Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Bcf LLP (Misc.)

Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

142 pending office actions • 51 clients • 125 examiners • 82 art units • 2 of 142 (1%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

BCF LLP (Misc.) has 142 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 4,933 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 89.92%, and the average is 2.18 office actions per allowance.

The profile combines current docket activity with a substantial historical record in the same technology area. The allowance rate provides an outcome measure, while the action average indicates that resolved allowances generally follow more than one examination exchange. Practitioners can use the data to anticipate ongoing response work while distinguishing the 142 active actions from the broader application history.

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

Quality Metrics (n=4933 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.9%
Allowance Rate
n=4933
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=4933
2.2
OAs to Allowance
n=3079
-0.71σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=3079
867 days
Time to Allowance
n=3079
+1.6pp
Interview Lift
n=4933
17.4%
RCE Rate
n=4933
0.4%
Appeal Rate
n=4933

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

73.0%
§101 Overcome
n=318
78.6%
§102 Overcome
n=984
77.2%
§103 Overcome
n=1605
77.2%
§112 Overcome
n=1013

Specialization & Scale

G06F, B62D, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
17%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=4933
7
Practitioners
n=4933
704.7
Apps / Practitioner
n=4933

Portfolio Summary

142
Total Pending OAs
99
Non-Final OAs
34
Final Rejections
9
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 37 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
1
Due this week
11
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
8
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. 37 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (11)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (8)

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.

83
Hard (58%)
40
Medium (28%)
15
Easy (11%)
4
Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only7 (5%)
§101 + other10 (7%)
§103 only28 (20%)
§102 only7 (5%)
§112 only12 (8%)
Double-patenting only3 (2%)
Double-patenting + other5 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)66 (46%)
No statute on record4 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

20
Life Sciences
14% of docket
16
Information Tech
11% of docket
6
Communications
4% of docket
12
Semiconductors
8% of docket
85
Mechanical / Eng
60% of docket
3
Business / Other
2% 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.

1,420 h
Manual time on pending OAs
284 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
497 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
12.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW 3 56.5% +22.9%
PAPE, ZACHARY 3 72.5% +19.5%
ROGERS, ADAM D 2 82.2% +22.6%
HURLEY, KEVIN 2 86.1% +11.2%
KIM, JAMES JAY 2 70.4% +27.7%
STANLEY, TYLER JAY 2 48.5% +51.5%
CHOI, TAEKWON NMN 2 80.0% +0.0%
BROWN, DREW J 2 89.5% +5.9%
NASH, BRIAN D 2 82.0% +14.0%
WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J 2 46.1% +47.2%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19118246 ENDLESS TRACK, TRACK SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE FOR USE WITH SAME ROGERS, ADAM D —
18941435 SNOWMOBILE HAVING A CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION HURLEY, KEVIN —
18757834 SYSTEM FOR SECURING AN ACCESSORY TO A VEHICLE NASH, BRIAN D —
18667562 WHEELS WITH ANTI-BUILD-UP PROPERTIES, TRACK SYSTEMS AND VEHICLES WITH SAME CHOI, TAEKWON NMN —

Hard Cases (83)

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
18372685 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING HIGH PURITY SPHERICAL METALLIC POWDERS AT HIGH PRODUCTION RATES FROM ONE OR TWO WIRES MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE 66d overdue
18968197 SNOWMOBILE KIM, JAMES JAY 60d overdue
18086615 LIDAR SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF CALIBRATING THE LIDAR SYSTEM WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID 43d overdue
17802242 NOVEL CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR AND USE THEREOF PETERS, ALEC JON 38d overdue
18982649 METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A TRAJECTORY FOR A VEHICLE MUSTAFA, IMRAN K 16d overdue
18986110 METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING META-PREDICTIONS USING FORECASTING MODELS BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 9d overdue
17801085 RACK AND PINION ASSEMBLY FOR A STEERING ASSEMBLY STANLEY, TYLER JAY 5d overdue
18687136 ELECTRIC BICYCLE SHABARA, HOSAM 4d overdue

Interview Candidates (18)

