Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Welsh Flaxman & Gitler LLC

10 pending office actions • 8 clients • 10 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

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 (10%)
8
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§103 only8 (80%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
70% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 1 2.9% +0.7%
CHEN, CATHERYNE 1 37.4% +18.4%
SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 1 56.5% +17.9%
LIDDLE, JAY TRENT 1 57.5% +23.1%
GROSS, JASON PATRICK 1 60.0% +48.2%
ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID 1 73.3% +4.0%
WIEST, PHILIP R 1 81.4% +16.5%
CHOU, WILLIAM B 1 72.9% +21.4%
WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE 1 49.7% +27.0%
BAHENA, CHRISTIE L. 1 67.3% +23.6%

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
17821353 CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID SHUNT PLUG WIEST, PHILIP R 9d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18864690 HEALTH DATA ENRICHMENT FOR IMPROVED MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 9d overdue
18501461 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING BIOCHAR IDENTITY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 69d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18365380 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF DETERMINING GAME PLAYER PREDILECTION LIDDLE, JAY TRENT 164d overdue
17452813 SURGERY ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CONTROL SIGNALS FOR VOICE CONTROL OF MOTOR-CONTROLLED MOVABLE ROBOT KINEMATICS OF SUCH A SURGERY ASSISTANCE SYSTEM CHOU, WILLIAM B 121d overdue
17344516 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A LOW-PROFILE INTERCRANIAL DEVICE AND THE LOW-PROFILE INTERCRANIAL DEVICE MANUFACTURED THEREBY WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE 86d overdue
18514609 NUTRACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN ARTERIAL ENDOTHELIAL CELLS FROM ENDOTHELIAL CELL DYSFUNCTION CHEN, CATHERYNE 19d overdue
17821353 CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID SHUNT PLUG WIEST, PHILIP R 9d
17344511 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A LOW-PROFILE INTERCRANIAL DEVICE AND THE LOW-PROFILE INTERCRANIAL DEVICE MANUFACTURED THEREBY BAHENA, CHRISTIE L. 47d
18501461 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING BIOCHAR IDENTITY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 69d
18355941 SONOLUCENT CRANIAL RECONSTRUCTION DEVICE GROSS, JASON PATRICK 83d

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37742
36861
16551
28571
37151
37971
17641
37811
37951

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18864690 HEALTH DATA ENRICHMENT FOR IMPROVED MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS Symptoma GmbH HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH 3686 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 11, 2024
18514609 NUTRACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN ARTERIAL ENDOTHELIAL CELLS FROM ENDOTHELIAL CELL DYSFUNCTION K.L.R.M., LLC CHEN, CATHERYNE 1655 Other Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Nov 20, 2023
18501461 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING BIOCHAR IDENTITY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18365380 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF DETERMINING GAME PLAYER PREDILECTION Onlife Inc. LIDDLE, JAY TRENT 3715 §103 Non-Final OA 164d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2023
18355941 SONOLUCENT CRANIAL RECONSTRUCTION DEVICE Longeviti Neuro Solutions, Inc. GROSS, JASON PATRICK 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jul 20, 2023
18311641 FLAME RETARDANT WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITE TO PASS SMOKE TEST AND METHOD OF MAKING Wilsonart LLC ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending May 03, 2023
17821353 CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID SHUNT PLUG Longeviti Neuro Solutions, Inc. WIEST, PHILIP R 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 22, 2022
17452813 SURGERY ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CONTROL SIGNALS FOR VOICE CONTROL OF MOTOR-CONTROLLED MOVABLE ROBOT KINEMATICS OF SUCH A SURGERY ASSISTANCE SYSTEM Aktormed GmbH CHOU, WILLIAM B 3795 §103 Final Rejection 121d overdue Pending Oct 29, 2021
17344516 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A LOW-PROFILE INTERCRANIAL DEVICE AND THE LOW-PROFILE INTERCRANIAL DEVICE MANUFACTURED THEREBY The Johns Hopkins University WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2021
17344511 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A LOW-PROFILE INTERCRANIAL DEVICE AND THE LOW-PROFILE INTERCRANIAL DEVICE MANUFACTURED THEREBY The Johns Hopkins University BAHENA, CHRISTIE L. 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 47d Pending Jun 10, 2021

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