Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP

19 pending office actions • 12 clients • 17 examiners • 16 art units • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 63 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
3
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. 19 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

0
Hard (0%)
18
Medium (95%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (79%)
§102 only3 (16%)
§112 only1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
16% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
3
Semiconductors
16% of docket
12
Mechanical / Eng
63% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, VIET P 2 61.3% +30.5%
TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI 2 36.8% +49.0%
STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM 1 66.7% -6.7%
KUMAR, RAKESH 1 56.9% +28.1%
BOUZIANE, SAID 1 76.6% +11.6%
ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO 1 60.8% +35.5%
ROBINSON, HOPE A 1 67.9% +43.2%
VOLZ, ELIZABETH J 1 66.6% +18.8%
COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 1 84.2% +11.6%
PAGUIO FRISING, MICHELLE F 1 70.5% +40.7%

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
18573142 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING INTRA-TUMOR REGIONS ON QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND PARAMETRIC IMAGES TO PREDICT CANCER RESPONSE TO CHEMOTHERAPY AT PRE-TREATMENT COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 79d overdue

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18576040 SEALING DEVICE, GARBAGE CAN BODY AND GARBAGE CAN VOLZ, ELIZABETH J 162d overdue
18580569 TRANSMISSION MECHANISM OF STEPPING MOTOR, STEPPING MOTOR AND DRIVING MECHANISM NGUYEN, VIET P 119d overdue
18573142 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING INTRA-TUMOR REGIONS ON QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND PARAMETRIC IMAGES TO PREDICT CANCER RESPONSE TO CHEMOTHERAPY AT PRE-TREATMENT COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 79d overdue
18432454 STEP-ON AND HAND-PRESSED TRASH CAN ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO 60d overdue
18738463 CONTROLLED INVENTORY REFRIGERATED DISPENSING SYSTEM KUMAR, RAKESH 51d overdue
19066355 Hybrid Renewable Energy System NGUYEN, VIET P 36d overdue
18371602 Fremyella diplosiphon as a Nutritional Feed Supplement for Aquaculture PAGUIO FRISING, MICHELLE F 36d overdue
17501396 SOFT-SIDED CONTAINER WITH HANGING SUSPENSION TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI 28d

Client Portfolio (12 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37333
28342
36581
36511
28461
37361
16521
26751
16511
36431

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19066355 Hybrid Renewable Energy System Morgan State University NGUYEN, VIET P 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2025
18294345 ROBOT SORTING METHOD BASED ON VISUAL RECOGNITION AND STORAGE MEDIUM China Construction Steel Structure Guangdong Co., Ltd. STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM 3658 §103 Final Rejection 49d Pending Sep 20, 2024
18738463 CONTROLLED INVENTORY REFRIGERATED DISPENSING SYSTEM Minibar North America, Inc. KUMAR, RAKESH 3651 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2024
18735720 SLIDING DEVICE AND TRASH CAN Jiangmen Jinlong High Technology Industrial Co., Ltd. BOUZIANE, SAID 2846 §112 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Jun 06, 2024
18432454 STEP-ON AND HAND-PRESSED TRASH CAN Jiangmen Jinlong High Technology Industrial Co., Ltd. ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO 3736 §102 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Feb 05, 2024
18430193 Composition and Method for Increasing Fatty Acid Production in Cyanobacteria by Altering Cell Membrane Permeability Morgan State University ROBINSON, HOPE A 1652 §102 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Feb 01, 2024
18580569 TRANSMISSION MECHANISM OF STEPPING MOTOR, STEPPING MOTOR AND DRIVING MECHANISM Jiangmen Jinlong High Technology Industrial Co., Ltd. NGUYEN, VIET P 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2024
18576040 SEALING DEVICE, GARBAGE CAN BODY AND GARBAGE CAN Huanjiu Lu VOLZ, ELIZABETH J 3733 §103 Non-Final OA 162d overdue Pending Jan 02, 2024
18573142 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING INTRA-TUMOR REGIONS ON QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND PARAMETRIC IMAGES TO PREDICT CANCER RESPONSE TO CHEMOTHERAPY AT PRE-TREATMENT Hamidreza Taleghamar COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 2675 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18371602 Fremyella diplosiphon as a Nutritional Feed Supplement for Aquaculture Morgan State University PAGUIO FRISING, MICHELLE F 1651 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18210986 METHOD FOR THE POLYCULTURE OF CLAMS WITH OYSTERS Morgan State University CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A 3643 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 16, 2023
18329130 METHODS FOR DETECTING ZEROVALENT NANOPARTICLE-MEDIATED OXIDATIVE STRESS IN CYANOBACTERIA Morgan State University IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 05, 2023
18184265 RAILROAD TANK CAR FITTINGS National Steel Car Limited MESHAKA, MAXWELL L 3614 §103 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2023
18173740 HYBRID ELECTROMECHANICAL TORQUE WRENCH Creative Systems And Design, LLC SAENZ, ALBERTO 3723 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2023
18167475 MODULAR, PERCUTANEOUS DUAL-LUMEN CANNULA SYSTEM The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research HALL, DEANNA K 3783 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Feb 10, 2023
17959025 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TREATING MIGRAINES Cooltech, LLC ASHIMIU, MAUTIN ISAAC 3785 §102 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Oct 03, 2022
17501396 SOFT-SIDED CONTAINER WITH HANGING SUSPENSION California Innovations Inc. TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI 3733 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 14, 2021
17465113 TRANS-ESOPHAGEAL AORTIC FLOW RATE CONTROL UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE LABRANCHE, BROOKE N 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Sep 02, 2021
17069946 SOFT-SIDED CONTAINER WITH HANGING SUSPENSION California Innovations Inc. TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI 3733 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Oct 14, 2020

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