Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Yee & Associates, P.C.

9 pending office actions • 1 client • 9 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
3
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

2
Hard (22%)
7
Medium (78%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (22%)
§103 only7 (78%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
6
Information Tech
67% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
22% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, NGA B 1 53.2% +24.9%
MUNGUIA, DUILIO 1 87.5% +33.3%
SIRJANI, FARIBA 1 75.6% +31.5%
WOOD, WILLIAM C 1 74.4% +20.8%
KHAN, SHAHID K 1 74.1% +15.4%
ESMAEILIAN, MAJID 1 75.4% +24.4%
ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 1 78.7% +7.8%
MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA 1 7.1% +21.4%
TRIEU, EM N 1 48.4% +6.4%

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
18657911 MANAGING CONTAINERS USING DATA STRUCTURE FOR FIXING SECURITY VULNERABILITIES AND EXPOSURES MUNGUIA, DUILIO 36d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18660404 Predicting Work Effort for Porting Software Projects Across Disparate Platforms NGUYEN, NGA B 28d
17302144 Body Area Networks MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA 40d
18334108 Accuracy Evaluation of Concept Expansion Systems KHAN, SHAHID K

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18660404 Predicting Work Effort for Porting Software Projects Across Disparate Platforms NGUYEN, NGA B 28d
18657911 MANAGING CONTAINERS USING DATA STRUCTURE FOR FIXING SECURITY VULNERABILITIES AND EXPOSURES MUNGUIA, DUILIO 36d
17302144 Body Area Networks MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA 40d
18652839 RANKING-AUGMENTED GENERATION FOR LONG DOCUMENTS SIRJANI, FARIBA 55d
18475510 Log Storage System with Improved Utilization of Storage Space WOOD, WILLIAM C 71d
18334108 Accuracy Evaluation of Concept Expansion Systems KHAN, SHAHID K
17486901 NETWORK CLOCK MANAGEMENT VIA DATA SERVERS ESMAEILIAN, MAJID

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
IBM 9

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36251
24971
26591
21931
21461
24771
24961
36811
21281

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18660404 Predicting Work Effort for Porting Software Projects Across Disparate Platforms International Business Machines Corporation NGUYEN, NGA B 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 10, 2024
18657911 MANAGING CONTAINERS USING DATA STRUCTURE FOR FIXING SECURITY VULNERABILITIES AND EXPOSURES International Business Machines Corporation MUNGUIA, DUILIO 2497 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending May 08, 2024
18652839 RANKING-AUGMENTED GENERATION FOR LONG DOCUMENTS International Business Machines Corporation SIRJANI, FARIBA 2659 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending May 02, 2024
18475510 Log Storage System with Improved Utilization of Storage Space International Business Machines Corporation WOOD, WILLIAM C 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Sep 27, 2023
18334108 Accuracy Evaluation of Concept Expansion Systems International Business Machines Corporation KHAN, SHAHID K 2146 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 13, 2023
17486901 NETWORK CLOCK MANAGEMENT VIA DATA SERVERS International Business Machines Corporation ESMAEILIAN, MAJID 2477 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 27, 2021
17447929 AUDIO COMMAND CORROBORATION AND APPROVAL International Business Machines Corporation ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 2496 §103 Non-Final OA 142d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2021
17302144 Body Area Networks International Business Machines Corporation MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA 3681 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Apr 26, 2021
17037816 ENTITY INFORMATION ENRICHMENT FOR COMPANY DETERMINATIONS International Business Machines Corporation TRIEU, EM N 2128 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Sep 30, 2020

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