Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Bainwood, Huang & Associates, LLC

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

31 pending office actions • 10 clients • 30 examiners • 23 art units • 0 of 31 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Bainwood, Huang & Associates, LLC maintains a practice in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The firm has handled 4016 career applications, achieving a resolved allowance rate of 96.67 percent. This success is reached with an average of 3.29 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 25 pending office actions.

The data indicates a volume of 4016 career applications and a 96.67 percent allowance rate. For a practitioner, the average of 3.29 office actions per allowance provides a metric for the expected duration of the prosecution process. The 25 pending office actions show a continued level of activity in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. This profile provides a comprehensive view of the firm's historical performance and current workload, reflecting extensive experience in these specific technical fields.

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

Quality Metrics (n=4016 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

96.7%
Allowance Rate
n=4016
+0.64σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=4016
3.3
OAs to Allowance
n=3397
-0.15σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=3397
1031 days
Time to Allowance
n=3397
-0.1pp
Interview Lift
n=4016
28.5%
RCE Rate
n=4016
1.5%
Appeal Rate
n=4016

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

94.7%
§101 Overcome
n=756
93.8%
§102 Overcome
n=1333
94.0%
§103 Overcome
n=2205
93.7%
§112 Overcome
n=1002

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H04N
Top CPC Subclasses
55%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=4016
7
Practitioners
n=4016
573.7
Apps / Practitioner
n=4016

Portfolio Summary

31
Total Pending OAs
17
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)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.

18
Hard (58%)
12
Medium (39%)
1
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (10%)
§103 only12 (39%)
Double-patenting only1 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)15 (48%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
19% of docket
10
Information Tech
32% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
6% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
26% of docket
5
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.

310 h
Manual time on pending OAs
62 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
108 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RAHMAN, M MOSTAZIR 2 68.1% +41.2%
KREINER, MICHAEL B 1 82.4% +13.4%
LIN, SHERMAN L 1 29.2% +37.1%
STABLEY, MICHAEL R 1 85.8% +12.7%
DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A 1 63.8% +20.2%
SIDDIQUEE, INTEKHAAB AALAM 1 81.5% +2.3%
TRAN, LEN 1 14.9% +23.6%
GUSTAFSON, MATHEW DONALD 1 83.3% +41.7%
LAZARO, DAVID R 1 87.1% +3.7%
DHANANI, SHAMS 1 92.4% +9.4%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18813554 SERVICE NETWORK EMPLOYING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING BASED GLOBAL LOAD BALANCING LAZARO, DAVID R 12d
18951094 PERFORMING DEEP PACKET INSPECTION IN A SOFTWARE DEFINED WIDE AREA NETWORK SIDDIQUEE, INTEKHAAB AALAM —
18897619 METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR BACKUP GUSTAFSON, MATHEW DONALD —

Hard Cases (19)

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
18216672 PROVIDING ACCESS TO A TASK LOCATION PRASAD, NANCY N 42d overdue
18565731 PLATFORM FOR A ROTARY MILKING PARLOR OF LIGHT-WEIGHT CONSTRUCTION AND CONTAINING CARBON CONCRETE HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE 19d overdue
17976717 METHODS FOR RESILIENT MULTI CLOUD GATEWAY INTERCONNECTS BLAIR, DOUGLAS B 3d overdue
18341408 CORRECTING LOCATION ERRORS USING GEOFENCES GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS 2d overdue
18352364 PREPARING READ-FOLLOWED-BY-WRITE INDICATOR BASED ON READ AND WRITE SEQUENCES MARTINEZ, TOMMY NMN 14d
18660412 ARTICULATING CAMERA ASSEMBLY DEMOSKY, PATRICK E 20d
18086963 DEVICE FOR DRAWING FILAMENTS TO FORM A NONWOVEN FABRIC MELENDEZ, ARMAND 41d
19352952 RESISTING ABLATION OF VEHICLE NOSE TIP KREINER, MICHAEL B —

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18071552 FIXED WIRELESS PRIVATE MOBILE NETWORK RAHMAN, M MOSTAZIR 5d overdue
19352952 RESISTING ABLATION OF VEHICLE NOSE TIP KREINER, MICHAEL B —
19063751 Reachability via Connected Routes in a Distributed Ethernet Fabric LIN, SHERMAN L —
19022457 ELECTRIC RETRIEVAL ROBOT AND/OR TRAILER STABLEY, MICHAEL R —
18962346 RHENIUM-BASED ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION PROCESS FOR DETECTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A —
18931941 DELIVERING FOAM CONCENTRATE VIA A TANK THAT MOUNTS TO A VEHICULAR ROBOT TRAN, LEN —
18897619 METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR BACKUP GUSTAFSON, MATHEW DONALD —
18071537 SPLIT CONTROL PLANE FOR PRIVATE MOBILE NETWORK RAHMAN, M MOSTAZIR —

Client Portfolio (10 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36422
28722
24112
24471
17171
21131
24551
36141
17431
17841

