Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman (Boeing)

7 pending office actions • 1 client • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
71% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO 1 44.7% +13.3%
BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E 1 54.2% +18.2%
AYERS, MICHAEL W 1 70.2% +53.7%
WALTER, KATHERINE JUNE 1 69.4% +20.7%
HYMEL, ABIGAIL R 1 84.1% +20.4%
KREINER, MICHAEL B 1 82.2% +13.6%
JONES, GORDON A 1 60.4% +39.4%

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
17378532 AIR ACCELERATION AT LEADING EDGE OF WING KREINER, MICHAEL B 29d
18171918 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOCKING VEHICLES FOR TOWING HYMEL, ABIGAIL R 53d

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
18546015 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FABRICATING BRITTLE MICRONEEDLE BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E 15d overdue
18358211 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTILEVEL BALANCING OF COMPUTATIONAL TASKS AYERS, MICHAEL W 10d overdue
16665893 AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS JONES, GORDON A 9d overdue
18787509 SPACE-BASED MONITORING OF AIRCRAFT SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO 27d
17378532 AIR ACCELERATION AT LEADING EDGE OF WING KREINER, MICHAEL B 29d
18171918 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOCKING VEHICLES FOR TOWING HYMEL, ABIGAIL R 53d
18214113 VISION-BASED VEHICLE GUIDANCE WALTER, KATHERINE JUNE

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
THE BOEING COMPANY 7

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36631
17411
21951
36471
36111
36421
37631

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18787509 SPACE-BASED MONITORING OF AIRCRAFT The Boeing Company SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jul 29, 2024
18546015 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FABRICATING BRITTLE MICRONEEDLE The Boeing Company BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2023
18358211 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTILEVEL BALANCING OF COMPUTATIONAL TASKS The Boeing Company AYERS, MICHAEL W 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18214113 VISION-BASED VEHICLE GUIDANCE The Boeing Company WALTER, KATHERINE JUNE 3647 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2023
18171918 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOCKING VEHICLES FOR TOWING The Boeing Company HYMEL, ABIGAIL R 3611 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Feb 21, 2023
17378532 AIR ACCELERATION AT LEADING EDGE OF WING The Boeing Company KREINER, MICHAEL B 3642 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jul 16, 2021
16665893 AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS The Boeing Company JONES, GORDON A 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2019

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