Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Davis Malm & D'Agostine, P.C.

8 pending office actions • 7 clients • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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%)
7
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
Double-patenting + other1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH 1 67.0% +22.1%
BALL, JOHN C 1 78.7% +16.2%
STEIN, MICHELLE 1 44.2% +34.7%
XU, JUSTIN 1 59.3% +38.1%
TRPISOVSKY, JOSEPH F 1 70.0% +20.0%
JONES, JAMES WILLIAM 1 73.1% +26.9%
FORRY, COLTON BUSA 1
GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE 1 48.3% +24.7%

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18489369 RANKINE CYCLE FOR RECOVERY OF THERMAL WASTE HEAT IN FUEL CELL TRPISOVSKY, JOSEPH F 119d overdue
17864343 MASK-BASED DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND WAFER-LEVEL FUNCTIONALIZATION OF A PACKAGED SEMICONDUCTOR BIOSENSOR GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE 43d overdue
18628747 PACKAGED SEMICONDUCTOR SENSOR WITH AN OPEN DETECTION SURFACE AND SEALED DETECTION WELL BALL, JOHN C 37d overdue
18464212 ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSPORTATION WITH INTEGRATED SWITCHING, PROPULSION, GUIDANCE AND SUSPENSION JONES, JAMES WILLIAM 3d overdue
18615264 Composition and Method of Use of a Concentrated Asphaltene Polymer Residue from VTAE STEIN, MICHELLE 26d
18753878 AI DRIVEN PLATFORM TO USE INFRARED LIGHT TO TREAT INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE STORMS D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH 62d
18443286 DIAGNOSTIC PLATFORM FOR TESTING EXHALED BREATH CONDENSATE AND UNIVERSAL BIOSENSOR XU, JUSTIN 70d

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17952
37961
17711
37911
37631
36151
17111

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18753878 AI DRIVEN PLATFORM TO USE INFRARED LIGHT TO TREAT INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE STORMS Photorevive, Inc. D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Jun 25, 2024
18628747 PACKAGED SEMICONDUCTOR SENSOR WITH AN OPEN DETECTION SURFACE AND SEALED DETECTION WELL Diagmetrics, Inc. BALL, JOHN C 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2024
18615264 Composition and Method of Use of a Concentrated Asphaltene Polymer Residue from VTAE Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc. STEIN, MICHELLE 1771 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Mar 25, 2024
18443286 DIAGNOSTIC PLATFORM FOR TESTING EXHALED BREATH CONDENSATE AND UNIVERSAL BIOSENSOR John J. Daniels XU, JUSTIN 3791 DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18489369 RANKINE CYCLE FOR RECOVERY OF THERMAL WASTE HEAT IN FUEL CELL Advent Technologies, Llc. TRPISOVSKY, JOSEPH F 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2023
18464212 ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSPORTATION WITH INTEGRATED SWITCHING, PROPULSION, GUIDANCE AND SUSPENSION Tracy M. Clark JONES, JAMES WILLIAM 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2023
18323886 HYDROGEN-EVOLVING ELECTRODES, MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES AND ELECTROLYZERS BASED THEREON AND METHODS OF FABRICATION THEREOF Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. FORRY, COLTON BUSA 1711 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 25, 2023
17864343 MASK-BASED DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND WAFER-LEVEL FUNCTIONALIZATION OF A PACKAGED SEMICONDUCTOR BIOSENSOR John J. Daniels GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2022

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