Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hoffberg & Associates

10 pending office actions • 4 clients • 10 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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%)
7
Medium (70%)
1
Easy (10%)
2
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (50%)
§102 only1 (10%)
§112 only1 (10%)
Double-patenting + other1 (10%)
No statute on record2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
20% of docket
4
Information Tech
40% of docket
1
Communications
10% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
30% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PARSONS, THEODORE C 1 78.2% +22.7%
KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 1 81.4% +7.3%
NILSSON, ERIC 1 82.8% +17.7%
SUN, CHARLIE 1 91.1% +12.1%
WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL 1 78.6% +20.5%
ALAM, SHIHAB 1
TEJANI, ANKIT D 1 81.1% +17.3%
O'KEEFE, SEAN P 1 65.9% +13.4%
CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1 32.8% +26.7%
BERHANU, ETSUB D 1 65.5% +24.5%

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
18528775 MULTI-HYPERVISOR VIRTUAL MACHINES SUN, CHARLIE 16d overdue
18794323 TWO DIMENSIONAL TO THREE DIMENSIONAL MOVING IMAGE CONVERTER KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 36d
18406198 SEMISUPERVISED AUTOENCODER FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS NILSSON, ERIC 63d

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
18528775 MULTI-HYPERVISOR VIRTUAL MACHINES SUN, CHARLIE 16d overdue
16987346 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BRAIN ACTIVITY TO AN IMAGING DEVICE BERHANU, ETSUB D 16d overdue
18211230 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR "TRANSPLANTING" BRAIN STATES VIA BRAIN ENTRAINMENT TEJANI, ANKIT D 4d overdue
18801580 SECURE PROCESSOR FOR DETECTING AND PREVENTING EXPLOITS OF SOFTWARE VULNERABILITY PARSONS, THEODORE C 23d
17321088 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTION AND VISUALIZATION OF OXIDATIVE STRESS-INDUCED CARBONYLATION IN CELLS CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 23d
18318670 THERMAL STRESS AND SUBSTRATE DAMAGE REDUCING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD O'KEEFE, SEAN P 27d
18231174 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEUROENHANCEMENT TO FACILITATE LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL 33d
18406198 SEMISUPERVISED AUTOENCODER FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS NILSSON, ERIC 63d

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24941
26941
21511
21981
37991
21971
37961
17381
16181
37911

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18801580 SECURE PROCESSOR FOR DETECTING AND PREVENTING EXPLOITS OF SOFTWARE VULNERABILITY The Research Foundation for the State University of New York PARSONS, THEODORE C 2494 §102 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Aug 12, 2024
18794323 TWO DIMENSIONAL TO THREE DIMENSIONAL MOVING IMAGE CONVERTER Mr. Steven M. Hoffberg KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 2694 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Aug 05, 2024
18406198 SEMISUPERVISED AUTOENCODER FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS The Research Foundation for the State University of New York NILSSON, ERIC 2151 DPOther Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jan 07, 2024
18528775 MULTI-HYPERVISOR VIRTUAL MACHINES The Research Foundation for the State University of New York SUN, CHARLIE 2198 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18231174 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEUROENHANCEMENT TO FACILITATE LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE Neuroenhancement Lab, LLC WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL 3799 Other Non-Final OA 33d Pending Aug 07, 2023
18361688 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRIORITY-BASED RESOURCE SCHEDULING WITH LOAD BALANCING Waterlabs AI Technologies Private Limited ALAM, SHIHAB 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18211230 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR "TRANSPLANTING" BRAIN STATES VIA BRAIN ENTRAINMENT Neuroenhancement Lab, LLC TEJANI, ANKIT D 3796 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
18318670 THERMAL STRESS AND SUBSTRATE DAMAGE REDUCING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD The Research Foundation for the State University of New York O'KEEFE, SEAN P 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 16, 2023
17321088 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTION AND VISUALIZATION OF OXIDATIVE STRESS-INDUCED CARBONYLATION IN CELLS The Research Foundation for the State University of New York CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1618 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending May 14, 2021
16987346 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BRAIN ACTIVITY TO AN IMAGING DEVICE Neuroenhancement Lab, LLC BERHANU, ETSUB D 3791 §112 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Aug 06, 2020

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