Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hershkovitz And Associates, Pllc

7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 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.

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

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only2 (29%)

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
1
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
57% 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
KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1 56.8% +17.3%
NGUYEN, HOANG M 1 75.7% +16.4%
KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 1 63.0% +21.4%
HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 1 76.5% +23.1%
SHUM, KENT N 1 27.6% +37.2%
VO, NGUYEN THANH 1 85.0% +6.7%
WENTZEL, COLE JIAWEI 1 81.8% +33.3%

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
17852377 MONOLITHIC COMBINED TRANSCEIVER VO, NGUYEN THANH 3d overdue
17752860 COMPUTER SYSTEM USING ENERGY BARRIER INSTRUCTIONS WENTZEL, COLE JIAWEI 41d

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
18079867 FLIP STOP SHUM, KENT N 91d overdue

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
18848124 THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION METHOD AND SYSTEM NGUYEN, HOANG M 218d overdue
18079868 ADJUSTABLE FLIP STOP HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 190d overdue
18106392 SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FLUID FLOW IN A FLUID COMMUNICATING DEVICE AND A WATERING SYSTEM COMPRISING A FLUID FLOW DETECTING SYSTEM KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 182d overdue
18079867 FLIP STOP SHUM, KENT N 91d overdue
19066133 Isolation of Ammonia from Wastewater with Struvite KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 5d
17752860 COMPUTER SYSTEM USING ENERGY BARRIER INSTRUCTIONS WENTZEL, COLE JIAWEI 41d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37232
17791
37461
37521
26461
21751

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19066133 Isolation of Ammonia from Wastewater with Struvite Perseverance Water Guardian LLC KURTZ, BENJAMIN M 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Feb 27, 2025
18848124 THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION METHOD AND SYSTEM Hans Gude Gudesen NGUYEN, HOANG M 3746 §102 Non-Final OA 218d overdue Pending Sep 17, 2024
18106392 SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FLUID FLOW IN A FLUID COMMUNICATING DEVICE AND A WATERING SYSTEM COMPRISING A FLUID FLOW DETECTING SYSTEM 7Sense Products AS KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 3752 §102 Non-Final OA 182d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2023
18079868 ADJUSTABLE FLIP STOP Hui-Chuan Liao HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 3723 §103 Final Rejection 190d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2022
18079867 FLIP STOP Hui-Chuan Liao SHUM, KENT N 3723 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2022
17852377 MONOLITHIC COMBINED TRANSCEIVER Onio AS VO, NGUYEN THANH 2646 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2022
17752860 COMPUTER SYSTEM USING ENERGY BARRIER INSTRUCTIONS Onio AS WENTZEL, COLE JIAWEI 2175 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending May 25, 2022

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