Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

True Shepherd LLC (W)

5 pending office actions • 4 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
5
Non-Final OAs
0
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.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
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 (3)Due ≤ 7 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.

1
Hard (20%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only4 (80%)

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
AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL 1 58.6% +22.0%
LEE, BYUNG RO 1 76.1% +18.4%
LUK, VANESSA TIBAY 1 54.0% +27.4%
MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO 1 70.0% +42.9%
RUFO, RYAN C 1 59.5% +41.1%

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
18491811 METHOD FOR EVALUATING METALLOGENIC POTENTIAL OF SKARN DEPOSIT BASED ON MAGNETITE COMPOSITION LEE, BYUNG RO 7d

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
18192635 ONLINE HIGH-PRECISION MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FULL-SIZE PARAMETERS OF WHEEL SET OF RAIL TRANSIT VEHICLE MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO 183d overdue
18192622 FINISHING BORING MACHINE FOR HIGH-PRECISION WHEEL HUB HOLE RUFO, RYAN C 117d overdue
18426369 STORAGE RACK AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL 42d overdue
18491811 METHOD FOR EVALUATING METALLOGENIC POTENTIAL OF SKARN DEPOSIT BASED ON MAGNETITE COMPOSITION LEE, BYUNG RO 7d
18336062 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EQUAL-HARDNESS CR5 BACK UP ROLL LUK, VANESSA TIBAY 33d

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36371
28581
17331
28771
37221

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18426369 STORAGE RACK Shenzhen Yihong Technology Co., Ltd. AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL 3637 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2024
18491811 METHOD FOR EVALUATING METALLOGENIC POTENTIAL OF SKARN DEPOSIT BASED ON MAGNETITE COMPOSITION Tibet Julong Copper Co., Ltd. LEE, BYUNG RO 2858 §101 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Oct 23, 2023
18336062 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EQUAL-HARDNESS CR5 BACK UP ROLL Sinosteel Xingtai Machinery & Mill Roll Co., Ltd. LUK, VANESSA TIBAY 1733 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jun 16, 2023
18192635 ONLINE HIGH-PRECISION MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FULL-SIZE PARAMETERS OF WHEEL SET OF RAIL TRANSIT VEHICLE Nsh-Cti Machine Tool (Jiangxi) Co., Ltd. MENDOZA, ALEXANDRIA ARELLANO 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 183d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023
18192622 FINISHING BORING MACHINE FOR HIGH-PRECISION WHEEL HUB HOLE Nsh-Cti Machine Tool (Jiangxi) Co., Ltd. RUFO, RYAN C 3722 §103 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023

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