Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Pcfb, LLC

6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 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.

1
Hard (17%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (17%)
§103 only5 (83%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
50% of docket
1
Communications
17% of docket
2
Semiconductors
33% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VAUGHN, RYAN C 1 61.8% +19.8%
NGUYEN, KIM T 1 87.2% +8.4%
LE, MIRANDA 1 74.8% +77.1%
HANNETT, JAMES M 1 84.2% +0.5%
KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA 1 71.4% +42.1%
MICHAUD, NICHOLAS BRIAN 1 73.6% +30.2%

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
18886184 Optical Metalens Systems and Methods of Manufacture HANNETT, JAMES M 57d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19025852 ERROR IDENTIFICATION, INDEXING AND LINKING CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS NGUYEN, KIM T 4d 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
18327777 DIELECTRIC BARRIER FOR REFLECTIVE BACKPLANE OF TUNABLE OPTICAL METASURFACES MICHAUD, NICHOLAS BRIAN 59d overdue
19301717 Logic Gate Networks Generated Using Differentiable Logic Gate Models VAUGHN, RYAN C 5d
18902830 EXTENSIBLE DATA OBJECTS FOR USE IN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS LE, MIRANDA 22d
18423218 METASURFACE DEVICES AND MANUFACTURING USING SEQUENTIAL SINGLE-DAMASCENE PROCESSES WITH PROTECTIVE DIELECTRIC CAP LAYERS KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA 23d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Lumotive 2
UNIVERSITÄT KONSTANZ 1
Blink 1
DeepSee.ai 1
Imagia, Inc. 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21532
21251
26391
28721
28181

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19301717 Logic Gate Networks Generated Using Differentiable Logic Gate Models UNIVERSITÄT KONSTANZ VAUGHN, RYAN C 2125 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Aug 15, 2025
19025852 ERROR IDENTIFICATION, INDEXING AND LINKING CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS Blink Forward, LLC NGUYEN, KIM T 2153 §101 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2025
18902830 EXTENSIBLE DATA OBJECTS FOR USE IN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Deepsee.Ai Inc. LE, MIRANDA 2153 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Sep 30, 2024
18886184 Optical Metalens Systems and Methods of Manufacture Imagia, Inc. HANNETT, JAMES M 2639 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Sep 16, 2024
18423218 METASURFACE DEVICES AND MANUFACTURING USING SEQUENTIAL SINGLE-DAMASCENE PROCESSES WITH PROTECTIVE DIELECTRIC CAP LAYERS Lumotive, Inc. KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jan 25, 2024
18327777 DIELECTRIC BARRIER FOR REFLECTIVE BACKPLANE OF TUNABLE OPTICAL METASURFACES Lumotive, Inc. MICHAUD, NICHOLAS BRIAN 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2023

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