Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP

56 pending office actions • 23 clients • 53 examiners • 39 art units • 0 of 56 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 113 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=17443 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.2%
Allowance Rate
n=17443
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=17443
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=9065
-0.06σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=9065
988 days
Time to Allowance
n=9065
+9.6pp
Interview Lift
n=17443
31.8%
RCE Rate
n=17443
2.2%
Appeal Rate
n=17443

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

73.6%
§101 Overcome
n=322
82.6%
§102 Overcome
n=1225
78.3%
§103 Overcome
n=5957
87.4%
§112 Overcome
n=1216

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06Q, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
15%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=17443
9
Practitioners
n=17443
1938.1
Apps / Practitioner
n=17443

Portfolio Summary

56
Total Pending OAs
36
Non-Final OAs
17
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
Due this month
6
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (6)Due later (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.

9
Hard (16%)
39
Medium (70%)
5
Easy (9%)
3
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only9 (16%)
§103 only31 (55%)
§102 only7 (12%)
§112 only4 (7%)
Double-patenting only1 (2%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
No statute on record3 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
12% of docket
9
Information Tech
16% of docket
2
Communications
4% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
31
Mechanical / Eng
55% of docket
6
Business / Other
11% 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.

560 h
Manual time on pending OAs
112 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
196 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 2 19.6% +30.0%
NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 2 51.2% +11.5%
SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 2 31.3% +25.5%
UDDIN, MD I 1 77.3% +73.7%
BOYCE, ANDRE D 1 36.0% +19.2%
MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA 1 83.8% +6.6%
SAMARASEKARA, SARA NELUM 1
FIELDS, COURTNEY D 1 84.2% -4.9%
SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP 1 77.1% +16.8%
LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 1 88.4% +5.3%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19004433 ISSUE TRACKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A CONFIGURABLE PROJECT HIERARCHY LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 30d overdue
19238400 INCIDENT DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA
19043399 SECURITY POLICY COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION AS A SERVICE LEVERAGING SYSTEMS PROVIDING ACCESS MANAGEMENT AS A SERVICE FIELDS, COURTNEY D

Hard Cases (11)

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
18590392 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RISK DATA NAVIGATION SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 38d overdue
17068546 IMMUNE RECEPTOR ANALYSIS AS DIAGNOSTIC ASSAY PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE 36d overdue
18616471 AUTOMATION RULE BUILDER FOR COLLABORATION PLATFORMS YESILDAG, LAURA G 34d
18520505 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 46d
19238483 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE
19238438 ISSUE TRACKING METHODS FOR QUEUE MANAGEMENT BOYCE, ANDRE D
18823989 SYSTEM AND GRAPHICAL INTERFACE FOR DIAMOND SELECTION GARG, YOGESH C
18750562 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INVESTIGATING AND EVALUATING FINANCIAL CRIME AND SANCTIONS-RELATED RISKS SWARTZ, STEPHEN S

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18590392 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RISK DATA NAVIGATION SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 38d overdue
18967030 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED EXPERIMENTATION NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 9d overdue
18813942 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED EXPERIMENTATION NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 26d
19019446 LOCAL CACHE-BASED IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP 41d
18520505 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 46d
19238476 ISSUE TRACKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS UDDIN, MD I
19238483 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE
19238438 ISSUE TRACKING METHODS FOR QUEUE MANAGEMENT BOYCE, ANDRE D

Client Portfolio (23 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36254
36293
37913
21612
36242
36562
36882
28761
24981
26891