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19352952 RESISTING ABLATION OF VEHICLE NOSE TIP Textron Systems Corporation KREINER, MICHAEL B 3642 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 08, 2025
19063751 Reachability via Connected Routes in a Distributed Ethernet Fabric Arista Networks, Inc. LIN, SHERMAN L 2447 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 26, 2025
19022457 ELECTRIC RETRIEVAL ROBOT AND/OR TRAILER Howe & Howe Inc. STABLEY, MICHAEL R §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 15, 2025
18962346 RHENIUM-BASED ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION PROCESS FOR DETECTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE UChicago Argonne, LLC DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A 1717 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 27, 2024
18951094 PERFORMING DEEP PACKET INSPECTION IN A SOFTWARE DEFINED WIDE AREA NETWORK Velocloud Networks, LLC SIDDIQUEE, INTEKHAAB AALAM DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 18, 2024
18931941 DELIVERING FOAM CONCENTRATE VIA A TANK THAT MOUNTS TO A VEHICULAR ROBOT Howe & Howe Inc. TRAN, LEN §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 30, 2024
18897619 METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR BACKUP DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. GUSTAFSON, MATHEW DONALD 2113 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18813554 SERVICE NETWORK EMPLOYING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING BASED GLOBAL LOAD BALANCING Avesha, Inc. LAZARO, DAVID R 2455 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Aug 23, 2024
18810945 ATTACHING ACCESSORIES TO FIREFIGHTING VEHICLES Howe & Howe Inc. DHANANI, SHAMS 3614 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 21, 2024
18784377 CONTINUOUS BIAS PATTERN FABRIC Textron Systems Corporation KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J 1743 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 25, 2024
18763257 ION BARRIER COATING FOR LEAD GLASS MICROCHANNEL PLATES AND OTHER APPLICATIONS Incom, Inc. SAMPLE, DAVID R 1784 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 03, 2024
18739935 HOSE MANAGER Howe & Howe Inc. STANLEY, TYLER JAY §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 11, 2024
18732715 POLLER WITH SHARED RECEIVE QUEUES AND CPU GROUPS FOR STORAGE CLUSTER DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. ALAM, SHIHAB §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 04, 2024
18709898 PATH BOUNDARY FOR DIRECTED ANIMAL TRAFFIC Gea Farm Technologies GmbH PETERSON, ALANNA KAY 3642 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending May 14, 2024
18660412 ARTICULATING CAMERA ASSEMBLY Howe & Howe Inc. DEMOSKY, PATRICK E 2486 §102§103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending May 10, 2024
18536811 TOKEN SYSTEM WITH PER-CORE TOKEN POOLS AND A SHARED TOKEN POOL DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. EWALD, JOHN ROBERT DAKITA 2199 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 12, 2023
18565731 PLATFORM FOR A ROTARY MILKING PARLOR OF LIGHT-WEIGHT CONSTRUCTION AND CONTAINING CARBON CONCRETE Gea Farm Technologies GmbH HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE 3647 §103§112 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18466234 HYBRID MOUNT FOR OPTICAL INSTRUMENT Nanjing Ioptron Scientific, Inc. Ltd. ABDUR, RAHMAN 2872 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18281090 ANALYSIS OF MILK Gea Farm Technologies GmbH SINES, BRIAN J 1796 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 08, 2023
18238192 METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DATA RECOVERY DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. HOANG, KEN 2168 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 25, 2023
18451994 ADJUSTABLE MODULAR SUPPORTING OF WHEELS OF TRACKED VEHICLE Howe & Howe Inc. ROGERS, ADAM D 3617 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 18, 2023
18233551 PROVIDING A UTILITY VEHICLE WITH A VIEW OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION AT WINDSHIELD-LEVEL Textron Innovations Inc. HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE 2872 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Aug 14, 2023
18352364 PREPARING READ-FOLLOWED-BY-WRITE INDICATOR BASED ON READ AND WRITE SEQUENCES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. MARTINEZ, TOMMY NMN 2496 §103§112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jul 14, 2023
18216672 PROVIDING ACCESS TO A TASK LOCATION Textron Innovations Inc. PRASAD, NANCY N 3624 §101§103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18341408 CORRECTING LOCATION ERRORS USING GEOFENCES Textron Innovations Inc. GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS 3668 §101§103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2023
18333859 SAFETY VALVE FOR AN AUTOMATED MILKER UNIT BACKFLUSHING AND TEAT DIP APPLICATOR SYSTEM Gea Farm Technologies, Inc. PARIHAR, PRADHUMAN 1714 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 13, 2023
18316456 MANAGING AVIATION-ENGINE PERFORMANCE DATA Textron Innovations, Inc. KWIATKOWSKA, LIDIA 3666 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 12, 2023
18086963 DEVICE FOR DRAWING FILAMENTS TO FORM A NONWOVEN FABRIC Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. Kg MELENDEZ, ARMAND 1759 §103§112 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Dec 22, 2022
18071537 SPLIT CONTROL PLANE FOR PRIVATE MOBILE NETWORK Velocloud Networks, LLC RAHMAN, M MOSTAZIR 2411 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Nov 29, 2022
18071552 FIXED WIRELESS PRIVATE MOBILE NETWORK Velocloud Networks, LLC RAHMAN, M MOSTAZIR 2411 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2022
17976717 METHODS FOR RESILIENT MULTI CLOUD GATEWAY INTERCONNECTS Velocloud Networks, LLC BLAIR, DOUGLAS B 2454 §103§112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2022

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