Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC (John Deere)

8 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 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.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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 (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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 (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§102 only1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
25% of docket
4
Communications
50% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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
HASAN, SYED HAROON 1 81.7% +15.2%
KIM, SHIN H 1 64.2% +11.5%
DHOOGE, DEVIN J 1 70.9% +35.8%
ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S 1 88.3% +11.9%
ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI 1 90.0% +15.4%
TRAN, DUY ANH 1 80.5% +18.4%
HANSEN, CONNOR LEVI 1 78.1% +27.9%
MORALES, PEDRO JESUS 1 66.7% +50.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18446189 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MONITOR CROP RESIDUE ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI 7d
18765030 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COMPRESS TABULAR GEOSPATIAL DATA HASAN, SYED HAROON 28d
18334889 ACCELERATED DATA COLLECTION USING TRANSFORMER ENCODING LAYERS FOR DATA SEPARATION TRAN, DUY ANH 42d

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
18624202 OPERATOR SEAT KIM, SHIN H 30d overdue
18503896 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MONITOR PERFORMANCE OF AN AGRICULTURAL VEHICLE ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S 23d overdue
18590550 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE FOR CAMERA CALIBRATION DHOOGE, DEVIN J 11d overdue
17978473 JOINING RASTER DATA AND VECTOR DATA IN AGRICULTURAL DATA PROCESSING HANSEN, CONNOR LEVI 10d overdue
18446189 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MONITOR CROP RESIDUE ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI 7d
18765030 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COMPRESS TABULAR GEOSPATIAL DATA HASAN, SYED HAROON 28d
17841009 JOINT TRAINING OF NETWORK ARCHITECTURE SEARCH AND MULTI-TASK DENSE PREDICTION MODELS FOR EDGE DEPLOYMENT MORALES, PEDRO JESUS 35d
18334889 ACCELERATED DATA COLLECTION USING TRANSFORMER ENCODING LAYERS FOR DATA SEPARATION TRAN, DUY ANH 42d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Deere 8

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21541
36361
26771
36621
26611
26741
26721
21241

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18765030 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COMPRESS TABULAR GEOSPATIAL DATA Deere & Company HASAN, SYED HAROON 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 05, 2024
18624202 OPERATOR SEAT Deere & Company KIM, SHIN H 3636 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Apr 02, 2024
18590550 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE FOR CAMERA CALIBRATION Deere & Company DHOOGE, DEVIN J 2677 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18503896 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MONITOR PERFORMANCE OF AN AGRICULTURAL VEHICLE Deere & Company ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S 3662 Other Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2023
18446189 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MONITOR CROP RESIDUE Deere & Company ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI 2661 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Aug 08, 2023
18334889 ACCELERATED DATA COLLECTION USING TRANSFORMER ENCODING LAYERS FOR DATA SEPARATION Deere & Company TRAN, DUY ANH 2674 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending Jun 14, 2023
17978473 JOINING RASTER DATA AND VECTOR DATA IN AGRICULTURAL DATA PROCESSING Deere & Company HANSEN, CONNOR LEVI 2672 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2022
17841009 JOINT TRAINING OF NETWORK ARCHITECTURE SEARCH AND MULTI-TASK DENSE PREDICTION MODELS FOR EDGE DEPLOYMENT Deere & Company MORALES, PEDRO JESUS 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jun 15, 2022

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