Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Underwood & Associates, L.L.C

5 pending office actions • 3 clients • 4 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 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.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)

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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
40% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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
ROBINSON, RENEE E 2 73.7% +23.8%
HUYNH, LUAT T 1 93.2% +8.5%
RINK, RYAN J 1 78.1% +10.7%
MOSS, JAMES R 1 51.3% +40.1%

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
18727762 AN APPARATUS FOR THE STATIONING OF A LOCOMOTORY DEVICE FROM OUTSIDE THE LOCOMOTORY DEVICE HUYNH, LUAT T 89d 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
18727753 AN APPARATUS FOR THE PATROLLING OF A MANOEUVERING LOCOMOTORY DEVICE RINK, RYAN J 89d overdue
18563465 WATER DISTILLATION DEVICE ROBINSON, RENEE E 58d overdue
18563466 WATER DISTILLATION DEVICE ROBINSON, RENEE E 58d overdue
18078869 DEVICE FOR DETECTING PHYSICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF A USER MOSS, JAMES R 58d overdue

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17722
36671
36191
37921

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18727762 AN APPARATUS FOR THE STATIONING OF A LOCOMOTORY DEVICE FROM OUTSIDE THE LOCOMOTORY DEVICE Gensol Electric Vehicles Private Limited HUYNH, LUAT T 3667 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2024
18727753 AN APPARATUS FOR THE PATROLLING OF A MANOEUVERING LOCOMOTORY DEVICE Gensol Electric Vehicles Private Limited RINK, RYAN J 3619 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2024
18563465 WATER DISTILLATION DEVICE 77 Vision Way Ltd. ROBINSON, RENEE E 1772 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2023
18563466 WATER DISTILLATION DEVICE 77 Vision Way Ltd. ROBINSON, RENEE E 1772 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2023
18078869 DEVICE FOR DETECTING PHYSICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF A USER Tecnimed S.r.l. MOSS, JAMES R 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2022

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