Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Pate Nelson & Hill, Pllc

5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 4 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
3
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

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

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

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
2
Semiconductors
40% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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
ZAKARIA, AKM 2 82.4% +16.2%
CANFIELD, ROBERT 1 76.0% +18.0%
PALLAY, MICHAEL B 1 55.8% +34.8%
TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE 1 59.8% +34.8%

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
18502879 BODY-CONFORMING, MICRO-COIL, WEB APPARATUS AND METHOD ZAKARIA, AKM 87d overdue
18404509 MICRO-COIL WRISTBAND ZAKARIA, AKM 12d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18505482 FLEXIBLE COVER SYSTEM APPARATUS AND METHODS OF USE CANFIELD, ROBERT 155d overdue
18502879 BODY-CONFORMING, MICRO-COIL, WEB APPARATUS AND METHOD ZAKARIA, AKM 87d overdue
18140414 WOUND-CLEANSING PAD APPARATUS AND METHODS OF USE PALLAY, MICHAEL B 58d overdue
18117008 MOBILE COATING UNIT TO PRODUCE VARIOUS, CHANGEABLE COATED PROPPANTS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OPTION, CONFIGURATION AND METHOD OF USE TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE 4d overdue
18404509 MICRO-COIL WRISTBAND ZAKARIA, AKM 12d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28582
36361
16171
17441

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18404509 MICRO-COIL WRISTBAND Pulse, LLC ZAKARIA, AKM 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jan 04, 2024
18505482 FLEXIBLE COVER SYSTEM APPARATUS AND METHODS OF USE Extreme Engineering, LLC CANFIELD, ROBERT 3636 §103 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2023
18502879 BODY-CONFORMING, MICRO-COIL, WEB APPARATUS AND METHOD Newage, Inc. ZAKARIA, AKM 2858 §103 Final Rejection 87d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2023
18140414 WOUND-CLEANSING PAD APPARATUS AND METHODS OF USE Farrow Medtech, LLC PALLAY, MICHAEL B 1617 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2023
18117008 MOBILE COATING UNIT TO PRODUCE VARIOUS, CHANGEABLE COATED PROPPANTS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OPTION, CONFIGURATION AND METHOD OF USE Aquasmart Enterprises, LLC TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE 1744 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023

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