Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Mcafee & Taft

8 pending office actions • 6 clients • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
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.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 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%)
5
Medium (62%)
1
Easy (12%)
2
Unknown (25%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§112 only1 (12%)
No statute on record2 (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
FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD 1 79.0% +2.8%
LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN 1 69.8% +13.2%
YAO, THEODORE N 1 67.7% +37.6%
PARVINI, PEGAH 1 70.3% +12.1%
LI, CHANGQING 1 30.0% +34.0%
COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD 1 39.0% +43.7%
WHITE, KIA XIONG 1 65.0% +51.9%
JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 1 48.9% +32.9%

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
17762615 PATCH DEPLOYMENT DEVICE WHITE, KIA XIONG 163d overdue
17985011 PROCESS FOR CONTINUOUSLY FORMING A RAW EGG PRODUCT LI, CHANGQING 132d overdue
17944818 DESIGNING SMART ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY FLUIDS COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD 36d overdue
17402303 ANTI-CORROSION TITANIUM DIOXIDE PIGMENTS JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 30d overdue
18276938 VOID FORMING MODULE, METHOD OF PREPARING A STRUCTURE AND USE OF SUCH MODULE IN THE PREPARATION OF A STRUCTURE YAO, THEODORE N 28d overdue
18123144 TREATED TITANIUM DIOXIDE PIGMENT PARVINI, PEGAH 22d overdue
18375251 HYDRAULIC CEMENT FOR CARBON DIOXIDE ENVIRONMENTS LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN 15d

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36762
36741
17311
17911
21881
37741
17661

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19227930 EXTENDED REACH TOOL FOR A BOTTOM HOLE ASSEMBLY Klx Energy Services LLC FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD 3676 Other Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2025
18375251 HYDRAULIC CEMENT FOR CARBON DIOXIDE ENVIRONMENTS Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN 3674 Other Non-Final OA 15d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18276938 VOID FORMING MODULE, METHOD OF PREPARING A STRUCTURE AND USE OF SUCH MODULE IN THE PREPARATION OF A STRUCTURE Water Products Limited YAO, THEODORE N 3676 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2023
18123144 TREATED TITANIUM DIOXIDE PIGMENT Tronox LLC PARVINI, PEGAH 1731 §112 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
17985011 PROCESS FOR CONTINUOUSLY FORMING A RAW EGG PRODUCT Tyson Foods, Inc. LI, CHANGQING 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 132d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2022
17944818 DESIGNING SMART ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY FLUIDS Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD 2188 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2022
17762615 PATCH DEPLOYMENT DEVICE Hospital Clinic De Barcelona WHITE, KIA XIONG 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 163d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2022
17402303 ANTI-CORROSION TITANIUM DIOXIDE PIGMENTS Tronox LLC JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2021

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