Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Head, Johnson, Kachigian & Wilkinson, Pc

9 pending office actions • 8 clients • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1525 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

82.2%
Allowance Rate
n=1525
+0.45σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1525
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=1065
-0.30σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1065
1029 days
Time to Allowance
n=1065
+9.0pp
Interview Lift
n=1525
20.4%
RCE Rate
n=1525
3.4%
Appeal Rate
n=1525

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=17 (min 20)
77.4%
§102 Overcome
n=124
79.4%
§103 Overcome
n=569
93.4%
§112 Overcome
n=182

Specialization & Scale

Y10T, H04N, E21B
Top CPC Subclasses
11%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1525
0
Practitioners
n=1525
Apps / Practitioner
n=1525 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
8
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only1 (11%)
§112 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
44% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% 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
SMITH, JENNIFER A 3 61.4% +26.1%
WALKER, JARED T 1 84.7% +10.2%
SANDERS, HOWARD J 1 81.0% +7.8%
WEBB, MARGARET G 1 79.9% +8.2%
SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA 1 28.0% +60.3%
VO, TU A 1 61.0% +59.0%
SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM 1 71.7% +8.8%

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
18282518 Blank Separating Device, Corresponding Packaging Machine, and Method for Producing Separated Blanks from a Stack SANDERS, HOWARD J 30d
18904147 SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CAPTURING, STORING, AND DISPLAYING PHOTOGRAPHS WALKER, JARED T

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18684508 RIDING AID APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA 41d

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
17731025 NOVEL CHEMISTRIES TO ACHIEVE A TOTAL AGRONOMIC COATING CONTAINING MICRONUTRIENTS AND/OR BIOSTIMULANTS SMITH, JENNIFER A 11d overdue
17731037 GREEN COATING CONTAINING BIOSTIMULANTS FOR HYGROSCOPIC SUBSTRATES SMITH, JENNIFER A 10d overdue
18684508 RIDING AID APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA 41d
18112360 NASAL DELIVERY SYSTEM VO, TU A 69d
18904147 SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CAPTURING, STORING, AND DISPLAYING PHOTOGRAPHS WALKER, JARED T
17730937 NOVEL CHEMISTRIES TO ACHIEVE A TOTAL AGRONOMIC COATING CONTAINING MICRONUTRIENTS AND/OR BIOCATALYSTS SMITH, JENNIFER A

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17313
24261
36531
26411
36421
37851
17851

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18904147 SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CAPTURING, STORING, AND DISPLAYING PHOTOGRAPHS TwinMotion, LLC WALKER, JARED T 2426 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 02, 2024
18282518 Blank Separating Device, Corresponding Packaging Machine, and Method for Producing Separated Blanks from a Stack Gerhard Schubert GmbH SANDERS, HOWARD J 3653 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Jul 15, 2024
18587750 WIRELESS POSITIONING SYSTEMS Peytec Inc. WEBB, MARGARET G 2641 §102 Non-Final OA 293d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2024
18684508 RIDING AID APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF Equiseat Aid Ltd. SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA 3642 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18112360 NASAL DELIVERY SYSTEM Suzhou Huafan Chuangshuo Medical Technology Co., Ltd. VO, TU A 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Feb 21, 2023
17731037 GREEN COATING CONTAINING BIOSTIMULANTS FOR HYGROSCOPIC SUBSTRATES Tenfold Technologies, LLC D/B/A Agricen Sciences SMITH, JENNIFER A 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2022
17731025 NOVEL CHEMISTRIES TO ACHIEVE A TOTAL AGRONOMIC COATING CONTAINING MICRONUTRIENTS AND/OR BIOSTIMULANTS Tenfold Technologies, LLC D/B/A Agricen Sciences SMITH, JENNIFER A 1731 §112 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2022
17730937 NOVEL CHEMISTRIES TO ACHIEVE A TOTAL AGRONOMIC COATING CONTAINING MICRONUTRIENTS AND/OR BIOCATALYSTS ArrMaz Products Inc. SMITH, JENNIFER A 1731 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 27, 2022
17628157 COATING FOR THE SURFACE OF AN ARTICLE AND PROCESS FOR FORMING THE COATING Teer Coatings Limited SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2022

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