Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Squire Pb (Pal Office)

28 pending office actions • 21 clients • 28 examiners • 27 art units • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

28
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
3
Due this week
11
Due this month
4
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. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (11)Due ≤ 60 days (4)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.

1
Hard (4%)
17
Medium (61%)
2
Easy (7%)
8
Unknown (29%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§103 only16 (57%)
§102 only1 (4%)
§112 only2 (7%)
No statute on record8 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

17
Life Sciences
61% of docket
1
Information Tech
4% of docket
2
Communications
7% of docket
1
Semiconductors
4% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

280 h
Manual time on pending OAs
56 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
98 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP 1 76.9% +16.8%
NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER 1 43.9% +47.0%
WU, MING HAN 1 76.2% +24.2%
WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E 1 80.4% +17.7%
OWYANG, MICHELLE N 1 76.0% +29.5%
MORGAN, EMILY M 1 35.5% +33.0%
DU, HAIXIA 1 86.4% +18.1%
MARTIN, RACHEL E 1 53.1% +57.2%
PEEBLES, KATHERINE 1 36.3% +49.7%
WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN 1 45.6% +58.7%

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
18645194 FULLY AUTOMATED ESTIMATION OF SCENE PARAMETERS DU, HAIXIA 12d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17544340 TECHNIQUES FOR SEGMENTING USERS BASED ON USER BEHAVIORS ACROSS ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION CHANNELS DETWEILER, JAMES M 65d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18362383 TREATMENTS FOR UTERINE FIBROIDS PEEBLES, KATHERINE 59d overdue
18985088 Apparatus Utilizing Smart Fabrics for Providing Protection of the Head and Brain from Injury in Six Degrees of Freedom NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER 46d overdue
19052266 SUPER-RESOLVED OBJECT DETECTION WITH SPATIAL GENOMICS SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP 9d overdue
18882295 INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL OBJECT PLACEMENT WITH CONSISTENT PHYSICAL REALISM WU, MING HAN 6d
18645194 FULLY AUTOMATED ESTIMATION OF SCENE PARAMETERS DU, HAIXIA 12d
18213177 COMBINATION THERAPIES WITH CBL-B INHIBITOR COMPOUNDS AND ANTIEMETIC AGENTS WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN 14d
18650555 MULTI-PURPOSE JEWELRY WITH VARIABLE APPEARANCE MORGAN, EMILY M 15d
18761138 GRANULAR QUERY PROCESSING VIA A PLANAR DATA MODEL OWYANG, MICHELLE N 27d

Client Portfolio (21 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36772
28761
37321
26181
37751
21681
26111
16571
16171
16221

