Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Crockett & Crockett, PC

11 pending office actions • 7 clients • 11 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1739 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

82.8%
Allowance Rate
n=1739
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1739
3.1
OAs to Allowance
n=1122
-0.19σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1122
955 days
Time to Allowance
n=1122
+13.6pp
Interview Lift
n=1739
20.1%
RCE Rate
n=1739
1.6%
Appeal Rate
n=1739

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

72.0%
§101 Overcome
n=25
81.7%
§102 Overcome
n=153
80.8%
§103 Overcome
n=609
92.8%
§112 Overcome
n=125

Specialization & Scale

A61B, A61M, A61F
Top CPC Subclasses
23%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1739
2
Practitioners
n=1739
869.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=1739

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due later (2)

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%)
11
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

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

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
9% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
82% of docket
1
Business / Other
9% 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
HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN 1 70.4% +15.9%
GARNER, LILY CRABTREE 1 68.1% +15.2%
NELSON, CHRISTINE L 1 63.3% +33.3%
GILLIARD, DELOMIA L 1 89.6% +10.3%
PROCTOR, CACHET I 1 77.0% +5.9%
PATEL, AREN 1 78.2% +16.3%
HU, ANN M 1 67.7% +21.3%
PASQUALINI, HANNA LOUISE 1 40.0% +33.3%
KOO, BENJAMIN K 1 56.9% +49.7%
NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD 1 63.9% +57.0%

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
18939328 Image Overlay Method for Nerve Monitoring Systems GILLIARD, DELOMIA L

Interview Candidates (9)

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
19121078 MOLTEN SALT NUCLEAR REACTOR AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC SHUTDOWN OF SUCH NUCLEAR REACTOR GARNER, LILY CRABTREE 145d overdue
18009817 Insertion System for Implants for Treatment of Bifurcation Aneurysms HU, ANN M 19d overdue
18274344 Coated Medical Devices PATEL, AREN 9d
18955860 ENDODONTIC FILES WITH HYBRID METALLURGICAL ELASTIC CHARACTERISTICS AND IDENTIFICATION COLORS NELSON, CHRISTINE L 26d
18009327 Implant For Treating Aneurysms PASQUALINI, HANNA LOUISE 61d
19289561 Cautery Tool For Intracranial Surgery HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN
18939328 Image Overlay Method for Nerve Monitoring Systems GILLIARD, DELOMIA L
17986401 Steerable Guidewire and Method of Use KOO, BENJAMIN K

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37713
37743
36461
37721
17121
37831

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19289561 Cautery Tool For Intracranial Surgery Rebound Therapeutics Corporation HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN 3771 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 04, 2025
19121078 MOLTEN SALT NUCLEAR REACTOR AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC SHUTDOWN OF SUCH NUCLEAR REACTOR Copenhagen Atomics A/S GARNER, LILY CRABTREE 3646 §103 Non-Final OA 145d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2025
18955860 ENDODONTIC FILES WITH HYBRID METALLURGICAL ELASTIC CHARACTERISTICS AND IDENTIFICATION COLORS Pac Dent, Inc. NELSON, CHRISTINE L 3772 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 21, 2024
18939328 Image Overlay Method for Nerve Monitoring Systems Viseon, Inc. GILLIARD, DELOMIA L §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 06, 2024
18275494 Coated Medical Product and Method for Coating a Medical Product Phenox GmbH PROCTOR, CACHET I 1712 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Aug 02, 2023
18274344 Coated Medical Devices Phenox GmbH PATEL, AREN 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 26, 2023
18009817 Insertion System for Implants for Treatment of Bifurcation Aneurysms Phenox GmbH HU, ANN M 3774 §102 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2022
18009327 Implant For Treating Aneurysms Phenox GmbH PASQUALINI, HANNA LOUISE 3774 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Dec 08, 2022
17986401 Steerable Guidewire and Method of Use Indian Wells Medical, Inc. KOO, BENJAMIN K 3783 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 14, 2022
17781844 IMPLANT FOR TREATING ANEURYSMS Femtos GmbH NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD 3771 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 02, 2022
17762970 IMPLANT FOR THE TREATMENT OF ANEURYSMS Femtos GmbH KHANDKER, RAIHAN R 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 68d Pending Mar 23, 2022

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