Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Barnes & Thornburg LLP (De)

5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 4 examiners • 2 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=83804 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

84.3%
Allowance Rate
n=83804
+0.63σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=83804
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=49257
-0.06σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=49257
1145 days
Time to Allowance
n=49257
+10.6pp
Interview Lift
n=83804
31.4%
RCE Rate
n=83804
2.9%
Appeal Rate
n=83804

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

88.9%
§101 Overcome
n=1653
87.9%
§102 Overcome
n=7356
83.9%
§103 Overcome
n=27535
92.0%
§112 Overcome
n=7056

Specialization & Scale

A61B, A61K, A61F
Top CPC Subclasses
19%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=83804
92
Practitioners
n=83804
910.9
Apps / Practitioner
n=83804

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

0
Hard (0%)
2
Medium (40%)
3
Easy (60%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
Double-patenting only3 (60%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
60% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
40% 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
CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY 2 52.8% +21.2%
WILKENS, JANET MARIE 1 72.5% +12.6%
MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM 1 79.0% +37.3%
MERTZ, PREMA MARIA 1 71.4% +35.8%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18486323 FORMULATIONS FOR WEIGHT LOSS AND METHODS OF USE CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY 2d overdue
18486306 FORMULATIONS FOR WEIGHT LOSS AND METHODS OF USE CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY 2d overdue
19073510 COLLAPSIBLE ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT TABLE WILKENS, JANET MARIE
18805099 MOLECULAR SWITCHES MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM
18315633 COMBINATION OF TASQUINIMOD OR A PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALT THEREOF AND A PD-1 AND/OR PD-L1 INHIBITOR, FOR USE AS A MEDICAMENT MERTZ, PREMA MARIA

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
GOLO LLC 2
Evo Inventions LLC 1
Bioverde Tech LLC 1
ACTIVE BIOTECH AB 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16172
16741

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19073510 COLLAPSIBLE ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT TABLE Evo Inventions LLC WILKENS, JANET MARIE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 07, 2025
18805099 MOLECULAR SWITCHES Bioverde Tech LLC MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 14, 2024
18486323 FORMULATIONS FOR WEIGHT LOSS AND METHODS OF USE Golo LLC CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY 1617 DP Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18486306 FORMULATIONS FOR WEIGHT LOSS AND METHODS OF USE Golo LLC CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY 1617 DP Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18315633 COMBINATION OF TASQUINIMOD OR A PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALT THEREOF AND A PD-1 AND/OR PD-L1 INHIBITOR, FOR USE AS A MEDICAMENT Active Biotech AB MERTZ, PREMA MARIA 1674 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 11, 2023

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