Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

15 pending office actions • 12 clients • 15 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 51 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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%)
12
Medium (80%)
3
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (80%)
§112 only3 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GANCI, MATTHEW JOSEPH 1 94.8% -5.7%
ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S 1 74.3% +24.2%
D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY 1 73.2% +13.3%
TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH 1 83.3% +26.2%
RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C 1 78.7% +15.2%
DANIELS, JASON S 1 85.9% +15.0%
WEISS, NICHOLAS J 1 60.4% +42.3%
PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 1 80.8% +18.0%
VERLEY, NICOLE T 1 83.8% +3.9%
MAYES, MELVIN C 1 33.3% +3.8%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18097582 PRELOAD COLLAR FOR A VEHICLE SUSPENSION SYSTEM VERLEY, NICOLE T 132d overdue
18124719 ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR COUPLING A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE TO OPTICS PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 126d overdue
18452744 FRAMELESS VEHICLE DOOR ASSEMBLY DANIELS, JASON S 35d overdue
18532368 BEARING HOUSING POSITION SENSOR TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH 6d
18916134 WHEELIE CONTROL SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR SNOWMOBILES GANCI, MATTHEW JOSEPH 34d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18435144 MAGNETIC TOY D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY 237d overdue
18124719 ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR COUPLING A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE TO OPTICS PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 126d overdue
18304024 TENNIS RACQUET TRAINING DEVICE AND METHOD WEISS, NICHOLAS J 111d overdue
18452744 FRAMELESS VEHICLE DOOR ASSEMBLY DANIELS, JASON S 35d overdue
18532368 BEARING HOUSING POSITION SENSOR TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH 6d
18693372 THICKNESS PLANER ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S 16d
18547545 METHOD FOR CONSIGNEE-SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALIZING OF A NON-INDIVIDUALIZED PRODUCT OR A NON-INDIVIDUALIZED PRODUCT BUNDLE AND A DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INDIVIDUALIZATION STEP OF THE METHOD RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C 33d

Client Portfolio (12 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36142
37251
37151
36551
36531
36121
37111
28721
17591
17661

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18916134 WHEELIE CONTROL SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR SNOWMOBILES Fox Factory, Inc. GANCI, MATTHEW JOSEPH 3614 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Oct 15, 2024
18693372 THICKNESS PLANER Weisshaus Rsearch Pty. Ltd. ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S 3725 §112 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Mar 19, 2024
18435144 MAGNETIC TOY Smart Subscriptions, LLC D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY 3715 §103 Non-Final OA 237d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2024
18532368 BEARING HOUSING POSITION SENSOR Fox Factory, Inc. TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH 3655 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Dec 07, 2023
18547545 METHOD FOR CONSIGNEE-SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALIZING OF A NON-INDIVIDUALIZED PRODUCT OR A NON-INDIVIDUALIZED PRODUCT BUNDLE AND A DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INDIVIDUALIZATION STEP OF THE METHOD Saint-Gobain RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C 3653 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Aug 23, 2023
18452744 FRAMELESS VEHICLE DOOR ASSEMBLY Geiser, Inc. DANIELS, JASON S 3612 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2023
18304024 TENNIS RACQUET TRAINING DEVICE AND METHOD Ragland Sports, LLC WEISS, NICHOLAS J 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 111d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023
18124719 ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR COUPLING A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE TO OPTICS Kapture, LLC PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2023
18097582 PRELOAD COLLAR FOR A VEHICLE SUSPENSION SYSTEM Westcott Designs Inc. VERLEY, NICOLE T 3614 §103 Final Rejection 132d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2023
18052788 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A VAPORIZABLE TABLET FOR USE IN AN ATOMIZER Jupiter Research, LLC MAYES, MELVIN C 1759 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Nov 04, 2022
17907696 ULTRA-SMALL NANO METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN 1766 §112 Non-Final OA 184d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17640866 HYDRAULIC DOOR DRIVE FOR A LIFTING DOOR, LIFTING DOOR COMPRISING THE HYDRAULIC DOOR DRIVE, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE HYDRAULIC DOOR DRIVE Efaflex Inzeniring D.O.O. Ljubljana QUANDT, MICHAEL M 3745 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 07, 2022
17670583 PUFFED CANNABIS FLOWER EXTRUSION PROCESS Jupiter Research, LLC KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K 1700 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2022
17496336 CERAMIC VAPE ASSEMBLY Jupiter Research, LLC KESSIE, JENNIFER A 1747 §103 Final Rejection 395d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2021
17598574 AN IMPROVED COOKED PRODUCT, DOUGH OR BATTER AND DOUGH OR BATTER MAKING PROCESS Sakari Pty Ltd. TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER 1792 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2021

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