Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Law Office Of Michael J. Pennington

5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 4 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
2
Information Tech
40% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
1
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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DUONG, FRANK 2 90.3% +6.6%
HAGOS, EYOB 1 67.0% +41.6%
TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 1 55.4% +46.6%
DEEAN, DEEPAK A 1 49.0% +43.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18755029 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND TIMING ALIGNMENT IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORK DUONG, FRANK 83d
18742715 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND TIMING ALIGNMENT IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORK DUONG, FRANK 83d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17051355 SOLAR APPLIANCE DEEAN, DEEPAK A 12d
17163358 CONTROLLED RELEASE DOSAGE FORMS OF 5-AMINOSALICYLIC ACID AND PROCESS THEREOF TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 26d
18318653 METHOD AND SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SENSORS IN ENVIRONMENT HAGOS, EYOB 33d

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24742
28571
16151
37621

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18755029 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND TIMING ALIGNMENT IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORK Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (Iit Madras) DUONG, FRANK 2474 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jun 26, 2024
18742715 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND TIMING ALIGNMENT IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORK Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (Iit Madras) DUONG, FRANK 2474 §112 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jun 13, 2024
18318653 METHOD AND SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SENSORS IN ENVIRONMENT Digitectura Technologies Pvt. Ltd. HAGOS, EYOB 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending May 16, 2023
17163358 CONTROLLED RELEASE DOSAGE FORMS OF 5-AMINOSALICYLIC ACID AND PROCESS THEREOF Atoz Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd. TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jan 30, 2021
17051355 SOLAR APPLIANCE Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay DEEAN, DEEPAK A 3762 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Oct 28, 2020

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