Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nod Law Pc

18 pending office actions • 15 clients • 18 examiners • 18 art units • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 64 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
3
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

1
Hard (6%)
11
Medium (61%)
3
Easy (17%)
3
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§103 only11 (61%)
§112 only3 (17%)
No statute on record3 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
11% of docket
2
Information Tech
11% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
3
Semiconductors
17% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
1
Business / Other
6% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BATES, ZAKIYA W 1 89.0% -2.5%
CHAUDRY, ATIF H 1 70.5% +16.9%
GILBERT, WILLIAM V 1 57.9% +25.7%
CHIANG, JENNIFER C 1 70.3% +30.2%
MILLER, ALAN S 1 70.3% +26.6%
SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 1 86.2% +21.0%
DAVIS, SHARON M 1 68.0% +27.4%
SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N 1 6.3% +8.4%
KAVANAUGH, JOHN T 1 72.0% +32.6%
BUCK, MATTHEW R 1 83.2% +14.5%

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
18571134 DEVICE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL PARTICLES BUCK, MATTHEW R 31d overdue

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19192784 SPECTRAL ANALYSIS, MACHINE LEARNING, AND FRAC SCORE ASSIGNMENT TO ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES OF FRACKING EVENTS BATES, ZAKIYA W 155d overdue
18681840 A SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR ASSESSING AND REMEDYING BRAND BUYER RELATIONSHIPS IN DIGITAL CONTEXTS SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N

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
18759099 SYSTEMS, METHODS, COMPUTING PLATFORMS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR COMPARING NON-ADJACENT DATA SUBSETS SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 337d overdue
17803196 SLIP-ON FOOTWEAR KAVANAUGH, JOHN T 88d overdue
18771997 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR CREATING AND MANAGING A MULTI-TENANT AND MULTI-TIER WORK ARCHITECTURE USING A COMPUTING PLATFORM MILLER, ALAN S 31d overdue
18571134 DEVICE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL PARTICLES BUCK, MATTHEW R 31d overdue
18772702 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ASSEMBLY FOR STORING AND TRANSPORTING A CHEMICAL COMPOUND CHIANG, JENNIFER C 15d overdue
18848571 METHOD FOR SUPPLYING ASSOCIATIVE GAS TO SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS CHAUDRY, ATIF H 14d
18596875 NEUTRON GENERATOR USING SUPERCONDUCTING COILS FOR ELECTROSTATIC HEATING AND MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT DAVIS, SHARON M 56d
18797099 AMMUNITION MAGAZINE GILBERT, WILLIAM V 70d

Client Portfolio (15 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36741
37531
39931
37541
36251
21661
36461
36241
37321
36791

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19192784 SPECTRAL ANALYSIS, MACHINE LEARNING, AND FRAC SCORE ASSIGNMENT TO ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES OF FRACKING EVENTS Momentum AI, LLC BATES, ZAKIYA W 3674 §101 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2025
18848571 METHOD FOR SUPPLYING ASSOCIATIVE GAS TO SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS Kuwana Metals, Ltd. CHAUDRY, ATIF H 3753 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 19, 2024
18797099 AMMUNITION MAGAZINE Magpul Industries Corp. GILBERT, WILLIAM V 3993 §112 Final Rejection 70d Pending Aug 07, 2024
18772702 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ASSEMBLY FOR STORING AND TRANSPORTING A CHEMICAL COMPOUND Je Matadi, Inc. CHIANG, JENNIFER C 3754 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2024
18771997 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR CREATING AND MANAGING A MULTI-TENANT AND MULTI-TIER WORK ARCHITECTURE USING A COMPUTING PLATFORM Radicl Defense, Inc. MILLER, ALAN S 3625 §112 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2024
18759099 SYSTEMS, METHODS, COMPUTING PLATFORMS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR COMPARING NON-ADJACENT DATA SUBSETS Unsupervised Inc. SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 2166 Other Non-Final OA 337d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18596875 NEUTRON GENERATOR USING SUPERCONDUCTING COILS FOR ELECTROSTATIC HEATING AND MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT Horne Technologies, Inc. DAVIS, SHARON M 3646 Other Non-Final OA 56d Pending Mar 06, 2024
18681840 A SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR ASSESSING AND REMEDYING BRAND BUYER RELATIONSHIPS IN DIGITAL CONTEXTS Rammp Holdings Pty Ltd. SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N 3624 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 06, 2024
17803196 SLIP-ON FOOTWEAR Mountain Origins Design LLC KAVANAUGH, JOHN T 3732 §103 Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending Jan 23, 2024
18571134 DEVICE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL PARTICLES Hubert Hornung BUCK, MATTHEW R 3679 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18563005 PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBOXYLIC ANHYDRIDE Cerdia International GmbH KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18508114 TWO-DIMENSIONAL INDIVIDUALLY ADDRESSABLE ELECTROWETTING MICRO-LENS ARRAY The Regents of the University of Colorado CHANG, CHARLES S 2871 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Nov 13, 2023
18378219 SYSTEMS, METHODS, COMPUTING PLATFORMS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR DIRECTING AND CONTROLLING AN AUTONOMOUS INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Autonomous Shelf, Inc. CHANDRASIRI, UPUL PRIYADARSHAN 3665 §103 Non-Final OA 164d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2023
18547758 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN INITIAL VALUE OF AT LEAST ONE PARAMETER AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING A MASS FLOW CONTROLLER Kuwana Metals, Ltd. CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18036629 MONO-TIN ORGANIC COMPOUND AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF Anhui Jinhe Industrial Co., Ltd. BAKSHI, PANCHAM 1623 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 11, 2023
18108094 POWER SUPPLY MODULE AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. DANG, HUNG Q 2841 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Feb 10, 2023
17993790 COSMETIC AND SKINCARE APPLICATOR Je Matadi, Inc. FATIMA, UROOJ 2676 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2022
17318326 EVENT MONITORING AND CHARACTERIZATION Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. ZAYKOVA-FELDMAN, LYUDMILA 2857 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 12, 2021

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