Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Ahmann Kloke LLP

Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

48 pending office actions • 25 clients • 46 examiners • 33 art units • 0 of 48 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Ahmann Kloke LLP has 49 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 1144 career applications. The record reflects sustained prosecution activity in a broad mechanical and transportation field, supported by a substantial application history.

The resolved allowance rate is 90.12%, with an average of 3.55 office actions per allowance. This pairing shows a favorable recorded allowance outcome while also indicating repeated examination exchanges before allowance. The profile can help practitioners balance outcome expectations with response planning.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=1144 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

90.1%
Allowance Rate
n=1144
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1144
3.6
OAs to Allowance
n=675
-0.05σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=675
963 days
Time to Allowance
n=675
+8.0pp
Interview Lift
n=1144
34.4%
RCE Rate
n=1144
1.6%
Appeal Rate
n=1144

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

74.5%
§101 Overcome
n=263
80.1%
§102 Overcome
n=236
79.9%
§103 Overcome
n=468
79.6%
§112 Overcome
n=255

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
33%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1144
3
Practitioners
n=1144
381.3
Apps / Practitioner
n=1144

Portfolio Summary

48
Total Pending OAs
29
Non-Final OAs
19
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

17
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (17)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (4)

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.

21
Hard (44%)
17
Medium (35%)
9
Easy (19%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (10%)
§101 + other11 (23%)
§103 only11 (23%)
§102 only3 (6%)
§112 only4 (8%)
Double-patenting only5 (10%)
Double-patenting + other3 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (10%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
10
Information Tech
21% of docket
14
Communications
29% of docket
4
Semiconductors
8% of docket
19
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
1
Business / Other
2% 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.

480 h
Manual time on pending OAs
96 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
168 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DEANE JR, WILLIAM J 2 82.6% +2.6%
XIAO, YUQING 2 60.5% +27.7%
SONNERS, SCOTT E 1 69.1% +12.2%
CHNG, JOY POH AI 1 60.6% +19.0%
MANSFIELD, THOMAS L 1 51.1% +32.8%
WILSON, NICHOLAS R 1 87.3% +11.6%
GRAY, RYAN M 1 87.8% +11.8%
CRAWFORD, JACINTA M 1 88.0% +9.7%
MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L 1 86.6% +13.0%
CARROLL, JEREMY W 1 75.0% +12.0%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19178597 AUDIO MIXED REALITY AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, DEVICES, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA DEANE JR, WILLIAM J —
19097807 IN-CANAL AND OTHER MICROPHONE SOUND CAPTURE AND SOUND OUTPUT, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, DEVICES, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA DEANE JR, WILLIAM J —
19049849 SIMULATION OF CLOUD DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING GRAY, RYAN M —
19035533 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OBJECT DETECTION AND INTERACTIVE 3D MODELS CRAWFORD, JACINTA M —
19030035 PROCESSING AND/OR TRANSMITTING 3D DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A 3D MODEL OF AN INTERIOR ENVIRONMENT MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L —

Hard Cases (21)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18153213 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING TRIM DEVICES FOR VEGETATION MANAGEMENT STEWART, CRYSTOL 77d overdue
17921928 TREATMENT RECOMMENDATION HANKS, BENJAMIN L 71d overdue
17490273 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Multi-Channel Readout of Returns NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE 71d overdue
18774754 PATIENT HEALTH RECORD PORTAL GAMIFICATION HIGGS, STELLA EUN 60d overdue
17811052 CARD PROTECTIVE APPARATUS KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 60d overdue
18540452 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSET HEALTH RISK INFORMATION TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN 59d overdue
15219172 TOPOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF MARKET REGIMES FOR PREDICTION JABLON, ASHER H. 8d overdue
18612986 SCALABLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING HEALTHY CONDITION SCORES IN RENEWABLE ASSET MANAGEMENT BARBEE, MANUEL L 2d overdue

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
17490260 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Optimized Range-Based Detection Intervals XIAO, YUQING 56d
19440638 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND PRESENTING 3D AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND ASSOCIATED DATA SONNERS, SCOTT E —
19242784 PATIENT MONITORING AND CARE CHNG, JOY POH AI —
19201891 FORECASTING USING TOPOLOGICAL HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITION MANSFIELD, THOMAS L —
19081905 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NAVIGATIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR DIGITAL TWINS WILSON, NICHOLAS R —
19049849 SIMULATION OF CLOUD DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING GRAY, RYAN M —
19030035 PROCESSING AND/OR TRANSMITTING 3D DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A 3D MODEL OF AN INTERIOR ENVIRONMENT MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L —
19025427 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING AND SELECTIVELY DISPENSING LIQUIDS CARROLL, JEREMY W —

