Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, Pa

18 pending office actions • 5 clients • 17 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
1
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

1
Hard (6%)
16
Medium (89%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§103 only15 (83%)
§102 only1 (6%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
14
Information Tech
78% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
6% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
11% of docket
1
Business / Other
6% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COTHRAN, BERNARD E 2 45.5% +15.5%
GUDORF, LAURA A 1 80.7% +11.3%
AHSAN, SYED M 1 73.2% +18.8%
KORZUCH, WILLIAM R 1 75.0% +0.0%
KHAN, MOEEN 1 69.3% +60.3%
RAHIM, MONJUR 1 84.4% +16.3%
PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 1 87.7% +3.3%
DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN 1 92.9% +25.0%
IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 1 55.5% +23.7%
HUANG, YAO D 1 63.0% +31.8%

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
18738285 System and Method for Scalable File Filtering Using Wildcards PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 30d overdue
18918572 ENSURING REMOTE ACCESS BY A WORKER TO A CORRECT TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) DRAWING GUDORF, LAURA A 9d
18703348 DETECTING INSIDER USER BEHAVIOR THREATS BY COMPARING A CURRENT (LATEST) USER ACTIVITY TO USER ACTIVITIES OF OTHERS DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN

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
17361639 System and Method for Updating Real-Time Project Status Based on Deliverable Status KNIGHT, LETORIA G 156d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18041807 AUTOMATIC DESIGN OF MOLECULES HAVING SPECIFIC DESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS HUANG, YAO D 111d overdue
18842501 System and Method for Light Data File Upload Prevention RAHIM, MONJUR 85d overdue
18910709 FOCUSED IMAGE GRABBING AHSAN, SYED M 46d overdue
18918572 ENSURING REMOTE ACCESS BY A WORKER TO A CORRECT TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) DRAWING GUDORF, LAURA A 9d
16235424 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STABILITY-BASED CONSTRAINED NUMERICAL CALIBRATION OF MATERIAL MODELS COTHRAN, BERNARD E 21d
18057238 THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODELING OF A THREADED FEATURE USING COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN COTHRAN, BERNARD E 26d
18693540 SELF-HEATING PRODUCT CONTAINER AND/OR ASSOCIATED WAXING KIT IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 30d
18892952 Preventing Disclosure of Sensitive Information in Attempting to Utilize Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through an In-line Interface KHAN, MOEEN

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24912
24362
21882
28761
24921
24991
37991
21241
21511
21891

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18918572 ENSURING REMOTE ACCESS BY A WORKER TO A CORRECT TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) DRAWING DASSAULT SYSTEMES GUDORF, LAURA A 2876 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Oct 17, 2024
18910709 FOCUSED IMAGE GRABBING Proofpoint, Inc. AHSAN, SYED M 2491 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2024
18892876 Preventing Disclosure of Sensitive Information In Attempts to Utilize Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through a Web Browser Interface Proofpoint, Inc. KORZUCH, WILLIAM R 2491 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 23, 2024
18892952 Preventing Disclosure of Sensitive Information in Attempting to Utilize Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through an In-line Interface Proofpoint, Inc. KHAN, MOEEN 2436 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 23, 2024
18842501 System and Method for Light Data File Upload Prevention Proofpoint, Inc. RAHIM, MONJUR 2436 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2024
18738285 System and Method for Scalable File Filtering Using Wildcards Proofpoint, Inc. PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2024
18703348 DETECTING INSIDER USER BEHAVIOR THREATS BY COMPARING A CURRENT (LATEST) USER ACTIVITY TO USER ACTIVITIES OF OTHERS Proofpoint, Inc. DAY, JASMINE MOCHEN 2499 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 21, 2024
18693540 SELF-HEATING PRODUCT CONTAINER AND/OR ASSOCIATED WAXING KIT Tempra Technology, Inc. IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 3799 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Mar 20, 2024
18041807 AUTOMATIC DESIGN OF MOLECULES HAVING SPECIFIC DESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS Nnaisense, SA HUANG, YAO D 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 111d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
18057238 THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODELING OF A THREADED FEATURE USING COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN DASSAULT SYSTEMES COTHRAN, BERNARD E §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 21, 2022
18049390 Propagation of corner connection elements across a 3D model DASSAULT SYSTEMES WATHEN, BRIAN W 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Oct 25, 2022
17735198 MANAGING ITERATIONS AND BRANCHING IN DESIGN DASSAULT SYSTEMES MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN 2189 §102 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending May 03, 2022
17760527 MANAGING AND ROUTING OF ENDPOINT TELEMETRY USING REALMS Proofpoint, Inc. LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2022
17585641 Method for Suggesting Mates for a User Selected Modeled Component DASSAULT SYSTEMES JIANG, HAIMEI 2142 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jan 27, 2022
17580695 Critical Points for Test Data Preprocessing DASSAULT SYSTEMES DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL 2188 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 21, 2022
17361639 System and Method for Updating Real-Time Project Status Based on Deliverable Status DASSAULT SYSTEMES KNIGHT, LETORIA G 3623 §101 Non-Final OA 156d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2021
17210804 In-situ formulation of calibrated models in multi component physics simulation DASSAULT SYSTEMES DEBNATH, NUPUR 2186 §103 Final Rejection 114d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2021
16235424 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STABILITY-BASED CONSTRAINED NUMERICAL CALIBRATION OF MATERIAL MODELS DASSAULT SYSTEMES COTHRAN, BERNARD E 2188 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Dec 28, 2018

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