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19238476 ISSUE TRACKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS Atlassian Inc. UDDIN, MD I 2161 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 15, 2025
19238483 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT Atlassian Inc. PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 3624 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 15, 2025
19238438 ISSUE TRACKING METHODS FOR QUEUE MANAGEMENT Atlassian Inc. BOYCE, ANDRE D §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 14, 2025
19238400 INCIDENT DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT Atlassian Inc. MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 14, 2025
19187253 ARTIFICIAL EYELASH SEGMENT SYSTEM Tad Beauty, Inc. SAMARASEKARA, SARA NELUM §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 23, 2025
19043399 SECURITY POLICY COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION AS A SERVICE LEVERAGING SYSTEMS PROVIDING ACCESS MANAGEMENT AS A SERVICE Pax8, Inc. FIELDS, COURTNEY D §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 31, 2025
19019446 LOCAL CACHE-BASED IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM Secure Identity, LLC SAVUSDIPHOL, PAULTEP 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jan 13, 2025
19004433 ISSUE TRACKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A CONFIGURABLE PROJECT HIERARCHY Atlassian Inc. LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 2161 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2024
18967030 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED EXPERIMENTATION Parallel Biosystems, Inc. NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 3656 §102 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 03, 2024
18948784 PROVIDER UNIFIED MULTI-SERVICE NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN AUTHENTICATION Tokenform LLC KING, JOHN B 2498 §103 Non-Final OA 50d Pending Nov 15, 2024
18827631 PROVIDING DIGITAL IDENTIFICATIONS GENERATED FOR CHECKPOINT VALIDATION BASED ON BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION Secure Identity, LLC GOINS, DAVETTA WOODS 2689 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 06, 2024
18826020 VARIABLE BANDWIDTH FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS OR SEMI-AUTONOMOUS PASSENGER VEHICLES Glydways Inc. ISMAIL, OMAR S §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 05, 2024
18823989 SYSTEM AND GRAPHICAL INTERFACE FOR DIAMOND SELECTION Grwn Diamonds, Inc. GARG, YOGESH C 3688 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 04, 2024
18813942 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED EXPERIMENTATION Parallel Biosystems, Inc. NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Aug 23, 2024
18798523 BIOMETRIC CACHING Secure Identity, LLC CORUM JR, WILLIAM A 2433 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18797390 BIOMETRIC EXIT WITH AN ASSET Secure Identity, LLC MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 3688 Other Non-Final OA 41d Pending Aug 07, 2024
18773495 TENANT DATA RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS ENFORCEMENT IN MULTITENANT COLLABORATIVE WORK ENVIRONMENTS Atlassian Inc. TRUONG, CAM Y T 2169 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 15, 2024
18759225 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXECUTING EXTERNAL SOFTWARE CODE Atlassian Inc. RAHIM, MONJUR 2436 Final Rejection Pending Jun 28, 2024
18753984 TRAFFIC IMAGE SENSOR MOVEMENT DETECTION AND HANDLING Gridmatrix, Inc. DANG, PHILIP 2488 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jun 25, 2024
18750562 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INVESTIGATING AND EVALUATING FINANCIAL CRIME AND SANCTIONS-RELATED RISKS 1Nteger, LLC SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 3625 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 21, 2024
18740344 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-MODE RADAR OPERATION FOR AUTONOMOUS AIRCRAFT Reliable Robotics Corporation DOZE, PETER DAVON 3648 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 11, 2024
18680052 Use of Ibezapolstat to Promote Microbiome Health Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI 1627 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending May 31, 2024
18671879 TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM Glydways Inc. CAMBY, RICHARD M 3661 §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2024
18670248 IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM ENROLLMENT AND VALIDATION AND/OR AUTHENTICATION Secure Identity, LLC SIVJI, NIZAR N §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 21, 2024
18616471 AUTOMATION RULE BUILDER FOR COLLABORATION PLATFORMS Atlassian Inc. YESILDAG, LAURA G 3629 §101 Final Rejection 34d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18617388 AUTONOMOUS RAIL OR OFF RAIL VEHICLE MOVEMENT AND SYSTEM AMONG A GROUP OF VEHICLES Glydways, Inc. REFAI, RAMSEY 3664 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18590392 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RISK DATA NAVIGATION 1Nteger, LLC SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 3625 §101 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18417834 BIOMETRIC IMAGE LIVENESS DETECTION Secure Identity, LLC HANSEN, CONNOR LEVI 2672 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2024
