Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

304 pending office actions • 38 clients • 289 examiners • 182 art units • 0 of 304 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

AMIN, TUROCY & WATSON, LLP has 307 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 17,244 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 86.26%, with an average of 2.93 office actions per allowance. The figures show a large prosecution base and a substantial current pending workload.

The allowance rate provides an outcome measure across that application activity, while the office-action average indicates the response burden associated with matters reaching allowance. For practitioners, the profile supports analysis of prosecution consistency across transportation, e-commerce, and mechanical systems matters. The pending docket also makes active case triage important, particularly where multiple applications may share related claim themes or examination issues.

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

Quality Metrics (n=17244 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

86.3%
Allowance Rate
n=17244
+0.44σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=17244
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=12150
-0.24σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=12150
952 days
Time to Allowance
n=12150
+2.7pp
Interview Lift
n=17244
20.0%
RCE Rate
n=17244
1.2%
Appeal Rate
n=17244

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

76.8%
§101 Overcome
n=2388
79.5%
§102 Overcome
n=5654
78.4%
§103 Overcome
n=8335
79.0%
§112 Overcome
n=4438

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G03G, H04N
Top CPC Subclasses
18%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=17244
6
Practitioners
n=17244
2874.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=17244

Portfolio Summary

304
Total Pending OAs
178
Non-Final OAs
99
Final Rejections
27
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 70 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

34
Overdue
1
Due this week
21
Due this month
9
Due in next 60 days
5
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. 70 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (34)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (21)Due ≤ 60 days (9)Due later (5)

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.

173
Hard (57%)
115
Medium (38%)
15
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only11 (4%)
§101 + other56 (18%)
§103 only96 (32%)
§102 only13 (4%)
§112 only14 (5%)
Double-patenting only1 (0%)
Double-patenting + other6 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)106 (35%)
No statute on record1 (0%)

Industry Mix

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

38
Life Sciences
12% of docket
67
Information Tech
22% of docket
41
Communications
13% of docket
40
Semiconductors
13% of docket
110
Mechanical / Eng
36% of docket
8
Business / Other
3% 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.

3,040 h
Manual time on pending OAs
608 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
1,064 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
26.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO 4 76.0% +6.6%
SKWIERAWSKI, PAUL J 2 79.4% +25.1%
IVEY, DANA DESHAWN 2 88.5% +6.4%
SOFRONIOU, MICHAEL MARIO 2 100.0% +0.0%
TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA 2 45.5% -3.8%
HAGOS, EYOB 2 66.5% +43.2%
LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 2 89.4% +24.5%
WILLIAMS, ARUN C 2 82.1% +16.4%
BARGERO, JOHN E 2 55.4% +30.4%
SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN 2 55.0% +15.6%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18747753 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 31d overdue
18747764 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 28d overdue
19059372 STORAGE MEDIUM, VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD IVEY, DANA DESHAWN —
18582700 CONTACTLESS ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WILLIAMS, ARUN C —

Hard Cases (173)

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
18373317 PRESS FORMING METHOD STEPHENS, MATTHEW 146d overdue
17507649 Identifying Test Dependencies Using Binary Neural Networks KAPOOR, DEVAN 53d overdue
18098137 CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD XIAO, YUQING 51d overdue
18943599 IEC 61851-1 STANDARD REGARDING GRID CODE REQUIREMENTS AND SETPOINT TO LIMIT BATTERY DISCHARGE YANG, WENYUAN 50d overdue
18906528 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT MEDICAL EDITORS SHELDEN, BION A 44d overdue
18943566 COMPLIANCE OF ISO15118-20 WITH VDE-AR-N 4105 P-monitoring COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN 43d overdue
18761352 FRAUD DETECTION APPARATUS, FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM, AND FRAUD DETECTION METHOD PATEL, DIVESH 43d overdue
18981744 REMOTE OPERATION CONTROL DEVICE, REMOTE OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM TANG, BRYANT 19d overdue

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18747753 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 31d overdue
18747764 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL ASSISTANCE FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE MICROSCOPE OPERATION LEE, EUNICE SOMIN 28d overdue
18180154 WATER HEATING DEVICE BARGERO, JOHN E 22d
18987312 Untitled SKWIERAWSKI, PAUL J —
18943340 MANAGEMENT OF SIGNAL VERIFICATION AMONGST NODES OF A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM EMPLOYING E2E PROTECTION PROTOCOLS SKWIERAWSKI, PAUL J —
18808549 MULTIMODAL SIGNAL ACQUISITION SYNCHRONIZED BY UNIVERSAL CLOCK HAGOS, EYOB —
18582700 CONTACTLESS ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WILLIAMS, ARUN C —
18442242 POWER DEVICE WILLIAMS, ARUN C —

Client Portfolio (38 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36667
36635
28375
36585
28575
28595
24394
36574
36614
36674

