Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi Pc

Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

51 pending office actions • 20 clients • 49 examiners • 38 art units • 0 of 51 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC handles Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems matters across 1547 career applications. The profile has 56 pending office actions, showing an active prosecution docket within that application base.

The resolved allowance rate is 85.58%, and the average office actions per allowance is 3.32. The allowance figure gives clients an outcome measure, while the action average indicates that allowed matters commonly involve continuing examination before resolution. Practitioners can use the combination to plan response resources, review claim amendments carefully, and set expectations for prosecution duration without treating allowance as immediate.

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

Quality Metrics (n=1547 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.6%
Allowance Rate
n=1547
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1547
3.3
OAs to Allowance
n=967
-0.15σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=967
1086 days
Time to Allowance
n=967
+3.1pp
Interview Lift
n=1547
28.6%
RCE Rate
n=1547
2.0%
Appeal Rate
n=1547

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

68.6%
§101 Overcome
n=210
74.2%
§102 Overcome
n=453
73.4%
§103 Overcome
n=670
76.4%
§112 Overcome
n=475

Specialization & Scale

G01S, G01C, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
19%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1547
6
Practitioners
n=1547
257.8
Apps / Practitioner
n=1547

Portfolio Summary

51
Total Pending OAs
27
Non-Final OAs
22
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

32
Hard (63%)
17
Medium (33%)
1
Easy (2%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§101 + other10 (20%)
§103 only14 (27%)
§102 only3 (6%)
§112 only1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)21 (41%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
4% of docket
7
Information Tech
14% of docket
2
Communications
4% of docket
6
Semiconductors
12% of docket
30
Mechanical / Eng
59% of docket
4
Business / Other
8% 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.

510 h
Manual time on pending OAs
102 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
178 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO 2 15.4% +0.0%
DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE 2 48.1% +45.2%
JACKSON, DANIELLE MARIE 1 81.0% +26.7%
TRAN, LOI H 1 65.0% +23.5%
LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y 1 77.7% +1.5%
BOOHER, ADAM W 1 75.5% +9.1%
BROWN, SHEREE N 1 65.6% +26.5%
ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA 1 76.0% +12.1%
LE, TUNG X 1 87.0% +3.3%
BATES, DAVID W 1 76.4% +16.7%

Hard Cases (33)

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
17635392 SPRING WITH A MONITORING DEVICE, SYSTEM WITH A DOOR AND THE SPRING WITH THE MONITORING DEVICE, AND METHOD THEREFOR IRVIN, THOMAS W 171d overdue
18854704 SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ELECTRICITY HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 31d overdue
17757281 REPLACEMENT MEMBER FOR A JOINT REPLACEMENT RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO 34d
18586605 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ZONE MAPPING MCPHERSON, JAMES M 56d
19484386 THREE-DIMENSIONAL STEERING OF WHEELED MACHINES MOVING OVER AN NON-EVEN SURFACE JACKSON, DANIELLE MARIE —
19152054 OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM TRAN, LOI H —
19086038 END RECIRCULATOR FOR A BALL SCREW MECHANISM ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA —
18992456 A MULTI-BEAM ANTENNA AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MULTI-BEAM ANTENNA LE, TUNG X —

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19484386 THREE-DIMENSIONAL STEERING OF WHEELED MACHINES MOVING OVER AN NON-EVEN SURFACE JACKSON, DANIELLE MARIE —
19152054 OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM TRAN, LOI H —
19090840 METHOD OF DISPLAYING CORRECTED IMAGE OF SURVEYING DEVICE, SURVEYING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DETERMINING TARGET LIGHT POSITION FOR AUTOMATIC COLLIMATION OR AUTOMATIC TRACKING OF SURVEYING DEVICE BROWN, SHEREE N —
19086038 END RECIRCULATOR FOR A BALL SCREW MECHANISM ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA —
18684187 DISC-SHAPED AUGMENTATION FOR A LONG BONE BATES, DAVID W —
17757301 ANCHORING MEMBER FOR A JOINT REPLACEMENT DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE —
17757241 JOINT PROSTHESIS DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE —

