Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fish & Richardson, P.C. (Sap)

18 pending office actions • 1 client • 18 examiners • 16 art units • 15 of 18 (83%) have an AI response strategy ready • 87 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
2
Due this week
6
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

5
Hard (28%)
13
Medium (72%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (28%)
§103 only13 (72%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
14
Information Tech
78% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
22% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LITTLE, VANCE M 1 83.5% +24.9%
SHAHABI, ARI ARASTOO 1 53.7% +40.4%
SHELTON, GABRIELLA KANANI 1 68.4% +27.4%
FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 1 51.8% +39.7%
MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 1 67.7% +27.3%
PARCHER, DANIEL W 1 60.6% +59.4%
HOLZMACHER, DERICK J 1 44.6% +28.8%
KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN 1 88.9% +16.2%
NGUYEN, AN-AN NGOC 1 71.4% +66.7%
LIN, KATHERINE Y 1 91.2% +7.0%

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
18519220 BUILDING WEB APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES IN CLOUD SYSTEMS KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN 27d
18962004 COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF PRIVACY PROTECTED DATA LITTLE, VANCE M 71d

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17819827 INTELLIGENT SHELFWARE PREDICTION AND SYSTEM ADOPTION ASSISTANT SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 24d overdue
18242103 APPLICATION LANDSCAPE PATTERN DETECTION LIN, KATHERINE Y 9d overdue
18788586 INTELLIGENT DEVOPS ASSISTED ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS SHELTON, GABRIELLA KANANI 15d
18347065 AUTOMATIC INSTANTIATION OF DEPENDENT PURPOSES JAMI, HARES 23d
18532686 EXPERIENCE QUOTIENT HOLZMACHER, DERICK J 39d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18491350 CONTEXT-AWARE PERSONAL APPLICATION MEMORY NGUYEN, AN-AN NGOC 2d overdue
18788586 INTELLIGENT DEVOPS ASSISTED ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS SHELTON, GABRIELLA KANANI 15d
18544864 STORAGE LAYER ABSTRACTION FOR DISTRIBUTED, SELF-SOVEREIGN CONTENT SHARING MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 21d
18519220 BUILDING WEB APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES IN CLOUD SYSTEMS KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN 27d
18532686 EXPERIENCE QUOTIENT HOLZMACHER, DERICK J 39d
18745430 DYNAMICALLY ADAPTING QUERY PLANS FOR DATABASE QUERIES FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 55d
18541242 PSEUDO VISUAL ELEMENT UI RENDERING PARCHER, DANIEL W 61d
18962004 COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF PRIVACY PROTECTED DATA LITTLE, VANCE M 71d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
SAP SE 18

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21132
36252
24941
36971
21531
24541
21741
21961
21951
21511

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18962004 COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF PRIVACY PROTECTED DATA SAP SE LITTLE, VANCE M 2494 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Nov 27, 2024
18925424 INTEGRATED SELF-CUSTODY CRYPTOGRAPHIC TRANSACTIONS SAP SE SHAHABI, ARI ARASTOO 3697 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Oct 24, 2024
18788586 INTELLIGENT DEVOPS ASSISTED ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS SAP SE SHELTON, GABRIELLA KANANI 2113 §101 Non-Final OA 15d AI Ready Jul 30, 2024
18745430 DYNAMICALLY ADAPTING QUERY PLANS FOR DATABASE QUERIES SAP SE FERRER, JEDIDIAH P 2153 §103 Final Rejection 55d AI Ready Jun 17, 2024
18544864 STORAGE LAYER ABSTRACTION FOR DISTRIBUTED, SELF-SOVEREIGN CONTENT SHARING SAP SE MACILWINEN, JOHN MOORE JAIN 2454 §103 Non-Final OA 21d AI Ready Dec 19, 2023
18541242 PSEUDO VISUAL ELEMENT UI RENDERING SAP SE PARCHER, DANIEL W 2174 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Dec 15, 2023
18532686 EXPERIENCE QUOTIENT SAP SE HOLZMACHER, DERICK J 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 39d AI Ready Dec 07, 2023
18519220 BUILDING WEB APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES IN CLOUD SYSTEMS SAP SE KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN 2196 §103 Non-Final OA 27d AI Ready Nov 27, 2023
18491350 CONTEXT-AWARE PERSONAL APPLICATION MEMORY SAP SE NGUYEN, AN-AN NGOC 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue AI Ready Oct 20, 2023
18242103 APPLICATION LANDSCAPE PATTERN DETECTION SAP SE LIN, KATHERINE Y 2113 §101 Non-Final OA 9d overdue AI Ready Sep 05, 2023
18365366 SCHEDULING SERVICES IN CLOUD-BASED SYSTEMS TO AVOID TIMEOUT SAP SE ZHAO, BING 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue AI Ready Aug 04, 2023
18358245 DEPLOYMENT OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND FEW-SHOT LEARNING SAP SE SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 7d AI Ready Jul 25, 2023
18347065 AUTOMATIC INSTANTIATION OF DEPENDENT PURPOSES SAP SE JAMI, HARES 2164 §101 Final Rejection 23d AI Ready Jul 05, 2023
18327191 RESERVING COMPUTING RESOURCES IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS SAP SE SHINE, NICHOLAS B 2126 §103 Non-Final OA 28d AI Ready Jun 01, 2023
18082049 EXECUTION OF FORECASTING MODELS GENERATED BASED ON PLANNING CALENDARS SAP SE CHONG CRUZ, NADJA N 3623 §103 Final Rejection 9d AI Ready Dec 15, 2022
17952107 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORK CENTER SAP SE TAN, DAVID H 2145 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue AI Ready Sep 23, 2022
17819827 INTELLIGENT SHELFWARE PREDICTION AND SYSTEM ADOPTION ASSISTANT SAP SE SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 3625 §101 Final Rejection 24d overdue AI Ready Aug 15, 2022
17455241 COLUMN-DISTRIBUTED TREE-BASED DATA MINING ENGINES FOR BIG DATA IN CLOUD SYSTEMS SAP SE RIFKIN, BEN M 2123 §103 Non-Final OA 5d AI Ready Nov 17, 2021

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