Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Patent Filing Specialist Inc.

11 pending office actions • 8 clients • 11 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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%)
10
Medium (91%)
1
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (91%)
§112 only1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
82% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
18% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FERGUSON, DION 1 86.8% +8.2%
NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN 1 74.5% +18.5%
HOU, FRANK S 1 71.5% +34.5%
DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA 1 75.9% +12.2%
TSO, STANLEY 1 76.5% +34.0%
BAHTA, MEDHANIT W 1 80.5% +28.7%
JEONG, YOUNGSUL 1 71.8% +21.3%
ROYCE, LIAM A 1 65.0% +21.8%
RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1 44.9% +32.6%
CHAN, HENG M 1 60.7% +33.5%

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
18441695 Polymer Capacitors with Improved Reliability FERGUSON, DION 29d
18126785 Formation Electrolyte for Tantalum Solid Electrolyte Capacitors BAHTA, MEDHANIT W 46d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18116935 Power Unit Used for Swimming Pool Cleaning Machine and Swimming Pool Cleaning Machine ROYCE, LIAM A 156d overdue
15734067 Method and Device for Extracting Clean Liquid from Slurry Reactor JEONG, YOUNGSUL 119d overdue
17726744 Composition and Method for Improving the Water Transport Characteristics of Hydrophobic Soils RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 77d overdue
17412994 Alternative One-Pot Process for Making a Cam Precursor Using Metal Feedstocks CHAN, HENG M 53d overdue
18242314 PARTIALLY DEUTERATED 1,4-PHENYLENEDIAMINE-D4 AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF HOU, FRANK S 4d overdue
18274388 DUAL-SCALE TOUGHENED CEMENT-BASED COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND USE THEREOF DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA 4d overdue
18273413 ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR FILM AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN 34d
18126785 Formation Electrolyte for Tantalum Solid Electrolyte Capacitors BAHTA, MEDHANIT W 46d

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16922
28481
17611
17631
28471
17721
17771
17591
17251
17271

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18441695 Polymer Capacitors with Improved Reliability Kemet Electronics Corporation FERGUSON, DION 2848 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18273413 ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR FILM AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF Shanghai Been Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN 1761 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18242314 PARTIALLY DEUTERATED 1,4-PHENYLENEDIAMINE-D4 AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF Beijing Inst Of Tech Deuterium Material Co., Ltd. HOU, FRANK S 1692 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 05, 2023
18274388 DUAL-SCALE TOUGHENED CEMENT-BASED COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND USE THEREOF Qingdao University Of Technology DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2023
18135551 Electrically Functional Circuit Board Core Material Kemet Electronics Corporation TSO, STANLEY 2847 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Apr 17, 2023
18126785 Formation Electrolyte for Tantalum Solid Electrolyte Capacitors Kemet Electronics Corporation BAHTA, MEDHANIT W 1692 §103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Mar 27, 2023
15734067 Method and Device for Extracting Clean Liquid from Slurry Reactor Institute Of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy Of Sciences JEONG, YOUNGSUL 1772 §103 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2023
18116935 Power Unit Used for Swimming Pool Cleaning Machine and Swimming Pool Cleaning Machine Yunda H&H Tech (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. ROYCE, LIAM A 1777 §112 Non-Final OA 156d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023
17726744 Composition and Method for Improving the Water Transport Characteristics of Hydrophobic Soils Target Specialty Products RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Apr 22, 2022
17412994 Alternative One-Pot Process for Making a Cam Precursor Using Metal Feedstocks Nano One Materials Corp. CHAN, HENG M 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Aug 26, 2021
16866665 Stabilized High Nickel NMC Cathode Materials for Improved Battery Performance Nano One Materials Corp. WEI, ZHONGQING 1727 §103 Final Rejection 117d overdue Pending May 05, 2020

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