Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry manages 350 career applications in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm has 5 pending office actions and a resolved allowance rate of 89.67 percent.

The average of 3.24 office actions per allowance indicates the typical volume of communication with the USPTO. This figure helps practitioners understand the number of responses often required to reach an allowance. The 89.67 percent allowance rate, paired with the 3.24 average office actions, reflects the firm's historical track record in this specific technology sector.

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

Quality Metrics (n=350 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.7%
Allowance Rate
n=350
+0.65σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=350
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=217
-0.23σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=217
907 days
Time to Allowance
n=217
+2.7pp
Interview Lift
n=350
35.5%
RCE Rate
n=350
0.6%
Appeal Rate
n=350

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

82.4%
§101 Overcome
n=34
83.6%
§102 Overcome
n=110
77.8%
§103 Overcome
n=158
81.5%
§112 Overcome
n=119

Specialization & Scale

G06F, C25B, C01B
Top CPC Subclasses
19%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=350
3
Practitioners
n=350
116.7
Apps / Practitioner
n=350

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
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.

4
Hard (67%)
2
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (33%)
§101 + other2 (33%)
§103 only2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
83% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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
NOAMAN, BASSAM A 1 79.1% +46.2%
PRICE, MITCHELL JAMES 1 83.3% +25.0%
NGUYEN, LIZ P 1 61.1% +6.0%
MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A 1 49.1% +50.6%
KUNTZ, JEWEL A 1 70.9% +16.4%
PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 1 15.3% +13.0%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18640701 TRAILER SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING GRANULAR MATERIAL PRICE, MITCHELL JAMES —

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18598515 GENERATION OF VISUALIZATIONS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING OUTPUTS NGUYEN, LIZ P 28d overdue
18274751 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFERRING ASSET TYPES WITH MACHINE LEARNING FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 9d overdue
18498732 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A —
18461799 VIN-BASED AUTO-CALIBRATION FOR TELEMATICS DEVICE KUNTZ, JEWEL A —

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
18274751 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFERRING ASSET TYPES WITH MACHINE LEARNING FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 9d overdue
19313056 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFERRING DOCUMENT SENSITIVITY NOAMAN, BASSAM A —
18640701 TRAILER SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING GRANULAR MATERIAL PRICE, MITCHELL JAMES —
18498732 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A —
18461799 VIN-BASED AUTO-CALIBRATION FOR TELEMATICS DEVICE KUNTZ, JEWEL A —

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36111
36961
36281
36661
36291

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19313056 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFERRING DOCUMENT SENSITIVITY Dtex Systems Inc. NOAMAN, BASSAM A §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 28, 2025
18640701 TRAILER SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING GRANULAR MATERIAL Maxxim Industries Ii S.A.P.I. De C.V PRICE, MITCHELL JAMES 3611 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 19, 2024
18598515 GENERATION OF VISUALIZATIONS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING OUTPUTS Argus Software, Inc. NGUYEN, LIZ P 3696 §101§103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18498732 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Argus Software, Inc. MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A 3628 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 31, 2023
18461799 VIN-BASED AUTO-CALIBRATION FOR TELEMATICS DEVICE Geometris LP KUNTZ, JEWEL A 3666 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 06, 2023
18274751 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFERRING ASSET TYPES WITH MACHINE LEARNING FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Scryer, Inc. Dba Reonomy PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 3629 §101 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023

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