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18987312 Untitled Volvo Car Corporation SKWIERAWSKI, PAUL J 2439 §103 Final Rejection — Pending
18945048 Untitled Volvo Car Corporation LEE, JUSTIN S §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending
18913268 Untitled Volvo Car Corporation MAHASE, PAMESHANAND §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending
18745619 Untitled Volvo Car Corporation KHAN, TAHSEEN 1781 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending
19405587 DISTRIBUTED STORAGE / COMPUTATION NETWORK FOR VERIFYING AND PROCESSING CHAIN OF TRANSACTIONS, INCLUDING AUTOMATIC TRANSACTION INITIATION Www.Trustscience.Com Inc. SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z 3694 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 02, 2025
19394931 AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF PATIENTS IN ANY POSE Universität Zu Lübeck ROY, BAISAKHI 3797 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 20, 2025
19481555 A SKIN STRUCTURE AND A FORMING METHOD THEREOF Yanfeng International Automotive Technology Co. Ltd. SONG, ZHENG B 2875 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 05, 2025
19353837 VEHICLE Honda Motor Co., Ltd. LEVY, MERRITT E 3663 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 09, 2025
19168843 DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. PECHE, JORGE O 3656 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 25, 2025
19336534 CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF 3656 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 23, 2025
19166495 VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. TROOST, AARON L 3666 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 18, 2025
19160486 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. YENKE, BRIAN P 2422 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 28, 2025
19311006 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. LAM, VINH TANG 2628 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 27, 2025
19290401 ROBOT REMOTE OPERATION CONTROL DEVICE, ROBOT REMOTE OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM, ROBOT REMOTE OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. KENIRY, HEATHER J 3657 §101§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 05, 2025
19283409 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTING MORE RELIABLE ASSESSMENTS WITH CONNECTIVITY STATISTICS Www.Trustscience.Com Inc. MADAMBA, GLENFORD J 2451 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 29, 2025
19283163 RISK BASED PROCESS AND PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Valgenesis, Inc. EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 3623 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 28, 2025
19258148 IDENTITY RESOLUTION IN BIG, NOISY, AND/OR UNSTRUCTURED DATA Www.Trustscience.Com Inc. CHBOUKI, TAREK 2165 §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 02, 2025
19227631 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALCULATING A TRUST SCORE Www.Trustscience.Com Inc. POTRATZ, DANIEL B 2491 §101§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 04, 2025
19195747 SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. LEVENTAL, YUVAL HAIM 2659 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 01, 2025
19170732 CLUSTER OF MOBILE DEVICES PERFORMING PARALLEL COMPUTATION OF NETWORK CONNECTIVITY Www.Trustscience.Com Inc. PEACH, POLINA G 2165 §101§103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Apr 04, 2025
19171156 COMPONENT FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR Yanfeng International Automotive Technology Co. Ltd. BUTCHER, CAROLINE N §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 04, 2025
19096771 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Jvckenwood Corporation XU, XIAOLAN 2488 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 01, 2025
19090483 VIDEO-RECORDING CONTROL DEVICE AND VIDEO RECORDING METHOD Jvckenwood Corporation LOTFI, KYLE M 2425 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 26, 2025
19085868 FAILSAFE OHMIC-CAPACITIVE MEMBRANE ACTUATOR-BASED RADIO FREQUENCY SWITCH DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. ROJAS, BERNARD 2837 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 20, 2025
19085735 EYE BLINK DETECTION USING AN ULTRASONIC TRANSCEIVER Invensense, Inc. LEE, JONATHAN S 2668 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 20, 2025
19110817 CLUTCH CONTROL DEVICE Honda Motor Co., Ltd. BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY 3618 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 12, 2025
19073072 POSTURE CONTROL METHOD, POSTURE CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. DOROS, KAYLA RENEE 3661 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 07, 2025
19072417 UTILIZING CAPACITORS ON A CHIP OF A CAPACITIVE SENSING DEVICE Invensense, Inc. MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M 2694 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 06, 2025
19069473 CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Honda Motor Co., Ltd. MOUBRY, JAMES G 3747 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2025
19069469 VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE, VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. REN, ZHUBING 2658 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2025
19068029 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha ELEY, JESSICA L 2852 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 03, 2025
19068045 FUEL PRODUCTION METHOD AND FUEL PRODUCTION SYSTEM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C 1771 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 03, 2025
19064928 DEVICE FOR EVALUATING POSITIVE ELECTRODE SLURRY FOR ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY Honda Motor Co., Ltd. PATEL, PARESH H 2858 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 27, 2025
19064921 DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD Jvckenwood Corporation TSWEI, YU-JANG 2614 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 27, 2025
19064810 CONVERSATION SUPPORT DEVICE, CONVERSATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, CONVERSATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J 2657 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 27, 2025
19063409 CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R 3661 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 26, 2025
19063407 VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF 3667 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 26, 2025
19063410 CONTACTLESS ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, MOVABLE BODY, AND CONTACTLESS ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. CHOWDHURI, SWARNA N 2836 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2025
19062269 VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE 3667 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 25, 2025
19059675 FAUCET DEVICE Toto Ltd. GARDNER, NICOLE 3753 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 21, 2025
19059614 DETERMINATION DEVICE, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. PHAM, CLINT V 3663 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 21, 2025
19059603 VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. MANCHO, RONNIE M 3657 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 21, 2025
19059372 STORAGE MEDIUM, VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. IVEY, DANA DESHAWN 3662 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 21, 2025
19059596 MOBILE OBJECT CONTROL DEVICE, MOBILE OBJECT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. MIRZA, ADNAN M 3667 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 21, 2025
19058073 CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH 3666 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 20, 2025
19058074 INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ALCON, FERNANDO 2400 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 20, 2025
19055548 METHOD FOR PRODUCING SYNTHESIS GAS AND FUEL PRODUCTION SYSTEM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 18, 2025
19103564 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Honda Motor Co., Ltd. COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 2675 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2025
19049177 PRINTER Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha MARSHALL, CHRISTLE I 2876 §102 Final Rejection 15d Pending Feb 10, 2025
19038733 ELECTRIC APPARATUS Honda Motor Co., Ltd. KENERLY, TERRANCE L 2834 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 28, 2025

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP's patent allowance rate?

86.3% of resolved applications prosecuted by Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP were allowed, across 17,244 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP average before allowance?

2.93 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP have?

304 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 38 clients, before 289 examiners in 182 art units.

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