Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Dewitt LLP (Minneapolis)

16 pending office actions • 10 clients • 16 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 77 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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%)
14
Medium (88%)
2
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (75%)
§102 only2 (12%)
§112 only2 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
25% of docket
1
Information Tech
6% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
5
Semiconductors
31% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
31% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BIBBEE, CHAYCE R 1 62.5% +3.7%
ALLI, KASIM A 1 65.8% +36.8%
POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M 1 73.0% +26.0%
WONG, EDNA 1 58.2% -18.9%
CHEN, XIAOCHUN L 1 91.7% -0.6%
WRIGHT, ALEXANDER SCOTT 1 72.6% -2.6%
JONES, JENNIFER ANN 1 68.1% +20.3%
HO, WAI-GA DAVID 1 20.0% +100.0%
MARTINEZ, JOSE ANTONIO 1 96.0% +5.0%
MORENO, LARK JULIA 1 0.0% +0.0%

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
18779825 STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF PERFORMING READ AND WRITE OPERATIONS CHEN, XIAOCHUN L 22d
18402923 AIR DELIVERY SIDE DISCHARGE WINDROWER MARTINEZ, JOSE ANTONIO 22d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18696845 MEASURING APPARATUS AND MEASURING METHOD FOR PREPARING LASER TREATMENT, AND LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS HO, WAI-GA DAVID 5d overdue
18573804 FOOD IN CONTROLLED DYNAMIC FERMENTATION FOR BACTERIOSTASIS OF BENEFICIAL MICROORGANISMS, KEEPING THEM ALIVE AND METABOLICALLY ACTIVE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION MORENO, LARK JULIA 8d

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
18927890 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INSTRUCTIONS ALLI, KASIM A 46d overdue
18696845 MEASURING APPARATUS AND MEASURING METHOD FOR PREPARING LASER TREATMENT, AND LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS HO, WAI-GA DAVID 5d overdue
18919545 TEXTURED STONE SLABS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M 34d
18654806 OPERATING ELEMENT FOR OPHTHALMOLOGICAL DEVICES, WITH TARGETED BLOCKING AND/OR ENABLING OF INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONS JONES, JENNIFER ANN 71d

Client Portfolio (10 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28723
36712
37742
26241
21831
17851
17951
28241
17451
17931

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19246370 A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE DATA FOR DISPLAY Arm Limited BIBBEE, CHAYCE R 2624 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2025
18927890 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INSTRUCTIONS Arm Limited ALLI, KASIM A 2183 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2024
18919545 TEXTURED STONE SLABS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS Cambria Company LLC POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 18, 2024
18842106 CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION AS A CLEAN FEEDSTOCK Michigan Technological University WONG, EDNA 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2024
18779825 STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF PERFORMING READ AND WRITE OPERATIONS Arm Limited CHEN, XIAOCHUN L 2824 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jul 22, 2024
18760804 VARIABLE SIZE HIGH SPEED WELDER Erdman Automation Corporation WRIGHT, ALEXANDER SCOTT 1745 §112 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2024
18654806 OPERATING ELEMENT FOR OPHTHALMOLOGICAL DEVICES, WITH TARGETED BLOCKING AND/OR ENABLING OF INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONS Carl Zeiss Meditec AG JONES, JENNIFER ANN 2872 §112 Non-Final OA 71d Pending May 03, 2024
18696845 MEASURING APPARATUS AND MEASURING METHOD FOR PREPARING LASER TREATMENT, AND LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS Carl Zeiss Meditec AG HO, WAI-GA DAVID 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18402923 AIR DELIVERY SIDE DISCHARGE WINDROWER Loftness Specialized Farm Equipment, Inc. MARTINEZ, JOSE ANTONIO 3671 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jan 03, 2024
18573804 FOOD IN CONTROLLED DYNAMIC FERMENTATION FOR BACTERIOSTASIS OF BENEFICIAL MICROORGANISMS, KEEPING THEM ALIVE AND METABOLICALLY ACTIVE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION Kuragobiotek Holdings Sapi De Cv MORENO, LARK JULIA 1793 §102 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18568151 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS, AND FOR PLANNING AND/OR MONITORING AN OPERATION ON THE EYE Carl Zeiss Meditec AG PICHLER, MARIN 2872 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Dec 07, 2023
18344642 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE PRESENCE OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS Microbeam Technologies, Inc. KNOX, KALERIA 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2023
18252249 OPHTHALMOLOGICAL IMPLANT WITH DIGITAL PRODUCT IDENTIFIER, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME Carl Zeiss Meditec AG RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 09, 2023
18028508 NEEDLE OUTPUT MECHANISM Cc Biotechnology Corporation DARB, HAMZA A. 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 113d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2023
18110709 SWEEPING BLADE DEVICE AND SWEEPING BLADE ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE Gestion Pihm Inc. TSUI, ALFRED H 3671 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
17190514 INTRAOCULAR IMPLANT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN INTRAOCULAR IMPLANT Carl Zeiss Meditec AG MANNAN, MIKAIL A 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Mar 03, 2021

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