Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
17% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
67% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MICHALSKI, SEAN M 1 52.4% +13.5%
KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D 1 71.2% +33.5%
SASAN, ARADHANA 1 64.4% +26.4%
OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES 1 78.5% +11.3%
ENAD, CHRISTINE A 1 84.2% +10.2%
LIEUWEN, CODY J 1 59.5% +46.4%

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
18319480 LED PACKAGE DEVICE AND PACKAGING METHOD ENAD, CHRISTINE A 212d 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
18319480 LED PACKAGE DEVICE AND PACKAGING METHOD ENAD, CHRISTINE A 212d overdue
17812760 WATER FLOATING-TYPE LIGHT FOUNTAIN LIEUWEN, CODY J 85d overdue
18484378 EXTENDED CATHETER AND CATHETER SYSTEM FOR REMOVING EMBOLUS IN SMALL BLOOD VESSEL KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D 66d overdue
18364602 PRESSURIZED NEBULIZER OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES 28d
18849480 SHAVING SYSTEM MICHALSKI, SEAN M 29d
18551592 SUPERABSORBENT HYDROGELS SASAN, ARADHANA 78d

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37241
37711
16151
37831
28111
37521

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18849480 SHAVING SYSTEM Wenzhou Meibo Technology Co., Ltd. MICHALSKI, SEAN M 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Sep 21, 2024
18484378 EXTENDED CATHETER AND CATHETER SYSTEM FOR REMOVING EMBOLUS IN SMALL BLOOD VESSEL Brosmed Medical Co., Ltd. KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D 3771 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2023
18551592 SUPERABSORBENT HYDROGELS Junion Labs Pte. Ltd. SASAN, ARADHANA 1615 §103 Final Rejection 78d Pending Sep 20, 2023
18364602 PRESSURIZED NEBULIZER Guangzhou Junlin Medical Technology Co., Ltd. OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES 3783 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18319480 LED PACKAGE DEVICE AND PACKAGING METHOD Shenzhen Yunmixin Display Technology Co., Ltd. ENAD, CHRISTINE A 2811 §103 Final Rejection 212d overdue Pending May 18, 2023
17812760 WATER FLOATING-TYPE LIGHT FOUNTAIN Guangdong Minglun Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. LIEUWEN, CODY J 3752 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2022

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