Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Mills Ip Law, Pllc

6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 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%)
4
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (17%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (67%)
§112 only1 (17%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TURKOWSKI, KAYLA MARIE 1 65.1% +49.7%
HELVEY, PETER N. 1 54.5% +18.7%
FLICK, JASON E 1 80.3% +13.5%
NICHOLS, CHARLES W 1 55.9% +54.7%
PATEL, ROHAN DEEP 1 58.1% +46.4%
PRICE, NATHAN R 1 52.4% +39.6%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18521788 MULTI-CHAMBER CONTAINER FOR BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS AND COMPOUNDED PHARMACEUTICALS HELVEY, PETER N. 80d overdue
18227702 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING RECONSTITUTED MEDICAMENTS NICHOLS, CHARLES W 19d overdue
18225805 DRY POWDER INHALATION DEVICE PATEL, ROHAN DEEP 16d overdue
18381535 EMERGENCY MEDICAL INTERVENTION DEVICE FLICK, JASON E 5d
17923115 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVING BIOMATERIAL IMPLANTS PRICE, NATHAN R 6d
19347992 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY OF SUBSTANCES WITHIN A MEDICAMENT CONTAINER TURKOWSKI, KAYLA MARIE

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37834
37341
37851

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19347992 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY OF SUBSTANCES WITHIN A MEDICAMENT CONTAINER Kaleo, Inc. TURKOWSKI, KAYLA MARIE 3783 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 2025
18521788 MULTI-CHAMBER CONTAINER FOR BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS AND COMPOUNDED PHARMACEUTICALS Instant Systems, Inc. HELVEY, PETER N. 3734 §103 Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2023
18381535 EMERGENCY MEDICAL INTERVENTION DEVICE Corvictus, LLC FLICK, JASON E 3783 Other Non-Final OA 5d Pending Oct 18, 2023
18227702 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING RECONSTITUTED MEDICAMENTS Kaleo, Inc. NICHOLS, CHARLES W 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18225805 DRY POWDER INHALATION DEVICE Concentrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. PATEL, ROHAN DEEP 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
17923115 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVING BIOMATERIAL IMPLANTS Contraline, Inc. PRICE, NATHAN R 3783 §112 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Nov 03, 2022

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