Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Branch Partners Pllc

6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=9838 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

71.2%
Allowance Rate
n=9838
+0.31σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=9838
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=5245
-0.04σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=5245
1148 days
Time to Allowance
n=5245
+6.0pp
Interview Lift
n=9838
23.2%
RCE Rate
n=9838
3.0%
Appeal Rate
n=9838

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

88.0%
§101 Overcome
n=92
74.5%
§102 Overcome
n=518
70.7%
§103 Overcome
n=2402
81.6%
§112 Overcome
n=321

Specialization & Scale

A61N, Y10T, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
17%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=9838
1
Practitioners
n=9838
9838.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=9838

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
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.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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 (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

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

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (67%)
§112 only1 (17%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
2
Communications
33% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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
STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J 1 55.2% +26.4%
RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM 1 26.0% +23.3%
YANG, YI-SHAN 1 69.2% +55.8%
CHEN, ZHITONG 1 76.2% +20.1%
SAMS, MATTHEW C 1 67.5% +11.3%
BENGZON, GREG C 1 58.3% +5.8%

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
18883972 MEDIA LICENSING PLATFORM RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM 51d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18883972 MEDIA LICENSING PLATFORM RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM 51d overdue
18529995 INSTALLATION OF REPEATERS FOR A MILLIMETER WAVE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK CHEN, ZHITONG 43d overdue
19242542 KALEIDOSCOPIC GEOMETRIC VISION PLATFORM STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J 5d
18374539 MILLIMETER WAVE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS FOR FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS SAMS, MATTHEW C 23d
18394020 PHOTOTHERAPY AND PHOTOACOUSTICS YANG, YI-SHAN 40d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28721
36261
37981
26491
26461
24441

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19242542 KALEIDOSCOPIC GEOMETRIC VISION PLATFORM Summer Robotics, Inc. STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J 2872 §112 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jun 18, 2025
18883972 MEDIA LICENSING PLATFORM Official Technologies, Inc. RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM 3626 Other Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2024
18394020 PHOTOTHERAPY AND PHOTOACOUSTICS Singletto Inc. YANG, YI-SHAN 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18529995 INSTALLATION OF REPEATERS FOR A MILLIMETER WAVE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Pivotal Commware, Inc. CHEN, ZHITONG 2649 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2023
18374539 MILLIMETER WAVE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS FOR FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS Pivotal Commware, Inc. SAMS, MATTHEW C 2646 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Sep 28, 2023
15585887 DETECTING NETWORK FLOW STATES FOR NETWORK TRAFFIC ANALYSIS Extrahop Networks, Inc. BENGZON, GREG C 2444 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending May 03, 2017

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