Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Boisbrun Hofman, Pllc

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

14 pending office actions • 8 clients • 14 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Boisbrun Hofman, PLLC focuses on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems, having managed 436 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 85.71 percent, showing a high level of success in securing patent grants. There are 9 pending office actions currently being handled by the firm relative to its 436 career applications.

The prosecution process at the firm involves an average of 4.28 office actions per allowance. This 4.28 average suggests a persistent and thorough negotiation process with patent examiners to achieve its 85.71 percent resolved allowance rate. For clients, the 436 career applications demonstrate the firm's specialized experience. The 4.28 office actions per allowance metric indicates that while the path to allowance may be longer, the firm is effective at eventually reaching a positive outcome. The 9 pending office actions show that the firm remains actively engaged in pursuing new patent grants for its clients.

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

Quality Metrics (n=436 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.7%
Allowance Rate
n=436
+0.42σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=436
4.3
OAs to Allowance
n=234
+0.57σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=234
1018 days
Time to Allowance
n=234
+14.1pp
Interview Lift
n=436
34.1%
RCE Rate
n=436
1.2%
Appeal Rate
n=436

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

55.3%
§101 Overcome
n=47
81.1%
§102 Overcome
n=127
76.8%
§103 Overcome
n=194
71.4%
§112 Overcome
n=105

Specialization & Scale

E21B, G06F, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
22%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=436
2
Practitioners
n=436
218.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=436

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

10
Hard (71%)
4
Medium (29%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (14%)
§101 + other7 (50%)
§103 only3 (21%)
Double-patenting + other1 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
7% of docket
2
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
4
Business / Other
29% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI 1 91.5% +13.5%
MCCORMACK, THOMAS S 1 80.1% +3.7%
ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M 1 36.1% +30.5%
ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 1 23.4% +33.4%
SONG, JIANFENG 1 56.3% +33.2%
WHITE, DYLAN C 1 77.0% +13.7%
CONNOLLY, MARK A 1 82.0% +9.2%
PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 1 68.0% +15.0%
HUSON, MONICA ANNE 1 79.6% +13.5%
WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M 1 53.9% +25.8%

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
19206897 FILTER DEVICE HAVING TUNABLE CAPACITANCE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND USE THEREOF PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI —
19095955 COMBINATION RFID/EAS TAGS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE MCCORMACK, THOMAS S —

Hard Cases (10)

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
18264049 Allocating Computational Tasks to Computer Hardware ROTARU, OCTAVIAN 93d overdue
18766566 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF A SYSTEM IN AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENVIRONMENT PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 32d overdue
19029251 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PREDICT AND PRESCRIBE TREATMENTS FOR DISEASES ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M 23d overdue
18123171 OFFSHORE ANCHORING SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS BURGESS, MARC R 15d overdue
18942309 TRUPREDICT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 3d overdue
18357905 Detecting Suboptimal Performance of Security Check Operations WALSH, EMMETT K 19d
18113472 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING THE MANAGEMENT OF WORKSITES AUSTIN, JAMIE H 27d
18779716 CONTINUOUS ASYMMETRIC RISK ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME WHITE, DYLAN C —

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18766566 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF A SYSTEM IN AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENVIRONMENT PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 32d overdue
19029251 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PREDICT AND PRESCRIBE TREATMENTS FOR DISEASES ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M 23d overdue
18942309 TRUPREDICT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 3d overdue
19206897 FILTER DEVICE HAVING TUNABLE CAPACITANCE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND USE THEREOF PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI —
18820016 Activated Cannabinoid Controlled Release Compound Tablet and Method of Forming The Same SONG, JIANFENG —
18779716 CONTINUOUS ASYMMETRIC RISK ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME WHITE, DYLAN C —
18440456 Construction method for concrete structure integrated with waveguide tube HUSON, MONICA ANNE —
18475963 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME DATA CATEGORIZATION WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M —

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36252
36871
36921
21871
17421
21561
36241
36281
36151

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19206897 FILTER DEVICE HAVING TUNABLE CAPACITANCE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND USE THEREOF Astrodyne Tdi PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 13, 2025
19095955 COMBINATION RFID/EAS TAGS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE Sml Intelligent Inventory Solutions LLC MCCORMACK, THOMAS S §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 31, 2025
19029251 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PREDICT AND PRESCRIBE TREATMENTS FOR DISEASES Incucomm, Inc. ELSHAER, ALAAELDIN M 3687 §101§103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2025
18942309 TRUPREDICT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME Incucomm, Inc. ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 3692 §101§103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2024
18820016 Activated Cannabinoid Controlled Release Compound Tablet and Method of Forming The Same Metta Medical Inc. SONG, JIANFENG §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 29, 2024
18779716 CONTINUOUS ASYMMETRIC RISK ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME Incucomm, Inc. WHITE, DYLAN C 3625 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 22, 2024
18773459 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME Incucomm, Inc. CONNOLLY, MARK A §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 15, 2024
18766566 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF A SYSTEM IN AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENVIRONMENT Incucomm, Inc. PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 2187 §101§112 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2024
18440456 Construction method for concrete structure integrated with waveguide tube Korea Testing Laboratory HUSON, MONICA ANNE 1742 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2024
18475963 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME DATA CATEGORIZATION Incucomm, Inc. WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M 2156 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2023
18264049 Allocating Computational Tasks to Computer Hardware Xonai Ltd. ROTARU, OCTAVIAN 3624 §101§102 Non-Final OA 93d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2023
18357905 Detecting Suboptimal Performance of Security Check Operations Athena Security, Inc. WALSH, EMMETT K 3628 §101§103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jul 24, 2023
18123171 OFFSHORE ANCHORING SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS The Texas A&M University System BURGESS, MARC R 3615 §102§103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18113472 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING THE MANAGEMENT OF WORKSITES The Texas A&M University System AUSTIN, JAMIE H 3625 §101 Final Rejection 27d Pending Feb 23, 2023

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