Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Klarquist Sparkman, LLP (Sap)

28 pending office actions • 1 client • 28 examiners • 21 art units • 23 of 28 (82%) have an AI response strategy ready • 66 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

28
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

15
Overdue
1
Due this week
7
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (15)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (3)

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.

8
Hard (29%)
20
Medium (71%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only8 (29%)
§103 only18 (64%)
§102 only2 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
16
Information Tech
57% of docket
6
Communications
21% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
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.

280 h
Manual time on pending OAs
56 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
98 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KUDDUS, DANIEL A 1 71.1% +43.9%
DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H 1 22.7% +24.0%
HO, ANDREW N 1 61.4% +28.8%
SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 1 52.9% +52.8%
LEE, JANGWOEN 1 83.3% +22.4%
ALLEN, BRITTANY N 1 41.8% +37.6%
WALKER, MICHAEL JARED 1 56.4% +30.7%
DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED 1 66.7% +66.7%
SAINT CYR, LEONARD 1 77.2% +18.1%
VU, TUAN A 1 73.4% +21.1%

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
18677542 AI-ASSISTED TRANSCRIPT INTEGRATION FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS LEE, JANGWOEN 9d overdue

Hard Cases (8)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18116792 REQUIREMENTS DRIVEN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR TECHNICAL CONFIGURATION EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N 50d overdue
18196871 INTELLIGENT SUBSTITUTION IN PROCESS AUTOMATION EL-CHANTI, KARMA AHMAD 10d overdue
18677679 DATABASE MANAGEMENT WORKFLOW WITH CONTROLLING DOCUMENTS ALLEN, BRITTANY N 3d overdue
17573498 AUTOMATED DATASET GENERATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING RIFKIN, BEN M 16d
17983278 TRAVEL DISTANCE CALCULATION AND TASK SELECTION WITH INTELLIGENT BUFFERS CAMPBELL, SHANNON S 29d
18769248 MULTI-MODAL SOFTWARE ANALYSIS DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H 36d
18666441 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-SUPPORTED SETUP AND EXECUTION OF BACKORDER PROCESSING WALKER, MICHAEL JARED 70d
17555245 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCAL EXPLAINABILITY OF NEURAL NETWORK PREDICTION FIELD HADDAD, MAJD MAHER 70d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18677542 AI-ASSISTED TRANSCRIPT INTEGRATION FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS LEE, JANGWOEN 9d overdue
18660078 Automatic Performance Profiling of Backend Sessions DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED 5d overdue
18677679 DATABASE MANAGEMENT WORKFLOW WITH CONTROLLING DOCUMENTS ALLEN, BRITTANY N 3d overdue
18679297 MULTILINGUAL SUPPORT USING LLM FOR DOCUMENT INFORMATION EXTRACTION SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 14d
18652520 CATEGORIZATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATOR AGENTS AND GUIDED SELECTION TECHNIQUE SAINT CYR, LEONARD 14d
18629395 SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FACILITATING EXTENSION DEVELOPMENT FOR AN EXTENSION RUNTIME ACCESSED BY A BASE APPLICATION VU, TUAN A 15d
19006084 VIRTUAL ACCESS TO PARAMETERIZED DATA OBJECTS KUDDUS, DANIEL A 27d
18769248 MULTI-MODAL SOFTWARE ANALYSIS DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H 36d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
SAP SE 28

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36243
26583
21692
21932
21532
21541
26561
36271
21991
21911

