Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Liu & Liu

8 pending office actions • 5 clients • 8 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
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.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
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 (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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 (88%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (88%)
§112 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
25% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
50% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T 1 63.5% +30.1%
HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY 1 78.1% +18.9%
DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 1 71.5% +19.8%
SUMLAR, JOURNEY F 1 69.0% +10.4%
FAN, SU JYA 1 75.3% +11.3%
HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 1 84.8% +9.4%
EDWARDS, LYDIA E 1 59.9% +5.6%
LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 1 80.9% +17.5%

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
18307004 CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 5d
18149029 CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 26d

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
18715092 RETRACTORS HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY 89d overdue
18563266 OPHTHALMOSCOPES SUMLAR, JOURNEY F 46d overdue
18914626 INTERVERTEBRAL DEVICES JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T 2d overdue
18149029 CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 26d
18480385 CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF FAN, SU JYA 34d
18622059 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MEMS DEVICE DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 77d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37732
28182
17131
28721
28171
17961

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18914626 INTERVERTEBRAL DEVICES Axis Spine Technologies Ltd. JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T 3773 §112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 14, 2024
18715092 RETRACTORS Sure Retractors Limited HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY 3773 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending May 30, 2024
18622059 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MEMS DEVICE Xintec Inc. DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 1713 §103 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18563266 OPHTHALMOSCOPES Epipole Ltd. SUMLAR, JOURNEY F 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18480385 CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF Xintec Inc. FAN, SU JYA 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 03, 2023
18307004 CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF Xintec Inc. HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 2817 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Apr 26, 2023
18182316 PORTABLE ELECTROPHORESIS SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED THERMOCYCLER BIOPTIC, INC. EDWARDS, LYDIA E 1796 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 10, 2023
18149029 CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF Xintec Inc. LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 2818 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Dec 30, 2022

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