Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tiajoloff & Kelly LLP

6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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 (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
33% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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
PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK 1 62.3% +23.6%
IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU 1 58.7% +17.4%
BEST, SAFIYA JAMILIA 1
BROWN, SEAN ROBERT 1 100.0% +0.0%
SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER 1 83.8% +12.7%
JOHANSEN, JOHN E 1 76.7% +26.1%

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
18035053 BATTERY CELL BROWN, SEAN ROBERT 77d overdue
18008433 METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF A PACKING MACHINE SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER 51d 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
18008433 METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF A PACKING MACHINE SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER 51d overdue
17734827 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED URBAN PLANNING JOHANSEN, JOHN E 30d overdue
18372646 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AMMONIA AS A FUEL SOURCE FOR ENGINES IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU 5d overdue
18561301 DRAWBENCH PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK 56d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37251
37411
17581
17431
36131
21871

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18561301 DRAWBENCH Most Technik GmbH PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK 3725 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18372646 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AMMONIA AS A FUEL SOURCE FOR ENGINES UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18205192 METHOD OF DETECTING A BIOFILM IN CLOSED PLANTS Wg Holding GmbH BEST, SAFIYA JAMILIA 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Jun 02, 2023
18035053 BATTERY CELL John Deere Electric Powertrain LLC BROWN, SEAN ROBERT 1743 §103 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending May 02, 2023
18008433 METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF A PACKING MACHINE Hp3 Real GmbH SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER 3613 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2022
17734827 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED URBAN PLANNING UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. JOHANSEN, JOHN E 2187 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending May 02, 2022

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