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19052266 SUPER-RESOLVED OBJECT DETECTION WITH SPATIAL GENOMICS California Institute Of Technology SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2025
18985088 Apparatus Utilizing Smart Fabrics for Providing Protection of the Head and Brain from Injury in Six Degrees of Freedom Scarfe Technologies, Inc. NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER 3732 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2024
18882295 INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL OBJECT PLACEMENT WITH CONSISTENT PHYSICAL REALISM Rembrand, Inc. WU, MING HAN 2618 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Sep 11, 2024
18774086 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF BONE Shankar Rajeswaran M.D. LLC WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E 3775 Other Final Rejection 33d Pending Jul 16, 2024
18761138 GRANULAR QUERY PROCESSING VIA A PLANAR DATA MODEL Vaayu Tech GmbH OWYANG, MICHELLE N 2168 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jul 01, 2024
18650555 MULTI-PURPOSE JEWELRY WITH VARIABLE APPEARANCE Love Random Life MORGAN, EMILY M 3677 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18645194 FULLY AUTOMATED ESTIMATION OF SCENE PARAMETERS Rembrand, Inc. DU, HAIXIA 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 24, 2024
18551182 MODIFIED HOST CELLS FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY PRODUCTION OF VANILLIN Amyris, Inc. MARTIN, RACHEL E 1657 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Sep 18, 2023
18362383 TREATMENTS FOR UTERINE FIBROIDS Resurge Therapeutics, Inc. PEEBLES, KATHERINE 1617 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18213177 COMBINATION THERAPIES WITH CBL-B INHIBITOR COMPOUNDS AND ANTIEMETIC AGENTS Nurix Therapeutics, Inc. WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN 1622 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18205667 METHOD FOR TREATING OBESITY Closed Loop Medicine Ltd. SZUMNY, JONATHON A 3686 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jun 05, 2023
18200527 FABRIC BIOME BIOPLASTICS LIMITED GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN 1789 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending May 22, 2023
18036472 GENETICALLY ENGINEERED YEAST CELLS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Berkeley Fermentation Science Inc. POPA, ILEANA 1633 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending May 11, 2023
18245888 DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY PREVENTION SYSTEM Cebika Inc. SHAH, NILAY J 3783 §112 Final Rejection 40d Pending Mar 17, 2023
18245450 CULTURE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF THEIR USE FOR HIGH YIELD PRODUCTION OF VANILLIN Amyris, Inc. EPSTEIN, TODD MATTHEW 1652 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Mar 15, 2023
18157700 ORGANIC SULFONATE ELECTROLYTE ADDITIVES FOR ZINC BATTERIES Octet Scientific, Inc. HARRIS, MARY GRACE 1729 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jan 20, 2023
18074369 METHOD OF MAPPING SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF CELLULAR COMPONENTS California Institute Of Technology LU, FRANK WEI MIN 1683 §112 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2022
18072817 EQUIPMENT BAG ATTACHMENT MECHANISM Letowa Inc. DO, ROWLAND 3677 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Dec 01, 2022
17927289 FIRE EXTINGUISHING COMPOSITIONS FOR LARGE FIRES Firexo Cotm Limited OYER, ANDREW J 1767 Other Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2022
17940640 DI-SUBSTITUTED PYRAZOLE COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES Fgh Biotech, Inc. JARRELL, NOBLE E 1699 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Sep 08, 2022
17909730 CYCLIC PEPTIDES FROM THE C-TERMINUS OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE FOR TREATMENT OF SKIN DISORDERS AND FOR COSMETICAL USE Neuro-Bio Ltd. HELLMAN, KRISTINA M 1654 Other Non-Final OA 19d Pending Sep 06, 2022
17889062 COMPOUNDS FOR INHIBITING OR DEGRADING TARGET PROTEINS, COMPOSITIONS, COMPRISING THE SAME, METHODS OF THEIR MAKING, AND METHODS OF THEIR USE Nurix Therapeutics, Inc. SAMSELL, RILLA MARIE 1624 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Aug 16, 2022
17840369 METHODS FOR GENOMIC INTEGRATION Amyris, Inc. MCLEOD, AFRICA MHAIRIE 1635 Other Final Rejection 26d Pending Jun 14, 2022
17775265 BIFUNCTIONAL COMPOUNDS FOR GRADING BTK VIA UBIQUITIN PROTEOSOME PATHWAY Nurix Therapeutics, Inc. HEITMEIER, KENDALL NICOLE 1621 §102 Final Rejection 39d Pending May 06, 2022
17544340 TECHNIQUES FOR SEGMENTING USERS BASED ON USER BEHAVIORS ACROSS ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION CHANNELS Iterable, Inc. DETWEILER, JAMES M 3621 §101 Final Rejection 65d Pending Dec 07, 2021
17601705 ALLOPREGNANOLONE COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF The Regents of the University of California ISMAIL, REHANA 1625 Other Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2021
17352162 SENSITIVE AND MULTIPLEXED DETECTION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS AND PROTEINS FOR LARGE SCALE SEROLOGICAL TESTING California Institute Of Technology SISSON, BRADLEY L 1682 Other Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Jun 18, 2021
17163089 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING Prellis Biologics, Inc. WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN 1754 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jan 29, 2021

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