Client Portfolio (20 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37747
36453
28722
37992
37912
41002
36571
24841
39911
26121

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19484386 THREE-DIMENSIONAL STEERING OF WHEELED MACHINES MOVING OVER AN NON-EVEN SURFACE Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. JACKSON, DANIELLE MARIE 3657 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 14, 2025
19152054 OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM Topcon Corporation TRAN, LOI H 2484 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 03, 2025
19201284 System And Method For Providing Imaging Parameters Dürr Dental SE LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y 3991 Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2025
19092166 MIRROR MEMBER Topcon Corporation BOOHER, ADAM W 2872 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 27, 2025
19090840 METHOD OF DISPLAYING CORRECTED IMAGE OF SURVEYING DEVICE, SURVEYING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DETERMINING TARGET LIGHT POSITION FOR AUTOMATIC COLLIMATION OR AUTOMATIC TRACKING OF SURVEYING DEVICE Topcon Corporation BROWN, SHEREE N 2612 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 26, 2025
19086038 END RECIRCULATOR FOR A BALL SCREW MECHANISM Ntn Europe ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA 3618 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 20, 2025
18992456 A MULTI-BEAM ANTENNA AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MULTI-BEAM ANTENNA Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen LE, TUNG X 2844 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 08, 2025
18684187 DISC-SHAPED AUGMENTATION FOR A LONG BONE Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg BATES, DAVID W 3799 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 04, 2024
18868025 METHOD FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE GEOMETRY PARAMETER OF A RAILROAD TRACK AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD Matisa Matériel Industriel S.A. BROWNE, SCOTT A 3615 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 21, 2024
18865712 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATION OF GNSS-SIGNAL INTERFERENCE Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI 3648 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 14, 2024
18855818 STRUCTURAL ELEMENT PROVIDED WITH APPLIED INSERTS FOR A COMPOSITE ACOUSTIC STRUCTURE, AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD Institut De Recherche Technologique Jules Verne OMORI, MARY I 1784 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 10, 2024
18908695 DETECTION OF JAW ARCH GEOMETRY Dürr Dental SE MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO 3791 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 07, 2024
18854704 SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ELECTRICITY Verbakel Innovation B.V. HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 3745 §102§112 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2024
18908743 AUTOMATED INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. KUMAR, KALYANAVENKA K 3653 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 07, 2024
18906337 SOLID-STATE LIDAR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SOLID-STATE LIDAR Hesai Technology Co., Ltd. RATCLIFFE, LUKE D §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 04, 2024
18851110 OPTICAL FILTER MOUNT Settes B.V. MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E 2852 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18883049 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-MACHINE COLLABORATIVE FARMING Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. MALHOTRA, SANJEEV 3691 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 12, 2024
18818524 5G OVER COAXIAL COEXISTENCE WITH DOCSIS SYSTEMS AND METHODS Charter Communications Operating, LLC CHOI, EUNSOOK 2467 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 28, 2024
18729491 ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM Quirem Medical B.V. DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY 3791 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 16, 2024
18765571 IMPLANTATION TOOL FOR AN INTERPHALANGEAL IMPLANT Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg KAMIKAWA, TRACY L 3775 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 08, 2024
18722310 A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENGAGING A PRODUCT FOR PRODUCT HANDLING Awl-Techniek B.V. BENEDIK, JUSTIN M 3652 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 20, 2024
18737919 IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS IN TASK EXECUTION DATA FOR TASK MINING UIPATH, INC. KIM, DONG U 2197 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 07, 2024
18737658 CALIBRATION METHOD, CALIBRATION DEVICE, CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Hesai Technology Co., Ltd. LEE, PAUL D 2857 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 07, 2024
18663495 ANGIOPLASTY DEVICE Nexstep Medical FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN 3771 §102 Final Rejection — Pending May 14, 2024
18648552 ASSISTED TASK MINING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS UIPATH, INC. ROTARU, OCTAVIAN 3624 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 29, 2024
