Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Cbm Patent Consulting, LLC

Technology area: Computing & Software

11 pending office actions • 10 clients • 11 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

CBM Patent Consulting, LLC operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 910 career applications. The firm has 10 pending office actions and a resolved allowance rate of 85.3 percent.

The average of 2.14 office actions per allowance provides insight into the efficiency of the prosecution cycle. This statistic helps practitioners estimate the number of responses typically needed to reach a grant. The 85.3 percent allowance rate, when considered with the 2.14 average office actions, offers a comprehensive view of the firm's historical performance in the chemical arts.

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

Quality Metrics (n=910 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.3%
Allowance Rate
n=910
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=910
2.1
OAs to Allowance
n=702
-0.70σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=702
707 days
Time to Allowance
n=702
+14.0pp
Interview Lift
n=910
7.6%
RCE Rate
n=910
0.2%
Appeal Rate
n=910

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

75.2%
§101 Overcome
n=105
71.5%
§102 Overcome
n=165
72.0%
§103 Overcome
n=336
78.8%
§112 Overcome
n=523

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
13%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=910
0
Practitioners
n=910
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=910 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

8
Hard (73%)
2
Medium (18%)
1
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (9%)
§101 + other2 (18%)
§103 only2 (18%)
§112 only1 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (45%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
18% of docket
2
Information Tech
18% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
9% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
5
Business / Other
45% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P 1 71.3% +12.4%
HAN, SETH 1 59.6% +28.8%
HILL, MYRON G 1 66.2% +20.6%
HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA 1 67.3% +37.0%
COX, THADDEUS B 1 76.8% +19.1%
RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 1 69.5% +37.5%
REGLAS, GEORGIANA C 1 37.7% +36.1%
SINGH, PREM C 1 59.0% +33.1%
PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE 1 68.0% +15.0%
SEHAR, FAKEHA 1 83.5% +18.0%

Hard Cases (8)

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
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 —
18619282 IMMOBILIZED ENZYME NANOGEL AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF REGLAS, GEORGIANA C —
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
18148470 DEVICE FOR SYNTHESIZING HOMOGENEOUS POLYMER SPHERES BASED ON CHANNEL PREPOLYMERIZATION, AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME SINGH, PREM C 211d overdue
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 —

Client Portfolio (10 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21631
16511
17711
21871
28931
37231

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18860252 COMPOUNDS USEFUL FOR REDUCING URIC ACID Atom Bioscience America Corporation COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P §101§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18839013 CORNEAL PATH ONE-WAY AQUEOUS HUMOR DRAINAGE DEVICE Beijing Institute Of Ophthalmology HAN, SETH §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 §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 §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 §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 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2024
18619282 IMMOBILIZED ENZYME NANOGEL AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF Shandong Tianhu Biological Technology Co., Ltd. REGLAS, GEORGIANA C 1651 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 28, 2024
18148470 DEVICE FOR SYNTHESIZING HOMOGENEOUS POLYMER SPHERES BASED ON CHANNEL PREPOLYMERIZATION, AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME Nanjing University SINGH, PREM C 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 211d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2022
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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