Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Stupp Associates, LLC

6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (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%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
2
Communications
33% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TALLMAN, BRIAN A 2 24.1% +39.3%
DANG, PHONG H 1 80.7% +10.3%
YODER III, CHRISS S 1 75.1% +21.5%
EISNER, RONALD 1 79.6% +24.4%
HARVEY, MINSUN OH 1 84.2% +18.8%

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
18979452 Universal Data Bus Serializer DANG, PHONG H 19d overdue
18115339 BROAD-BANDWIDTH LASER WITH REDUCED MODE BEATING HARVEY, MINSUN OH 29d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18953076 REAL-TIME TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC-LIGHT PATTERNS TALLMAN, BRIAN A 30d overdue
18916622 System and Method for Real-Time Traffic Management TALLMAN, BRIAN A 20d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18953076 REAL-TIME TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC-LIGHT PATTERNS TALLMAN, BRIAN A 30d overdue
18979452 Universal Data Bus Serializer DANG, PHONG H 19d overdue
18216516 DYNAMIC FEEDBACK INFORMATION ABOUT A NETWORK ERROR EISNER, RONALD 3d overdue
18916622 System and Method for Real-Time Traffic Management TALLMAN, BRIAN A 20d
18115339 BROAD-BANDWIDTH LASER WITH REDUCED MODE BEATING HARVEY, MINSUN OH 29d
18970926 LOW-COMPLEXITY MOTION-SENSITIVE ELECTRONIC DEVICE YODER III, CHRISS S 33d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Lyt 2
Indie Semiconductor 1
XEG Ventures 1
Shasta Cloud, Inc. 1
Axalume 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36282
21841
26381
26441
28281

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18979452 Universal Data Bus Serializer AyDeeKay LLC DANG, PHONG H 2184 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2024
18970926 LOW-COMPLEXITY MOTION-SENSITIVE ELECTRONIC DEVICE Xeg Ventures LLC YODER III, CHRISS S 2638 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Dec 06, 2024
18953076 REAL-TIME TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC-LIGHT PATTERNS Lyt, Inc. TALLMAN, BRIAN A 3628 Other Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 20, 2024
18916622 System and Method for Real-Time Traffic Management Lyt, Inc. TALLMAN, BRIAN A 3628 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Oct 15, 2024
18216516 DYNAMIC FEEDBACK INFORMATION ABOUT A NETWORK ERROR Shasta Cloud, Inc. EISNER, RONALD 2644 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2023
18115339 BROAD-BANDWIDTH LASER WITH REDUCED MODE BEATING Axalume, Inc. HARVEY, MINSUN OH 2828 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Feb 28, 2023

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