18696998 PET CHEW AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PET CHEW Paragon Pet Products Europe B.V. GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 29, 2024
18695219 SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY UNDERLYING CIRCUIT AND PREPARATION METHOD FOR THE SAME Chengdu Pbm Technology Ltd. PARK, SAMUEL 2818 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 25, 2024
18691625 AUTOMATED STEERING BY MACHINE VISION Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. CHEN, SHELLEY 3665 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 13, 2024
18586605 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ZONE MAPPING Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. MCPHERSON, JAMES M 3663 §101§103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Feb 26, 2024
18583906 SHOWERHEAD Sinyu Technology (Fujian) Co., Ltd. BURKE, THOMAS P 3741 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 22, 2024
18581059 LIDAR HAVING INDIVIDUALLY ADDRESSABLE, SCANNABLE AND INTEGRATABLE LASER EMITTERS Hesai Technology Co., Ltd. THATCHER, CLINT A 3645 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 19, 2024
18426649 JOINT IMPLANT WITH A POROUS STRUCTURE Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg GANESAN, SUBA 3774 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 30, 2024
18408750 ACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLICATOR FOR A JOINT IMPLANT, AND JOINT IMPLANT HAVING AN ACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLICATOR Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg HOBAN, MELISSA A 3774 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 10, 2024
18497229 IMPLANT DEVICE Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E 3799 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 30, 2023
18377131 OPTICAL ASSEMBLY DETECTION SYSTEM FOR LIDAR AND LIDAR Hesai Technology Co., Ltd. WOLDEMARYAM, ASSRES H 3642 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 05, 2023
18479258 MATERIAL DENSITY INDEX Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 2171 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 02, 2023
18476482 GENERATING PROCESS NAMES FOR PROCESS MINING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS UIPATH, INC. HOANG, MICHAEL H 2165 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 28, 2023
18476427 CONFORMANCE ASSISTANT FOR PROCESS MINING USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS UIPATH, INC. BUI, BRIAN DUYQUANG 4100 §101§102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 28, 2023
18476524 GENERATING RPA ROBOTS FROM PROCESS MINING ACTIVITY NAMES UIPATH, INC. BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 4100 §101§102 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 28, 2023
18470744 SURVEYING APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR OPERATING SURVEYING APPARATUS Topcon Corporation WERNER, DAVID N 2487 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 20, 2023
18470558 SURVEYING SYSTEM, SURVEYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Topcon Corporation AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A 3645 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 20, 2023
18255684 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING MARKER POSITION AND ATTITUDE Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH 2677 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Jun 02, 2023
18317957 OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS AND FOCUS DETERMINATION METHOD Topcon Corporation PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 2872 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 16, 2023
18187694 SURVEYING APPARATUS, SURVEYING METHOD, AND SURVEYING PROGRAM Topcon Corporation SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 22, 2023
18006154 COATING OF A STRUCTURED IMPLANT SURFACE Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg BLASS, PARIS MARIE 3774 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 20, 2023
18049273 AUTOMATIC MERGING OF VARIANTS OF AUTOMATABLE TASKS FOR ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION UIPATH, INC. MILLS, FRANK D 2194 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 24, 2022
17753437 BONE IMPLANT HAVING COATED POROUS STRUCTURE Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO 3774 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 27, 2022
17757301 ANCHORING MEMBER FOR A JOINT REPLACEMENT Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE 3774 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 14, 2022
17757281 REPLACEMENT MEMBER FOR A JOINT REPLACEMENT Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO 3774 §103§112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 13, 2022
17757241 JOINT PROSTHESIS Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE 3774 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 13, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi Pc's patent allowance rate?

85.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi Pc were allowed, across 1,547 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi Pc average before allowance?

3.32 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi Pc have?

51 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 20 clients, before 49 examiners in 38 art units.

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