Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kowert Hood Munyon Rankin & Goetzel (Oracle)

10 pending office actions • 1 client • 10 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
1
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 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 (10%)
6
Medium (60%)
2
Easy (20%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§103 only6 (60%)
§112 only2 (20%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
70% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
2
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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MADAMBA, CLIFFORD B 1 43.6% +15.0%
TALUKDAR, ARVIND 1 80.4% +3.9%
SHEHNI, GHAZAL B 1 87.3% +12.4%
MYERS, PAUL R 1 79.1% +13.5%
ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 1 76.5% +15.6%
SOTO, JANICE M 1 68.9% +15.6%
NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 1 57.1% +85.7%
CAMPOS, ALFREDO 1 85.7% +25.0%
CHU JOY, JORGE A 1 77.0% +37.0%
IMMANUEL, ILSE I 1 24.1% +26.4%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19017209 On-Chip Atomic Transaction Engine TALUKDAR, ARVIND 29d overdue
17663009 Subject-Level Granular Differential Privacy in Federated Learning CAMPOS, ALFREDO 15d
18917832 Hybrid Managed and Unmanaged Data Model SHEHNI, GHAZAL B 28d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18801005 DISTRIBUTING ON CHIP INDUCTORS FOR MONOLITHIC VOLTAGE REGULATION MYERS, PAUL R 6d
15169622 Accountability and Trust in Distributed Ledger Systems IMMANUEL, ILSE I 13d

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
18780266 SCALABLE RANGE LOCKS ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 71d overdue
18176342 Inference Performance Using Divide-and-Conquer Techniques NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 10d overdue
18801005 DISTRIBUTING ON CHIP INDUCTORS FOR MONOLITHIC VOLTAGE REGULATION MYERS, PAUL R 6d
15169622 Accountability and Trust in Distributed Ledger Systems IMMANUEL, ILSE I 13d
17663009 Subject-Level Granular Differential Privacy in Federated Learning CAMPOS, ALFREDO 15d
19088440 Sharded Permissioned Distributed Ledgers MADAMBA, CLIFFORD B 21d
18917832 Hybrid Managed and Unmanaged Data Model SHEHNI, GHAZAL B 28d
18328841 ADAPTIVE METHOD FOR CALIBRATING MULTIPLE TEMPERATURE SENSORS ON A SINGLE SEMICONDUCTOR DIE SOTO, JANICE M 29d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION 10

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36921
21321
24991
21761
21541
28551
21241
21291
21951
36991

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19088440 Sharded Permissioned Distributed Ledgers Oracle International Corporation MADAMBA, CLIFFORD B 3692 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Mar 24, 2025
19017209 On-Chip Atomic Transaction Engine Oracle International Corporation TALUKDAR, ARVIND 2132 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2025
18917832 Hybrid Managed and Unmanaged Data Model Oracle International Corporation SHEHNI, GHAZAL B 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 16, 2024
18801005 DISTRIBUTING ON CHIP INDUCTORS FOR MONOLITHIC VOLTAGE REGULATION Oracle International Corporation MYERS, PAUL R 2176 §101 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Aug 12, 2024
18780266 SCALABLE RANGE LOCKS Oracle International Corporation ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 2154 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18328841 ADAPTIVE METHOD FOR CALIBRATING MULTIPLE TEMPERATURE SENSORS ON A SINGLE SEMICONDUCTOR DIE Oracle International Corporation SOTO, JANICE M 2855 Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 05, 2023
18176342 Inference Performance Using Divide-and-Conquer Techniques Oracle International Corporation NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023
17663009 Subject-Level Granular Differential Privacy in Federated Learning Oracle International Corporation CAMPOS, ALFREDO 2129 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending May 11, 2022
17119998 Intra-Process Caching and Reuse of Threads Oracle International Corporation CHU JOY, JORGE A 2195 §112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 11, 2020
15169622 Accountability and Trust in Distributed Ledger Systems Oracle International Corporation IMMANUEL, ILSE I 3699 §112 Non-Final OA 13d Pending May 31, 2016

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