Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Schwabe Williamson& Wyatt

22 pending office actions • 18 clients • 22 examiners • 19 art units • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 90 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
21
Medium (95%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only19 (86%)
§102 only2 (9%)
§112 only1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
14% of docket
2
Information Tech
9% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
3
Semiconductors
14% of docket
13
Mechanical / Eng
59% 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
PRANGE, SHARON M 1 53.8% +47.4%
FREEMAN, JOSHUA E 1 82.2% +11.8%
BAKER, LORI LYNN 1 78.6% +6.9%
GRUBY, RANDALL A 1 62.4% +43.8%
ARBLE, JESSICA R 1 65.6% +26.3%
RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL 1 75.0% +13.6%
SOTO, HENRIX 1 70.2% +32.8%
JOHNSON, VICKY A 1 79.8% +12.2%
SU, SUSAN SHAN 1 71.7% +23.4%
FITZGERALD, JOHN P 1 75.0% +2.4%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18899653 RIFLESCOPE OR OTHER OPTICAL DEVICE WITH PIVOTABLE SYSTEM ERECTOR FREEMAN, JOSHUA E 93d overdue

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
18644882 HOUSING FOR A WINCH RING SOTO, HENRIX 99d overdue
18899653 RIFLESCOPE OR OTHER OPTICAL DEVICE WITH PIVOTABLE SYSTEM ERECTOR FREEMAN, JOSHUA E 93d overdue
18528557 POST-PARTUM HEMORRHAGE TREATMENT DEVICE SU, SUSAN SHAN 30d overdue
18832078 REUSABLE CANISTER SYSTEM FOR DISPENSING FLUID GRUBY, RANDALL A 16d overdue
18710499 ROTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRIC MOTOR STRUCTURE RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL 4d overdue
18939397 KNIT SHOES WITH ELASTIC REGION PRANGE, SHARON M 19d
18604233 ROTATABLE DRIVE DEVICE FOR SCOPE TURRET OR OTHER OPTIC TURRET JOHNSON, VICKY A 55d
18729814 WOUND DRESSING WITH ARC-SHAPED INCISIONS ARBLE, JESSICA R

Client Portfolio (18 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37813
37542
37321
36411
28341
36541
36171
28551
26721
36331

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18939397 KNIT SHOES WITH ELASTIC REGION Allbirds, Inc. PRANGE, SHARON M 3732 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Nov 06, 2024
18899653 RIFLESCOPE OR OTHER OPTICAL DEVICE WITH PIVOTABLE SYSTEM ERECTOR Leupold & Stevens, Inc. FREEMAN, JOSHUA E 3641 §103 Non-Final OA 93d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2024
18846444 INTELLIGENT TOILET BOWL, TOILET AND MONITORING SYSTEM Lixil (China) Investment Co., Ltd. BAKER, LORI LYNN 3754 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2024
18832078 REUSABLE CANISTER SYSTEM FOR DISPENSING FLUID Dune Sciences, Inc. GRUBY, RANDALL A 3754 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18729814 WOUND DRESSING WITH ARC-SHAPED INCISIONS LOHMANN & RAUSCHER GMBH ARBLE, JESSICA R 3781 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 17, 2024
18710499 ROTOR STRUCTURE AND FORMING METHOD THEREFOR, AND ELECTRIC MOTOR STRUCTURE Zhejiang Founder Motor Co., Ltd. RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 15, 2024
18644882 HOUSING FOR A WINCH RING Arb Corporation Limited SOTO, HENRIX 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2024
18604233 ROTATABLE DRIVE DEVICE FOR SCOPE TURRET OR OTHER OPTIC TURRET Leupold & Stevens, Inc. JOHNSON, VICKY A 3617 §102 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Mar 13, 2024
18528557 POST-PARTUM HEMORRHAGE TREATMENT DEVICE Obstetrx, Inc. SU, SUSAN SHAN 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18550863 A METHOD OF MEASURING SOIL Australian Natural Capital (Ip) Pty Ltd. FITZGERALD, JOHN P 2855 §102 Final Rejection Pending Sep 15, 2023
18455154 SIGNAL ATTENUATION-COMPENSATED AND PROJECTION RESOLVED OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY (SACPR-OCTA) Oregon Health & Science University THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI 2672 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18454714 FIRE-RETARDANT CORES FOR HOLLOW-CORE DOORS Timber Products Co. Limited Partnership AGUDELO, PAOLA 3633 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Aug 23, 2023
18156937 DETECTING OF BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE Zapfraud, Inc. CHEN, SHIN HON 2431 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jan 19, 2023
17634910 COMPRESSION THERAPY ARRANGEMENT AND METHODS FOR OPERATING AND MONITORING THE SAME LOHMANN & RAUSCHER GMBH NGUYEN, CAMTU TRAN 3786 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Oct 14, 2022
17885502 CONVERTER FOR A RECHARGEABLE BATTERY Coast Cutlery Co. JEPPSON, PAMELA J 2859 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2022
17875924 DENTAL EQUIPMENT SERVICE APPLICATION A-Dec, Inc. EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH 3687 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jul 28, 2022
17791277 NETWORK SECURITY DEFENSE METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE APPLIED TO NETWORK SECURITY DEFENSE SYSTEM Zhuhai Comleader Information Science & Technology Corp., Ltd. HUSSEIN, HASSAN A 2497 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2022
17642183 ROLLER DOOR Seuster Kg HANES JR., JOHN 3634 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Mar 10, 2022
17437793 NEGATIVE PRESSURE TREATMENT ARRANGEMENT LOHMANN & RAUSCHER GMBH HAN, SETH 3781 §103 Final Rejection 127d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2021
17264029 A METHOD OF GENERATING STERILE AND MONOSEX PROGENY Center For Aquaculture Technologies, Inc. BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E 1632 §112 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jan 28, 2021
17261280 A METHOD OF GENERATING STERILE PROGENY Center For Aquaculture Technologies, Inc. BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER 1631 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 19, 2021
17255068 Ultraviolet Indicators, Formulations, and Suncare Kits Comprising the Same SunFly Brands, Inc. PROSSER, ALISSA J 1619 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2020

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