Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Keller Schneider Patent-Und Markenanwalte

9 pending office actions • 9 clients • 9 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)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%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
67% 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
WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE 1
ROSEN, ERIC J 1 41.4% +24.5%
TRAN, JULIA C 1 63.1% +25.5%
DONG, LIANG 1 52.3% +32.1%
BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE 1 83.5% +13.0%
TURNER, SONJI 1 73.8% +21.8%
YAO, THEODORE N 1 67.7% +37.6%
PALENIK, JEFFREY T 1 54.1% +26.7%
CASS, JEAN PAUL 1 73.3% +25.5%

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
18282129 MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE 2d overdue

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
18524324 MOWER KNIFE DEVICE TRAN, JULIA C 53d overdue
18028536 METHOD TO NAVIGATE AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE TO AVOID COLLISIONS CASS, JEAN PAUL 43d overdue
18566331 INTERDENTAL BRUSH HAVING AN OVAL WIRE CROSS SECTION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME ROSEN, ERIC J 37d overdue
18226871 Apparatus and system for surface processing of plastically deformable masses YAO, THEODORE N 32d overdue
18037637 TAMPON CONTAINING A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION PALENIK, JEFFREY T 10d overdue
18282129 MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE 2d overdue
18277951 Air Treatment Device TURNER, SONJI 5d
18370434 Apparatus And Method For Producing A Locking Ring On A Closure Cap For A Container DONG, LIANG 9d

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16531
37721
36711
37241
36151
17761
36761
16151
36661

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18575874 Method for isolating proteins and saccharides from yeast Yeastup AG WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jan 01, 2024
18566331 INTERDENTAL BRUSH HAVING AN OVAL WIRE CROSS SECTION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME Curaden AG ROSEN, ERIC J 3772 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2023
18524324 MOWER KNIFE DEVICE Wepfer Technics AG TRAN, JULIA C 3671 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18370434 Apparatus And Method For Producing A Locking Ring On A Closure Cap For A Container Packsys Global AG DONG, LIANG 3724 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Sep 20, 2023
18282129 MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2023
18277951 Air Treatment Device BELIMO Holding AG TURNER, SONJI 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18226871 Apparatus and system for surface processing of plastically deformable masses Planum Int. AG YAO, THEODORE N 3676 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2023
18037637 TAMPON CONTAINING A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION Swiss-Canna Group AG PALENIK, JEFFREY T 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending May 18, 2023
18028536 METHOD TO NAVIGATE AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE TO AVOID COLLISIONS Ruag AG CASS, JEAN PAUL 3666 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2023

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