Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Artie Pennington Law Offices, Pllc

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics

5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Artie Pennington Law Offices, PLLC has managed 100 career applications, primarily in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The firm achieves a resolved allowance rate of 96.05 percent. Currently, there are 4 pending office actions under management.

The firm averages 2.88 office actions per allowance. This average of 2.88 serves as a benchmark for practitioners to estimate the typical duration of the prosecution process. The 100 career applications demonstrate the firm's experience. The 4 pending office actions show the current workload. The 96.05 percent allowance rate underscores the firm's performance in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. Practitioners can use these metrics to plan for future filings.

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

Quality Metrics (n=100 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

96.0%
Allowance Rate
n=100
+0.44σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=100
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=73
+0.01σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=73
962 days
Time to Allowance
n=73
+4.8pp
Interview Lift
n=100
22.4%
RCE Rate
n=100
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=100

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=11 (min 20)
85.7%
§102 Overcome
n=28
83.7%
§103 Overcome
n=43
80.0%
§112 Overcome
n=30

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G05F, H03K
Top CPC Subclasses
33%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=100
0
Practitioners
n=100
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=100 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
4
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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.

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

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (80%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
80% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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
ALLI, KASIM A 1 65.8% +36.4%
THOMAS, ERIC W 1 82.5% -1.9%
LIU, XIAOMING 1 86.5% +10.7%
LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 1 82.3% +15.3%
VARGHESE, ROSHN K 1 67.5% +20.6%

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
18206933 Inductors Embedded in Package Substrate and Board and Method and System for Manufacturing the Same LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 14d

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18378235 Method and Apparatus for Prevention, Cessation, Detection, and Monitoring of Cracks in Substrates LIU, XIAOMING 30d overdue
18429374 Low-Equivalent-Series-Resistance Capacitors with Solid-State Current Collectors Using Conductive Inks THOMAS, ERIC W 76d
18796021 Apparatus and Method for Implementing a Loop Prediction of Multiple Basic Blocks ALLI, KASIM A —
18138050 Through Package Vertical Interconnect and Method of Making Same VARGHESE, ROSHN K —

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18378235 Method and Apparatus for Prevention, Cessation, Detection, and Monitoring of Cracks in Substrates LIU, XIAOMING 30d overdue
18206933 Inductors Embedded in Package Substrate and Board and Method and System for Manufacturing the Same LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 14d
18796021 Apparatus and Method for Implementing a Loop Prediction of Multiple Basic Blocks ALLI, KASIM A —
18138050 Through Package Vertical Interconnect and Method of Making Same VARGHESE, ROSHN K —

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Chipletz 4
Condor Computing Corporation 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21831
28471
28121
28181
28961

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18796021 Apparatus and Method for Implementing a Loop Prediction of Multiple Basic Blocks Condor Computing Corporation ALLI, KASIM A 2183 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 06, 2024
18429374 Low-Equivalent-Series-Resistance Capacitors with Solid-State Current Collectors Using Conductive Inks Chipletz, Inc. THOMAS, ERIC W 2847 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 76d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18378235 Method and Apparatus for Prevention, Cessation, Detection, and Monitoring of Cracks in Substrates Chipletz, Inc. LIU, XIAOMING 2812 §102§103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2023
18206933 Inductors Embedded in Package Substrate and Board and Method and System for Manufacturing the Same Chipletz, Inc. LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 2818 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 07, 2023
18138050 Through Package Vertical Interconnect and Method of Making Same Chipletz, Inc. VARGHESE, ROSHN K 2896 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2023

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