Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

13 pending office actions • 11 clients • 12 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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.

0
Hard (0%)
10
Medium (77%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (23%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (38%)
§102 only5 (38%)
No statute on record3 (23%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
6
Information Tech
46% of docket
3
Communications
23% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
31% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HASSAN, AURANGZEB 2 80.1% +17.2%
STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN 1 38.5% +35.2%
MAHMOOD, REZWANUL 1 46.1% +34.4%
MOSER, BRUCE M 1 84.3% +20.1%
MONIKANG, GEORGE C 1 74.8% +7.7%
SANDERSON, JOSEPH W 1 77.6% +14.0%
NGUYEN, HAI V 1 82.5% +4.2%
HAYLES, ASHFORD S 1 66.0% +37.8%
ROWLAND, STEVE 1 77.6% +17.8%
DOSHI, AKSHAY 1 63.8% +39.8%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19004795 QUALITY SCORING SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING SAAS ARCHITECTURE AND SOURCE AND INDUSTRY SCORE FACTORS MOSER, BRUCE M 112d overdue
18826596 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTING COMPUTER PROGRAMS USING A TRAINABLE NEURAL NETWORK TO FACILITATE INTEROPERABILITY HASSAN, AURANGZEB 96d overdue
18826626 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROGRAMS USING RULES INCLUDING FUNCTIONS OR ACTIONS TO EXECUTE PROCESSES HASSAN, AURANGZEB 96d overdue
18379557 DYNAMIC FILTERING SYSTEM AND METHOD NGUYEN, HAI V 81d 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
19004795 QUALITY SCORING SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING SAAS ARCHITECTURE AND SOURCE AND INDUSTRY SCORE FACTORS MOSER, BRUCE M 112d overdue
18826596 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTING COMPUTER PROGRAMS USING A TRAINABLE NEURAL NETWORK TO FACILITATE INTEROPERABILITY HASSAN, AURANGZEB 96d overdue
18826626 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROGRAMS USING RULES INCLUDING FUNCTIONS OR ACTIONS TO EXECUTE PROCESSES HASSAN, AURANGZEB 96d overdue
18362257 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIERED PRICING FOR SCARCE COMMODITIES HAYLES, ASHFORD S 72d overdue
18211855 HEARTBEAT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BROADCAST SYSTEM DOSHI, AKSHAY 29d overdue
18354905 Golf Club and System and Method for Making the Same ROWLAND, STEVE 22d overdue
18657097 UNMANNED ELLIPSOID MULTI-ROTOR AIRSHIP AND RESPECTIVE METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION SANDERSON, JOSEPH W 15d overdue
19366396 Golf Club With Off-Axis Grip STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN 2d overdue

Client Portfolio (11 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21842
37111
21591
21541
26921
36191
26491
36271
37151
24221

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19366396 Golf Club With Off-Axis Grip L.A.B. Golf Company LLC STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN 3711 Other Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2025
19060039 DENOISING SYSTEM AND METHOD Demand Science Group, LLC MAHMOOD, REZWANUL 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Feb 21, 2025
19004795 QUALITY SCORING SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING SAAS ARCHITECTURE AND SOURCE AND INDUSTRY SCORE FACTORS Seekr Technologies, Inc. MOSER, BRUCE M 2154 §102 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2024
18826596 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTING COMPUTER PROGRAMS USING A TRAINABLE NEURAL NETWORK TO FACILITATE INTEROPERABILITY Clinicomp International, Inc. HASSAN, AURANGZEB 2184 §102 Non-Final OA 96d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2024
18826626 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROGRAMS USING RULES INCLUDING FUNCTIONS OR ACTIONS TO EXECUTE PROCESSES Clinicomp International, Inc. HASSAN, AURANGZEB 2184 §102 Non-Final OA 96d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2024
18781772 AMPLIFIER HAVING DIFFERENT SECTIONS WITH A CLICKING CONTROL KNOB Third Man Hardware LLC MONIKANG, GEORGE C 2692 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2024
18657097 UNMANNED ELLIPSOID MULTI-ROTOR AIRSHIP AND RESPECTIVE METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION Elio Tecnologia Servicos E Participacoes Ltda SANDERSON, JOSEPH W 3619 Other Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 07, 2024
18379557 DYNAMIC FILTERING SYSTEM AND METHOD Wifrost, Inc. NGUYEN, HAI V 2649 §102 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2023
18362257 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIERED PRICING FOR SCARCE COMMODITIES Climate Karma Solutions Inc. HAYLES, ASHFORD S 3627 Other Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18354905 Golf Club and System and Method for Making the Same L.A.B. Golf Company LLC ROWLAND, STEVE 3715 §102 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18211855 HEARTBEAT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BROADCAST SYSTEM Trilogy 5G, Inc. DOSHI, AKSHAY 2422 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18134483 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING COMPUTER-SIMULATED REALITY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN USERS AND PUBLICATIONS A Big Chunk of Mud LLC PATEL, JITESH 2612 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 13, 2023
17502762 Interior Convex Mirror Monitor With Frame to Offset Monitor Rosco, Inc. VO, TUNG T 2425 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2021

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