Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Almanac Ip Advisors LLP

5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=574 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

74.8%
Allowance Rate
n=574
+0.34σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=574
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=264
-0.12σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=264
1089 days
Time to Allowance
n=264
+9.7pp
Interview Lift
n=574
28.3%
RCE Rate
n=574
2.2%
Appeal Rate
n=574

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=3 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=19 (min 20)
76.4%
§103 Overcome
n=106
§112 Overcome
n=17 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

A01G, H01L, Y02P
Top CPC Subclasses
16%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=574
1
Practitioners
n=574
574.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=574

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
§112 only1 (20%)
Double-patenting + other1 (20%)

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
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRAN, DZUNG 1 83.4% +5.5%
SABUR, ALIA 1 74.4% +6.5%
MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE 1 56.8% +23.7%
FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER 1 76.3% +39.1%
MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S 1 53.8% +21.1%

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
18733664 METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING GATE SPACER PROTECTION LAYER TRAN, DZUNG

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17652686 METHOD AND FIXTURE FOR CUTTING A WORKPIECE MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S 45d overdue
18559051 A JIG TO PERFORM TASKS ON A WORKPIECE AND ACCOMPANYING SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS USING SAME FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER 37d overdue
18580950 VERTICAL INDEXING OF GROW TOWER SEGMENTS MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE 56d

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28121
36421
37261
37241

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18733664 METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING GATE SPACER PROTECTION LAYER Parabellum Strategic Opportunities Fund LLC TRAN, DZUNG §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 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jan 19, 2024
18559051 A JIG TO PERFORM TASKS ON A WORKPIECE AND ACCOMPANYING SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS USING SAME Shaper Tools, Inc. FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER 3726 §112 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Nov 05, 2023
17652686 METHOD AND FIXTURE FOR CUTTING A WORKPIECE Festool GmbH MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2022

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