Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kirby Drake Law Pllc

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

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 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.

1
Hard (17%)
4
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (17%)
§103 only4 (67%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BYUN, HAE RIE JESSICA 1 33.3% +63.5%
ZEC, FILIP 1 65.3% +13.8%
DONDERO, WILLIAM E 1 73.4% +16.5%
YU, HONG 1 31.2% +5.7%
MITROS, ANNA MAE 1 37.2% +49.5%
NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1 41.4% +33.8%

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
17874226 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCENT EXPLORATION MITROS, ANNA MAE 43d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18542746 HVAC CONDENSATE EVAPORATION AND AEROBIC DISPERSION SYSTEMS ZEC, FILIP 73d overdue
17874226 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCENT EXPLORATION MITROS, ANNA MAE 43d overdue
18654929 VIBRATION FEED SYSTEM BYUN, HAE RIE JESSICA 18d overdue
16429050 FOAMING ACTION PHARMACEUTICAL HEMOSTAT NIEBAUER, RONALD T 17d overdue
18221847 Electric Clay Target Thrower and Related Methods DONDERO, WILLIAM E 7d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36431
37631
39931
16141
36891
16581

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18654929 VIBRATION FEED SYSTEM All Seasons Feeders, Ltd. BYUN, HAE RIE JESSICA 3643 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending May 03, 2024
18542746 HVAC CONDENSATE EVAPORATION AND AEROBIC DISPERSION SYSTEMS Etr LLC ZEC, FILIP 3763 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2024
18221847 Electric Clay Target Thrower and Related Methods Ferus Outdoors LLC DONDERO, WILLIAM E 3993 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Jul 13, 2023
17873434 COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS Elc Management LLC YU, HONG 1614 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2022
17874226 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCENT EXPLORATION Elc Management LLC MITROS, ANNA MAE 3689 §101 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2022
16429050 FOAMING ACTION PHARMACEUTICAL HEMOSTAT Joshua R&D Technologies, LLC NIEBAUER, RONALD T 1658 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2019

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