Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Garlick & Markison

8 pending office actions • 5 clients • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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 (25%)
5
Medium (62%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (25%)
§103 only4 (50%)
§102 only1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
12% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
62% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OUSSIR, EL MEHDI 1 48.2% +49.1%
SHARON, AYAL I 1 43.1% +28.7%
JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY 1 94.2% -0.7%
WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M 1 53.8% +25.6%
ANDREI, RADU 1 36.2% +20.9%
YU, ARIEL J 1 40.5% +27.2%
HUANG, JAY 1 53.0% +20.3%
YOO, REGINA M 1 63.5% +5.7%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19047807 CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM PAYMENTS BACKED BY ASSIGNABLE TOKENS SHARON, AYAL I 2d overdue
18051810 SMART CONTRACT DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT UNIT ANDREI, RADU 55d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17449429 BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL ASSET POINT OF SALE COMPUTING DEVICE YU, ARIEL J 97d overdue
17390878 Real-time Cryptocurrency Backed Payment with Code Initiation HUANG, JAY 80d overdue
18193541 MULTI-ACCESS POINT ITEM DATA EXTRACTION AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTING SYSTEM WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M 26d overdue
19073147 SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM OUSSIR, EL MEHDI 4d overdue
19047807 CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM PAYMENTS BACKED BY ASSIGNABLE TOKENS SHARON, AYAL I 2d overdue
18051810 SMART CONTRACT DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT UNIT ANDREI, RADU 55d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36991
36951
28451
21561
36971
36271
36191
17581

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19073147 SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM Flexa Inc. OUSSIR, EL MEHDI 3699 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2025
19047807 CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM PAYMENTS BACKED BY ASSIGNABLE TOKENS Flexa Inc. SHARON, AYAL I 3695 §101 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2025
18810948 PIPELINE ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER WITH A DIFFERENTIAL TO SINGLE ENDED STAGE Dunmore Circuits, LLC JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY 2845 Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 21, 2024
18193541 MULTI-ACCESS POINT ITEM DATA EXTRACTION AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTING SYSTEM Patricia M. Healy WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M 2156 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18051810 SMART CONTRACT DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT UNIT Flexa Inc. ANDREI, RADU 3697 §101 Final Rejection 55d Pending Nov 01, 2022
17449429 BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL ASSET POINT OF SALE COMPUTING DEVICE Flexa Inc. YU, ARIEL J 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2021
17390878 Real-time Cryptocurrency Backed Payment with Code Initiation Flexa Inc. HUANG, JAY 3619 §103 Non-Final OA 80d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2021
17325325 MODULAR AND CONFIGURABLE SANITIZATION SYSTEM Go Time Design, LLC YOO, REGINA M 1758 §102 Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending May 20, 2021

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