Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Almanac IP Advisors LLP has a career history of 270 applications, primarily in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 86.31 percent, showing its results in securing patent grants for its clients. This success rate is achieved with an average of 2.83 office actions per allowance, indicating the prosecution effort involved.
With 4 pending office actions at present, the firm has resolved most of its 270 career applications. The 86.31 percent allowance rate and 2.83 average office actions provide benchmarks for the firm's performance in mechanical and e-commerce patent law. Practitioners can use the 2.83 average to estimate the resources needed for prosecution with this firm. The 4 pending office actions represent the current phase of activity for the firm's active patent matters. The pending actions require attention to maintain the firm's results in the mechanical and e-commerce sectors.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | 2 | 56.8% | +22.4% |
| KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 1 | 44.3% | +37.5% |
| TRAN, DZUNG | 1 | 83.6% | +5.7% |
| SABUR, ALIA | 1 | 74.6% | +6.3% |
| FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 76.2% | +39.5% |
| MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 1 | 54.1% | +21.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17652686 | METHOD AND FIXTURE FOR CUTTING A WORKPIECE | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 45d overdue |
| 19142005 | TOWER INDEXING VIA TOWER INTERLEAVING | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | — |
| 19083956 | LOCALIZED PLANT SITE IRRIGATION FOR PLANT SUPPORT TOWERS | MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | — |
| 18733664 | METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING GATE SPACER PROTECTION LAYER | TRAN, DZUNG | — |
| 18553554 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL OF POSITIONING SYSTEMS | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17652686 | METHOD AND FIXTURE FOR CUTTING A WORKPIECE | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 45d overdue |
| 18580950 | VERTICAL INDEXING OF GROW TOWER SEGMENTS | MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | 56d |
| 19142005 | TOWER INDEXING VIA TOWER INTERLEAVING | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | — |
| 19083956 | LOCALIZED PLANT SITE IRRIGATION FOR PLANT SUPPORT TOWERS | MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | — |
| 18553554 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL OF POSITIONING SYSTEMS | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| MJNN | 3 |
| Parabellum Strategic Opportunities Fund LLC | 2 |
| SHAPER TOOLS, INC. | 1 |
| Festool | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 3 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19142005 | TOWER INDEXING VIA TOWER INTERLEAVING | Mjnn LLC | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 3642 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19083956 | LOCALIZED PLANT SITE IRRIGATION FOR PLANT SUPPORT TOWERS | Mjnn LLC | MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 18733664 | METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING GATE SPACER PROTECTION LAYER | Parabellum Strategic Opportunities Fund LLC | TRAN, DZUNG | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 | |
| 18659033 | PACKAGE ON PACKAGE STRUCTURE | Parabellum Strategic Opportunities Fund LLC | SABUR, ALIA | 2812 | DPOther | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18580950 | VERTICAL INDEXING OF GROW TOWER SEGMENTS | Mjnn LLC | MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | 3642 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18553554 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL OF POSITIONING SYSTEMS | Shaper Tools, Inc. | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2023 |
| 17652686 | METHOD AND FIXTURE FOR CUTTING A WORKPIECE | Festool GmbH | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2022 |
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