Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Irell & Manella LLP

5 pending office actions • 3 clients • 4 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 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%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
§102 only1 (20%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

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

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 2 65.8% +47.7%
SWEENEY, BRIAN P 1 93.5% +7.4%
MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH 1 76.2% +33.7%
LE, JESSICA N 1 72.7% +28.9%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18811033 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OVER-THE-AIR UPDATE SWEENEY, BRIAN P 93d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19206692 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR INSTILLING STEM CELLS AND PHARMACEUTICALS INTO THE HUMAN VENTRICULAR SYSTEM SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 114d overdue
18078034 QUERY PROCESSING AND VISUALIZATION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS LE, JESSICA N 8d overdue
18601918 AUTOMATED SLANG, SYNONYM AND MISTRANSCRIPTION DETECTION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH 22d
17344125 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR INSTILLING STEM CELLS AND PHARMACEUTICALS INTO THE HUMAN VENTRICULAR SYSTEM SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 27d

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16332
36681
26571
21691

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19206692 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR INSTILLING STEM CELLS AND PHARMACEUTICALS INTO THE HUMAN VENTRICULAR SYSTEM Regeneration Biomedical, Inc. SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1633 Other Final Rejection 114d overdue Pending May 13, 2025
18811033 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OVER-THE-AIR UPDATE I/O Controls Corporation SWEENEY, BRIAN P 3668 §102 Non-Final OA 93d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2024
18601918 AUTOMATED SLANG, SYNONYM AND MISTRANSCRIPTION DETECTION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS Leo Technologies, LLC MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH 2657 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Mar 11, 2024
18078034 QUERY PROCESSING AND VISUALIZATION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS Leo Technologies, LLC LE, JESSICA N 2169 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2022
17344125 METHODS, APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR INSTILLING STEM CELLS AND PHARMACEUTICALS INTO THE HUMAN VENTRICULAR SYSTEM Regeneration Biomedical, Inc. SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jun 10, 2021

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