Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry

5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 60 days (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 (20%)
3
Medium (60%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only3 (60%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
40% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, TRI V 1 67.6% +57.8%
KOLTONOW, ANDREW ROBERT 1 46.8% +33.9%
NGUYEN, LIZ P 1 61.1% +6.7%
NICOLAS, FREDERICK C 1 81.2% +12.5%
PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 1 15.5% +13.5%

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
18537180 MECHANISM FOR EFFICIENT RELEASE OF WET SAND NICOLAS, FREDERICK C 34d

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
18274751 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFERRING ASSET TYPES WITH MACHINE LEARNING FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 9d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19195499 ELECTROLYSIS METHODS THAT UTILIZE CARBON DIOXIDE AND ANON-IRON ADDITIVE FOR MAKING DESIRED NANOCARBON ALLOTROPES NGUYEN, TRI V 138d overdue
18742822 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING CARBON NANOMATERIALS USING A LOW-LITHIUM ELECTROLYTE KOLTONOW, ANDREW ROBERT 49d overdue
18274751 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFERRING ASSET TYPES WITH MACHINE LEARNING FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 9d overdue
18537180 MECHANISM FOR EFFICIENT RELEASE OF WET SAND NICOLAS, FREDERICK C 34d

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17641
17951
36961
37541
36291

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19195499 ELECTROLYSIS METHODS THAT UTILIZE CARBON DIOXIDE AND ANON-IRON ADDITIVE FOR MAKING DESIRED NANOCARBON ALLOTROPES C2Cnt LLC NGUYEN, TRI V 1764 §103 Final Rejection 138d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2025
18742822 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING CARBON NANOMATERIALS USING A LOW-LITHIUM ELECTROLYTE C2Cnt LLC KOLTONOW, ANDREW ROBERT 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2024
18598515 GENERATION OF VISUALIZATIONS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING OUTPUTS Argus Software, Inc. NGUYEN, LIZ P 3696 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18537180 MECHANISM FOR EFFICIENT RELEASE OF WET SAND Maxxim Industries Usa Ii, LLC NICOLAS, FREDERICK C 3754 §112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 12, 2023
18274751 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFERRING ASSET TYPES WITH MACHINE LEARNING FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Scryer, Inc. Dba Reonomy PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 3629 §101 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023

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