Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Ascenda Law Group, Pc

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Networking & Security

27 pending office actions • 15 clients • 25 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Ascenda Law Group, PC operates in the Networking & Security technology area. The firm has a history with 5090 career applications and a resolved allowance rate pct of 96.03. This rate of success is a notable feature of its prosecution profile. The 96.03 percent allowance rate serves as a primary metric for evaluating the firm's historical performance in securing patent grants. Practitioners can look to this success rate when assessing the firm's prosecution history.

There are 15 pending office actions currently being handled by the firm. The average of 3.85 office actions per allowance provides a baseline for the expected number of responses needed to achieve a patent grant. This 3.85 average helps in setting expectations for the number of interactions required to reach a final decision. With 5090 applications in its history, the firm has a documented record of performance. The 15 pending office actions represent the current volume of active matters the firm is pursuing.

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

Quality Metrics (n=5090 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

96.0%
Allowance Rate
n=5090
+0.70σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=5090
3.8
OAs to Allowance
n=4478
+0.16σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=4478
1156 days
Time to Allowance
n=4478
+1.6pp
Interview Lift
n=5090
30.2%
RCE Rate
n=5090
2.6%
Appeal Rate
n=5090

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

95.8%
§101 Overcome
n=695
94.9%
§102 Overcome
n=1309
94.1%
§103 Overcome
n=2371
94.8%
§112 Overcome
n=1219

Specialization & Scale

G06Q, H04L, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
25%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=5090
2
Practitioners
n=5090
2545.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=5090

Portfolio Summary

27
Total Pending OAs
21
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

11
Hard (41%)
9
Medium (33%)
4
Easy (15%)
3
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§101 + other1 (4%)
§103 only7 (26%)
§102 only1 (4%)
§112 only2 (7%)
Double-patenting only2 (7%)
Double-patenting + other1 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (33%)
No statute on record3 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
15% of docket
6
Information Tech
22% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
4% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
14
Business / Other
52% 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.

270 h
Manual time on pending OAs
54 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
94 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RAABE, CHRISTOPHER M 3 68.3% +27.3%
PATEL, TAJASH D 1 80.8% +7.3%
LI, MENG 1 86.3% +20.2%
PEREZ BORROTO, ALFONSO 1 73.5% +19.1%
HUANG, GRACE 1 56.8% +55.2%
BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J 1 83.5% +14.0%
NOWLIN, ERIC 1 88.3% +5.8%
TRAN, CONGVAN 1 89.3% +4.9%
LEE, NATHANIEL J. 1 63.4% +21.5%
SHIN, KYUNG H 1 82.0% +10.5%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19638911 MOLLE RETENTION SYSTEM PATEL, TAJASH D —
19240524 USING AN LLM TO GENERATE API AND APPLICATION VULNERABILITY MITIGATION POLICIES FOR API GATEWAYS, WEB APPLICATION FIREWALLS, NEXT GENERATION FIREWALLS, AND IPS/IDS TOOLS LI, MENG —
18977564 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRACTION NEUROGENESIS BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J —
18973821 Consecutive Preamble Transmissions by a Wireless Device NOWLIN, ERIC —
18973238 Aerial Service TRAN, CONGVAN —
18928780 RESILIENT ESTIMATION FOR GRID SITUATIONAL AWARENESS SHIN, KYUNG H —

Hard Cases (11)

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
18350268 TOPICAL APPLICATION OF NERVE LABELING DYES FOR IMAGE-GUIDED SURGERY JONES, DAMERON LEVEST 2d overdue
18520578 METHOD AND DEVICE USED FOR POSITIONING EBRAHIM, ANEZ C 20d
18819729 METHOD FOR FABRICATING FOOTWEAR USING SACRIFICIAL MOLD YE, XINWEN 26d
19032674 METHODS FOR FABRICATION OF ARTICLES FROM THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS HUANG, GRACE 55d
18275158 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HANDLING BIOLOGICAL CELL CULTURES HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA 70d
18939772 DEVICES COMPATIBLE WITH NIGHT VISION EQUIPMENT RAABE, CHRISTOPHER M —
18919643 Restricted Local Operator Services for a Public Land Mobility Network ONAMUTI, GBEMILEKE J —
18786910 MOBILE APPLICATION TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION LY, ANH VU H —

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
19049843 RECEIVER UNIT OF A WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM PEREZ BORROTO, ALFONSO 33d
19032674 METHODS FOR FABRICATION OF ARTICLES FROM THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS HUANG, GRACE 55d
19240524 USING AN LLM TO GENERATE API AND APPLICATION VULNERABILITY MITIGATION POLICIES FOR API GATEWAYS, WEB APPLICATION FIREWALLS, NEXT GENERATION FIREWALLS, AND IPS/IDS TOOLS LI, MENG —
18990028 GREEN-EMITTING PHOSPHORS AND DEVICES THEREOF RAABE, CHRISTOPHER M —
18977564 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRACTION NEUROGENESIS BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J —
18970327 URANIUM-BASED PHOSPHORS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DISPLAYS AND LIGHTING APPLICATIONS RAABE, CHRISTOPHER M —
18939772 DEVICES COMPATIBLE WITH NIGHT VISION EQUIPMENT RAABE, CHRISTOPHER M —
18862598 SYTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPOSITING PHOSPHOR CONTAINING INK LEE, NATHANIEL J. —

