Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Simpson & Simpson, Pllc

11 pending office actions • 11 clients • 11 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 59 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)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%)
10
Medium (91%)
1
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (91%)
§112 only1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
27% of docket
1
Information Tech
9% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
18% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
45% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD 1 42.5% +32.3%
ROTONDI, CONNOR JON 1
PATEL, TAJASH D 1 80.7% +6.9%
RAKOWSKI, CARA E 1 65.5% +4.3%
ALEKSIC, NEVENA 1 74.3% +11.9%
HAN, SETH 1 60.0% +24.8%
WALDRON, SCOTT A 1 81.6% +30.7%
ABU ALI, SHUANGYI 1 45.1% +38.0%
PATEL, AREN 1 78.8% +17.5%
NIGAM, NATASHA 1 65.6% +29.2%

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
18516163 PERSONAL COOLING APPARATUS FOR A FALL PREVENTION SAFETY HARNESS PATEL, TAJASH D 13d
18297054 Method, System, and Data Storage Device for Automating Solution Prompts Based Upon Semantic Representation WALDRON, SCOTT A 75d

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
17886849 TORIC SMALL APERTURE INTRAOCULAR LENS WITH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FOCUS PATEL, AREN 105d overdue
18249180 A DERMATOLOGIC TREATMENT APPARATUS HAN, SETH 71d overdue
18051357 METHOD FOR PRODUCING ORGANICALLY MODIFIED INORGANIC FINE PARTICLE AND ORGANICALLY MODIFIED INORGANIC FINE PARTICLE ABU ALI, SHUANGYI 9d
17830128 OPTICAL APPARATUS NIGAM, NATASHA 13d
18318444 SMART CAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOUSING AND ASSAYING MULTIPLE VERTEBRATE ANIMALS ALEKSIC, NEVENA 27d
18669096 SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING SPEECH THERAPY EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD 35d
18297054 Method, System, and Data Storage Device for Automating Solution Prompts Based Upon Semantic Representation WALDRON, SCOTT A 75d

Client Portfolio (11 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28722
37151
17791
37321
36471
37811
21521
17311
37741
17411

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18669096 SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING SPEECH THERAPY Say It Labs, BV EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD 3715 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending May 20, 2024
18528167 SYSTEM FOR TREATING WASTEWATER FROM ELECTRONICS AND SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION FACILITIES Samco Technologies, Inc. ROTONDI, CONNOR JON 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18516163 PERSONAL COOLING APPARATUS FOR A FALL PREVENTION SAFETY HARNESS On Top Safety Equipment, Llc. PATEL, TAJASH D 3732 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18355907 OPHTHALMIC LENS INCLUDING A SPATIALLY-MODULATED OPTICAL POWER PROFILE BAUSCH + LOMB IRELAND LIMITED RAKOWSKI, CARA E 2872 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Jul 20, 2023
18318444 SMART CAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOUSING AND ASSAYING MULTIPLE VERTEBRATE ANIMALS Olden Labs, Pbc. ALEKSIC, NEVENA 3647 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending May 16, 2023
18249180 A DERMATOLOGIC TREATMENT APPARATUS Ip - Smart Ltd. HAN, SETH 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18297054 Method, System, and Data Storage Device for Automating Solution Prompts Based Upon Semantic Representation Ip.Com I, LLC WALDRON, SCOTT A 2152 §112 Final Rejection 75d Pending Apr 07, 2023
18051357 METHOD FOR PRODUCING ORGANICALLY MODIFIED INORGANIC FINE PARTICLE AND ORGANICALLY MODIFIED INORGANIC FINE PARTICLE Super Nano Design Co., Ltd. ABU ALI, SHUANGYI 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Oct 31, 2022
17886849 TORIC SMALL APERTURE INTRAOCULAR LENS WITH EXTENDED DEPTH OF FOCUS Acufocus, Inc. PATEL, AREN 3774 §103 Final Rejection 105d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2022
17830128 OPTICAL APPARATUS Wavesense Engineering GmbH NIGAM, NATASHA 2872 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Jun 01, 2022
17626375 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REWORKING OF RUBBER Electronic Systems S.p.A. BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2022

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