Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

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10 pending office actions • 5 clients • 9 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)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%)
9
Medium (90%)
1
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (80%)
§102 only1 (10%)
§112 only1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
30% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
20% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE 2 75.2% +18.4%
LANGHALS, RENEE C 1 58.7% +46.1%
FORD, RENE D 1 80.0% +22.5%
LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 1 75.3% +26.3%
PHAM, LEDA T 1 74.6% +11.2%
ZHONG, XIN Y 1 76.2% +15.2%
PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E 1 55.3% +35.2%
MOORE, SUSANNA 1 68.1% +31.8%
MILLS JR., JOE E 1 72.3% +15.5%

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
18971321 FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR A POWER GENERATION SYSTEM FORD, RENE D 5d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18745358 CARTRIDGE FOR PULSE-SEPARATED VARIABLE TURBINE GEOMETRY TURBOCHARGERS LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 85d overdue
18997842 MAGNETOGRAPHY FOR THE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL CELLULAR ION CURRENTS LANGHALS, RENEE C 67d overdue
17798346 ANTIVIRAL SUBSTANCES WITH A WIDE SPECTRUM OF ACTIVITY MOORE, SUSANNA 51d overdue
18653127 STATOR TOOTH UNIT FOR SEGMENTED STATOR PHAM, LEDA T 32d overdue
18288477 COMPOSITE STRUCTURE MADE OF TITANIUM AND/OR A TITANIUM ALLOY AND/OR NITI AND A POLYMER, AND ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE 30d overdue
18682927 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING WATER FROM A SOIL SAMPLE ZHONG, XIN Y 29d overdue
18277636 AUXETIC WEB STRUCTURE OR FIELD STRUCTURE, AND USE PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E 11d overdue
18971321 FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR A POWER GENERATION SYSTEM FORD, RENE D 5d overdue

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17842
37971
37411
37111
28341
28551
37991
16241
37611

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18997842 MAGNETOGRAPHY FOR THE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL CELLULAR ION CURRENTS Biomagnetik Park Holding GmbH LANGHALS, RENEE C 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Jan 23, 2025
18971321 FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR A POWER GENERATION SYSTEM BORGWARNER, INC. FORD, RENE D 3741 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2024
18745358 CARTRIDGE FOR PULSE-SEPARATED VARIABLE TURBINE GEOMETRY TURBOCHARGERS BORGWARNER, INC. LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 3711 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2024
18653127 STATOR TOOTH UNIT FOR SEGMENTED STATOR BORGWARNER, INC. PHAM, LEDA T 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending May 02, 2024
18682927 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING WATER FROM A SOIL SAMPLE Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Zu Kiel ZHONG, XIN Y 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Feb 11, 2024
18288698 COMPOSITE POLYMER STRUCTURE HAVING AN ALUMINUM POLYMER ANCHORING LAYER, AND ETCHING METHOD Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Zu Kiel LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE 1784 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18288477 COMPOSITE STRUCTURE MADE OF TITANIUM AND/OR A TITANIUM ALLOY AND/OR NITI AND A POLYMER, AND ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Zu Kiel LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE 1784 §112 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2023
18277636 AUXETIC WEB STRUCTURE OR FIELD STRUCTURE, AND USE Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Zu Kiel PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E 3799 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2023
17798346 ANTIVIRAL SUBSTANCES WITH A WIDE SPECTRUM OF ACTIVITY Universitaet zu Luebeck Koerperschaft des Oeffentlichen Rechts MOORE, SUSANNA 1624 §102 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2022
17825107 TEMPERATURE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED MATERIAL IN A CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER Barkey GmbH & Co. Kg MILLS JR., JOE E 3761 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending May 26, 2022

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