Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rankin, Hill & Clark

22 pending office actions • 9 clients • 20 examiners • 18 art units • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
3
Due this week
3
Due this month
3
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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%)
20
Medium (91%)
1
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only17 (77%)
§102 only3 (14%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

18
Life Sciences
82% of docket
1
Information Tech
5% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
5% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
9% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 2 62.2% +29.3%
ROSWELL, JESSICA MARIE 2 52.1% +36.5%
EIDE, ERIC T 1 66.5% +22.7%
KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 1 31.2% +31.1%
STEVENS, MARK V 1 65.4% +42.8%
DELCOTTO, GREGORY R 1 53.8% +75.7%
LI, CHANGQING 1 30.0% +34.0%
ZILBERING, ASSAF 1 33.7% +27.0%
GUPTA, SARIKA 1 74.4% +21.7%
HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G 1 41.7% +18.5%

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18835656 ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 93d overdue
18850803 INVERTER-INTEGRATED ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 86d overdue
18264315 METHOD FOR PROMOTING SOLIDIFICATION OF OIL AND FAT ZILBERING, ASSAF 73d overdue
18433969 AQUEOUS CLEANING LIQUID DELCOTTO, GREGORY R 44d overdue
18591271 COATING MATERIAL FOR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES, UNDERWATER STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING UNDERWATER STRUCTURE WITH COATING MATERIAL STEVENS, MARK V 31d overdue
18550002 PHOTOCURABLE COMPOSITION AND PATTERN FORMATION METHOD ROSWELL, JESSICA MARIE 17d overdue
19117741 DRAWING LAMP EIDE, ERIC T 8d overdue
18689913 OILY FOOD CONTAINING HEAT-GENERATING MATERIAL KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 1d overdue

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37462
17912
17672
17292
28751
16131
17611
17921
17541
17251

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19117741 DRAWING LAMP Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. EIDE, ERIC T 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Apr 02, 2025
18850803 INVERTER-INTEGRATED ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR Sanden Corporation BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 3746 §103 Final Rejection 86d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2024
18835656 ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR Sanden Corporation BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 3746 §103 Final Rejection 93d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2024
18689913 OILY FOOD CONTAINING HEAT-GENERATING MATERIAL Fuji Oil Holdings Inc. KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18591271 COATING MATERIAL FOR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES, UNDERWATER STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING UNDERWATER STRUCTURE WITH COATING MATERIAL General Incorporated Association Marine Habitat Iki STEVENS, MARK V 1613 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18433969 AQUEOUS CLEANING LIQUID Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. DELCOTTO, GREGORY R 1761 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2024
18550002 PHOTOCURABLE COMPOSITION AND PATTERN FORMATION METHOD Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. ROSWELL, JESSICA MARIE 1767 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Sep 11, 2023
18548811 VEGETABLE MOULDED CHEESE-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT Fuji Oil Holdings Inc. LI, CHANGQING 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Sep 01, 2023
18264315 METHOD FOR PROMOTING SOLIDIFICATION OF OIL AND FAT Fuji Oil Holdings Inc. ZILBERING, ASSAF 1792 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2023
18358416 BATTERY CELL Aesc Japan Ltd. GUPTA, SARIKA 1729 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 25, 2023
18357652 BATTERY CELL Aesc Japan Ltd. HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G 1754 §102 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jul 24, 2023
18355137 BATTERY CELL Aesc Japan Ltd. ERWIN, JAMES M 1725 §102 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jul 19, 2023
18261153 BATTERY MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BATTERY MODULE Envision Aesc Japan Ltd. COCHENOUR, ZACKARY RICHARD 1752 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 12, 2023
18339644 CURABLE COMPOSITION Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. ROSWELL, JESSICA MARIE 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 47d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18329090 TEMPERATURE SENSOR DEVICE AND BATTERY MODULE Envision Aesc Japan Ltd. HARRIS, MARY GRACE 1729 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2023
18318923 BATTERY MODULE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BATTERY MODULE Envision Aesc Japan Ltd. RASSOULI, LILI 1728 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending May 17, 2023
18044652 DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, MODEL GENERATION DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, MODEL GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Envision Aesc Japan Ltd. TRAN, DANIEL DUC 2147 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2023
18176803 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING SAME Aesc Japan Ltd. MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C 1723 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2023
18042843 SURFACE TREATMENT LIQUID AND HYDROPHILIZING TREATMENT METHOD Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. FOSS, DAVID ROGER 1764 Other Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
18042828 SURFACE TREATMENT LIQUID AND SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1759 §112 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Feb 24, 2023
17805592 METHOD FOR COLLECTING LIVING TISSUE Orbray Co., Ltd. MARTIN, PAUL C 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 06, 2022
17605407 METHOD FOR DETECTING PERIODONTOPATHIC BACTERIA Adtec Co., Ltd. STEADMAN, DAVID J 1656 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Oct 21, 2021

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