Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Maxwell L Minch Esq. Pa

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

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
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
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 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%)
6
Medium (75%)
2
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
38% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
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.

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
JOHNSON, KARA D 2 69.1% +24.2%
SU, SUSAN SHAN 2 71.7% +23.4%
ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO 1 60.8% +35.5%
CANELLA, KAREN A 1 62.6% +32.9%
STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A 1 63.5% +19.6%
DINH, KHANH Q 1 83.6% +4.3%

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
18138028 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING USER ACCOUNTS AND ESTABLISHING A COMMUNICATION LINK BETWEEN TWO USERS DINH, KHANH Q 23d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18916696 DEVICES FOR PRE-WETTING WIPES AT POINT OF USE AND METHODS OF USE ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO 53d overdue
17693457 Methods And Compositions For Aesthetic And Cosmetic Treatment And Stimulating Hair Growth JOHNSON, KARA D 19d overdue
17171485 Transparent Tourniquet and Bandage Material System Utilizing Absorbing Components and Treatment Gas SU, SUSAN SHAN 17d overdue
18233888 Wearable lumbo-pelvic active balancing device and methods of use STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A 9d
17690814 BANDAGE SYSTEM FOR WOUND VISUALIZATION, MICROCURRENT THERAPY AND TOPICAL AND TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY SU, SUSAN SHAN 9d
18842400 GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLACENTAL MUCOSALASSOCIATED INVARIANT T (MAIT) CELLS AND USES THEREOF CANELLA, KAREN A 41d
17040993 METHODS FOR EXPANDING ADHERENT STROMAL CELLS AND CELLS OBTAINED THEREBY JOHNSON, KARA D 55d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16322
37812
37361
16431
37941
24581

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18916696 DEVICES FOR PRE-WETTING WIPES AT POINT OF USE AND METHODS OF USE Peer Innovations, LLC ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO 3736 §102 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2024
18842400 GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLACENTAL MUCOSALASSOCIATED INVARIANT T (MAIT) CELLS AND USES THEREOF Pluri Biotech Ltd. CANELLA, KAREN A 1643 §112 Final Rejection 41d Pending Aug 29, 2024
18233888 Wearable lumbo-pelvic active balancing device and methods of use Symetrify Ltd. STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A 3794 §112 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 15, 2023
18138028 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING USER ACCOUNTS AND ESTABLISHING A COMMUNICATION LINK BETWEEN TWO USERS Onoff Telecom DINH, KHANH Q 2458 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Apr 21, 2023
17693457 Methods And Compositions For Aesthetic And Cosmetic Treatment And Stimulating Hair Growth Pluri Biotech Ltd. JOHNSON, KARA D 1632 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Mar 14, 2022
17690814 BANDAGE SYSTEM FOR WOUND VISUALIZATION, MICROCURRENT THERAPY AND TOPICAL AND TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY Clear Care Products, Inc. SU, SUSAN SHAN 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Mar 09, 2022
17171485 Transparent Tourniquet and Bandage Material System Utilizing Absorbing Components and Treatment Gas Clear Care Products, Inc. SU, SUSAN SHAN 3781 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2021
17040993 METHODS FOR EXPANDING ADHERENT STROMAL CELLS AND CELLS OBTAINED THEREBY Pluri Biotech Ltd. JOHNSON, KARA D 1632 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Sep 24, 2020

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