Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Marks & Clerk

9 pending office actions • 6 clients • 9 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
4
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (4)

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.

2
Hard (22%)
5
Medium (56%)
1
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (22%)
§103 only4 (44%)
§102 only1 (11%)
§112 only1 (11%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
11% of docket
6
Information Tech
67% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
22% 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
CASANOVA, JORGE A 1 84.7% +20.2%
STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 1 37.6% +32.2%
ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 1 80.5% +16.9%
LYONS, ANDREW M 1 73.9% +15.9%
ANDERSON, MICHAEL D 1 79.8% +15.4%
KASSIM, HAFIZ A 1 44.2% +53.4%
MCNAMARA, SEAN KEVIN 1 78.9% +28.4%
HUANG, KAYLEE J 1 75.4% +51.3%
RIOJA, MELISSA A 1 49.6% +54.7%

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
18804373 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVITY-RELATED QUERY-RESPONSE PROCESSING ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 34d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18949469 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KITCHEN ORDER PREPARATION COORDINATION STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 10d overdue
18467100 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AGRICULTURAL MOISTURE MANAGEMENT KASSIM, HAFIZ A 28d

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
17958266 POLYURETHANE ELASTOMER COMPOSITION COMPRISING LIGNIN RIOJA, MELISSA A 42d overdue
18949469 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KITCHEN ORDER PREPARATION COORDINATION STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 10d overdue
19175805 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING FALSE DATA ENTITIES USING MULTI-STAGE COMPUTATION CASANOVA, JORGE A 9d
18682884 Secure Unmanaged Network Switch and Related Methods ANDERSON, MICHAEL D 28d
18467100 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AGRICULTURAL MOISTURE MANAGEMENT KASSIM, HAFIZ A 28d
18124800 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING A CLIENT-FACING APPLICATION WITHIN A THIRD-PARTY INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT HUANG, KAYLEE J 33d
18804373 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVITY-RELATED QUERY-RESPONSE PROCESSING ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 34d
18625319 COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SOFTWARE TEST CASES USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING LYONS, ANDREW M 41d

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36232
21651
21631
21911
24331
21131
24471
17641

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19175805 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING FALSE DATA ENTITIES USING MULTI-STAGE COMPUTATION The Toronto-Dominion Bank CASANOVA, JORGE A 2165 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Apr 10, 2025
18949469 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR KITCHEN ORDER PREPARATION COORDINATION Techryde Inc. STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 3623 §101 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2024
18804373 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVITY-RELATED QUERY-RESPONSE PROCESSING Pelmorex Corp. ROBINSON, GRETA LEE 2163 §102 Final Rejection 34d Pending Aug 14, 2024
18625319 COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SOFTWARE TEST CASES USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING The Toronto-Dominion Bank LYONS, ANDREW M 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Apr 03, 2024
18682884 Secure Unmanaged Network Switch and Related Methods Zemfyre Inc. ANDERSON, MICHAEL D 2433 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Feb 09, 2024
18467100 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AGRICULTURAL MOISTURE MANAGEMENT DARK HORSE TECHNOLOGIES LTD. KASSIM, HAFIZ A 3623 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18466096 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF ANOMALOUS EVENTS The Toronto-Dominion Bank MCNAMARA, SEAN KEVIN 2113 §103 Final Rejection 47d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18124800 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING A CLIENT-FACING APPLICATION WITHIN A THIRD-PARTY INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT The Toronto-Dominion Bank HUANG, KAYLEE J 2447 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Mar 22, 2023
17958266 POLYURETHANE ELASTOMER COMPOSITION COMPRISING LIGNIN Evoco Limited RIOJA, MELISSA A 1764 §112 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022

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