Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Thomas E. Lees, LLC

5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 46 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

1
Hard (20%)
3
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only1 (20%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
40% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 1 76.1% +17.0%
MAYO, TARA LEIGH 1 74.9% +11.4%
MOORE, ALEXANDRA MARIE 1 63.6% +19.1%
TSO, EDWARD H 1 87.3% +6.9%
HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI 1 39.5% +45.8%

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
18246992 DC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND BATTERY MODULE CHARGING SYSTEM THEREOF TSO, EDWARD H 14d

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
17601104 Identification and Quantification of A Ventilatory Disturbance Causing Incorrect Measurement Of Arterial Acid-Base Status HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI 31d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18430274 VARIABLY CONTROLLABLE INSTRUMENT DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 45d overdue
17601104 Identification and Quantification of A Ventilatory Disturbance Causing Incorrect Measurement Of Arterial Acid-Base Status HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI 31d overdue
18304664 NIOBIUM-BASED ALLOYS WITH IMPROVED STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS MOORE, ALEXANDRA MARIE 12d
18481349 TILLING APPARATUS MAYO, TARA LEIGH 55d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28551
36711
17381
28591
37911

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18430274 VARIABLY CONTROLLABLE INSTRUMENT Plitzie LLC DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 2855 §102 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2024
18481349 TILLING APPARATUS Soil-Kee Pty. Ltd. MAYO, TARA LEIGH 3671 Other Final Rejection 55d Pending Oct 05, 2023
18304664 NIOBIUM-BASED ALLOYS WITH IMPROVED STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS Mrl Materials Resources LLC MOORE, ALEXANDRA MARIE 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 21, 2023
18246992 DC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND BATTERY MODULE CHARGING SYSTEM THEREOF (Zhengzhou Innowolf Information Technology Co., Ltd. ) TSO, EDWARD H 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 28, 2023
17601104 Identification and Quantification of A Ventilatory Disturbance Causing Incorrect Measurement Of Arterial Acid-Base Status Aalborg University HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI 3791 §101 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2021

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