Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Law Office of Michael A. Riley, LLC

9 pending office actions • 1 client • 9 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (78%)
1
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (44%)
§102 only2 (22%)
§112 only1 (11%)
Double-patenting + other1 (11%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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
POLLOCK, AUSTIN M 1 51.3% +37.7%
LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M 1 83.9% +19.8%
OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1 63.3% +42.1%
DEVI, SARVAMANGALA 1 65.4% +55.0%
RIOJA, MELISSA A 1 49.6% +54.7%
SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 1 68.0% +41.1%
KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1 46.6% +52.8%
LISTVOYB, GREGORY 1 66.8% +29.6%
HINES, JANA A 1 53.2% +39.3%

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
18293448 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY TREATING DIFFERENT FLUCTUATING GAS FLOWS LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M 5d overdue

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
18293448 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY TREATING DIFFERENT FLUCTUATING GAS FLOWS LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M 5d overdue
18015866 A FACILITY AND A MEMBRANE PROCESS FOR SEPARATING METHANE AND CARBON DIOXIDE FROM A GAS STREAM SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 2d overdue
17838234 NON-TOXIC POLYIMIDE SOLUTIONS LISTVOYB, GREGORY 7d
18279995 PREPARATIONS COMPRISING PROBIOTIC STRAINS AND ANTHOCYANINS DEVI, SARVAMANGALA 9d
18293016 MICROORGANISMS DISPLAYING VIRAL DECOY RECEPTORS OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 22d
18439722 METAL FOAM BODIES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF POLLOCK, AUSTIN M 30d
17627399 METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RISK OF AN AVIAN PATHOGENIC E. COLI (APEC) INFECTION IN AN AVIAN FLOCK HINES, JANA A 30d
17794269 AN EPIGENETIC CLOCK FOR GALLIFORMES KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 63d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Evonik 9

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16453
17762
17381
17641
16831
17651

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18439722 METAL FOAM BODIES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF Evonik Operations GmbH POLLOCK, AUSTIN M 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Feb 12, 2024
18293448 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY TREATING DIFFERENT FLUCTUATING GAS FLOWS Evonik Operations GmbH LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M 1776 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2024
18293016 MICROORGANISMS DISPLAYING VIRAL DECOY RECEPTORS Evonik Operations GmbH OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1645 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jan 29, 2024
18279995 PREPARATIONS COMPRISING PROBIOTIC STRAINS AND ANTHOCYANINS Evonik Operations GmbH DEVI, SARVAMANGALA 1645 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 01, 2023
18265430 PRODUCTION OF POLYURETHANE FOAM Evonik Operations GmbH RIOJA, MELISSA A 1764 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 05, 2023
18015866 A FACILITY AND A MEMBRANE PROCESS FOR SEPARATING METHANE AND CARBON DIOXIDE FROM A GAS STREAM Evonik Operations GmbH SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2023
17794269 AN EPIGENETIC CLOCK FOR GALLIFORMES Evonik Operations GmbH KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS 1683 DPOther Final Rejection 63d Pending Jul 21, 2022
17838234 NON-TOXIC POLYIMIDE SOLUTIONS Evonik Fibres GmbH LISTVOYB, GREGORY 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jun 12, 2022
17627399 METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RISK OF AN AVIAN PATHOGENIC E. COLI (APEC) INFECTION IN AN AVIAN FLOCK Evonik Operations GmbH HINES, JANA A 1645 §102 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jan 14, 2022

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