Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
14 pending office actions • 9 clients • 14 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Blank Rome LLP - Houston General focuses on Communications, where it has filed 23344 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 83.44 percent, establishing a solid track record of success. At present, the firm is handling 11 pending office actions relative to its 23344 career applications.
The firm's prosecution efficiency is characterized by an average of 3.24 office actions per allowance. This 3.24 average indicates a detailed and sometimes lengthy negotiation process with examiners. For practitioners, the 23344 career applications provide a massive data set for understanding the firm's performance. The 83.44 percent resolved allowance rate and the 3.24 office actions per allowance metric offer a comprehensive view of the firm's prosecution strategy and its effectiveness in securing patent grants. The 11 pending office actions represent the firm's current workload and its ongoing commitment to its clients.
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.
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.
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 only | 1 (7%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (14%) |
| §103 only | 6 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | 1 | 74.4% | +18.8% |
| SHUI, MING | 1 | 57.9% | +50.5% |
| HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | 1 | 28.1% | +24.2% |
| KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 1 | 71.1% | +36.9% |
| LOGAN, KYLE O | 1 | 87.3% | +9.5% |
| KING, DAVIDA LEE | 1 | 35.6% | +36.4% |
| FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1 | 61.6% | +17.2% |
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.5% |
| SPAMER, DONALD R | 1 | 59.2% | +32.1% |
| NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH | 1 | 79.4% | +31.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805595 | Vehicle Vending Machine | LOGAN, KYLE O | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17653034 | MOVING A DIRECTION OF GAZE OF AN AVATAR | PATEL, SHIVANG I | 9d |
| 18770190 | TOKEN TRANSACTION AGGREGATOR FOR MINTING TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK | KING, DAVIDA LEE | 28d |
| 18929502 | METHOD, SERVER, AND NON-TRANSITORY PROCESSOR READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ONLINE TRANSACTION | SHUI, MING | — |
| 18927601 | Interactive Web-Based Workforce Management System Assisted with Artificial Intelligence | HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | — |
| 18562247 | COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTING POLYTHIONIC ACID (PTA) STRESS CORROSION CRACKING ON 300 SERIES STAINLESS STEEL AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | SPAMER, DONALD R | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18299044 | UPDATING A MODEL OF A PARTICIPANT OF A THREE DIMENSIONAL VIDEO CONFERENCE CALL | NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH | 73d overdue |
| 18536548 | Vehicle Vending Machine With Fire Protection System | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 9d overdue |
| 18770190 | TOKEN TRANSACTION AGGREGATOR FOR MINTING TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK | KING, DAVIDA LEE | 28d |
| 19270251 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND/OR PLAYING BACK CONTENT | NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | — |
| 18929502 | METHOD, SERVER, AND NON-TRANSITORY PROCESSOR READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ONLINE TRANSACTION | SHUI, MING | — |
| 18927601 | Interactive Web-Based Workforce Management System Assisted with Artificial Intelligence | HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | — |
| 18896716 | ANONYMOUS DEVICE FINGERPRINTING FOR DEVICE VERIFICATION | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | — |
| 18583014 | REUSABLE SILICONE WRAPS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | FIGG, TRAVIS M | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Carvana | 4 |
| Magic Labs, Inc. | 2 |
| Cavendish Capital | 2 |
| Nevermind Capital LLC | 1 |
| Clarkson Aerospace Corp. | 1 |
| Very Great Inc. | 1 |
| Refined Technologies, Inc. | 1 |
| True Meeting Inc. | 1 |
| Replit, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2492 | 1 |
| 3699 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 2192 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19270251 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND/OR PLAYING BACK CONTENT | Nevermind Capital LLC | NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 | |
| 18929502 | METHOD, SERVER, AND NON-TRANSITORY PROCESSOR READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ONLINE TRANSACTION | Carvana, LLC | SHUI, MING | 3688 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18927601 | Interactive Web-Based Workforce Management System Assisted with Artificial Intelligence | Clarkson Aerospace Corp. | HATCHER, DEIRDRE D | 3625 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18896716 | ANONYMOUS DEVICE FINGERPRINTING FOR DEVICE VERIFICATION | Magic Labs, Inc. | KOBROSLI, SHADI HASSAN | 2492 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18805595 | Vehicle Vending Machine | Carvana, LLC | LOGAN, KYLE O | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 | |
| 18770190 | TOKEN TRANSACTION AGGREGATOR FOR MINTING TOKENS ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK | Magic Labs, Inc. | KING, DAVIDA LEE | 3699 | §101 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18583014 | REUSABLE SILICONE WRAPS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | Very Great Inc. | FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18536548 | Vehicle Vending Machine With Fire Protection System | Carvana, LLC | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18562247 | COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTING POLYTHIONIC ACID (PTA) STRESS CORROSION CRACKING ON 300 SERIES STAINLESS STEEL AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | Refined Technologies, Inc. | SPAMER, DONALD R | 1761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18299044 | UPDATING A MODEL OF A PARTICIPANT OF A THREE DIMENSIONAL VIDEO CONFERENCE CALL | True Meeting Inc. | NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 18150049 | Multiplayer Debugger | Replit, Inc. | BERMAN, STEPHEN DAVID | 2192 | §103 | Final Rejection | 155d overdue | Pending | Jan 04, 2023 |
| 18056252 | GENERATING AN AVATAR HAVING EXPRESSIONS THAT MIMICS EXPRESSIONS OF A PERSON | Cavendish Capital LLC | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17653034 | MOVING A DIRECTION OF GAZE OF AN AVATAR | Cavendish Capital LLC | PATEL, SHIVANG I | 2615 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
| 17521806 | Systems and Methods for Personalization for Digital Displayed Media | Carvana, LLC | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 2171 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2021 |
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