Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hudak, Shunk & Farine Co. Lpa

19 pending office actions • 14 clients • 18 examiners • 17 art units • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 51 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
Due this month
4
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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (4)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%)
16
Medium (84%)
3
Easy (16%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (79%)
§102 only1 (5%)
§112 only3 (16%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
58% of docket
1
Information Tech
5% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
2
Semiconductors
11% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
21% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 2 55.4% +46.6%
DOYLE, BENJAMIN C 1 67.5% +40.2%
GROSS, CARSON 1 73.2% +21.3%
HANDVILLE, BRIAN 1 51.4% +27.5%
SNIEZEK, ANDREW L 1 84.9% +8.9%
SIPP, AMY R. 1 70.5% +26.4%
NORRIS, CLAIRE A 1 65.6% +28.0%
ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA 1 71.0% +10.0%
LONSBERRY, HUNTER B 1 86.4% +4.7%
AMICK, THOMAS RUSSE 1 73.3% +30.5%

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
18550522 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A COVER, AND TRUCK-TRAILER COMBINATION LONSBERRY, HUNTER B 194d overdue
18698536 MODULAR EARPIECE SNIEZEK, ANDREW L 75d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18538527 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF THE STATE OF CURE OF PMMA IN A SURGICAL DISPENSING APPLICATOR SIPP, AMY R. 29d overdue
18563081 FILTER CARTRIDGE FOR FILTRATION OF LIQUIDS NORRIS, CLAIRE A 16d overdue
18698508 TEXTILE HANDVILLE, BRIAN 4d overdue
18548158 EFFICIENT TRACELESS GENE EDITING SYSTEM FOR SALMONELLA AND USE THEREOF AMICK, THOMAS RUSSE 14d
18255244 STABLE COATED SOLID PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION OF AN OPIOID ANALGESIC AND AN ANTI-EPILEPTIC FOR PAIN TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 21d
18480801 REFLECTIVE OPTICAL COUPLING AND BEAM PROFILE SHAPING UNIT, OPTO-ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY AND OPTO-ELECTRONIC SYSTEM COMPRISING THE SAME ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA 22d
18028625 PHARMACEUTICAL COMBINATIONS OF STATINS AND FIBRATES FOR THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF HYPERLIPIDEMIAS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 34d
19077549 SYSTEM COMPRISING A CARTRIDGE AND AN ACTUATING DEVICE DOYLE, BENJAMIN C 36d

Client Portfolio (14 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16382
16152
37461
17461
17831
26931
37751
17791
28741
36651

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19077549 SYSTEM COMPRISING A CARTRIDGE AND AN ACTUATING DEVICE Triboserv GmbH & Co. Kg DOYLE, BENJAMIN C 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Mar 12, 2025
18730096 SEALING TOOL FOR SEALING A BASE INTO A SLEEVE Herrmann Ultraschalltechnik GmbH & Co. Kg GROSS, CARSON 1746 §112 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jul 22, 2024
18698508 TEXTILE Odm GmbH HANDVILLE, BRIAN 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2024
18698536 MODULAR EARPIECE Odm GmbH SNIEZEK, ANDREW L 2693 §103 Final Rejection 75d Pending Apr 04, 2024
18538527 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF THE STATE OF CURE OF PMMA IN A SURGICAL DISPENSING APPLICATOR Orthopatent, LLC SIPP, AMY R. 3775 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2023
18563081 FILTER CARTRIDGE FOR FILTRATION OF LIQUIDS Brita SE NORRIS, CLAIRE A 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18480801 REFLECTIVE OPTICAL COUPLING AND BEAM PROFILE SHAPING UNIT, OPTO-ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY AND OPTO-ELECTRONIC SYSTEM COMPRISING THE SAME Effect Photonics B.V ENDRESEN, KIRSTEN DANIELA 2874 §112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Oct 04, 2023
18550522 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A COVER, AND TRUCK-TRAILER COMBINATION Jost-Werke Deutschland GmbH LONSBERRY, HUNTER B 3665 §103 Non-Final OA 194d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18548158 EFFICIENT TRACELESS GENE EDITING SYSTEM FOR SALMONELLA AND USE THEREOF Jiangsu Target Biomedical Research Institute Co., Ltd. AMICK, THOMAS RUSSE 1638 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Aug 28, 2023
18255205 PHARMACEUTICAL COMBINATION OF A CORTICOSTEROID AND AN ANTIHISTAMINE FOR THE TREATMENT AND CONTROL OF THE INFLAMMATORY COMPONENT OF ALLERGIC PROCESSES Laboratorios Silanes S.A. De C.V. BURKETT, DANIEL JOHN 1624 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending May 31, 2023
18255244 STABLE COATED SOLID PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION OF AN OPIOID ANALGESIC AND AN ANTI-EPILEPTIC FOR PAIN Laboratorios Silanes S.A. De C.V. TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 1615 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending May 31, 2023
18247684 USE OF PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE IN PREPARATION OF DRUG FOR TREATING INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE Jiangsu Target Biomedical Research Institute Co., Ltd. HIBBERT, CATHERINE S 1658 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Apr 03, 2023
18028625 PHARMACEUTICAL COMBINATIONS OF STATINS AND FIBRATES FOR THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF HYPERLIPIDEMIAS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Laboratorios Silanes S.A. De C.V. TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 1615 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Mar 27, 2023
17921454 CARRIER-FREE OXYGEN REDUCTION CATALYST FOR USE IN LOW-TEMPERATURE FUEL CELLS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME Technische Universität Darmstadt CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY 1732 §112 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2022
17916134 COMPOSITION Inocells B.V. MOORE, JOHN DAVID 1638 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17793108 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND CLASSIFYING SEGMENTS OF SIGNALS FROM EEG-RECORDINGS Prolira B.V. DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN 2147 §102 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2022
17745071 SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASER, PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND OPTO-ELECTRONIC SYSTEM COMPRISING THE SAME Effect Photonics B.V. CARTER, MICHAEL W 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 16, 2022
17277788 ELECTRODE PATCH WITH MULTIPLE MEASUREMENT POINTS Smartmedics Sp. Z O.O. BROWN, KYLE MARTZ 3794 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Mar 19, 2021
16312394 METHOD FOR PRODUCING AND SEPARATING LIPIDS Holiferm Limited MOSS, NATALIE M 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 21, 2018

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