Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP

6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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 (4)Due ≤ 30 days (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%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
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
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

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
LOONAN, ERIC T 1 64.3% +26.6%
HALL, DEANNA K 1 75.8% +15.4%
SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 1 31.7% +40.3%
ZHANG, KELING NMN 1 66.5% +18.2%
XU, JIANGTIAN 1 65.5% +33.9%
OLIVER, BRADLEY S 1 61.1% +14.2%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18702776 BREATH-POWERED NASAL DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI), INCLUDING CONCUSSION, AND METHODS HALL, DEANNA K 215d overdue
17548356 APPARATUS FOR APPLYING A CONSUMABLE PREPARATION OLIVER, BRADLEY S 87d overdue
17980802 LIGHT-ACTIVATED COATING AND MATERIALS XU, JIANGTIAN 51d overdue
18659055 MECHANISM FOR PREVENTING UNINTENTIONAL SECURE ERASE OR SANITIZE OPERATIONS ON A STORAGE DEVICE LOONAN, ERIC T 45d overdue
18629437 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING HEALTH STATUS SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 27d
17924479 A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN ON DEMAND ZHANG, KELING NMN 29d

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21371
37831
37961
17321
17621
37541

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18659055 MECHANISM FOR PREVENTING UNINTENTIONAL SECURE ERASE OR SANITIZE OPERATIONS ON A STORAGE DEVICE New Concepts Development Corporation LOONAN, ERIC T 2137 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending May 09, 2024
18702776 BREATH-POWERED NASAL DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI), INCLUDING CONCUSSION, AND METHODS Oragenics, Inc. HALL, DEANNA K 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 215d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2024
18629437 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING HEALTH STATUS Aicure Corporation SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 3796 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 08, 2024
17924479 A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN ON DEMAND Element 1 Technologies, LLC ZHANG, KELING NMN 1732 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 10, 2022
17980802 LIGHT-ACTIVATED COATING AND MATERIALS Chromasol International LLC XU, JIANGTIAN 1762 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2022
17548356 APPARATUS FOR APPLYING A CONSUMABLE PREPARATION VIJU BEAUTY LLC OLIVER, BRADLEY S 3754 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Dec 10, 2021

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