Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Stites & Harbison PLLC

14 pending office actions • 11 clients • 14 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 77 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due later (1)

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%)
12
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (7%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (79%)
§102 only1 (7%)
§112 only1 (7%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
50% of docket
2
Information Tech
14% of docket
1
Communications
7% of docket
2
Semiconductors
14% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DOUYON, LORNA M 1 56.9% +71.8%
REID JR, CHARLES H 1 68.6% +24.0%
PATEL, JAIMIN GHANSHYAM 1 100.0% +0.0%
MIAN, MOHAMMAD YOU A 1 66.2% +32.5%
DESAI, ANISH P 1 44.0% +8.5%
KIM, TAE JUN 1 64.0% +26.2%
LY, KRISTINA ELISABETH 1 100.0% +0.0%
BARRON, SEAN C 1 53.5% +30.9%
OTERO, KENNETH MAX 1 46.2% +26.7%
BURKE, TIONNA M 1 53.8% +20.4%

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
18273158 METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF COVID-19 LY, KRISTINA ELISABETH 91d overdue
18592801 TOTE TIPPING SYSTEM PATEL, JAIMIN GHANSHYAM 62d

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
18066603 INTERFACE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE BURKE, TIONNA M 138d overdue
18188930 SAMPLE PREPARATION FOR EXPANSION MICROSCOPY BARRON, SEAN C 79d overdue
18701833 SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR EXTRACTING ENERGY FROM HEAT REID JR, CHARLES H 70d overdue
19173626 SOLVENT COMPOSITIONS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS DOUYON, LORNA M 66d overdue
18582039 AUTONOMOUS DISTRIBUTED CYBERSECURITY TESTING MIAN, MOHAMMAD YOU A 53d overdue
18279643 WELDING ELECTRODE AND SPOT-WELDING DEVICE KIM, TAE JUN 15d overdue
18040340 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE COMPOSITE AND SECONDARY BATTERY OTERO, KENNETH MAX 20d

Client Portfolio (11 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17611
28341
36521
24571
17881
37991
16711
16531
17251
21781

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19173626 SOLVENT COMPOSITIONS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS Shellef Holdings, Inc. DOUYON, LORNA M 1761 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2025
18701833 SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR EXTRACTING ENERGY FROM HEAT Shellef Holdings Inc. REID JR, CHARLES H 2834 Other Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Apr 16, 2024
18592801 TOTE TIPPING SYSTEM Material Handling Systems, Inc. PATEL, JAIMIN GHANSHYAM 3652 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Mar 01, 2024
18582039 AUTONOMOUS DISTRIBUTED CYBERSECURITY TESTING Ndsu Research Foundation MIAN, MOHAMMAD YOU A 2457 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Feb 20, 2024
18294069 ELECTRICALLY PEELABLE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION, ELECTRICALLY PEELABLE ADHESIVE PRODUCT, AND UTILIZATION THEREOF VIGteQnos co., ltd. DESAI, ANISH P 1788 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2024
18279643 WELDING ELECTRODE AND SPOT-WELDING DEVICE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA KIM, TAE JUN 3799 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Aug 31, 2023
18273158 METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF COVID-19 Marshall University Research Corporation LY, KRISTINA ELISABETH 1671 §102 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18188930 SAMPLE PREPARATION FOR EXPANSION MICROSCOPY Howard Hughes Medical Institute BARRON, SEAN C 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2023
18040340 NEGATIVE ELECTRODE COMPOSITE AND SECONDARY BATTERY UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA OTERO, KENNETH MAX 1725 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Feb 02, 2023
18066603 INTERFACE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. BURKE, TIONNA M 2178 §103 Final Rejection 138d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2022
18065258 SMART GLASSES, WIRELESS EARPHONES, WEARABLE DEVICE ASSEMBLY, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Dec 13, 2022
18000533 AGONIST ANTI-CD40 ANTIBODIES Selvax Pty Ltd. BERHANE, SELAM 1675 §112 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Dec 02, 2022
17927178 METHOD OF IDENTIFYING OR CHARACTERISING AN IMMUNE RESPONSE IN A SUBJECT The Binding Site Group Limited QIAN, CELINE X 1637 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Nov 22, 2022
17490855 REMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION MONITORING AND REPORTING Vapor Products Group, LLC TRIEU, VAN THANH 2685 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2021

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