Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tope-Mckay & Associates

6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
0
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.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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 (5)Due ≤ 30 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%)
4
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (17%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

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
CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY 1 57.2% +31.7%
BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE 1 100.0% +0.0%
HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1 52.3% +27.2%
DAHLIN, HEATHER RAQUEL 1 46.5% +48.9%
GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 1 40.0% +37.7%
KWON, JUN 1 39.4% +47.0%

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
18235283 BAG TOSS GAME WITH A PLURALITY OF ROTATING PADDLES BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE 30d overdue

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
18037523 DEUTERIUM-MODIFIED THIENOPYRIDONE COMPOUND HAVLIN, ROBERT H 138d overdue
17922336 PYRIMIDINE-BASED TRICYCLIC COMPOUND AND USE THEREOF DAHLIN, HEATHER RAQUEL 103d overdue
18116807 CATCH AND THROW FOLDING RACKET ASSEMBLY GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 60d overdue
17064566 AUTONOMOUS BEHAVIOR GENERATION WITH HIERARCHICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING KWON, JUN 4d overdue
18680958 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WATERLESS URINAL CARTRIDGE USAGE DETERMINATION AND INDICATION CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY 13d

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37112
37541
16261
16291
21271

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18680958 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WATERLESS URINAL CARTRIDGE USAGE DETERMINATION AND INDICATION Falcon Water Technologies, LLC CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY 3754 §102 Non-Final OA 13d Pending May 31, 2024
18235283 BAG TOSS GAME WITH A PLURALITY OF ROTATING PADDLES Jakks Pacific Inc. BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2023
18037523 DEUTERIUM-MODIFIED THIENOPYRIDONE COMPOUND Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1626 §103 Non-Final OA 138d overdue Pending May 17, 2023
17922336 PYRIMIDINE-BASED TRICYCLIC COMPOUND AND USE THEREOF Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. DAHLIN, HEATHER RAQUEL 1629 Other Non-Final OA 103d overdue Pending May 01, 2023
18116807 CATCH AND THROW FOLDING RACKET ASSEMBLY Jakks Pacific Inc. GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. 3711 §112 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2023
17064566 AUTONOMOUS BEHAVIOR GENERATION WITH HIERARCHICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Hrl Laboratories, LLC KWON, JUN 2127 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2020

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