Client Portfolio (25 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36456
26114
28573
36242
26932
26122
36272
36252
26131
36861

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19440638 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND PRESENTING 3D AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND ASSOCIATED DATA Costar Realty Information, Inc. SONNERS, SCOTT E 2613 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 05, 2026
19242784 PATIENT MONITORING AND CARE Atlas Lift Tech, Inc. CHNG, JOY POH AI 3686 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 18, 2025
19201891 FORECASTING USING TOPOLOGICAL HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITION Mined Xai LLC MANSFIELD, THOMAS L 3624 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2025
19178597 AUDIO MIXED REALITY AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, DEVICES, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA Iyo Inc. DEANE JR, WILLIAM J 2693 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 14, 2025
19097807 IN-CANAL AND OTHER MICROPHONE SOUND CAPTURE AND SOUND OUTPUT, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, DEVICES, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA Iyo Inc. DEANE JR, WILLIAM J 2693 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 01, 2025
19081905 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NAVIGATIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR DIGITAL TWINS Matterport, Inc. WILSON, NICHOLAS R 2611 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 17, 2025
19049849 SIMULATION OF CLOUD DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING Matterport, Inc. GRAY, RYAN M 2611 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 10, 2025
19035533 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OBJECT DETECTION AND INTERACTIVE 3D MODELS Matterport, Inc. CRAWFORD, JACINTA M 2611 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 23, 2025
19030035 PROCESSING AND/OR TRANSMITTING 3D DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A 3D MODEL OF AN INTERIOR ENVIRONMENT Matterport, Inc. MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L 2612 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19025427 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING AND SELECTIVELY DISPENSING LIQUIDS Versabev, Inc. CARROLL, JEREMY W 3754 §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 16, 2025
19004162 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PROPERTY LAYOUTS AND ASSOCIATED FUNCTIONALITY Matterport, Inc. GODDARD, TAMMY 2611 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 27, 2024
19001402 SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Panorama9, Inc. DABIPI, DIXON F 2451 Other Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 24, 2024
19000667 DEVICES, METHODS, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR ANALYZING, LABELING, AND MANAGING LAND IN A GEOSPATIAL PLATFORM Aidash, Inc. LIEW, ALEX KOK SOON 2674 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 23, 2024
18976277 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED STATE PREDICTION AND VISUALIZATION Marvin Behavioral Health Inc. TROTTER, SCOTT S 3696 DP Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Dec 10, 2024
18957446 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCALIZED COORDINATION AND IMAGE CAPTURE FOR MODELING AN ENVIRONMENT Matterport, Inc. GUO, XILIN 2616 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 22, 2024
18940582 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AQUATIC ORGANISM IMAGING Martineau & Associates SHIN, SOO JUNG 2667 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 07, 2024
18823606 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING HABITAT CONDITION ASSESSMENTS Aidash Inc. TORRES, JUAN A 2634 §101DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 03, 2024
18806625 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND EXECUTING AUDITS AND PROVIDING AUDIT RESULTS Cable Audit Associates, LLC HAIDER, FAWAAD 3627 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 15, 2024
18805485 ASSESSMENT AND PERFORMANCE SYSTEM FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION ACROSS MULTIPLE CHANNELS Cable Audit Associates, LLC OBAID, FATEH M 3627 §101§102Other Non-Final OA 55d Pending Aug 14, 2024
18788078 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROPAGATING NETWORK POLICY ThreatSTOP, Inc. ESCALANTE, OVIDIO 3992 DP Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18774754 PATIENT HEALTH RECORD PORTAL GAMIFICATION Medicalmine, Inc. HIGGS, STELLA EUN 3681 §101§103§112Other Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2024
18764043 Feed-Forward of Low Pass Signal Into Sigma-Delta Loop Siliconintervention Inc. NGUYEN, LINH V 2845 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 03, 2024
18752715 ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD NAVIGATION Medicalmine, Inc. PATEL, SHREYANS A 2659 §101Other Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Jun 24, 2024
