Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP

17 pending office actions • 3 clients • 15 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 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.

5
Hard (29%)
11
Medium (65%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§101 + other2 (12%)
§103 only10 (59%)
§102 only1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (12%)
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
2
Information Tech
12% of docket
9
Communications
53% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
6% of docket
5
Business / Other
29% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M 2 83.9% +9.9%
CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 2 76.3% +39.1%
CASCHERA, ANTONIO A 1 87.3% +8.0%
PADOT, TIMOTHY 1 39.6% +28.8%
BAYAT, ALI 1 92.3% +6.0%
HERNANDEZ, ALEJANDRO 1 78.3% +20.8%
LIU, ZHENGXI 1 63.8% +40.4%
CRADDOCK, ROBERT J 1 84.0% +14.3%
HE, YINGCHUN 1 82.0% +14.7%
CHOW, JEFFREY J 1 77.0% +15.8%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18780264 SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION AND EDITING USING ANATOMICALLY CONSTRAINED IMPLICIT SHAPE MODELS CRADDOCK, ROBERT J 2d overdue
18975777 GENERALIZED POSE AND MOTION GENERATION CASCHERA, ANTONIO A
18900556 SPATIALLY CORRELATED NOISE WARPING FOR DIFFUSION MODELS BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M
18900554 TEMPORALLY CORRELATED NOISE WARPING FOR DIFFUSION MODELS BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18405511 VULNERABILITY AND REMEDIATION VALIDATION AUTOMATION MARTINEZ, TOMMY NMN 18d overdue
18931950 USER AUDIT ORCHESTRATION PADOT, TIMOTHY 76d
18908715 FACE SWAPPING WITH NEURAL NETWORK-BASED GEOMETRY REFINING BAYAT, ALI
18906545 JOINT IMAGE NORMALIZATION AND LANDMARK DETECTION HERNANDEZ, ALEJANDRO
18655147 DIFFERENTIABLE COMPOSITION OF ATTRIBUTES IN STYLE TRANSFER CHOW, JEFFREY J

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
18780264 SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION AND EDITING USING ANATOMICALLY CONSTRAINED IMPLICIT SHAPE MODELS CRADDOCK, ROBERT J 2d overdue
18421429 DATA-DRIVEN PHYSICS-BASED FACIAL ANIMATION RETARGETING CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 5d
18751043 CONTROLLABLE 3D STYLE TRANSFER FOR RADIANCE FIELDS HE, YINGCHUN 14d
18931950 USER AUDIT ORCHESTRATION PADOT, TIMOTHY 76d
18906545 JOINT IMAGE NORMALIZATION AND LANDMARK DETECTION HERNANDEZ, ALEJANDRO
18786337 LOCAL IDENTITY-AWARE FACIAL RIG GENERATION LIU, ZHENGXI
18655147 DIFFERENTIABLE COMPOSITION OF ATTRIBUTES IN STYLE TRANSFER CHOW, JEFFREY J
18655143 SPEED AND FLEXIBILITY IN STYLE TRANSFER CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
ETH Zurich 8
DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. 8
Disney 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26133
26112
36251
26151
26181
24961
26761
24811
26191

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18975777 GENERALIZED POSE AND MOTION GENERATION ETH ZÜRICH CASCHERA, ANTONIO A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 10, 2024
18931950 USER AUDIT ORCHESTRATION Disney Enterprises, Inc. PADOT, TIMOTHY 3625 §101§103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Oct 30, 2024
18908715 FACE SWAPPING WITH NEURAL NETWORK-BASED GEOMETRY REFINING ETH ZÜRICH BAYAT, ALI §101Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 07, 2024
18906545 JOINT IMAGE NORMALIZATION AND LANDMARK DETECTION Disney Enterprises, Inc. HERNANDEZ, ALEJANDRO §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 04, 2024
18900556 SPATIALLY CORRELATED NOISE WARPING FOR DIFFUSION MODELS ETH ZÜRICH BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18900554 TEMPORALLY CORRELATED NOISE WARPING FOR DIFFUSION MODELS ETH ZÜRICH BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18786337 LOCAL IDENTITY-AWARE FACIAL RIG GENERATION Disney Enterprises, Inc. LIU, ZHENGXI 2611 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 26, 2024
18780264 SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION AND EDITING USING ANATOMICALLY CONSTRAINED IMPLICIT SHAPE MODELS Disney Enterprises, Inc. CRADDOCK, ROBERT J 2615 §102 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18751043 CONTROLLABLE 3D STYLE TRANSFER FOR RADIANCE FIELDS ETH ZÜRICH HE, YINGCHUN 2613 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18655147 DIFFERENTIABLE COMPOSITION OF ATTRIBUTES IN STYLE TRANSFER Disney Enterprises, Inc. CHOW, JEFFREY J 2618 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 03, 2024
18655143 SPEED AND FLEXIBILITY IN STYLE TRANSFER Disney Enterprises, Inc. CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 2613 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 03, 2024
18421429 DATA-DRIVEN PHYSICS-BASED FACIAL ANIMATION RETARGETING ETH ZÜRICH CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 2613 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Jan 24, 2024
18405511 VULNERABILITY AND REMEDIATION VALIDATION AUTOMATION Disney Enterprises, Inc. MARTINEZ, TOMMY NMN 2496 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2024
18500976 FLEXIBLE PARAMETERIZATION OF ARBITRARY DISPLAY SURFACES FOR IN-CAMERA VISUAL EFFECTS Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. LLC AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18172201 VIDEO REMASTERING VIA DEEP LEARNING Disney Enterprises, Inc. SATCHER, DION JOHN 2676 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 21, 2023
18049262 MACHINE LEARNING BASED VIDEO COMPRESSION ETH ZÜRICH HESS, MICHAEL J 2481 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2022
17669053 SHAPE AND APPEARANCE RECONSTRUCTION WITH DEEP GEOMETRIC REFINEMENT ETH ZÜRICH NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V 2619 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2022

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