OA	19d	Pending	Oct 07, 2019

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