Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Williams Mullen

16 pending office actions • 12 clients • 16 examiners • 15 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 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%)
12
Medium (75%)
2
Easy (12%)
2
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (62%)
§102 only2 (12%)
§112 only2 (12%)
No statute on record2 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

12
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
19% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 1 58.0% +14.9%
WU, ZHEN Y 1 78.7% +21.6%
ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE 1 64.3% +100.0%
PATEL, BRIJESH V 1 65.0% +41.0%
HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE 1 70.4% +22.1%
KERSHAW, KELLY P 1 17.7% +16.8%
RONEY, CELESTE A 1 62.3% +18.0%
COUGHLIN, DANIEL F 1 39.2% +20.0%
CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1 63.0% +17.8%
CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG 1 45.7% +7.3%

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
18683574 SWEETENER BLEND COMPRISING THAUMATIN AND BRAZZEIN KERSHAW, KELLY P 22d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18588216 COSMETOLOGY EQUIPMENT CLEANING DEVICE HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE 91d overdue
18697038 PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES AGAINST STEM RUST AND METHODS OF USE ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE 79d overdue
18372209 CELLULOSE DERIVATIVE FREE CAPSULE FOR HERBAL EXTRACTS COUGHLIN, DANIEL F 38d overdue
18745403 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING UNLOCK CODES BASED ON EVENT TRIGGERS WU, ZHEN Y 24d overdue
18220587 PROCESS FOR TREATING TERRESTRIAL-BASED AND MARINE-BASED BIOMASSES CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 22d overdue
19086987 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING TEMPORAL MEASUREMENTS OF LOCALIZED RADIATION TO ESTIMATE THE MAGNITUDE, LOCATION, AND VOLUME OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL IN THE BODY SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 7d
18683574 SWEETENER BLEND COMPRISING THAUMATIN AND BRAZZEIN KERSHAW, KELLY P 22d
18607667 ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY INSULATED PACKING SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING FOOD PRODUCTS PATEL, BRIJESH V 62d

Client Portfolio (12 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16632
37971
26851
37361
36371
17911
16121
16191
17481
17511

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19086987 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING TEMPORAL MEASUREMENTS OF LOCALIZED RADIATION TO ESTIMATE THE MAGNITUDE, LOCATION, AND VOLUME OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL IN THE BODY Lucerno Dynamics, LLC SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 21, 2025
18745403 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING UNLOCK CODES BASED ON EVENT TRIGGERS Davinci Lock LLC WU, ZHEN Y 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2024
18697038 PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES AGAINST STEM RUST AND METHODS OF USE The Sainsbury Laboratory ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE 1663 §102 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2024
18607667 ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY INSULATED PACKING SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING FOOD PRODUCTS Seawise Innovative Packing Ltd. PATEL, BRIJESH V 3736 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Mar 18, 2024
18588216 COSMETOLOGY EQUIPMENT CLEANING DEVICE Lynne G. Benn HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE 3637 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2024
18683574 SWEETENER BLEND COMPRISING THAUMATIN AND BRAZZEIN Nomad Bioscience GmbH KERSHAW, KELLY P 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18579054 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING PROANTHOCYANIDINS AND ZINC FOR TREATING AND/OR PREVENTING INFLAMMATION Animora Inc. RONEY, CELESTE A 1612 §103 Final Rejection 69d Pending Jan 12, 2024
18372209 CELLULOSE DERIVATIVE FREE CAPSULE FOR HERBAL EXTRACTS Gaia Herbs COUGHLIN, DANIEL F 1619 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18220587 PROCESS FOR TREATING TERRESTRIAL-BASED AND MARINE-BASED BIOMASSES Greenkey LLC CALANDRA, ANTHONY J 1748 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
18205764 LITHIUM-BASED SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL Livent Lithium LLC CHUO, TONY SHENG HSIANG 1751 Other Final Rejection Pending Jun 05, 2023
18205712 SOLID-STATE BATTERY Livent Lithium LLC ERWIN, JAMES M 1725 §112 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2023
18025111 SALIVA COLLECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD National University Of Singapore BRAZIN, JACQUELINE 1798 §102 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2023
18016051 PRODUCTS FOR ORAL CONSUMPTION WITH REDUCED SUGAR CONTENT Nomad Bioscience GmbH SILVERMAN, JANICE Y 1792 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jan 13, 2023
17960239 DRY PROCESS FOR FORMING AN ELECTRODE Livent Usa Corp. LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 05, 2022
17761854 BACTERIOCINS FOR CONTROL OF SALMONELLA ENTERICA Nomad Bioscience GmbH LIEB, JEANETTE M 1654 Other Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2022
17046561 GENES ASSOCIATED WITH RESISTANCE TO WHEAT YELLOW RUST Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA 1663 §112 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2020

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