Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Melcher Patent Law Pllc

10 pending office actions • 8 clients • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)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%)
10
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (80%)
§102 only2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
40% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
5
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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SMITH, JENNIFER A 3 61.6% +25.7%
HARCOURT, BRAD 1 84.1% +5.6%
MORALES, OMAR 1 58.5% +18.5%
SCHINDLER, DAVID M 1 41.0% +23.2%
JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING 1 62.2% +23.9%
FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F 1 73.8% +7.2%
BURGESS, MARC R 1 34.2% +22.1%
DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT 1 36.5% +46.7%

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
18850180 ASSEMBLY FOR GENERATING ELECTRICITY IN A PRODUCTION WELL OF A HOT FLUID HARCOURT, BRAD 141d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18614806 METHODS FOR MAGNETIC DATA ACQUISITION IN MARINE ENVIRONMENT SCHINDLER, DAVID M 44d overdue
18433921 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING HEALTH DATA FROM INDIVIDUALS IN REAL TIME JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING 42d overdue
17326558 FERTILIZER AND PLANT GROWTH PROMOTER TO INCREASE PLANT YIELD AND METHOD OF INCREASING PLANT YIELD SMITH, JENNIFER A 16d overdue
17775912 DISPERSION OF TITANIUM DIOXIDE MICROPARTICLES IN ORGANIC SOLVENT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE OF SAME DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT 10d overdue
18244415 FERTILIZER AND PLANT GROWTH PROMOTER TO INCREASE PLANT YIELD AND METHOD OF INCREASING PLANT YIELD SMITH, JENNIFER A 19d
17989024 YACHT PRESERVER AND METHOD OF THE USING THE YACHT PRESERVER TO REDUCE WATER FLOW INTO A YACHT BURGESS, MARC R 23d
18779290 IMPROVED STEERING SYSTEM, A STEERING ARRANGEMENT AND A METHOD FOR STEERING CONTROL MORALES, OMAR 34d
17741689 FERTILIZER CONTAINING A SEED GRIND AND A METHOD OF USING THE FERTILIZER TO ENHANCE PLANT GROWTH SMITH, JENNIFER A 62d

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17313
36741
37471
28581
37921
36781
36151
17671

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18850180 ASSEMBLY FOR GENERATING ELECTRICITY IN A PRODUCTION WELL OF A HOT FLUID Affin AS HARCOURT, BRAD 3674 §103 Final Rejection 141d overdue Pending Sep 24, 2024
18779290 IMPROVED STEERING SYSTEM, A STEERING ARRANGEMENT AND A METHOD FOR STEERING CONTROL Sentient AB MORALES, OMAR 3747 §102 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jul 22, 2024
18614806 METHODS FOR MAGNETIC DATA ACQUISITION IN MARINE ENVIRONMENT Maracq AS SCHINDLER, DAVID M 2858 §102 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2024
18433921 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING HEALTH DATA FROM INDIVIDUALS IN REAL TIME Family Mednet, Inc. JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2024
18376853 ROADWAY ACCESS HOLE CUTTER AND METHOD OF CUTTING A SQUARE OR RECTANGULAR ROADWAY ACCESS HOLE Cciip LLC FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F 3678 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2023
18244415 FERTILIZER AND PLANT GROWTH PROMOTER TO INCREASE PLANT YIELD AND METHOD OF INCREASING PLANT YIELD Innovations For World Nutrition, LLC SMITH, JENNIFER A 1731 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Sep 11, 2023
17989024 YACHT PRESERVER AND METHOD OF THE USING THE YACHT PRESERVER TO REDUCE WATER FLOW INTO A YACHT Yacht Preserver, LLC BURGESS, MARC R 3615 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Nov 17, 2022
17741689 FERTILIZER CONTAINING A SEED GRIND AND A METHOD OF USING THE FERTILIZER TO ENHANCE PLANT GROWTH Innovations For World Nutrition, LLC SMITH, JENNIFER A 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending May 11, 2022
17775912 DISPERSION OF TITANIUM DIOXIDE MICROPARTICLES IN ORGANIC SOLVENT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USE OF SAME Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd. DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending May 11, 2022
17326558 FERTILIZER AND PLANT GROWTH PROMOTER TO INCREASE PLANT YIELD AND METHOD OF INCREASING PLANT YIELD Innovations For World Nutrition, LLC SMITH, JENNIFER A 1731 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending May 21, 2021

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