Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman PLC

7 pending office actions • 4 clients • 7 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
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
0
Due in next 60 days
3
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 later (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%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only1 (14%)
Double-patenting + other1 (14%)

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
1
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
71% 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
SARMA, ABHISHEK 1 83.7% +1.6%
WEEKS, GLORIA R 1 70.2% +12.0%
KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN 1 76.3% +22.4%
SMITH, JACOB A 1 80.9% +19.6%
MAEWALL, SNIGDHA 1 58.8% +9.7%
TAWFIK, SAMEH 1 63.0% +30.9%
MCCLAIN, GERALD 1 74.3% +14.4%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18570238 METHOD AND TOOL FOR PRODUCING STRAPPED PACKAGES SMITH, JACOB A 12d
19215640 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING ILLUSIONS OF SKYLIGHTS AND WINDOWS SARMA, ABHISHEK 62d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17672947 PACKAGING ROBOT AND METHOD USED TO CARRY OUT A PACKAGING PROCESS MCCLAIN, GERALD 56d overdue
19105548 PACKAGING APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS WEEKS, GLORIA R 42d overdue
18607937 REDUCED VIBRATION MOBILE MATERIAL PROCESSING PLANT KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN 3d overdue
18570238 METHOD AND TOOL FOR PRODUCING STRAPPED PACKAGES SMITH, JACOB A 12d
17914143 PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES TAWFIK, SAMEH 61d

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Krones 4
The Sky Factory, Lc 1
Terex 1
Biogents AG 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37313
26211
37251
16121
36521

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19215640 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING ILLUSIONS OF SKYLIGHTS AND WINDOWS The Sky Factory, Lc SARMA, ABHISHEK 2621 DPOther Non-Final OA 62d Pending May 22, 2025
19105548 PACKAGING APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PACKAGING UNITS Krones Aktiengesellschaft WEEKS, GLORIA R 3731 §102 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Feb 21, 2025
18607937 REDUCED VIBRATION MOBILE MATERIAL PROCESSING PLANT Terex Usa, LLC KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN 3725 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2024
18570238 METHOD AND TOOL FOR PRODUCING STRAPPED PACKAGES Krones Aktiengesellschaft SMITH, JACOB A 3731 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18282076 METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ATTRACTANT COMPOSITION Biogents AG MAEWALL, SNIGDHA 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Sep 14, 2023
17914143 PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES Krones Aktiengesellschaft TAWFIK, SAMEH 3731 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17672947 PACKAGING ROBOT AND METHOD USED TO CARRY OUT A PACKAGING PROCESS Krones Aktiengesellschaft MCCLAIN, GERALD 3652 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2022

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