Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

The Law Firm Of A.Q. Basit

8 pending office actions • 2 clients • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
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.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

3
Hard (38%)
3
Medium (38%)
2
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (38%)
§103 only2 (25%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
25% of docket
5
Information Tech
62% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DUFFIELD, JEREMY S 1 49.2% +52.1%
WEISS, PAMELA HL 1 54.0% +46.9%
SPIELER, WILLIAM 1 73.9% +9.7%
HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 1 90.7% +6.6%
MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN 1 80.5% +16.7%
LEVEL, BARBARA HENRY 1 71.0% +28.1%
BASS, DIRK R 1 62.1% +22.6%
BURLESON, MICHAEL L 1 74.5% -7.2%

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
18221261 QUANTUM DATABASE INSERT OPERATIONS SYSTEM HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 18d overdue

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18221284 QUANTUM DATABASE UPDATE OPERATIONS SYSTEM SPIELER, WILLIAM 16d overdue
18221271 DELETION OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM DATABASE SYSTEMS MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN 8d overdue
18129912 Quantum Blockchain LEVEL, BARBARA HENRY 39d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18384332 CONCRETE MIXTURE WEISS, PAMELA HL 145d overdue
18090612 RECYCLING SYSTEM BASS, DIRK R 142d overdue
18221271 DELETION OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM DATABASE SYSTEMS MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN 8d overdue
18674907 QUANTUM SYSTEM FOR SELF DRIVING CARS DUFFIELD, JEREMY S 14d
18129912 Quantum Blockchain LEVEL, BARBARA HENRY 39d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Abu Dhabi University 7
Waterlabs AI LLC 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21592
24981
17321
24331
21421
17791
26811

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18674907 QUANTUM SYSTEM FOR SELF DRIVING CARS Abu Dhabi University DUFFIELD, JEREMY S 2498 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 26, 2024
18384332 CONCRETE MIXTURE Abu Dhabi University WEISS, PAMELA HL 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 145d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2023
18221284 QUANTUM DATABASE UPDATE OPERATIONS SYSTEM Abu Dhabi University SPIELER, WILLIAM 2159 §101 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18221261 QUANTUM DATABASE INSERT OPERATIONS SYSTEM Abu Dhabi University HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 2433 §102 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18221271 DELETION OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM DATABASE SYSTEMS Abu Dhabi University MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN 2159 §101 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18129912 Quantum Blockchain Abu Dhabi University LEVEL, BARBARA HENRY 2142 §101 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Apr 03, 2023
18090612 RECYCLING SYSTEM Abu Dhabi University BASS, DIRK R 1779 §112 Non-Final OA 142d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2022
17962612 BOT PROCESSING AUTOMATION USING KNOWLEDGE BASE IN CONTEXTUAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Waterlabs AI LLC BURLESON, MICHAEL L 2681 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Oct 10, 2022

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