Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rankin Hill & Clark LLP

24 pending office actions • 3 clients • 21 examiners • 17 art units • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 45 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

24
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
6
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. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (6)

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 (4%)
22
Medium (92%)
1
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§103 only20 (83%)
§102 only2 (8%)
§112 only1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
12% of docket
5
Information Tech
21% of docket
3
Communications
12% of docket
1
Semiconductors
4% of docket
12
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.

240 h
Manual time on pending OAs
48 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
84 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WANG, PIN JAN 3 75.0% +50.0%
TSUI, WILSON W 2 61.5% +57.8%
FIGUEROA, JAIME 1 85.5% +12.9%
MANCHO, RONNIE M 1 75.6% +2.4%
KENIRY, HEATHER J 1 79.2% +21.1%
KARWAN, SIHAR A 1 56.1% +25.8%
LI, TRACY Y 1 80.3% +16.9%
PARK, KYLE S 1 66.0% +33.2%
COMINO, EVA L 1 69.7% +35.4%
CAMERON, ATTICUS A 1 83.1% +7.7%

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
18826116 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBUST MULTI-VIEW IMAGE TRANSLATION FOR ROBOTICS LI, TRACY Y 15d overdue
18414047 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION BY A ROBOT CAMERON, ATTICUS A 9d overdue
18984087 LEARNING PHYSICS-BASED INTERACTIONS FROM DEMONSTRATION FIGUEROA, JAIME 29d

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
18455056 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING (RL) POLICY WITH GUIDED META RL TSUI, WILSON W 84d

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18826116 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBUST MULTI-VIEW IMAGE TRANSLATION FOR ROBOTICS LI, TRACY Y 15d overdue
18617570 TRAJECTORY PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE WITH PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION PARK, KYLE S 3d overdue
18231665 NAVIGATION BASED ON INTERNAL STATE INFERENCE AND INTERACTIVITY ESTIMATION TSUI, WILSON W 3d overdue
18442819 REMOVABLE WHEEL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD COMINO, EVA L 12d
18954334 MANIPULATION TASK SOLVER KENIRY, HEATHER J 14d
18984087 LEARNING PHYSICS-BASED INTERACTIONS FROM DEMONSTRATION FIGUEROA, JAIME 29d
18087497 FUEL CELL POWER PLANT WANG, PIN JAN 76d
18087389 FUEL CELL POWER PLANT WANG, PIN JAN 79d

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Honda 21
Stanford University 2
Northwestern University 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36573
17173
36562
36582
21722
24871
36661
36151
36371
21461

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18984087 LEARNING PHYSICS-BASED INTERACTIONS FROM DEMONSTRATION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. FIGUEROA, JAIME 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Dec 17, 2024
18978864 CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT Honda Motor Co., Ltd. MANCHO, RONNIE M 3657 §102 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 12, 2024
18954334 MANIPULATION TASK SOLVER Honda Motor Co., Ltd. KENIRY, HEATHER J 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 20, 2024
18914929 KERNEL-BASED ERGODIC SEARCH Northwestern University KARWAN, SIHAR A 3658 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Oct 14, 2024
18826116 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBUST MULTI-VIEW IMAGE TRANSLATION FOR ROBOTICS Honda Motor Co., Ltd. LI, TRACY Y 2487 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Sep 05, 2024
18617570 TRAJECTORY PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE WITH PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. PARK, KYLE S 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2024
18442819 REMOVABLE WHEEL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. COMINO, EVA L 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18414047 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION BY A ROBOT Honda Motor Co., Ltd. CAMERON, ATTICUS A 3658 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2024
18390376 MODULAR PANEL SYSTEM, KIT, AND METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ARTALEJO, ELIZABETH IRENE 3637 §103 Non-Final OA 162d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18455056 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING (RL) POLICY WITH GUIDED META RL The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University TSUI, WILSON W 2172 §101 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18231665 NAVIGATION BASED ON INTERNAL STATE INFERENCE AND INTERACTIVITY ESTIMATION The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University TSUI, WILSON W 2172 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Aug 08, 2023
18328407 ADAPTIVE DRIVING STYLE Honda Motor Co., Ltd. VANWORMER, SKYLAR K 2146 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Jun 02, 2023
18311024 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUOTACTILE OBJECT POSE ESTIMATION WITH SHAPE COMPLETION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ESQUINO, CALEB LOGAN 2677 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 02, 2023
18194767 TRUST CALIBRATION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ESTEVEZ, DAIRON 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 50d Pending Apr 03, 2023
18194793 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPLETING THREE DIMENSIONAL FACE RECONSTRUCTION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V 2619 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Apr 03, 2023
18187498 HOLD-TOGETHER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. SAETHER, FLEMMING 3675 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
18181103 GENERALIZABLE INSTRUCTION FOLLOWING WITH PRE-TRAINED LANGUAGE AND GROUNDING MODELS Honda Motor Co., Ltd. CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A 2658 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2023
18181136 REMOVABLE COUPLING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COUPLNG PANELS Honda Motor Co., Ltd. FERGUSON, MICHAEL P 3619 §112 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2023
18090967 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING IN HAND ROBOTICS DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS Honda Motor Co., Ltd. LAROSE, RENEE MARIE 3657 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Dec 29, 2022
18087389 FUEL CELL POWER PLANT Honda Motor Co., Ltd. WANG, PIN JAN 1717 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Dec 22, 2022
18087541 FUEL CELL POWER PLANT VOLTAGE CHANNEL Honda Motor Co., Ltd. WANG, PIN JAN 1717 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Dec 22, 2022
18087497 FUEL CELL POWER PLANT Honda Motor Co., Ltd. WANG, PIN JAN 1717 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Dec 22, 2022
17972854 PROPRIOCEPTIVE LEARNING Honda Motor Co., Ltd. NILSSON, ERIC 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2022
17555176 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A MULTI-VEHICLE CHARGING STATION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. JEPPSON, PAMELA J 2859 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Dec 17, 2021

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