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
18968197 SNOWMOBILE KIM, JAMES JAY 60d overdue
18373567 IMMERSION COOLING CONTAINER PAPE, ZACHARY 15d overdue
17801085 RACK AND PINION ASSEMBLY FOR A STEERING ASSEMBLY STANLEY, TYLER JAY 5d overdue
18588720 BAFFLING ASSEMBLY FOR MITIGATING MOVEMENT OF A HEAT-TRANSFER LIQUID IN AN IMMERSION CASE PAPE, ZACHARY 15d
18377506 MOUNTING SYSTEM AND KIT FOR MOUNTING AN ACCESSORY ON A VEHICLE WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J 22d
18823045 VEHICLE DROP-DOWN STORAGE AREA LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW 34d
19118246 ENDLESS TRACK, TRACK SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE FOR USE WITH SAME ROGERS, ADAM D —
19115150 ELECTRIC SNOWMOBILE WITH BATTERY PACK INSULATING COVER HURLEY, KEVIN —

Client Portfolio (51 clients)

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Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
361513
36119
36177
37347
28357
37474
36184
36243
36612
21512

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19385347 VEHICLE AND METHOD OF SUPPLYING A FUEL-AIR MIXTURE IN AN ENGINE BOMBARDIER INC. EDWARDS, LOREN C 3746 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 11, 2025
19353587 METHODS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A SELF-DRIVING CAR Y.E. Hub Armenia LLC LEWANDROSKI, SARA J 3661 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 08, 2025
19311729 METHODS, DEVICES, PROCESSORS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUDIO FINGERPRINTING AND RETRIEVAL Deezer S.A. MORRIS, JOHN J 2151 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 27, 2025
19287170 METHODS FOR SHOWING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE Jean-Etienne Gaudreau SENFI, BEHROOZ M 2482 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 2025
19151316 SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING TEMPERATURE IN AN ENGINE OF A VEHICLE Brp-Rotax GmbH & Co. Kg JIN, GEORGE C. 3747 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 26, 2025
19138027 SYSTEM FOR CUTTING OCULAR TISSUE INTO ELEMENTARY PORTIONS Keranova ROANE, AARON F 3792 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 11, 2025
19135667 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DEBT PORTFOLIOS AND OBLIGATION PORTFOLIOS New Definition Media Inc. SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z 3694 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 04, 2025
19203768 COUPLING DEVICE AND BASE MEMBER FOR COUPLING DEVICE Technologies Cgc Inc. WUJCIAK, ALFRED J 3636 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 09, 2025
19200315 TRACK SYSTEM AND WHEEL ASSEMBLIES FOR TRACK SYSTEMS Soucy International Inc. PALMER, ALEX ROBERT 3615 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending May 06, 2025
19198546 METHOD FOR PARKING AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE BOMBARDIER INC. FLUHART, STACEY A 3655 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 05, 2025
19193154 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A FLEET OF COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES Ovh ADVINCULA, LAURENZ §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 29, 2025
19189473 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE Ovh PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN 2175 §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 25, 2025
19188564 MOUNTING APPARATUS FOR SECURING EQUIPMENT TO A PATIENT TRANSPORT SYSTEM Technologies Cgc Inc. TAN, DING Y 3673 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 24, 2025
19188494 CENTERING ELECTRONIC ROTARY VALVE Schivo Medical Limited PRICE, CRAIG JAMES 3753 Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 24, 2025
19185652 PROJECTION DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING CONSTRUCTION PLANS 9373-6817 Quebec Inc. BENNETT, STUART D 2481 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2025
19176299 COOLANT DELIVERY DEVICE Endocision Technologies Inc. FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL 3794 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 11, 2025
19173104 SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR SUPPORTING EQUIPMENT Technologies Cgc Inc. DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY 3632 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 08, 2025
19118246 ENDLESS TRACK, TRACK SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE FOR USE WITH SAME Soucy International Inc. ROGERS, ADAM D 3617 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 03, 2025
19169262 Vehicle Occupant Safety Detection System and Methods of Operating and Training Thereof BOMBARDIER INC. REINBOLD, SCOTT A 3747 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 03, 2025
19115150 ELECTRIC SNOWMOBILE WITH BATTERY PACK INSULATING COVER BOMBARDIER INC. HURLEY, KEVIN 3611 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 25, 2025
19084701 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING A LIST OF DIGITAL TASKS Y.E. Hub Armenia LLC KONERU, SUJAY 3624 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 19, 2025
19080016 STACKABLE CONTAINER ASSEMBLY BOMBARDIER INC. LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW 3611 §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 14, 2025
19108493 WINDOW BLIND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING SAME Morgan Solar Inc. PREVIL, DANIEL 2685 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2025
19057654 GOALKEEPER CATCHING GLOVE BAUER HOCKEY LLC HADEN, SALLY CLINE 3732 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue AI Ready Feb 19, 2025
