Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Murphy, Bilak & Homiller, Pllc

13 pending office actions • 7 clients • 13 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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%)
12
Medium (92%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (85%)
§102 only1 (8%)
§112 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
38% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
23% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
38% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EDWARDS, LOREN C 1 81.7% +28.2%
ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E 1 65.8% +18.2%
NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN 1 57.1% +60.0%
ELNAKIB, AHMED 1 78.9% +8.5%
NGUYEN, DUSTIN T 1 72.5% +17.3%
WILL, KATHERINE A 1 66.5% +20.7%
OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B 1 53.7% +25.8%
DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI 1 53.1% +18.8%
KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K 1 55.4% +15.6%
LIU, CHRIS Q 1 68.4% +41.3%

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
18865004 Two-Stage Pump EDWARDS, LOREN C 149d overdue

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
18865004 Two-Stage Pump EDWARDS, LOREN C 149d overdue
18728804 Air Conditioning System and Method of Manufacturing an Air Conditioning System ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E 72d overdue
18222042 Aerosol Generating Device Authenticated by Signal WILL, KATHERINE A 60d overdue
18219893 Block Formed of Porous Material and Microspeaker Enclosure Including the Same OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B 56d overdue
18079472 Surface Heating Heater Pipe and Aerosol Generating Device Including the Same LIU, CHRIS Q 31d overdue
18104851 GEL RECEPTOR ROD INSERTABLE INTO ELECTRICALLY HEATED SMOKING ARTICLE, ELECTRICALLY HEATED SMOKING ARTICLE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND AEROSOL GENERATING DEVICE THEREFOR KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K 5d
18112829 ELECTRICALLY HEATED SMOKING ARTICLE DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI 23d
18557350 Pneumatic Linear Actuator NGUYEN, DUSTIN T 42d

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37461
37631
28581
28341
37451
17471
28371
17551
17001
37611

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18865004 Two-Stage Pump Truma Gerätetechnik GmbH & Co. KG EDWARDS, LOREN C 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 149d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2024
18728804 Air Conditioning System and Method of Manufacturing an Air Conditioning System Truma Gerätetechnik GmbH & Co. KG ROJOHN III, CLAIRE E 3763 §102 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2024
18705867 MEASURING ASSEMBLIES AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MAGNETIC GRADIENT FORCE AND THE DISTRIBUTION THEREOF Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN 2858 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18282947 Combined Axial/Radial Magnetic Bearing Linz Center Of Mechatronics GmbH ELNAKIB, AHMED 2834 §112 Non-Final OA 104d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18557350 Pneumatic Linear Actuator Ferrobotics Compliant Robot Technology GmbH NGUYEN, DUSTIN T 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18222042 Aerosol Generating Device Authenticated by Signal Em-Tech Co., Ltd. WILL, KATHERINE A 1747 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2023
18219893 Block Formed of Porous Material and Microspeaker Enclosure Including the Same Em-Tech Co., Ltd. OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B 2837 §103 Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2023
18112829 ELECTRICALLY HEATED SMOKING ARTICLE Em-Tech Co., Ltd. DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI 1755 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Feb 22, 2023
18104851 GEL RECEPTOR ROD INSERTABLE INTO ELECTRICALLY HEATED SMOKING ARTICLE, ELECTRICALLY HEATED SMOKING ARTICLE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND AEROSOL GENERATING DEVICE THEREFOR Inno-It Co., Ltd. KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K 1700 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Feb 02, 2023
18079472 Surface Heating Heater Pipe and Aerosol Generating Device Including the Same Inno-It Co., Ltd. LIU, CHRIS Q 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2022
17920964 Rapid Clamping System for Attaching Machine Tools to a Robot Ferrobotics Compliant Robot Technology GmbH GATES, ERIC ANDREW 3722 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 24, 2022
17641956 Printing Plate and Polymeric Coating Material for the Same Maschinenfabrik Kaspar Walter GmbH & Co. Kg DICUS, TAMRA 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2022
17424918 Gel Aerosol-Forming Substrate Cartridge that Can be inserted into Electrically Heated Smoking Article, Electrically Heated Smoking Article Including the Same, and Aerosol Generating Device and System Therefor Inno-It Co., Ltd. EFTA, ALEX B 1745 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 22, 2021

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