Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Cbm Patent Consulting, LLC

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

10 pending office actions • 10 clients • 10 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

CBM Patent Consulting, LLC has 10 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 911 career applications. The current docket is accompanied by a larger application record, allowing practitioners to consider present workload together with established activity in the technology area.

Its resolved allowance rate is 85.25%, and the average is 2.13 office actions per allowance. The outcome rate indicates the frequency of allowance among resolved matters, while the action average points to comparatively limited examination activity per allowance within this record. These measures can inform expectations about response planning, prosecution duration, and the level of claim negotiation likely to be required.

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

Quality Metrics (n=911 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.2%
Allowance Rate
n=911
+0.52σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=911
2.1
OAs to Allowance
n=705
-0.70σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=705
710 days
Time to Allowance
n=705
+14.0pp
Interview Lift
n=911
7.6%
RCE Rate
n=911
0.2%
Appeal Rate
n=911

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

76.2%
§101 Overcome
n=105
71.5%
§102 Overcome
n=165
72.3%
§103 Overcome
n=336
78.8%
§112 Overcome
n=524

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
13%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=911
0
Practitioners
n=911
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=911 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

7
Hard (70%)
1
Medium (10%)
2
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§101 + other2 (20%)
§103 only1 (10%)
§112 only2 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
30% of docket
2
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
40% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 1 71.3% +12.5%
HAN, SETH 1 59.6% +27.1%
HILL, MYRON G 1 66.1% +20.7%
HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA 1 64.8% +39.6%
COX, THADDEUS B 1 77.0% +18.9%
RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 1 68.6% +37.4%
LENIHAN, JEFFREY S 1 73.0% +17.0%
PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 1 68.2% +15.1%
SEHAR, FAKEHA 1 82.7% +19.3%
CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES 1 58.0% +41.8%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18740637 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING COMPREHENSIVE ARRANGEMENT DATA OF MULTI-COLUMN DATA RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 2d overdue
18057685 BIDIRECTIONAL SELF-REGULATING CHEMICAL FLOODING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING OIL RECOVERY PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 34d
18860252 COMPOUNDS USEFUL FOR REDUCING URIC ACID COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P —
18839013 CORNEAL PATH ONE-WAY AQUEOUS HUMOR DRAINAGE DEVICE HAN, SETH —
18719851 METHOD FOR ENHANCING ACTIVITY OF PHOTOSENSITIZER BY MAGNETIC FIELD COX, THADDEUS B —
17880311 TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR-METAL OHMIC-CONTACT STRUCTURE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF SEHAR, FAKEHA —
17447269 RATCHET WOODWORKING CLAMP WITH UNIVERSAL ADAPTIVE CLAMPING BLOCK CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES —

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18740637 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING COMPREHENSIVE ARRANGEMENT DATA OF MULTI-COLUMN DATA RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 2d overdue
18057685 BIDIRECTIONAL SELF-REGULATING CHEMICAL FLOODING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING OIL RECOVERY PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 34d
18860252 COMPOUNDS USEFUL FOR REDUCING URIC ACID COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P —
18839013 CORNEAL PATH ONE-WAY AQUEOUS HUMOR DRAINAGE DEVICE HAN, SETH —
18835420 BETA-CORONAVIRUS FUSION RECOMBINANT PROTEIN, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF HILL, MYRON G —
18723908 COUNTER STRUCTURE OF DRY POWDER AEROSOL DELIVERY SYSTEM HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA —
18719851 METHOD FOR ENHANCING ACTIVITY OF PHOTOSENSITIZER BY MAGNETIC FIELD COX, THADDEUS B —
18293960 ACYLHYDRAZONE BOND-CONTAINING AMPHIPHOBIC POLYMER AND PREPARATION METHOD OF NANO AMPHIPHOBIC REVERSAL AGENT LENIHAN, JEFFREY S —

Client Portfolio (10 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16261
37811
16711
37851
37911
21631
17651
21871
28931
37231

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18860252 COMPOUNDS USEFUL FOR REDUCING URIC ACID Atom Bioscience America Corporation COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 1626 §101§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18839013 CORNEAL PATH ONE-WAY AQUEOUS HUMOR DRAINAGE DEVICE Beijing Institute Of Ophthalmology HAN, SETH 3781 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 15, 2024
18835420 BETA-CORONAVIRUS FUSION RECOMBINANT PROTEIN, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF Biopharmagen Corp., Fangzhou Suzhou HILL, MYRON G 1671 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 02, 2024
18723908 COUNTER STRUCTURE OF DRY POWDER AEROSOL DELIVERY SYSTEM Shanghai Xiuxin Chenpon Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA 3785 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 25, 2024
18719851 METHOD FOR ENHANCING ACTIVITY OF PHOTOSENSITIZER BY MAGNETIC FIELD South China University Of Technology COX, THADDEUS B 3791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 14, 2024
18740637 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING COMPREHENSIVE ARRANGEMENT DATA OF MULTI-COLUMN DATA UPC IP GROUP RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 2163 §101§112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2024
18293960 ACYLHYDRAZONE BOND-CONTAINING AMPHIPHOBIC POLYMER AND PREPARATION METHOD OF NANO AMPHIPHOBIC REVERSAL AGENT China University Of Petroleum (East China) LENIHAN, JEFFREY S 1765 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 31, 2024
18057685 BIDIRECTIONAL SELF-REGULATING CHEMICAL FLOODING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING OIL RECOVERY Shandong University Of Science And Technology PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 2187 §101 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17880311 TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR-METAL OHMIC-CONTACT STRUCTURE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF Nanjing University SEHAR, FAKEHA 2893 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 03, 2022
17447269 RATCHET WOODWORKING CLAMP WITH UNIVERSAL ADAPTIVE CLAMPING BLOCK Shanghai Neocraft Tool Co., Ltd. CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES 3723 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 09, 2021

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Cbm Patent Consulting, LLC's patent allowance rate?

85.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Cbm Patent Consulting, LLC were allowed, across 911 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Cbm Patent Consulting, LLC average before allowance?

2.13 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Cbm Patent Consulting, LLC have?

10 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 10 clients, before 10 examiners in 10 art units.

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