Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Pierce Atwood LLP

11 pending office actions • 8 clients • 11 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
2
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
2
Due this month
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

5
Life Sciences
45% of docket
1
Information Tech
9% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
45% 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
TRIEU, TIMOTHY K 1 62.1% +55.7%
IP, JASON M 1 54.5% +25.7%
BUI, JONATHAN A 1 81.3% +24.4%
EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES 1 85.5% +14.6%
CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1 63.0% +17.8%
NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A 1 30.0% +35.6%
BOYKIN, TERRESSA M 1 89.6% +8.2%
SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE 1 33.3% +40.2%
WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA 1 60.5% +38.5%
NGUYEN, HENRY H 1 63.7% +36.7%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18124846 NANOCELLULOSE AND RESIN MAKE DOWN PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS BOYKIN, TERRESSA M 67d overdue
18781695 MULTISIGNATURE KEY CUSTODY, KEY CUSTOMIZATION, AND PRIVACY SERVICE BUI, JONATHAN A 25d overdue
18643609 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED TARGETED NON-INVASIVE STIMULATION TO A BRAIN NETWORK EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES 14d

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
18639025 BARRIER LAYERS COMPRISING NANOCELLULOSE ONTO THE SURFACE OF PAPER OR PAPERBOARD SUBSTRATES AT THE WET END OF A PAPERMAKING PROCESS CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 87d overdue
16405380 ROBOTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS DIRECTED EVOLUTION OF HORIZONTALLY TRANSFERRED NUCLEIC ACIDS NGUYEN, HENRY H 60d overdue
18781695 MULTISIGNATURE KEY CUSTODY, KEY CUSTOMIZATION, AND PRIVACY SERVICE BUI, JONATHAN A 25d overdue
19103627 CONNECTIVITY-BASED MULTI-MODAL NORMATIVE MODEL IP, JASON M 23d overdue
18573212 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSACTION VALIDATION IN LAYER 2 NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A 16d overdue
18643609 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED TARGETED NON-INVASIVE STIMULATION TO A BRAIN NETWORK EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES 14d
19079599 FOOTWEAR OUTSOLE TRIEU, TIMOTHY K 29d
17793968 METHODS OF FUNCTIONALLY SCREENING BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE FRAGMENTS SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE 34d

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37321
37971
24431
37921
17481
36971
17651
16851
37611
17581

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19079599 FOOTWEAR OUTSOLE Amg-Asia Pte. Ltd. TRIEU, TIMOTHY K 3732 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Mar 14, 2025
19103627 CONNECTIVITY-BASED MULTI-MODAL NORMATIVE MODEL Voxel AI, Inc. IP, JASON M 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2025
18781695 MULTISIGNATURE KEY CUSTODY, KEY CUSTOMIZATION, AND PRIVACY SERVICE BLOCKCHAINS, INC. BUI, JONATHAN A 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2024
18643609 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED TARGETED NON-INVASIVE STIMULATION TO A BRAIN NETWORK Sinaptica Therapeutics, Inc. EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 23, 2024
18639025 BARRIER LAYERS COMPRISING NANOCELLULOSE ONTO THE SURFACE OF PAPER OR PAPERBOARD SUBSTRATES AT THE WET END OF A PAPERMAKING PROCESS Fiberlean Technologies Limited CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1748 §112 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2024
18573212 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSACTION VALIDATION IN LAYER 2 BLOCKCHAINS, INC. NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A 3697 §103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18124846 NANOCELLULOSE AND RESIN MAKE DOWN PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS Fiberlean Technologies Limited BOYKIN, TERRESSA M 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2023
17793968 METHODS OF FUNCTIONALLY SCREENING BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE FRAGMENTS Massachusetts Institute Of Technology SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE 1685 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 20, 2022
17307310 COLDWAVE APPLIANCE Central Ave Holdings LLC WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending May 04, 2021
16405380 ROBOTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS DIRECTED EVOLUTION OF HORIZONTALLY TRANSFERRED NUCLEIC ACIDS Massachusetts Institute Of Technology NGUYEN, HENRY H 1758 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending May 07, 2019
16331772 METHODS AND COMPOUNDS FOR GENE INSERTION INTO REPEATED CHROMOSOME REGIONS FOR MULTI-LOCUS ASSORTMENT AND DAISYFIELD DRIVES President and Fellows of Harvard College MONTANARI, DAVID A 1632 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2019

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