Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cooper Legal Group, LLC

11 pending office actions • 9 clients • 11 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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 (9%)
10
Medium (91%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (9%)
§103 only10 (91%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
36% of docket
1
Communications
9% of docket
3
Semiconductors
27% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
27% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BAILEY, AMANDA LEE 1 55.4% +43.0%
ZOUBAIR, NOURA 1 72.5% +61.6%
BARKER, TODD L 1 75.5% +23.4%
SMITH, SEAN THOMAS 1 85.7% +25.0%
FERDOUS, ZANNATUL 1 84.7% +16.3%
VORTMAN, ANATOLY 1 69.8% +13.7%
LEE, BYUNG RO 1 76.1% +18.4%
MITROS, ANNA MAE 1 37.2% +49.5%
REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 1 66.9% +13.6%
STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 1 62.7% +49.4%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18703743 IRON CORE-ANNULAR ARRAY MULTI-RING MAGNETOSENSITIVE CURRENT SENSOR AND CURRENT MEASUREMENT METHOD FERDOUS, ZANNATUL 22d overdue
18740725 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM SMITH, SEAN THOMAS 7d

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
18246563 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING POWER GRID MEASUREMENT DATA, DEVICE, STORAGEMEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT LEE, BYUNG RO 34d

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
17920892 DATA PACKET PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 138d overdue
18083611 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM MITROS, ANNA MAE 98d overdue
18699950 SMART OUTDOOR SWITCHGEAR FOR CONTROL AND PROTECTION OF CONNECTION AND DISCONNECTION OF MEDIUM-VOLTAGE MICROGRID VORTMAN, ANATOLY 24d overdue
18703743 IRON CORE-ANNULAR ARRAY MULTI-RING MAGNETOSENSITIVE CURRENT SENSOR AND CURRENT MEASUREMENT METHOD FERDOUS, ZANNATUL 22d overdue
18740725 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM SMITH, SEAN THOMAS 7d
18702926 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SECURITY SERVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM ZOUBAIR, NOURA 8d
17920068 INFUSION BOX OF INFUSION APPARATUS, INFUSION APPARATUS, AND INFUSION PUMP STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 13d
18703752 MESSAGE SEGMENTED PARSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BARKER, TODD L 14d

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28582
36731
24341
24491
26591
28351
36891
24581
37831
21461

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18874603 CONNECTING MECHANISM FOR ADJUSTABLE BED FRAME AND ADJUSTABLE BED FRAME Zinus Inc. BAILEY, AMANDA LEE 3673 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Dec 13, 2024
18702926 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SECURITY SERVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. ZOUBAIR, NOURA 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18703752 MESSAGE SEGMENTED PARSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. BARKER, TODD L 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18740725 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. SMITH, SEAN THOMAS 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18703743 IRON CORE-ANNULAR ARRAY MULTI-RING MAGNETOSENSITIVE CURRENT SENSOR AND CURRENT MEASUREMENT METHOD State Grid Corporation Of China FERDOUS, ZANNATUL 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Apr 23, 2024
18699950 SMART OUTDOOR SWITCHGEAR FOR CONTROL AND PROTECTION OF CONNECTION AND DISCONNECTION OF MEDIUM-VOLTAGE MICROGRID Chint Electric Corporation VORTMAN, ANATOLY 2835 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Apr 10, 2024
18246563 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING POWER GRID MEASUREMENT DATA, DEVICE, STORAGEMEDIUM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT China Electric Power Research Institute LEE, BYUNG RO 2858 §101 Final Rejection 34d Pending Mar 24, 2023
18083611 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BEIJING WODONG TIANJUN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. MITROS, ANNA MAE 3689 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2022
17920892 DATA PACKET PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 2458 §103 Non-Final OA 138d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2022
17920068 INFUSION BOX OF INFUSION APPARATUS, INFUSION APPARATUS, AND INFUSION PUMP Changsha Magill Medical Technology Co., Ltd. STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Oct 20, 2022
17603507 RELAY PROTECTION SYSTEM RISK ASSESSMENT AND FAULT POSITIONING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND MEDIUM China Electric Power Research Institute Company Limited YI, HYUNGJUN B 2146 §103 Non-Final OA 161d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2021

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