Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

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

6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

BLAKE, CASSELS & GRAYDON LLP handles Chemistry & Materials matters and has 5 pending office actions. Its career record includes 911 applications, establishing a substantial historical base for reviewing prosecution activity in this field.

The resolved allowance rate is 82.01%, and the average number of office actions per allowance is 3.18. These figures give prospective clients two distinct evaluation points: the frequency of resolved allowances and the amount of office-action activity associated with obtaining one.

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

Quality Metrics (n=911 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

82.0%
Allowance Rate
n=911
+0.58σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=911
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=497
-0.11σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=497
1120 days
Time to Allowance
n=497
+5.0pp
Interview Lift
n=911
19.6%
RCE Rate
n=911
1.0%
Appeal Rate
n=911

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

84.5%
§101 Overcome
n=97
83.6%
§102 Overcome
n=220
84.2%
§103 Overcome
n=335
84.8%
§112 Overcome
n=237

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06Q, E04B
Top CPC Subclasses
14%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=911
1
Practitioners
n=911
911.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=911

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
0
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.

4
Hard (67%)
1
Medium (17%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (17%)
§103 only1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (50%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PARK, EDWARD 1 82.3% +17.9%
WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION 1 63.7% +25.5%
PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY 1 79.0% +20.7%
MCCRACKEN, DANIEL 1 71.9% +16.4%
BOND, REED MADISON 1 14.8% +37.9%
PERRY, MONICA L 1 56.1% +37.3%

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
18926713 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPER REGISTRATION AND PRESERVING SPECTRAL PURITY OF IMAGES PARK, EDWARD —

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18336647 System and Method for Consumer Choice Modeling BOND, REED MADISON 98d overdue
17722961 Growing System and Apparatus PERRY, MONICA L 10d overdue
18906881 Coating Apparatus with Oscillating Nozzle WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION —
18657637 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING WASTE BY MIXING HIGH AND LOW PH WASTE STREAMS PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY —

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18336647 System and Method for Consumer Choice Modeling BOND, REED MADISON 98d overdue
17722961 Growing System and Apparatus PERRY, MONICA L 10d overdue
18926713 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPER REGISTRATION AND PRESERVING SPECTRAL PURITY OF IMAGES PARK, EDWARD —
18906881 Coating Apparatus with Oscillating Nozzle WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION —
18657637 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING WASTE BY MIXING HIGH AND LOW PH WASTE STREAMS PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY —
18527049 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING GRAPHENE AND HYDROGEN MCCRACKEN, DANIEL —

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26751
17791
17361
36241
36441

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18926713 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPER REGISTRATION AND PRESERVING SPECTRAL PURITY OF IMAGES Pci Geomatics Enterprises Inc. PARK, EDWARD 2675 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18906881 Coating Apparatus with Oscillating Nozzle Automatic Coating Limited WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 04, 2024
18657637 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING WASTE BY MIXING HIGH AND LOW PH WASTE STREAMS Strathcona Resources Ltd. PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY 1779 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2024
18527049 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING GRAPHENE AND HYDROGEN Innova Cleantech Corp. MCCRACKEN, DANIEL 1736 — Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 01, 2023
18336647 System and Method for Consumer Choice Modeling Dig Insights Inc. BOND, REED MADISON 3624 §101§103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
17722961 Growing System and Apparatus Inventive Laboratory Inc. PERRY, MONICA L 3644 §103§112 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP's patent allowance rate?

82.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP were allowed, across 911 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP average before allowance?

3.18 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP have?

6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 6 examiners in 5 art units.

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