Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fish & Richardson P.C. (Sv)

9 pending office actions • 3 clients • 9 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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.

3
Hard (33%)
6
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (33%)
§103 only6 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
11% of docket
2
Information Tech
22% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
2
Semiconductors
22% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COLLINS, RAVEN 1 62.3% +10.5%
SKIBINSKI, TOMI SWEET 1 83.6% +3.3%
ZHAI, KYLE 1 74.5% +18.4%
BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 1 17.6% +37.5%
PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI 1 61.5% +45.5%
GAMBETTA, KELLY M 1 72.0% +32.7%
WEINERTH, GIDEON R 1 57.1% +15.2%
WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 1 57.7% +35.3%
CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY 1 16.7% +100.0%

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
18833814 N-POLAR DEVICES INCLUDING A DEPLETING LAYER WITH IMPROVED CONDUCTIVITY SKIBINSKI, TOMI SWEET 9d overdue
17958145 REPOSITIONING COOLING CHANNELS IN COOLING MOLDS WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 15d
18141206 PROJECTING COST METRICS FROM AN ENGINEERING MODEL TO AN ARCHITECTURAL MODEL BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 22d
17849483 MODELLING FLUID FLOW CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY 26d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18083148 Thermally Insulating Packaging WEINERTH, GIDEON R 72d overdue
18086516 THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING GAMBETTA, KELLY M 49d overdue
18019742 III-NITRIDE DEVICES INCLUDING A DEPLETING LAYER PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI 8d overdue
17958145 REPOSITIONING COOLING CHANNELS IN COOLING MOLDS WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 15d
18141206 PROJECTING COST METRICS FROM AN ENGINEERING MODEL TO AN ARCHITECTURAL MODEL BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 22d
18365471 COMPUTER AIDED AUTOMATED SHAPE ADJUSTMENT OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIES ZHAI, KYLE 26d
17849483 MODELLING FLUID FLOW CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY 26d
18999777 INSULATED SHIPPING CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MAKING COLLINS, RAVEN 42d

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Autodesk 5
Vericool World LLC 2
Transphorm Technology, Inc. 2

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21872
37351
28421
26111
36241
28991
17181
37361

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18999777 INSULATED SHIPPING CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MAKING Vericool World, LLC COLLINS, RAVEN 3735 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Dec 23, 2024
18833814 N-POLAR DEVICES INCLUDING A DEPLETING LAYER WITH IMPROVED CONDUCTIVITY Transphorm Technology, Inc. SKIBINSKI, TOMI SWEET 2842 §101 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2024
18365471 COMPUTER AIDED AUTOMATED SHAPE ADJUSTMENT OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIES Autodesk, Inc. ZHAI, KYLE 2611 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Aug 04, 2023
18141206 PROJECTING COST METRICS FROM AN ENGINEERING MODEL TO AN ARCHITECTURAL MODEL Autodesk, Inc. BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §101 Final Rejection 22d Pending Apr 28, 2023
18019742 III-NITRIDE DEVICES INCLUDING A DEPLETING LAYER Transphorm Technology, Inc. PALANISWAMY, KRISHNA JAYANTHI 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2023
18086516 THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING Autodesk, Inc. GAMBETTA, KELLY M 1718 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
18083148 Thermally Insulating Packaging Vericool World, LLC WEINERTH, GIDEON R 3736 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2022
17958145 REPOSITIONING COOLING CHANNELS IN COOLING MOLDS Autodesk, Inc. WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. 2187 §101 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Sep 30, 2022
17849483 MODELLING FLUID FLOW Autodesk, Inc. CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY 2187 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jun 24, 2022

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