Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nordic Patent Service

5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 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.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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%)
3
Medium (60%)
2
Easy (40%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only1 (20%)
§112 only2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
40% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% 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
PHAN, THO GIA 1 91.3% +4.0%
LONG, DONNELL ALAN 1 75.6% +15.1%
ZADEH, BOB 1 76.9% +38.8%
GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C 1 71.9% +38.9%
PIERCE, JEREMY R 1 56.5% +43.5%

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
18953322 RADAR SYSTEM COMPRISING TWO BACK-TO-BACK POSITIONED RADAR ANTENNA MODULES, AND A RADAR SYSTEM HOLDING AN ANTENNA MODULE WITH CAVITY SLOTTED-WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA ARRAYS FOR RADIATING AND RECEVING RADAR WAVE SIGNALS PHAN, THO GIA 5d overdue

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
18566426 PLANT-DERIVED VESICLES INCORPORATING TRANS-MEMBRANE PROTEINS GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C 18d overdue
18839512 COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR A BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEM ZADEH, BOB 14d
18839490 Exchangeable applicator for inserting a flexible line and a dispensing valve in a beverage tapping head LONG, DONNELL ALAN 29d
18557833 ZOSTERA MARINA FIBER OBJECT WITH IMPROVED ACOUSTIC AND THERMAL PROPERTIES PIERCE, JEREMY R 61d

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37542
28451
17731
17891

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18953322 RADAR SYSTEM COMPRISING TWO BACK-TO-BACK POSITIONED RADAR ANTENNA MODULES, AND A RADAR SYSTEM HOLDING AN ANTENNA MODULE WITH CAVITY SLOTTED-WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA ARRAYS FOR RADIATING AND RECEVING RADAR WAVE SIGNALS Robin Radar Facilities BV PHAN, THO GIA 2845 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 20, 2024
18839490 Exchangeable applicator for inserting a flexible line and a dispensing valve in a beverage tapping head Carlsberg Breweries A/S LONG, DONNELL ALAN 3754 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 19, 2024
18839512 COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR A BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEM Carlsberg Breweries A/S ZADEH, BOB 3754 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Aug 19, 2024
18566426 PLANT-DERIVED VESICLES INCORPORATING TRANS-MEMBRANE PROTEINS Aquaporin A/S GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2023
18557833 ZOSTERA MARINA FIBER OBJECT WITH IMPROVED ACOUSTIC AND THERMAL PROPERTIES Søuld Aps PIERCE, JEREMY R 1789 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Oct 27, 2023

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