Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Fennemore Craig, P.C.

5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 4 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1387 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

78.4%
Allowance Rate
n=1387
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1387
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=670
-0.32σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=670
980 days
Time to Allowance
n=670
+12.9pp
Interview Lift
n=1387
18.2%
RCE Rate
n=1387
4.8%
Appeal Rate
n=1387

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=13 (min 20)
85.1%
§102 Overcome
n=67
76.8%
§103 Overcome
n=337
89.9%
§112 Overcome
n=109

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, C07D
Top CPC Subclasses
13%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1387
3
Practitioners
n=1387
462.3
Apps / Practitioner
n=1387

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)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%)
1
Medium (20%)
3
Easy (60%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (20%)
§112 only3 (60%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

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
2
Communications
40% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TUN, NAY L 2 64.9% +31.0%
ZHOU, QINGZHANG 1 67.5% +24.1%
ALLEN, JEFFREY R 1 47.7% +26.8%
KENNEDY, JOSHUA T 1 51.3% +48.3%

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
18715435 VEHICLE-CARRIED HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM TUN, NAY L 5d overdue
18410276 SELF CORRECTIVE STABILITY AND MOVEMENT TRAINING DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF KENNEDY, JOSHUA T 12d
18939386 LIQUID CONTAINER FOR MASS STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND DISPLAY ALLEN, JEFFREY R 15d
18708194 DESIGNATED DRIVER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BASED ON BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY TUN, NAY L 26d
18971782 FLUID DISPERSION SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL SPRAYERS ZHOU, QINGZHANG

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26882
37331
37841

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18971782 FLUID DISPERSION SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL SPRAYERS Air-O Fan Products Corporation ZHOU, QINGZHANG §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2024
18939386 LIQUID CONTAINER FOR MASS STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND DISPLAY Shehadey Family Foods, LLC ALLEN, JEFFREY R 3733 Other Non-Final OA 15d Pending Nov 06, 2024
18715435 VEHICLE-CARRIED HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM The Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security TUN, NAY L 2688 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 31, 2024
18708194 DESIGNATED DRIVER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BASED ON BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY The Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security TUN, NAY L 2688 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending May 07, 2024
18410276 SELF CORRECTIVE STABILITY AND MOVEMENT TRAINING DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Puffy Jacket Industries LLC KENNEDY, JOSHUA T 3784 §112 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jan 11, 2024

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