Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Akerman Llp-St

6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=4475 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

77.9%
Allowance Rate
n=4475
+0.47σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=4475
3.0
OAs to Allowance
n=2834
-0.32σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=2834
1002 days
Time to Allowance
n=2834
+8.7pp
Interview Lift
n=4475
24.8%
RCE Rate
n=4475
1.4%
Appeal Rate
n=4475

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

76.7%
§101 Overcome
n=223
73.8%
§102 Overcome
n=994
77.4%
§103 Overcome
n=1698
80.6%
§112 Overcome
n=1240

Specialization & Scale

Y10T, A61K, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
10%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=4475
22
Practitioners
n=4475
203.4
Apps / Practitioner
n=4475

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

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%)
4
Medium (67%)
2
Easy (33%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)
Double-patenting only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
33% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% of docket
3
Business / Other
50% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KURR, JASON R 1 75.4% +20.4%
TRAN, CON P 1 68.9% +23.7%
DABNEY, PHYLESHA LARVINIA 1 76.4% +14.8%
MOHAMMED, ASSAD 1 73.5% +11.5%
SELLERS, DANIEL R 1 68.1% +17.1%
WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE 1 49.7% +26.6%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17364866 FIXATION METHODS FOR DEVICES IN TUBULAR STRUCTURES WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE 303d overdue
17979902 ALWAYS ON HEADWEAR RECORDING SYSTEM SELLERS, DANIEL R 99d overdue
18792768 PERSONAL AUDIO ASSISTANT DEVICE AND METHOD MOHAMMED, ASSAD 24d overdue
19012227 Eartips And Earphone Devices, And Systems And Methods Therefore KURR, JASON R
18985018 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IN-EAR CANAL SOUND SUPPRESSION TRAN, CON P
18936909 EXPANDABLE SEALING DEVICES AND METHODS DABNEY, PHYLESHA LARVINIA

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
ST R&DTech, LLC 2
ST TipTech, LLC 2
Earsoft LLC 1
ST FamTech, LLC 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26911
26941
37741

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19012227 Eartips And Earphone Devices, And Systems And Methods Therefore Earsoft LLC KURR, JASON R DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 07, 2025
18985018 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IN-EAR CANAL SOUND SUPPRESSION St R&Dtech, LLC TRAN, CON P §102Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2024
18936909 EXPANDABLE SEALING DEVICES AND METHODS St Tiptech, LLC DABNEY, PHYLESHA LARVINIA §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 04, 2024
18792768 PERSONAL AUDIO ASSISTANT DEVICE AND METHOD St R&Dtech, LLC MOHAMMED, ASSAD 2691 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2024
17979902 ALWAYS ON HEADWEAR RECORDING SYSTEM St Famtech, LLC SELLERS, DANIEL R 2694 §103 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2022
17364866 FIXATION METHODS FOR DEVICES IN TUBULAR STRUCTURES St Tiptech, LLC WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE 3774 §103 Final Rejection 303d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2021

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