Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Ascent Intellectual Property Law

Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

19 pending office actions • 15 clients • 19 examiners • 15 art units • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Ascent Intellectual Property Law focuses on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. With 302 career applications, the firm has achieved a resolved allowance rate pct of 87.31. This data point reflects the firm's effectiveness in securing patent protection for its clients. The 87.31 percent allowance rate is a key indicator of the firm's results. Practitioners can use this data to evaluate the firm's historical performance across its career filings.

The firm currently has 12 pending office actions. Its average of 4.23 office actions per allowance indicates the typical level of engagement required with the USPTO. This 4.23 average helps in setting expectations for the number of interactions required to reach a final decision. With 302 applications in its history, the firm has established a clear performance record. The 12 pending actions represent the current active workload for the firm's practitioners.

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

Quality Metrics (n=302 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.3%
Allowance Rate
n=302
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=302
4.2
OAs to Allowance
n=172
+0.36σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=172
923 days
Time to Allowance
n=172
+9.0pp
Interview Lift
n=302
48.7%
RCE Rate
n=302
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=302

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

45.8%
§101 Overcome
n=24
77.1%
§102 Overcome
n=140
73.4%
§103 Overcome
n=169
77.8%
§112 Overcome
n=117

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06Q, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
15%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=302
0
Practitioners
n=302
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=302 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

9
Hard (47%)
10
Medium (53%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (11%)
§101 + other2 (11%)
§103 only10 (53%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (26%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
5% of docket
2
Information Tech
11% of docket
4
Communications
21% of docket
2
Semiconductors
11% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
37% of docket
3
Business / Other
16% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HASAN, SYED HAROON 1 81.6% +15.5%
KING, ANITA M 1 79.7% +14.7%
MAI, THIEN T 1 59.2% +19.8%
RHODES, JR, LEON W 1 82.4% +11.6%
TEJADA, JOSEANE ECLAIR 1 50.0% +50.9%
KIM, MICHELLE JINJU 1 70.0% +50.0%
SHARMA, NEERAJ 1 84.7% +12.1%
PASIEWICZ, DANIEL M 1 77.0% +12.2%
VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S 1 64.2% +17.3%
COHEN, MICHAEL P 1 58.7% +27.5%

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
18887468 LINK-BASED AUDIO RECORDING, COLLECTION, COLLABORATION, EMBEDDING AND DELIVERY SYSTEM SHARMA, NEERAJ —

Hard Cases (9)

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
17734027 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMAL PERSONALIZED INFANT NUTRITION, DISEASE PREVENTION, AND GROWTH MONITORING FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL 77d overdue
18389186 Breastfeeding Monitor and Smart Insight System STEINBERG, AMANDA L 26d overdue
17341008 SPECTRAL ANALYSIS VISUALIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD LEE, PAUL D 23d overdue
18384770 Dimensional Measurement Method Based on Deep Learning SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E 18d overdue
18955592 HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE KIM, MICHELLE JINJU 30d
19206688 Systems, Methods, and Media for Identification, Disambiguation, Verification and for Communicating Knowledge HASAN, SYED HAROON 34d
19091358 WIRE CONNECTION SYSTEM AND DEVICE KING, ANITA M —
18831455 RIM LOCK CAMERA LENS ACCESSORY MOUNT RHODES, JR, LEON W —

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18647613 Tinted Deodorant Composition COHEN, MICHAEL P 12d
18955592 HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE KIM, MICHELLE JINJU 30d
19206688 Systems, Methods, and Media for Identification, Disambiguation, Verification and for Communicating Knowledge HASAN, SYED HAROON 34d
19053875 WRITER FOR HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE MAI, THIEN T 76d
19091358 WIRE CONNECTION SYSTEM AND DEVICE KING, ANITA M —
18831455 RIM LOCK CAMERA LENS ACCESSORY MOUNT RHODES, JR, LEON W —
18958595 PORTABLE OUTDOOR SLEEP SYSTEM TEJADA, JOSEANE ECLAIR —
18887468 LINK-BASED AUDIO RECORDING, COLLECTION, COLLABORATION, EMBEDDING AND DELIVERY SYSTEM SHARMA, NEERAJ —

Client Portfolio (15 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36732
21541
28761
26881
26591
26991
16121
37921
26691
36371

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19206688 Systems, Methods, and Media for Identification, Disambiguation, Verification and for Communicating Knowledge Pinx, Inc. HASAN, SYED HAROON 2154 §101§102 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 13, 2025
19091358 WIRE CONNECTION SYSTEM AND DEVICE Star Blinds, LLC KING, ANITA M §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 26, 2025
19053875 WRITER FOR HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE Brigham Young University MAI, THIEN T 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Feb 14, 2025
18831455 RIM LOCK CAMERA LENS ACCESSORY MOUNT Michael The Maven, LLC RHODES, JR, LEON W §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 24, 2025
18958595 PORTABLE OUTDOOR SLEEP SYSTEM Kammok Holdings, LLC TEJADA, JOSEANE ECLAIR 3673 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 25, 2024
18955592 HUMAN-READABLE EXTREMELY HIGH DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE Brigham Young University KIM, MICHELLE JINJU 2688 §103§112 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Nov 21, 2024
18887468 LINK-BASED AUDIO RECORDING, COLLECTION, COLLABORATION, EMBEDDING AND DELIVERY SYSTEM Namecoach, Inc. SHARMA, NEERAJ 2659 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 17, 2024
18820817 MOBILE DEVICE BASED LIGHT DIFFUSER FOR RADIATION MEASUREMENTS Lightray Innovation GmbH PASIEWICZ, DANIEL M 2699 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 30, 2024
18809695 MODULAR LOCKING TARGET LOCK AND LOCKING TARGET SYSTEM Downrange Headquarters, LLC Dba Spire Ranges VANDERVEEN, JEFFREY S §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 20, 2024
18647613 Tinted Deodorant Composition C'Est Tout Studio COHEN, MICHAEL P 1612 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18389186 Breastfeeding Monitor and Smart Insight System BIB HEALTH & TECHNOLOGIES, LLC STEINBERG, AMANDA L 3792 §101§103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18384770 Dimensional Measurement Method Based on Deep Learning UNITX, INC. SUMMERS, GEOFFREY E 2669 §102§103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2023
18093984 PALLET WITH INTERNAL FRAME Eco Green Equipment, LLC AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL 3637 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 06, 2023
17980467 ASYMMETRICAL PORTABLE HAMMOCK STAND Kammok Holdings, LLC CONLEY, FREDRICK C 3673 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2022
17976231 Information Acquisition, Filtering and Analyzing System and Method Chanalytics Io, LLC AHMED, MAHABUB S 2434 §103 Non-Final OA 168d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2022
17885482 INSTANTLY DEPLOYABLE SELF SUPPORTING VEHICLE AWNING Kammok Holdings, LLC HANES JR., JOHN 3634 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2022
17734027 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMAL PERSONALIZED INFANT NUTRITION, DISEASE PREVENTION, AND GROWTH MONITORING Tellspec, Ltd. FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL 3687 §101 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2022
17341008 SPECTRAL ANALYSIS VISUALIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD Tellspec, Ltd. LEE, PAUL D 2857 §101 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2021
16244034 BREAST PUMP VACUUM PUMP AND CARRYING CASE Moxxly LLC IGEL JR, MARK ALAN 3783 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 09, 2019

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