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19006084 VIRTUAL ACCESS TO PARAMETERIZED DATA OBJECTS SAP SE KUDDUS, DANIEL A 2154 §103 Final Rejection 27d AI Ready Dec 30, 2024
18769248 MULTI-MODAL SOFTWARE ANALYSIS SAP SE DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H 3624 §101 Final Rejection 36d AI Ready Jul 10, 2024
18752064 SQL EXECUTION TIMEOUT FOR AUTOMATIC QUERY PERFORMANCE REGRESSION MANAGEMENT SAP SE HO, ANDREW N 2169 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jun 24, 2024
18679297 MULTILINGUAL SUPPORT USING LLM FOR DOCUMENT INFORMATION EXTRACTION SAP SE SHAIKH, ZEESHAN MAHMOOD 2658 §103 Non-Final OA 14d AI Ready May 30, 2024
18677542 AI-ASSISTED TRANSCRIPT INTEGRATION FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS SAP SE LEE, JANGWOEN 2656 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue AI Ready May 29, 2024
18677679 DATABASE MANAGEMENT WORKFLOW WITH CONTROLLING DOCUMENTS SAP SE ALLEN, BRITTANY N 2169 §101 Non-Final OA 3d overdue AI Ready May 29, 2024
18666441 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-SUPPORTED SETUP AND EXECUTION OF BACKORDER PROCESSING SAP SE WALKER, MICHAEL JARED 3627 §101 Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 16, 2024
18660078 Automatic Performance Profiling of Backend Sessions SAP SE DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue AI Ready May 09, 2024
18652520 CATEGORIZATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATOR AGENTS AND GUIDED SELECTION TECHNIQUE SAP SE SAINT CYR, LEONARD 2658 §102 Non-Final OA 14d AI Ready May 01, 2024
18629395 SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FACILITATING EXTENSION DEVELOPMENT FOR AN EXTENSION RUNTIME ACCESSED BY A BASE APPLICATION SAP SE VU, TUAN A 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 15d AI Ready Apr 08, 2024
18590647 CONSOLIDATION OF INTERPRETER INSTRUCTIONS SAP SE HURUY, FEVEN HABTEMARIAM 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue AI Ready Feb 28, 2024
18537626 INTELLIGENT NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES VIA LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AND USER INTERFACE ELEMENT METADATA SAP SE MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue AI Ready Dec 12, 2023
18386339 GENERIC WEB PAGE EXTRACTION AND DATA COMPARISON FRAMEWORK SAP SE SMITH, BENJAMIN J 2172 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue AI Ready Nov 02, 2023
18377739 SOFTWARE TEST RESULT AGGREGATION FRAMEWORK SAP SE BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID 2192 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue AI Ready Oct 06, 2023
18369065 SUPPLEMENTATION OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL KNOWLEDGE VIA PROMPT MODIFICATION SAP SE ZHU, RICHARD Z 2654 §103 Final Rejection 14d AI Ready Sep 15, 2023
18243570 DIGITAL ASSISTANT GENERATION VIA LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS SAP SE ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A 2658 §103 Final Rejection 34d AI Ready Sep 07, 2023
18239684 EMBEDDED SCHEDULER FOR COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PROCESSES SAP SE CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 5d AI Ready Aug 29, 2023
18351191 PATTERNED QUERY STATEMENTS WITH HINTS SAP SE HTAY, LIN LIN M 2153 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue AI Ready Jul 12, 2023
18328439 ADVANCED PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF ENTITY CLOSES SAP SE GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue AI Ready Jun 02, 2023
18201702 FLEXIBLE AND AUTOMATED OBJECT MAINTENANCE BASED ON ARBITRARY OBJECT TYPES SAP SE TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN 2196 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue AI Ready May 24, 2023
18196871 INTELLIGENT SUBSTITUTION IN PROCESS AUTOMATION SAP SE EL-CHANTI, KARMA AHMAD 3629 §101 Non-Final OA 10d overdue AI Ready May 12, 2023
18196847 OBJECT IDENTIFICATION CODE DECODING SCHEMES VIA REGULAR EXPRESSIONS SAP SE KANG, INSUN 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending May 12, 2023
18116792 REQUIREMENTS DRIVEN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR TECHNICAL CONFIGURATION SAP SE EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N 3624 §101 Final Rejection 50d overdue AI Ready Mar 02, 2023
17983278 TRAVEL DISTANCE CALCULATION AND TASK SELECTION WITH INTELLIGENT BUFFERS SAP SE CAMPBELL, SHANNON S 3628 §101 Non-Final OA 29d AI Ready Nov 08, 2022
17972138 DATA OBJECT MANAGEMENT USING DATA OBJECT CLUSTERS SAP SE FILIPCZYK, MARCIN R 2153 §102 Non-Final OA 624d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2022
17573498 AUTOMATED DATASET GENERATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING SAP SE RIFKIN, BEN M 2123 §101 Non-Final OA 16d AI Ready Jan 11, 2022
17555245 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCAL EXPLAINABILITY OF NEURAL NETWORK PREDICTION FIELD SAP SE HADDAD, MAJD MAHER 2125 §101 Final Rejection 70d Pending Dec 17, 2021
17508513 APPLICATION SECURITY THROUGH GLOBAL LOCKOUT AND CAPTURE SAP SE SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD 2432 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue AI Ready Oct 22, 2021

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