Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

7 pending office actions • 7 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=985 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

82.5%
Allowance Rate
n=985
+0.58σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=985
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=536
-0.10σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=536
1108 days
Time to Allowance
n=536
+5.3pp
Interview Lift
n=985
20.2%
RCE Rate
n=985
1.0%
Appeal Rate
n=985

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

92.3%
§101 Overcome
n=26
84.9%
§102 Overcome
n=73
82.5%
§103 Overcome
n=326
94.4%
§112 Overcome
n=71

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06Q, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
16%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=985
1
Practitioners
n=985
985.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=985

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)

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.

1
Hard (14%)
3
Medium (43%)
2
Easy (29%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§103 only3 (43%)
§112 only2 (29%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
2
Information Tech
29% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PARK, EDWARD 1 82.1% +18.0%
HOLDER, BRADLEY W 1 83.7% +62.5%
ANDERSON II, STEVEN S 1 65.9% +35.4%
PENCE, JETHRO M 1 78.9% +25.0%
DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 1 89.3% +5.1%
TRAN, TIFFANY T 1 58.0% +54.1%
PERRY, MONICA L 1 55.7% +37.7%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18386401 SYSTEM FOR ENABLING TEMPORAL STRUCTURAL METADATA CHANGES USING VIRTUAL ADDRESSING OF DATA DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 10d overdue
18926713 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPER REGISTRATION AND PRESERVING SPECTRAL PURITY OF IMAGES PARK, EDWARD

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18913722 SECURE FIRMWARE INTERFACE HOLDER, BRADLEY W 8d overdue

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
18640836 Girth Weld Coater PENCE, JETHRO M 77d overdue
18166397 Electrically Isolating Support Element TRAN, TIFFANY T 38d overdue
18808939 Helical Baffle for Once-Through Steam Generator ANDERSON II, STEVEN S 23d overdue
17722961 Growing System and Apparatus PERRY, MONICA L 10d overdue
18913722 SECURE FIRMWARE INTERFACE HOLDER, BRADLEY W 8d overdue
18926713 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPER REGISTRATION AND PRESERVING SPECTRAL PURITY OF IMAGES PARK, EDWARD

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24081
37621
17171
21321
37611
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 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2024
18913722 SECURE FIRMWARE INTERFACE Absolute Software Corporation HOLDER, BRADLEY W 2408 §101 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Oct 11, 2024
18808939 Helical Baffle for Once-Through Steam Generator Bwxt Canada Ltd. ANDERSON II, STEVEN S 3762 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Aug 19, 2024
18640836 Girth Weld Coater Automatic Coating Limited PENCE, JETHRO M 1717 Other Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2024
18386401 SYSTEM FOR ENABLING TEMPORAL STRUCTURAL METADATA CHANGES USING VIRTUAL ADDRESSING OF DATA Cinchy Inc. DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 2132 §112 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2023
18166397 Electrically Isolating Support Element Kelvin Thermal Energy Inc. TRAN, TIFFANY T 3761 §112 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Feb 08, 2023
17722961 Growing System and Apparatus Inventive Laboratory Inc. PERRY, MONICA L 3644 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2022

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