Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Alford Law Group, Inc.

10 pending office actions • 7 clients • 9 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=278 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.2%
Allowance Rate
n=278
+0.45σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=278
2.7
OAs to Allowance
n=123
-0.45σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=123
1057 days
Time to Allowance
n=123
+1.6pp
Interview Lift
n=278
33.3%
RCE Rate
n=278
1.3%
Appeal Rate
n=278

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=19 (min 20)
77.2%
§102 Overcome
n=57
70.5%
§103 Overcome
n=78
68.2%
§112 Overcome
n=63

Specialization & Scale

G01N, G06F, G06V
Top CPC Subclasses
33%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=278
2
Practitioners
n=278
139.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=278

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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 (3)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.

8
Hard (80%)
2
Medium (20%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (30%)
§102 only1 (10%)
Double-patenting + other1 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
30% of docket
3
Information Tech
30% of docket
2
Communications
20% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 2 74.1% +15.7%
SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM 1 73.3% +13.6%
HOFFMAN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 1
SHALU, ZELALEM W 1 31.0% +20.0%
STREGE, JOHN B 1 87.0% +13.9%
KWAK, DEAN P 1 58.8% +37.2%
LIPMAN, JACOB 1 83.2% +12.6%
COOK, JONATHON 1 81.8% +16.8%
FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA 1 30.4% +49.0%

Hard Cases (8)

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
17994395 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR AN OPTICAL FIBER FORWARD SCATTER CHANNEL IN FLOW CYTOMETERS COOK, JONATHON 77d overdue
18297615 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVABLE NOZZLE WITH CAM LATCH ENGAGEMENT IN FLOW CYTOMETERS KWAK, DEAN P 44d overdue
18583866 APPARATUS TO ANALYZE FAILURE MODES OF MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISION MODELS SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM 4d overdue
18507074 BOOSTING, CORRECTING, AND BLOCKING TO PROVIDE IMPROVED TRANSCRIBED AND TRANSLATED RESULTS OF CLOUD-BASED MEETINGS JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 39d
18239137 ADAPTABLE SYSTEMS FOR DISCOVERING INTENT FROM ENTERPRISE DATA SHALU, ZELALEM W 55d
18173051 ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH A STATIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR CONTEXTUAL SITUATIONS, INCLUDING AGE BLOCKING FOR VAPING AND IGNITION START, USING DATA ANALYSIS AND OPERATING METHODS THEREOF LIPMAN, JACOB 56d
18215158 AUTO HIGH CONTENT SCREENING USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DRUG COMPOUND DEVELOPMENT STREGE, JOHN B 86d
17650067 MACHINE LEARNING FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CELLULAR MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA

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
17994395 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR AN OPTICAL FIBER FORWARD SCATTER CHANNEL IN FLOW CYTOMETERS COOK, JONATHON 77d overdue
18297615 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVABLE NOZZLE WITH CAM LATCH ENGAGEMENT IN FLOW CYTOMETERS KWAK, DEAN P 44d overdue
18583866 APPARATUS TO ANALYZE FAILURE MODES OF MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISION MODELS SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM 4d overdue
18507074 BOOSTING, CORRECTING, AND BLOCKING TO PROVIDE IMPROVED TRANSCRIBED AND TRANSLATED RESULTS OF CLOUD-BASED MEETINGS JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 39d
18239137 ADAPTABLE SYSTEMS FOR DISCOVERING INTENT FROM ENTERPRISE DATA SHALU, ZELALEM W 55d
18173051 ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH A STATIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR CONTEXTUAL SITUATIONS, INCLUDING AGE BLOCKING FOR VAPING AND IGNITION START, USING DATA ANALYSIS AND OPERATING METHODS THEREOF LIPMAN, JACOB 56d
18215158 AUTO HIGH CONTENT SCREENING USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DRUG COMPOUND DEVELOPMENT STREGE, JOHN B 86d
18927838 LARGE LANGUAGE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR SERVICE PROVIDER VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS JACKSON, JAKIEDA R

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21721
26571
16771
21451
26691
17981
24311
28771
16851

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18927838 LARGE LANGUAGE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR SERVICE PROVIDER VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Predii, Inc. JACKSON, JAKIEDA R §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2024
18583866 APPARATUS TO ANALYZE FAILURE MODES OF MACHINE LEARNING COMPUTER VISION MODELS Akridata, Inc. SILVERMAN, SETH ADAM 2172 §102§103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2024
18507074 BOOSTING, CORRECTING, AND BLOCKING TO PROVIDE IMPROVED TRANSCRIBED AND TRANSLATED RESULTS OF CLOUD-BASED MEETINGS Wordly, Inc. JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 2657 §101§103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Nov 12, 2023
18491742 A 3-LASER 13-COLOR B CELL MONITORING PANEL AND REAGENT KIT FOR ANALYZING B CELL SUBSETS IN ANTI-CD20 TREATED AUTOIMMUNE PATIENTS Cytek Biociences, Inc. HOFFMAN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 1677 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 20, 2023
18239137 ADAPTABLE SYSTEMS FOR DISCOVERING INTENT FROM ENTERPRISE DATA Predii, Inc. SHALU, ZELALEM W 2145 §101§103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Aug 29, 2023
18215158 AUTO HIGH CONTENT SCREENING USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DRUG COMPOUND DEVELOPMENT Viqi, Inc. STREGE, JOHN B 2669 §103§112 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18297615 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVABLE NOZZLE WITH CAM LATCH ENGAGEMENT IN FLOW CYTOMETERS Cytek Biosciences, Inc. KWAK, DEAN P 1798 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2023
18173051 ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH A STATIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR CONTEXTUAL SITUATIONS, INCLUDING AGE BLOCKING FOR VAPING AND IGNITION START, USING DATA ANALYSIS AND OPERATING METHODS THEREOF Aerendir Mobile Inc. LIPMAN, JACOB 2431 §103§112 Final Rejection 56d Pending Mar 04, 2023
17994395 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR AN OPTICAL FIBER FORWARD SCATTER CHANNEL IN FLOW CYTOMETERS Cytek Biosciences, Inc. COOK, JONATHON 2877 §102§103 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2022
17650067 MACHINE LEARNING FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CELLULAR MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES Viqi, Inc. FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA 1685 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 04, 2022

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