18399661 USER INTERFACE FOR A PROJECT MANAGEMENT APPLICATION Atlassian Inc. ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM 3629 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 28, 2023
18534423 Self-Blending Pressurized Modular Nitrate Reduction System Atec Water Systems, LLC MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 1773 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2023
18520505 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT Atlassian Inc. PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Nov 27, 2023
18387786 TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES Glydways Inc. MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE 3669 §112 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2023
18552115 ANTIGEN REACTIVE T-CELL RECEPTORS UNIVERSITAT HEIDELBERG SCHWECHTER, BRANDON ROSS 1681 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 22, 2023
18552028 MEANS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING IMMUNOTHERAPY Technische Universität München LIRIANO-NG, MELISSA LIZETTE 1677 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 22, 2023
18241100 TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC FASTENER Lovefrom, Inc. MERCADO, LOUIS A 3677 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Aug 31, 2023
18365745 AGONIST ANTIBODIES THAT BIND HUMAN CD137 AND USES THEREOF Compass Therapeutics LLC SANG, HONG 1646 Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 04, 2023
18263324 SYSTEM Chamartin Laboratories LLC PATEL, NIKETA I 3792 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2023
18221620 NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN AUTHENTICATION Tokenform LLC ASGARI, SIMA 3698 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 13, 2023
18251993 Tools And Methods For Arthroscopic Surgery Md-S LLC BATES, DAVID W 3799 §102 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18128307 ISSUE TRACKING SYSTEM Atlassian Inc. KNIGHT, LETORIA G 3623 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 30, 2023
18061047 URINARY CATHETER FOR ENDOSCOPE Saint Louis University GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ 3795 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 02, 2022
17999974 NOVEL PEPTIDE INHIBITORS OF BETA-LACTAMASE AGAINST ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE The Curators of the University of Missouri MIKNIS, ZACHARY J 1658 §102 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2022
18055377 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD Chamartin Laboratories LLC HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL 3791 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Nov 14, 2022
18055375 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD Chamartin Laboratories LLC TRAN, THO Q 3791 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2022
17962839 WIRELESS NETWORK CLOUD COMPUTING RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Atlassian Inc. PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 2492 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 10, 2022
17956732 ISSUE TRACKING SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATED TICKET GENERATION Atlassian Inc. RUSS, COREY V 3629 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2022
17823505 HEALTH STATE ESTIMATION USING MACHINE LEARNING Chamartin Laboratories LLC DUONG, HIEN LUONGVAN 2147 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Aug 30, 2022
17855416 SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ASYNCHRONOUS ISSUE UPDATES FOR AN ISSUE TRACKING SYSTEM Atlassian Inc. RIVERA GONZALEZ, IVONNEMARY 3626 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 30, 2022
17850881 SENSING SYSTEM Chamartin Laboratories LLC CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE 3645 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 27, 2022
17834678 Arthroscopic Suture Management Device Md-S LLC RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER 3771 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 07, 2022
17708109 SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZING CONTEXTUAL NOTIFICATIONS FOR EVENT FEED ITEMS Atlassian Inc. ABOUZAHRA, REHAM K 3625 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 30, 2022
17571773 Prosthetic Partial Fingers Point Designs, Inc. HOBAN, MELISSA A 3774 DPOther Final Rejection 72d Pending Jan 10, 2022
17607516 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING THE BEST PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY SENSOR CHANNEL DURING MONITORING Yukka Magic LLC XU, JUSTIN 3791 §112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Oct 29, 2021
17489114 ISSUE TRACKING SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED ISSUES FUNCTIONS Atlassian Inc. HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 3625 §101 Final Rejection Pending Sep 29, 2021
17057931 BIOMETRIC SENSOR HEAD ASSEMBLY Yukka Magic LLC GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR 3796 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 23, 2020
17068546 IMMUNE RECEPTOR ANALYSIS AS DIAGNOSTIC ASSAY Saint Louis University PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE 1687 §101 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2020

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