18734918 SCALABLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY DISPENSING BEVERAGES Versabev, Inc. SEIF, DARIUSH 3731 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 05, 2024
18677535 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSOCIATING DIGITAL MEDIA WITH COLLECTIBLE-PROTECTIVE APPARATUS Rare Edition LLC TO, BAOQUOC N 2154 §103DP Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending May 29, 2024
18662852 PROPAGATING INFORMATION WITH NETWORK NODES ThreatSTOP, Inc. WOLDEMARIAM, AYELE F 2447 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending May 13, 2024
18612986 SCALABLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING HEALTHY CONDITION SCORES IN RENEWABLE ASSET MANAGEMENT Utopus Insights, Inc. BARBEE, MANUEL L 2857 §101§102 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2024
18399538 TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING LIGHTNING THREATS TO ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS Utopus Insights, Inc. LAU, TUNG S 2857 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 28, 2023
18540452 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSET HEALTH RISK INFORMATION Utopus Insights, Inc. TORRICO-LOPEZ, ALAN 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18511926 TDA ENHANCED NEAREST NEIGHBORS SymphonyAI Sensa, LLC MORRISON, JAY A 2151 §101 Final Rejection 55d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18493607 CONTROLLING WIND TURBINE Utopus Insights, Inc. TIMILSINA, SHARAD 2857 DP Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18141338 EXPLAINABLE MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA DISCOVERY AND INSIGHT GENERATION Mined Xai, LLC CHANNAVAJJALA, SRIRAMA T 2127 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 28, 2023
18153213 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING TRIM DEVICES FOR VEGETATION MANAGEMENT Aidash Inc. STEWART, CRYSTOL 3624 §101 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2023
17921928 TREATMENT RECOMMENDATION Arine Inc. HANKS, BENJAMIN L 3684 §101§103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2022
17970761 Systems and Methods for Spatially-Stepped Imaging Aeye, Inc. BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES 3645 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 21, 2022
17996407 DESTINATION-BASED POLICY SELECTION AND AUTHENTICATION ThreatSTOP, Inc. BAYOU, YONAS A 2499 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 17, 2022
17867310 ZAAF - Augmented Analytics Framework with Deep Metrics Discovery Zoho Corporation Private Limited SINGLETARY, TYRONE E 3625 §112 Final Rejection 21d Pending Jul 18, 2022
17811052 CARD PROTECTIVE APPARATUS Rare Edition LLC KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 3711 §103§112 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jul 06, 2022
17836552 NEURAL STYLE TRANSFER BASED SLIDER PUZZLE CAPTCHA Zoho Corporation Private Limited DHAKAD, RUPALI 2437 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 09, 2022
17554256 Multi-Lens Lidar Receiver with Multiple Readout Channels Aeye, Inc. CHEN, CHIA-LING 3645 §103DP Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2021
17523509 Ladar System with Adaptive Receiver Aeye, Inc. NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K 3645 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 10, 2021
17490221 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Controllable Detection Intervals Based on Environmental Conditions Aeye, Inc. XIAO, YUQING 3645 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 30, 2021
17490273 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Multi-Channel Readout of Returns Aeye, Inc. NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE 3645 §103§112 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2021
17490260 Hyper Temporal Lidar with Optimized Range-Based Detection Intervals Aeye, Inc. XIAO, YUQING 3645 §103Other Final Rejection 56d Pending Sep 30, 2021
17410399 NETWORK REPRESENTATION FOR EVOLUTION OF CLUSTERS AND GROUPS Ayasdi AI LLC DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED 2164 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 24, 2021
17324057 CONTACT LIST AGGREGATION AND DISPLAY Ebuddy Technologies B.V. BAROT, BHARAT 2453 §112Other Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending May 18, 2021
17069504 SEMANTIC UNDERSTANDING OF 3D DATA Matterport, Inc. MAZUMDER, SAPTARSHI 2612 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2020
15219172 TOPOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF MARKET REGIMES FOR PREDICTION Ayasdi AI LLC JABLON, ASHER H. 2174 §101§112 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2016

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ahmann Kloke LLP's patent allowance rate?

90.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Ahmann Kloke LLP were allowed, across 1,144 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Ahmann Kloke LLP average before allowance?

3.55 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Ahmann Kloke LLP have?

48 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 25 clients, before 46 examiners in 33 art units.

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