Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Cbm Patent Consulting, LLC

10 pending office actions • 9 clients • 10 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=903 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.4%
Allowance Rate
n=903
+0.52σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=903
2.1
OAs to Allowance
n=695
-0.70σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=695
704 days
Time to Allowance
n=695
+13.8pp
Interview Lift
n=903
7.5%
RCE Rate
n=903
0.2%
Appeal Rate
n=903

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

76.0%
§101 Overcome
n=104
72.4%
§102 Overcome
n=163
72.8%
§103 Overcome
n=331
79.4%
§112 Overcome
n=515

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
13%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=903
0
Practitioners
n=903
Apps / Practitioner
n=903 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
5
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
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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 later (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.

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

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (10%)
§103 only2 (20%)
§112 only1 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (60%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
50% of docket
2
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
10% of docket
1
Business / Other
10% 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
HUISMAN, DAVID J 1 57.9% +33.7%
VICARY, KEITH E 1 57.7% +41.2%
LENIHAN, JEFFREY S 1 73.3% +16.6%
GIRI, PURSOTTAM 1 19.0% +12.6%
ZHENG, LOIS L 1 67.8% +12.6%
LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT 1 64.3% +52.8%
SINGH, PREM C 1 59.0% +33.1%
LIU, ZHEN 1 43.0% +44.5%
SEHAR, FAKEHA 1 83.2% +18.9%
CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES 1 56.9% +40.8%

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
18281588 MICRO-MOLYBDENUM-TYPE WEATHERING BRIDGE STEEL PLATE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF ZHENG, LOIS L 26d overdue
18932723 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCELERATING RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK BASED ON CORTEX-M PROCESSOR, AND MEDIUM VICARY, KEITH E 71d
19290425 CPU CAPABLE OF QUICKLY PROCESSING MEMORY COPY INSTRUCTION AND METHOD THEREFOR HUISMAN, DAVID J
18418301 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING WATER FLOODING RECOVERY OF FAULT BLOCK RESERVOIRS CONSIDERING WHOLE PROCESS OPTIMIZATION GIRI, PURSOTTAM
18162234 LECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE IMMUNOASSAY-NUCLEIC ACID TESTING SYNCHRONOUS MULTICOMPONENT ANALYSIS METHOD BASED ON SPECTRAL RESOLUTION PRINCIPLE LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT
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
18281588 MICRO-MOLYBDENUM-TYPE WEATHERING BRIDGE STEEL PLATE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF ZHENG, LOIS L 26d overdue
18932723 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCELERATING RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK BASED ON CORTEX-M PROCESSOR, AND MEDIUM VICARY, KEITH E 71d
19290425 CPU CAPABLE OF QUICKLY PROCESSING MEMORY COPY INSTRUCTION AND METHOD THEREFOR HUISMAN, DAVID J
18293960 ACYLHYDRAZONE BOND-CONTAINING AMPHIPHOBIC POLYMER AND PREPARATION METHOD OF NANO AMPHIPHOBIC REVERSAL AGENT LENIHAN, JEFFREY S
18418301 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING WATER FLOODING RECOVERY OF FAULT BLOCK RESERVOIRS CONSIDERING WHOLE PROCESS OPTIMIZATION GIRI, PURSOTTAM
18162234 LECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE IMMUNOASSAY-NUCLEIC ACID TESTING SYNCHRONOUS MULTICOMPONENT ANALYSIS METHOD BASED ON SPECTRAL RESOLUTION PRINCIPLE LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT
17904008 MODIFIED LIGNIN REINFORCED RUBBER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR LIU, ZHEN

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21831
17621
21861
17331
16771
17711
17671
28931
37231

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19290425 CPU CAPABLE OF QUICKLY PROCESSING MEMORY COPY INSTRUCTION AND METHOD THEREFOR Nanjing Qinheng Microelectronics Co., Ltd. HUISMAN, DAVID J §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 05, 2025
18932723 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCELERATING RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK BASED ON CORTEX-M PROCESSOR, AND MEDIUM Hangzhou Vango Technologies, Inc. VICARY, KEITH E 2183 §103§112 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Oct 31, 2024
18293960 ACYLHYDRAZONE BOND-CONTAINING AMPHIPHOBIC POLYMER AND PREPARATION METHOD OF NANO AMPHIPHOBIC REVERSAL AGENT China University Of Petroleum (East China) LENIHAN, JEFFREY S 1762 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 31, 2024
18418301 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING WATER FLOODING RECOVERY OF FAULT BLOCK RESERVOIRS CONSIDERING WHOLE PROCESS OPTIMIZATION Shandong University Of Science And Technology GIRI, PURSOTTAM 2186 §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 21, 2024
18281588 MICRO-MOLYBDENUM-TYPE WEATHERING BRIDGE STEEL PLATE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF Nanjing Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. ZHENG, LOIS L 1733 §103§112 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2023
18162234 LECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE IMMUNOASSAY-NUCLEIC ACID TESTING SYNCHRONOUS MULTICOMPONENT ANALYSIS METHOD BASED ON SPECTRAL RESOLUTION PRINCIPLE Shandong University LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT 1677 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 31, 2023
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
17904008 MODIFIED LIGNIN REINFORCED RUBBER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR Nanjing Tech University LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 10, 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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