Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Elliott Ostrander & Preston, P.C.

7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only1 (14%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
3
Information Tech
43% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% 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
MERSHON, JAYNE L 1 66.4% +18.7%
LE, CHAU D 1 85.3% +16.7%
LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N 1 43.4% +23.9%
LI, SHI K 1 73.3% +5.2%
ABOUD, ABDULLAH KHALED 1
PARSLEY, DAVID J 1 53.8% +28.5%
DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL 1 31.3% +32.8%

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
18943732 Large Language Model(s) System for Capturing, Maintaining, and Separating Copyrighted Information Within a Blockchain Network with Automatic Output of Information LE, CHAU D 12d

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
17666788 BLOCKCHAIN BRIDGE SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR TRADING NON- FUNGIBLE TOKEN DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL 146d overdue
19051083 Light Pulse Generator Method and Apparatus MERSHON, JAYNE L 72d overdue
18118051 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WEAKENING PIN BONE ATTACHMENT IN FISH PARSLEY, DAVID J 32d overdue
18943732 Large Language Model(s) System for Capturing, Maintaining, and Separating Copyrighted Information Within a Blockchain Network with Automatic Output of Information LE, CHAU D 12d
18665408 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNTHESIZED VIDEO STREAM LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N 27d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17211
24081
24251
26351
21211
36431
36981

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19051083 Light Pulse Generator Method and Apparatus Brightzone Power, Inc. MERSHON, JAYNE L 1721 §102 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Feb 11, 2025
18943732 Large Language Model(s) System for Capturing, Maintaining, and Separating Copyrighted Information Within a Blockchain Network with Automatic Output of Information Pangee, Inc. LE, CHAU D 2408 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 11, 2024
18665408 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNTHESIZED VIDEO STREAM Set Industries Corporation LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N 2425 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 15, 2024
18518307 SUBCHANNEL PHOTONIC ROUTING, SWITCHING AND PROTECTION WITH SIMPLIFIED UPGRADES OF WDM OPTICAL NETWORKS Snell Holdings, LLC LI, SHI K 2635 Other Non-Final OA 92d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2023
18208683 System and Method for Automated Integration of Contextual Information with Content Displayed in a Display Space Pangee, Inc. ABOUD, ABDULLAH KHALED 2121 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jun 12, 2023
18118051 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WEAKENING PIN BONE ATTACHMENT IN FISH Circle Seafoods, Inc. PARSLEY, DAVID J 3643 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2023
17666788 BLOCKCHAIN BRIDGE SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR TRADING NON- FUNGIBLE TOKEN Pangee, Inc. DIROMA, SCOTT MICHAEL 3698 §103 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Feb 08, 2022

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