Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP

19 pending office actions • 16 clients • 18 examiners • 17 art units • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
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
2
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
14
Medium (74%)
4
Easy (21%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (63%)
§102 only2 (11%)
§112 only4 (21%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
11% of docket
2
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
11% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
58% of docket
2
Business / Other
11% 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
DAVISON, LAURA L 2 32.5% +35.8%
HASTY, NICHOLAS 1 51.3% +32.4%
CHIN, RICKY 1 68.2% +21.4%
HABIB, ASIFA 1 76.9% +14.7%
LONG, MEREDITH A 1 43.1% +22.0%
NGUYEN, TRAN N 1 62.0% +16.9%
FONSECA, JESSIE T 1 68.2% +18.4%
CAMPEN, KELLY SCAGGS 1 50.7% +31.9%
CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE 1 78.3% +22.9%
DAVIS, MARY ALICE 1 77.3% +32.3%

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
18205909 A-FRAME LADDER WITH A FLEXIBLE GATE/BARRIER DAVISON, LAURA L 356d overdue
18205917 A-FRAME LADDER WITH A TAMBOUR GATE/BARRIER DAVISON, LAURA L 91d overdue
19007359 LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR FREE STANDING CALL STATION HABIB, ASIFA 58d overdue
18741389 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTING A POTENTIAL CUSTOMER TO A DIGITAL DESTINATION CAMPEN, KELLY SCAGGS 28d overdue
18797024 APPARATUS FOR INSTALLATION BETWEEN AN INTERNAL WALL TO A BUILDING FACADE AND A METHOD THEREFOR FONSECA, JESSIE T 9d overdue
18616787 WATER MAIN FLUSHING WITH HIGH PRESSURE JETTING AND DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND REVERSE FLOW MANIFOLD FOR A WATER MAIN FLUSHING SYSTEM CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE 5d overdue
18965009 DRAINAGE PIPE COVERS WITH DATA PATTERNS PROVIDED THEREON LONG, MEREDITH A 7d
18694328 AIR COMPRESSOR DAVIS, MARY ALICE 21d

Client Portfolio (16 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36332
39932
21411
24241
28761
36221
36851
36911
37531
37461

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19228896 ONLINE REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE COLLABORATIVE ANNOTATION SYSTEM Markadoc Corporation HASTY, NICHOLAS 2141 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jun 05, 2025
19171955 MODULAR SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INSTALLING THE SAME Vicon Industries, Inc. CHIN, RICKY 2424 §103 Final Rejection 35d Pending Apr 07, 2025
19007359 LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR FREE STANDING CALL STATION Pedestal Pro LLC HABIB, ASIFA 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Dec 31, 2024
18965009 DRAINAGE PIPE COVERS WITH DATA PATTERNS PROVIDED THEREON Guardian Sensor Technologies Inc. LONG, MEREDITH A 3622 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Dec 02, 2024
18956753 CAREGIVER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHOD Skuse, Brian NGUYEN, TRAN N 3685 §102 Final Rejection 36d Pending Nov 22, 2024
18797024 APPARATUS FOR INSTALLATION BETWEEN AN INTERNAL WALL TO A BUILDING FACADE AND A METHOD THEREFOR Studco Australia Pty Ltd. FONSECA, JESSIE T 3633 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2024
18741389 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTING A POTENTIAL CUSTOMER TO A DIGITAL DESTINATION Fujifilm North America Corporation CAMPEN, KELLY SCAGGS 3691 §102 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2024
18616787 WATER MAIN FLUSHING WITH HIGH PRESSURE JETTING AND DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND REVERSE FLOW MANIFOLD FOR A WATER MAIN FLUSHING SYSTEM No-Des, Inc. CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE 3753 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2024
18694328 AIR COMPRESSOR Scantech Offshore Limited DAVIS, MARY ALICE 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Mar 21, 2024
18602688 FRAMELESS FOLD-OVER CARDSTOCK PRINT DISPLAY ARTICLE Fujifilm North America Corporation DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R 3734 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Mar 12, 2024
18402506 HIGH TORQUE FRICTION FIT LOW MOMENT HUB JOINT ASSEMBLY FOR A SHAFT Riverhawk Company SKROUPA, JOSHUA A 3678 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jan 02, 2024
18447705 METHOD OF MAKING AN ACID NEUTRALIZING POLYMER THROUGH REACTIVE COMPOUNDING Workers First LLC JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 1766 Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 10, 2023
18205909 A-FRAME LADDER WITH A FLEXIBLE GATE/BARRIER Confer Plastics, Inc. DAVISON, LAURA L 3993 §112 Non-Final OA 356d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2023
18205917 A-FRAME LADDER WITH A TAMBOUR GATE/BARRIER Confer Plastics, Inc. DAVISON, LAURA L 3993 §112 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2023
18058905 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING POWERED CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE PLATFORM Sutherland Global Services, Inc. PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 3629 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2022
17831728 THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS Barrflextu, LLC ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN 1762 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2022
17720948 OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY SCANNER Advanced Growing Resources Inc. FABIAN JR, ROBERTO 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2022
17675267 HEATING APPARATUS FOR AN ORTHOTIC DEVICE Costello Prosthetic Warmers LLC BROWN, KYLE MARTZ 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 18, 2022
17499003 INTERNAL WALL END APPARATUS Studco Australia Pty Ltd. CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T 3633 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 12, 2021

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