19047723 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING CAMPAIGN ITEMS Index Web Marketing Inc. STROUD, CHRISTOPHER 3621 §101 Final Rejection — AI Ready Feb 07, 2025
19101334 BUOYANT BOARD HAVING A PROPULSION SYSTEM BOMBARDIER INC. FIX, THOMAS S 3618 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 05, 2025
19037449 FASTENER ASSEMBLY BOMBARDIER INC. SAETHER, FLEMMING 3675 §102§103 Final Rejection 75d Pending Jan 27, 2025
19036357 TENSIONER SYSTEM FOR FLEXIBLE DRIVE MEMBER BOMBARDIER INC. LIU, HENRY Y 3654 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 24, 2025
19033976 BEARING ASSEMBLY WITH PROTECTIVE FLANGED SEAL STRUCTURE FOR TRACK SYSTEM WHEELS Soucy International Inc. NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN 3617 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2025
19031917 PLATFORM VEHICLE AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME Y.E. Hub Armenia LLC MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR 3652 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 18, 2025
19027980 PLATFORM VEHICLE AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME Y.E. Hub Armenia LLC MYERS, GLENN F 3652 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19027059 METHOD OF CONTROLLING A VEHICLE RELATIVE TO A BORDER WITHIN A GEOGRAPHIC REGION BOMBARDIER INC. CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 3661 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Jan 17, 2025
19019809 TWO-STROKE ENGINE FOR A VEHICLE Brp-Rotax GmbH & Co. Kg KIM, JAMES JAY 3747 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 14, 2025
19015977 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TEXT SUGGESTS Y.E. Hub Armenia LLC AZIZ, SHEZA ABDUL 2657 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 10, 2025
19017204 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANKING SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS Y.E. Hub Armenia LLC HALE, BROOKS T 2166 §101 Non-Final OA 82d Pending Jan 10, 2025
18877911 HULL ASSEMBLY FOR A PERSONAL WATERCRAFT BOMBARDIER INC. HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL 3615 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18987401 Smart Led Control Artika For Living Inc. KIM, SEOKJIN 2844 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 19, 2024
18986110 METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING META-PREDICTIONS USING FORECASTING MODELS Recherches Dimensionnelles Canada Inc. BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 3624 §101§103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2024
18875986 METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A VEHICLE BOMBARDIER INC. STANLEY, TYLER JAY 3611 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 17, 2024
18982649 METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A TRAJECTORY FOR A VEHICLE Y.E. Hub Armenia LLC MUSTAFA, IMRAN K 3668 §101§102§103 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2024
18979818 CRYSTALLINE FORM OF 3- ((L-VALYL) AMINO) -I-PROPANESULFONIC ACID Risen (Suzhou) Pharma Tech Co., Ltd. SEITZ, ANTHONY JOSEPH 1629 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 13, 2024
18975213 OPTICAL ISOLATOR STRUCTURES Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. CHOUDHURY, MUSTAK 2872 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 10, 2024
18968197 SNOWMOBILE BOMBARDIER INC. KIM, JAMES JAY 3747 §102§103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2024
18963655 SEAT ASSEMBLY FOR A PERSONAL WATERCRAFT BOMBARDIER INC. WIEST, ANTHONY D 3615 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 28, 2024
18962006 METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING BIOMARKERS PRESENT IN BIOLOGICAL TISSUES, MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TRAINING THE MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS Optina Diagnostics, Inc. SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH 3798 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 27, 2024
18960737 DEFORMABLE SUPPORT WHEEL WITH RESILIENT CHAMBER AND TRACK SYSTEM HAVING SAME Soucy International Inc. CHOI, TAEKWON NMN 3615 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 26, 2024
18955399 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING A SPECIFIC SET OF DATA AMONG A PLURALITY OF DATA Qwant AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD 2161 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 21, 2024
18951245 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF YANG BASED CONFIGURATION OF DEVICES Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. CELANI, NICHOLAS P 2449 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 18, 2024
18866120 ENDLESS TRACK FOR TRACK SYSTEM AND TRACK SYSTEM HAVING SAME Soucy International Inc. MORANO IV, SAMUEL J 3615 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 15, 2024
18941435 SNOWMOBILE HAVING A CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION BOMBARDIER INC. HURLEY, KEVIN 3611 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 08, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Bcf LLP (Misc.)'s patent allowance rate?

89.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Bcf LLP (Misc.) were allowed, across 4,933 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Bcf LLP (Misc.) average before allowance?

2.18 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Bcf LLP (Misc.) have?

142 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 51 clients, before 125 examiners in 82 art units.

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