Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Espatent OY

13 pending office actions • 6 clients • 13 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (5)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.

2
Hard (15%)
8
Medium (62%)
3
Easy (23%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (15%)
§103 only7 (54%)
§102 only1 (8%)
§112 only3 (23%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
38% of docket
2
Information Tech
15% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
2
Semiconductors
15% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
23% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGHIEM, MICHAEL P 1 67.4% +24.1%
CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN 1 62.2% -17.0%
DINH, JOSEPH NGHIA 1
MOUBRY, JAMES G 1 79.2% +13.1%
MCATEE, PATRICK 1 8.6% +11.8%
MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN 1 8.3% -9.1%
DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1 4.5% +25.0%
ARIANI, KADE 1 74.5% +33.1%
SHELEHEDA, JAMES R 1 67.9% +20.3%
TABOR, AMARE F 1 82.8% +23.0%

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
18461570 SERVICE DEPLOYMENT CONTROL TABOR, AMARE F 14d

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18476382 Personalized curriculum MCATEE, PATRICK 23d overdue
18551904 METHODS OF PRODUCING MEAT ANALOGUE FOOD INGREDIENTS DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1d overdue
18478036 Repertoire MOUBRY, JAMES G 22d
18552043 MEAT ANALOGUE FOOD PRODUCT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THEREOF MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN 26d

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
19119119 Controlling a target system NGHIEM, MICHAEL P 107d overdue
18550137 Autoconfiguration of base stations of a communications network SHELEHEDA, JAMES R 79d overdue
18476382 Personalized curriculum MCATEE, PATRICK 23d overdue
18551904 METHODS OF PRODUCING MEAT ANALOGUE FOOD INGREDIENTS DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1d overdue
18461570 SERVICE DEPLOYMENT CONTROL TABOR, AMARE F 14d
18550815 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GROWING MICROBIAL MASS ARIANI, KADE 16d
18478036 Repertoire MOUBRY, JAMES G 22d

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Elisa 4
Solar Foods Oyj 3
PICOSUN OY 2
Yousician 2
Oy Idlis Ab 1
Konecranes Global OY 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28572
17111
26411
37471
36981
17911
17921
16511
24241
24341

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19119119 Controlling a target system Elisa Oyj NGHIEM, MICHAEL P 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 107d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2025
18824950 Method and apparatus for cleaning a reaction chamber Picosun OY CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN 1711 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Sep 05, 2024
18695977 A method for defining neighbor relations in a communication network Elisa Oyj DINH, JOSEPH NGHIA 2641 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Mar 27, 2024
18478036 Repertoire Yousician OY MOUBRY, JAMES G 3747 §101 Final Rejection 22d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18476382 Personalized curriculum Yousician OY MCATEE, PATRICK 3698 §101 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18552043 MEAT ANALOGUE FOOD PRODUCT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THEREOF Solar Foods Oyj MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN 1791 §112 Final Rejection 26d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18551904 METHODS OF PRODUCING MEAT ANALOGUE FOOD INGREDIENTS Solar Foods Oyj DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1792 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18550815 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GROWING MICROBIAL MASS Solar Foods Oyj ARIANI, KADE 1651 §112 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Sep 15, 2023
18550137 Autoconfiguration of base stations of a communications network Elisa Oyj SHELEHEDA, JAMES R 2424 §102 Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2023
18461570 SERVICE DEPLOYMENT CONTROL OY Idlis AB TABOR, AMARE F 2434 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Sep 06, 2023
17767075 ENERGY CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS OF MULTI-OPERATOR COMMUNICATION NETWORK SITE Elisa Oyj TIMILSINA, SHARAD 2857 §112 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2022
17442704 CRANE ANTI-COLLISION SYSTEM, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD Konecranes Global OY PETTIEGREW, TOYA R 3662 §103 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending Sep 24, 2021
16329788 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION Picosun OY FORD, NATHAN K 1716 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2019

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