Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Defrancescolaw

7 pending office actions • 4 clients • 7 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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%)
5
Medium (71%)
2
Easy (29%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
§112 only2 (29%)
Double-patenting + other1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
86% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ANNIS, KHALED 1 56.6% +50.0%
HOEY, ALISSA L 1 44.4% +32.0%
LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D 1 78.5% +9.3%
OLIVER, BRADLEY S 1 61.1% +14.2%
PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC 1 85.2% +9.4%
MORAN, KATHERINE M 1 53.8% +24.4%
PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG 1 78.2% +13.1%

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
18501165 WIDTH-VARIABLE TILLAGE DEVICE PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC 10d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18124178 CHARGING STATION FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG 32d overdue
18652332 DISPENSING PACKAGE FOR DISPENSING AND APPLYING A FLUID PRODUCT OLIVER, BRADLEY S 15d
19157364 HELMET HOEY, ALISSA L 69d
19157363 HELMET ANNIS, KHALED 70d
18264218 CELLULAR ENERGY-ABSORBING STRUCTURE FASTENING DEVICE MORAN, KATHERINE M

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37323
37721
37541
36711
28591

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19157363 HELMET George Tfe Scp ANNIS, KHALED 3732 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Aug 17, 2025
19157364 HELMET George Tfe Scp HOEY, ALISSA L 3732 DPOther Non-Final OA 69d Pending Aug 17, 2025
18680252 AIRTIGHT COSMETIC COMPACT Apr Beauty Group Inc. LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D 3772 §112 Non-Final OA 56d Pending May 31, 2024
18652332 DISPENSING PACKAGE FOR DISPENSING AND APPLYING A FLUID PRODUCT Apr Beauty Group Inc. OLIVER, BRADLEY S 3754 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 01, 2024
18501165 WIDTH-VARIABLE TILLAGE DEVICE Treffler Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. Kg PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC 3671 §112 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2023
18264218 CELLULAR ENERGY-ABSORBING STRUCTURE FASTENING DEVICE George Tfe Scp MORAN, KATHERINE M 3732 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 03, 2023
18124178 CHARGING STATION FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES Marino Bernasconi SA PACHECO, ALEXIS BOATENG 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023

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