Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Coughlin Law Office, LLC

5 pending office actions • 3 clients • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=186 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

77.8%
Allowance Rate
n=186
+0.40σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=186
2.6
OAs to Allowance
n=70
-0.35σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=70
857 days
Time to Allowance
n=70
+13.3pp
Interview Lift
n=186
12.2%
RCE Rate
n=186
1.5%
Appeal Rate
n=186

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=4 (min 20)
79.6%
§102 Overcome
n=44
68.2%
§103 Overcome
n=63
65.0%
§112 Overcome
n=40

Specialization & Scale

A01C, B65G, G01N
Top CPC Subclasses
27%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=186
2
Practitioners
n=186
93.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=186

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
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.

3
Hard (60%)
2
Medium (40%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (60%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KAMRAN, MEHRAN 1 89.9% +14.2%
RAMIREZ, ALEX 1 80.7% +21.7%
GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY 1 67.1% +53.4%
HUANG, RYAN 1 52.3% +31.4%
GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 1 26.0% +13.6%

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
18384345 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANIPULATION AND CONCENTRATION OF PARTICLES AND LARGE MOLECULES IN A DISPOSABLE FILTER TIP RAMIREZ, ALEX

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
16949637 Animal Feed from Minimally Dewatered Microalgal Slurry GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 120d overdue
17984204 LARGE AREA SURFACE SAMPLER WITH INVERTIBLE BAG GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY 4d overdue
18676518 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME AFFINITY-BASED PEER-TO-PEER DISTRIBUTION WITH PRIORITIZED REQUIREMENTS MATCHING AND ALLOCATION KAMRAN, MEHRAN

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
16949637 Animal Feed from Minimally Dewatered Microalgal Slurry GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 120d overdue
17984204 LARGE AREA SURFACE SAMPLER WITH INVERTIBLE BAG GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY 4d overdue
18676518 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME AFFINITY-BASED PEER-TO-PEER DISTRIBUTION WITH PRIORITIZED REQUIREMENTS MATCHING AND ALLOCATION KAMRAN, MEHRAN
18384345 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANIPULATION AND CONCENTRATION OF PARTICLES AND LARGE MOLECULES IN A DISPOSABLE FILTER TIP RAMIREZ, ALEX
17103900 LIQUID TO LIQUID BIOLOGICAL PARTICLE FRACTIONATION AND CONCENTRATION HUANG, RYAN

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
INNOVAPREP LLC 3
Samaritan Ministries 1
SEB Farms, LLC 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17982
17771
17931

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18676518 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME AFFINITY-BASED PEER-TO-PEER DISTRIBUTION WITH PRIORITIZED REQUIREMENTS MATCHING AND ALLOCATION Samaritan Ministries KAMRAN, MEHRAN §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 29, 2024
18384345 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANIPULATION AND CONCENTRATION OF PARTICLES AND LARGE MOLECULES IN A DISPOSABLE FILTER TIP Innovaprep LLC RAMIREZ, ALEX 1798 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 26, 2023
17984204 LARGE AREA SURFACE SAMPLER WITH INVERTIBLE BAG Innovaprep LLC GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY 1798 §103§112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2022
17103900 LIQUID TO LIQUID BIOLOGICAL PARTICLE FRACTIONATION AND CONCENTRATION Innovaprep LLC HUANG, RYAN 1777 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 24, 2020
16949637 Animal Feed from Minimally Dewatered Microalgal Slurry Seb Farms, LLC GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 1793 §103§112 Final Rejection 120d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2020

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