Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Pierson Ferdinand, LLP

17 pending office actions • 12 clients • 17 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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 (6%)
13
Medium (76%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (18%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§103 only11 (65%)
§102 only2 (12%)
No statute on record3 (18%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
29% of docket
2
Communications
12% of docket
1
Semiconductors
6% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
53% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PHAM, MICHAEL 1 79.8% +22.4%
RUIZ, ANGELICA 1 83.0% +14.7%
PENG, HUAWEN A 1 82.3% +20.2%
NGUYEN, BAO LONG T 1 82.8% +7.1%
EMMETT, MADISON B 1 79.8% +11.0%
BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN 1 74.0% +21.6%
TAWFIK, SAMEH 1 63.0% +30.9%
RENWICK, REGINALD A 1 70.8% +9.4%
MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM 1 33.3% +100.0%
ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 1 76.5% +15.6%

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
18740213 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC PREDICTION OF FLIGHT BALLISTICS RENWICK, REGINALD A 13d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18652157 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENTS AND TOKENS MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM 56d overdue
18619453 ADVANCED DATA COLLECTION BLOCK IDENTIFICATION ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 35d overdue
18886881 ARTICULATING DIE AND FORMING PROCESS TAWFIK, SAMEH 9d overdue
19199700 System And Method Of Presenting A Hybrid Cloud Cache As A File System RUIZ, ANGELICA 5d overdue
19214378 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED CLOUD STORAGE DOCUMENT INTEGRITY PHAM, MICHAEL 7d
18940038 Systems and Methods For Robotic Map Annotations To Configure Customizable Behaviors EMMETT, MADISON B 14d
19048014 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING IMPLICIT TRANSACTIONS IN A HYBRID CLOUD CACHE PENG, HUAWEN A 19d
18916117 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LASER IMAGING ODOMETRY FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN 34d

Client Portfolio (12 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21542
36582
37152
21531
21691
36561
37311
26111
26641
36461

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19214378 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLOCKCHAIN-BASED CLOUD STORAGE DOCUMENT INTEGRITY Egnyte, Inc. PHAM, MICHAEL 2153 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 21, 2025
19199700 System And Method Of Presenting A Hybrid Cloud Cache As A File System Egnyte, Inc. RUIZ, ANGELICA 2154 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending May 06, 2025
19048014 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING IMPLICIT TRANSACTIONS IN A HYBRID CLOUD CACHE Egnyte, Inc. PENG, HUAWEN A 2169 Other Final Rejection 19d Pending Feb 07, 2025
18941788 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING ROUTE PLANNING FOR TIGHT TURNS FOR ROBOTIC APPARATUSES Brain Corporation NGUYEN, BAO LONG T 3656 Other Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 08, 2024
18940038 Systems and Methods For Robotic Map Annotations To Configure Customizable Behaviors Brain Corporation EMMETT, MADISON B 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 07, 2024
18916117 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LASER IMAGING ODOMETRY FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS Brain Corporation BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 15, 2024
18886881 ARTICULATING DIE AND FORMING PROCESS Foldstar Inc. TAWFIK, SAMEH 3731 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2024
18740213 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC PREDICTION OF FLIGHT BALLISTICS D.O.P.E. Golf, LLC RENWICK, REGINALD A 3715 §101 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jun 11, 2024
18652157 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENTS AND TOKENS Sequoia Games, Inc. MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending May 01, 2024
18619453 ADVANCED DATA COLLECTION BLOCK IDENTIFICATION Oxylabs, Uab ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 2154 §103 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2024
18601806 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC CONTEXT-BASED ANNOTATION Nationstar Mortgage LLC, D/B/A/ Mr. Cooper BITAR, NANCY 2664 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2024
18419046 Customizable Thin Plate Fuel Form and Reactor Core Therefor Howe Industries, LLC GARNER, LILY CRABTREE 3646 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2024
18414121 USER ID CODES FOR ONLINE VERIFICATION Civic Technologies, Inc. POTRATZ, DANIEL B 2491 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2024
18402617 LAPTOP CASE WITH FOLDABLE SHADE Anywhere LLC WU, JERRY 2841 §103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Jan 02, 2024
18008400 PROGRAMMABLE INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS, METHODS AND MACHINE READABLE PROGRAMS TO AFFECT BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS Rizkalla, Michael, Adel HAFIZ, HAMID TARIQ 3715 §102 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2022
17986224 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING GLASS AND SPECULAR SURFACES FOR ROBOTS Brain Corporation RATCLIFFE, LUKE D 3645 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 14, 2022
17806328 ThermaSat Solar Thermal Propulsion System ThermaSat Inc. MEADE, LORNE EDWARD 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2022

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