Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP

5 pending office actions • 3 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
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
Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 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.

1
Hard (20%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only4 (80%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
60% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YANG, HAN 1 92.1% +11.7%
MATTIS, JASON E 1 76.8% +17.6%
HSU, BAILOR CHIA-JONG 1 89.4% +4.5%
CIVAN, ETHAN D 1 68.2% +29.2%
RAZA, ZEHRA 1 44.5% +49.4%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18790789 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED IOT DEVICE SECURITY AND RELIABILITY USING MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION INTERFACE TYPES YANG, HAN 22d
18583475 PREEMPTION TO SUPPORT LOW-LATENCY (LL) DATA HSU, BAILOR CHIA-JONG 57d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18439681 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION AND INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) DEVICE RECOMMENDATIONS CIVAN, ETHAN D 22d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18515632 EXTENDING A SECURE KEY STORAGE FOR TRANSACTION CONFIRMATION AND CRYPTOCURRENCY RAZA, ZEHRA 12d
18790789 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED IOT DEVICE SECURITY AND RELIABILITY USING MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION INTERFACE TYPES YANG, HAN 22d
18439681 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION AND INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) DEVICE RECOMMENDATIONS CIVAN, ETHAN D 22d
18597805 BEAMFORMED RELAY OPERATIONS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS MATTIS, JASON E 28d

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Afero 2
NEWRACOM, Inc. 2
NOK NOK LABS, INC. 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24612
24931
36881
36971

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18790789 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED IOT DEVICE SECURITY AND RELIABILITY USING MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION INTERFACE TYPES Afero, Inc. YANG, HAN 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 31, 2024
18597805 BEAMFORMED RELAY OPERATIONS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS Newracom, Inc. MATTIS, JASON E 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 06, 2024
18583475 PREEMPTION TO SUPPORT LOW-LATENCY (LL) DATA Newracom, Inc. HSU, BAILOR CHIA-JONG 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Feb 21, 2024
18439681 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION AND INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) DEVICE RECOMMENDATIONS Afero, Inc. CIVAN, ETHAN D 3688 §101 Final Rejection 22d Pending Feb 12, 2024
18515632 EXTENDING A SECURE KEY STORAGE FOR TRANSACTION CONFIRMATION AND CRYPTOCURRENCY Nok Nok Labs, Inc. RAZA, ZEHRA 3697 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 21, 2023

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