Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Dorton & Willis LLP

16 pending office actions • 7 clients • 16 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
6
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.

13
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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 (13)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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%)
13
Medium (81%)
1
Easy (6%)
2
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (62%)
§102 only3 (19%)
§112 only1 (6%)
No statute on record2 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
19% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
12
Mechanical / Eng
75% 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
WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS 1 86.0% +9.6%
FOSTER, NICHOLAS L 1 75.3% +25.3%
MCNICHOLS, ERET C 1 74.7% -16.0%
TRAN, KHOI H 1 46.6% +13.1%
BUI, NHI QUYNH 1 72.3% +8.7%
KARWAN, SIHAR A 1 56.1% +25.8%
EVANS, KARSTON G 1 70.7% +17.2%
MANCHO, RONNIE M 1 75.6% +2.4%
SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 1 68.0% +41.1%
MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER 1 57.9% +12.2%

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
19472264 DOWNHOLE FLUID FLOW CONTROL DEVICE WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS 8d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18557717 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT A ROBOT APPLICATION EVANS, KARSTON G 225d overdue
18223968 GAS APPARATUS SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 92d overdue
18561182 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A MACHINE KARWAN, SIHAR A 72d overdue
18864612 Seal for a Radial Gap Between Two Links of a Robot Arm FOSTER, NICHOLAS L 35d overdue
18262055 PLANNING A PATH OF A DRIVERLESS MOBILE ROBOT MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER 31d overdue
18846903 Planning a Path of a Robot TRAN, KHOI H 16d overdue

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36562
36572
36721
36751
36321
36581
17761
36671
26141
37991

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19472264 DOWNHOLE FLUID FLOW CONTROL DEVICE Saja Energy UK Limited WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS 3672 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Oct 03, 2025
18864612 Seal for a Radial Gap Between Two Links of a Robot Arm Kuka Deutschland GmbH FOSTER, NICHOLAS L 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Nov 11, 2024
18856420 Supporting Device and Robot Arm Kuka Deutschland GmbH MCNICHOLS, ERET C 3632 §102 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Oct 11, 2024
18846903 Planning a Path of a Robot Kuka Systems GmbH TRAN, KHOI H 3656 §102 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2024
18846925 Checking a Predefined Path of a Robot Kuka Systems GmbH BUI, NHI QUYNH 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2024
18561182 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A MACHINE Kuka Deutschland GmbH KARWAN, SIHAR A 3658 §102 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2023
18557717 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT A ROBOT APPLICATION Kuka Aktiengesellschaft EVANS, KARSTON G 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 225d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2023
18556755 GENERATING A ROBOT PROGRAM AND OPERATING A ROBOT Kuka Deutschland GmbH MANCHO, RONNIE M 3657 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2023
18223968 GAS APPARATUS Peak Scientific Instruments Limited SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 92d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18262055 PLANNING A PATH OF A DRIVERLESS MOBILE ROBOT Kuka Deutschland GmbH MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER 3667 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18316276 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION Jointvue LLC COFINO, JONATHAN M 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 105d overdue Pending May 12, 2023
18182534 3-D ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE AND METHODS Jointvue, LLC PEHLKE, CAROLYN A 3799 Other Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2023
17797527 FEEDING METHOD OF A CARDING MACHINE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A BLENDED YARN, YARN AND FABRIC OBTAIN WITH IT Lightowlers Yarns Limited THOMPSON, CAMIE S 1786 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 04, 2022
17468092 FILTER Rig Deluge Global Limited LIEUWEN, CODY J 3752 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2021
17298260 ROTOR BLADE MOLD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A ROTOR BLADE FOR A WIND ENERGY INSTALLATION, AND A WIND ENERGY INSTALLATION Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Service GmbH MALIK, VIPUL 1754 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending May 28, 2021
17181372 Motion Tracking System with Inertial-Based Sensing Units Joint Vue, LLC FERNANDES, PATRICK M 3791 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 22, 2021

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