Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 4 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Baird Holm LLP operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm has managed 88 career applications, with a resolved allowance rate of 91.67 percent. This success rate is achieved with an average of 3.0 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm has 2 pending office actions.
The data reflects a track record of securing allowances in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. For a practitioner, the 91.67 percent allowance rate suggests a high frequency of successful outcomes. The average of 3.0 office actions per allowance provides a baseline for the expected duration of the prosecution process. With 88 career applications, the firm has established experience in these specific technical fields. The firm's current workload includes 2 pending office actions, reflecting ongoing activity in its primary technology area.
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.
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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 2 | 77.8% | +7.4% |
| FOX, ALLISON M | 1 | 71.2% | +35.7% |
| BEISNER, WILLIAM H | 1 | 61.9% | +29.1% |
| CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18030480 | METHOD FOR DETECTION OF RNA OR DNA FROM BOLOGICAL SAMPLES | CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE | 86d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18269369 | LIMITED WELL THERMAL CYCLING DEVICE | BEISNER, WILLIAM H | 44d overdue |
| 18542272 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF USE OF THE SAME FOR PRESERVING CELLS FOR ANALYSIS | FOX, ALLISON M | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| MATERIALS AND MACHINES CORPORATION OF AMERICA | 2 |
| Chryos, LLC | 1 |
| Endicott Clay Products Company | 1 |
| VERSATECH, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 2 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18542272 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF USE OF THE SAME FOR PRESERVING CELLS FOR ANALYSIS | Chryos, LLC | FOX, ALLISON M | 1633 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18388069 | SQUARE EDGE RECESSED LUG PAVER | Endicott Clay Products Company | RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18269369 | LIMITED WELL THERMAL CYCLING DEVICE | Materials And Machines Corporation Of America | BEISNER, WILLIAM H | 1799 | §112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18030480 | METHOD FOR DETECTION OF RNA OR DNA FROM BOLOGICAL SAMPLES | Materials And Machines Corporation Of America | CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE | 1672 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 86d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 18108435 | METHOD OF INSTALLING A MASTIC FOOTPRINT FOR STRUCTURES | VERSATECH, LLC | RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial91.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Baird Holm LLP were allowed, across 88 applications in USPTO records.
2.98 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 4 examiners in 4 art units.