Client Portfolio (15 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37322
24371
28361
17341
24471
17541
24671
17991
16181
24611

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19638911 MOLLE RETENTION SYSTEM First-Light Usa, LLC PATEL, TAJASH D 3732 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 03, 2026
19240524 USING AN LLM TO GENERATE API AND APPLICATION VULNERABILITY MITIGATION POLICIES FOR API GATEWAYS, WEB APPLICATION FIREWALLS, NEXT GENERATION FIREWALLS, AND IPS/IDS TOOLS Wallarm Inc. LI, MENG 2437 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 17, 2025
19049843 RECEIVER UNIT OF A WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM Edison Innovations, LLC PEREZ BORROTO, ALFONSO 2836 §112Other Non-Final OA 33d Pending Feb 10, 2025
19032674 METHODS FOR FABRICATION OF ARTICLES FROM THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS Global Apparel Partners Inc. HUANG, GRACE 3732 §102§103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jan 21, 2025
18990028 GREEN-EMITTING PHOSPHORS AND DEVICES THEREOF Edison Innovations, LLC RAABE, CHRISTOPHER M Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18977564 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRACTION NEUROGENESIS Axsonus LLC BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 11, 2024
18973821 Consecutive Preamble Transmissions by a Wireless Device Peninsula Technologies, LLC NOWLIN, ERIC DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 09, 2024
18973238 Aerial Service Peninsula Technologies, LLC TRAN, CONGVAN §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 09, 2024
18970327 URANIUM-BASED PHOSPHORS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DISPLAYS AND LIGHTING APPLICATIONS Edison Innovations, LLC RAABE, CHRISTOPHER M Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 05, 2024
18939772 DEVICES COMPATIBLE WITH NIGHT VISION EQUIPMENT Edison Innovations, LLC RAABE, CHRISTOPHER M §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 07, 2024
18862598 SYTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPOSITING PHOSPHOR CONTAINING INK Edison Innovations LLC LEE, NATHANIEL J. 1734 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 04, 2024
18928780 RESILIENT ESTIMATION FOR GRID SITUATIONAL AWARENESS Edison Innovations, LLC SHIN, KYUNG H 2447 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 28, 2024
18919643 Restricted Local Operator Services for a Public Land Mobility Network Peninsula Technologies, LLC ONAMUTI, GBEMILEKE J §101DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 18, 2024
18908749 Indication of Completion of Small Data Transmission Procedure Peninsula Technologies, LLC LIN, WILL W §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 07, 2024
18890857 QoS Policy Control of Mission Critical Video Service Peninsula Technologies, LLC ELNOUBI, SAID M Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 20, 2024
18819729 METHOD FOR FABRICATING FOOTWEAR USING SACRIFICIAL MOLD Koobz YE, XINWEN 1754 §103§112 Final Rejection 26d Pending Aug 29, 2024
18786910 MOBILE APPLICATION TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION Lexington Technologies, LLC LY, ANH VU H §102§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 29, 2024
18757852 Random Access Channel Configuration of a Base Station Peninsula Technologies, LLC BLANTON, JOHN D §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 28, 2024
18654635 DEVICES INCLUDING REFLECTIVE GEOMETRIES FOR DISPLAYS AND LIGHTING APPLICATIONS Edison Innovations, LLC ASSOUMAN, HERVE-LOUIS Y §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 03, 2024
18654432 OPTICALLY ACTIVE STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES FOR PREPARING AND DEVICES THEREOF Edison Innovaions, Llc. ANYA, IGWE U §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 03, 2024
18699006 CVD REACTOR WITH A SUPPORTING RING, AND SUPPORTING RING FOR A SUBSTRATE Aixtron SE LEE, AIDEN Y §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 05, 2024
18520578 METHOD AND DEVICE USED FOR POSITIONING Bunker Hill Technologies LLC EBRAHIM, ANEZ C 2467 §102§103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18275158 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HANDLING BIOLOGICAL CELL CULTURES Aixinno Ltd. HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA 1799 §103§112 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jul 31, 2023
18350268 TOPICAL APPLICATION OF NERVE LABELING DYES FOR IMAGE-GUIDED SURGERY Edison Innovation, LLC JONES, DAMERON LEVEST 1618 §103§112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
18212186 METHOD AND DEVICE IN NODES USED FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION Bunker Hill Technologies LLC BEYEN, ZEWDU A 2461 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2023
17900024 Storage System with Multi-Node Cache Synchronization Daedalus Cloud LLC ALSIP, MICHAEL 2139 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Aug 31, 2022
17699220 INTELLIGENT ALARM MANIPULATOR AND RESOURCE TRACKER Lexington Technolgies, LLC WOOD, WILLIAM C 2193 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 21, 2022

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