Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP

17 pending office actions • 2 clients • 16 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
7
Due this month
2
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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%)
16
Medium (94%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (88%)
§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
5
Information Tech
29% of docket
10
Communications
59% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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.

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
NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V 2 72.2% +19.8%
SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 1 86.2% +21.0%
PADOT, TIMOTHY 1 39.3% +28.2%
RASUL, MUHAMMAD HASHIR 1
SOON, DAVID W 1
SUN, HAI TAO 1 73.2% +25.8%
ZHAI, KYLE 1 74.5% +18.4%
HE, YINGCHUN 1 82.2% +14.4%
HOANG, PHI 1 81.6% +16.8%
CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 1 75.0% +40.9%

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
19210298 GAUSSIAN SPLATTING WITH NEURAL SPLINE DEFORMATION SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 3d overdue
18655150 SEMI-SUPERVISED STYLE TRANSFER HOANG, PHI 55d

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
19210298 GAUSSIAN SPLATTING WITH NEURAL SPLINE DEFORMATION SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 3d overdue
17669053 SHAPE AND APPEARANCE RECONSTRUCTION WITH DEEP GEOMETRIC REFINEMENT NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V 3d overdue
18421429 DATA-DRIVEN PHYSICS-BASED FACIAL ANIMATION RETARGETING CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 5d
18751043 CONTROLLABLE 3D STYLE TRANSFER FOR RADIANCE FIELDS HE, YINGCHUN 14d
18751038 CONTROLLABLE 3D STYLE TRANSFER FOR RADIANCE FIELDS NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V 19d
18771451 RUNTIME MOTION ADAPTATION FOR PRECISE CHARACTER LOCOMOTION ZHAI, KYLE 22d
18655150 SEMI-SUPERVISED STYLE TRANSFER HOANG, PHI 55d
18780259 ANATOMICALLY CONSTRAINED IMPLICIT SHAPE MODELS SUN, HAI TAO 57d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Disney 10
ETH Zurich 7

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26113
26193
26132
21661
36251
24921
26151
26161
24241
36231

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19210298 GAUSSIAN SPLATTING WITH NEURAL SPLINE DEFORMATION ETH ZÜRICH SANA, MOHAMMAD AZAM 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 16, 2025
18931950 USER AUDIT ORCHESTRATION Disney Enterprises, Inc. PADOT, TIMOTHY 3625 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Oct 30, 2024
18825987 AUTOMATED COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY SCANNING SYSTEM FOR LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTED CODE REPOSITORIES Disney Enterprises, Inc. RASUL, MUHAMMAD HASHIR 2492 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Sep 05, 2024
18780264 SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION AND EDITING USING ANATOMICALLY CONSTRAINED IMPLICIT SHAPE MODELS Disney Enterprises, Inc. SOON, DAVID W 2615 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18780259 ANATOMICALLY CONSTRAINED IMPLICIT SHAPE MODELS Disney Enterprises, Inc. SUN, HAI TAO 2616 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Jul 22, 2024
18771451 RUNTIME MOTION ADAPTATION FOR PRECISE CHARACTER LOCOMOTION ETH ZÜRICH ZHAI, KYLE 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jul 12, 2024
18751043 CONTROLLABLE 3D STYLE TRANSFER FOR RADIANCE FIELDS ETH ZÜRICH HE, YINGCHUN 2613 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18751038 CONTROLLABLE 3D STYLE TRANSFER FOR RADIANCE FIELDS ETH ZÜRICH NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jun 21, 2024
18655150 SEMI-SUPERVISED STYLE TRANSFER Disney Enterprises, Inc. HOANG, PHI 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending May 03, 2024
18421429 DATA-DRIVEN PHYSICS-BASED FACIAL ANIMATION RETARGETING ETH ZÜRICH CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jan 24, 2024
18528658 PROGRESSIVE NULL TRACKING FOR VOLUMETRIC RENDERING Disney Enterprises, Inc. DU, HAIXIA 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 04, 2023
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
18486295 AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT OF MEDIA IN SCHEDULED CONTENT WINDOWS Disney Enterprises, Inc. BOYD, ALEXANDER L 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18476171 WORKFLOW ORCHESTRATION USING A UNIVERSAL STATE MANAGER Disney Enterprises, Inc. BOYCE, ANDRE D 3623 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 27, 2023
18306139 DHCP ECOSYSTEM HEALTH CHECKS Disney Enterprises, Inc. SHIU, HO T 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 24, 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 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2022

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