Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Saunders Mckeon Pllc

7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
3
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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%)
5
Medium (71%)
2
Easy (29%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§112 only2 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
43% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KRECK, JANINE MUIR 1 78.1% +13.4%
OTT, PATRICK S 1 66.5% +20.8%
SQUIRES, BRETT STEPHEN 1 50.0% +44.4%
IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL 1 90.5% +7.1%
MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G 1 81.6% +18.0%
OLSON, LARS A 1 82.1% +14.2%
KASPER, BYRON XAVIER 1 68.9% +17.1%

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
18296884 MOUNTING SYSTEM, AND METHODS THEREOF MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G 46d overdue
18007044 Inflatable Vessel OLSON, LARS A 3d overdue
18352659 MEMORY CELL AND METHOD FOR CHANGING PROPERTIES OF AN ELECTRODE IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL 2d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18296884 MOUNTING SYSTEM, AND METHODS THEREOF MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G 46d overdue
18007044 Inflatable Vessel OLSON, LARS A 3d overdue
17757306 HANDHELD DEVICE FOR TRAINING AT LEAST ONE MOVEMENT AND AT LEAST ONE ACTIVITY OF A MACHINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD KASPER, BYRON XAVIER 22d
18699900 MACHINE PICK, HOLDING DEVICE, EXCAVATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD KRECK, JANINE MUIR 33d
18541027 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SPUTTERING AT LEAST TWO ELEMENTS OTT, PATRICK S 33d
18486180 MEMORY CELL ARRANGEMENT AND METHODS SQUIRES, BRETT STEPHEN 33d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36721
17941
28991
28121
28581
36151
36571

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18699900 MACHINE PICK, HOLDING DEVICE, EXCAVATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD Rockfeel GmbH KRECK, JANINE MUIR 3672 §112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Apr 10, 2024
18541027 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SPUTTERING AT LEAST TWO ELEMENTS Techifab GmbH OTT, PATRICK S 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Dec 15, 2023
18486180 MEMORY CELL ARRANGEMENT AND METHODS Ferroelectric Memory GmbH SQUIRES, BRETT STEPHEN 2899 §112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Oct 13, 2023
18352659 MEMORY CELL AND METHOD FOR CHANGING PROPERTIES OF AN ELECTRODE Ferroelectric Memory GmbH IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2023
18296884 MOUNTING SYSTEM, AND METHODS THEREOF Ferroelectric Memory GmbH MCDONNOUGH, COURTNEY G 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Apr 06, 2023
18007044 Inflatable Vessel Tugdock Limited OLSON, LARS A 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2023
17757306 HANDHELD DEVICE FOR TRAINING AT LEAST ONE MOVEMENT AND AT LEAST ONE ACTIVITY OF A MACHINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD Wandelbots GmbH KASPER, BYRON XAVIER 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 14, 2022

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