Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Cozen O''Connor - Sea Patent

19 pending office actions • 11 clients • 18 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=19236 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.6%
Allowance Rate
n=19236
+0.53σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=19236
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=12624
-0.04σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=12624
1066 days
Time to Allowance
n=12624
+5.0pp
Interview Lift
n=19236
24.9%
RCE Rate
n=19236
2.3%
Appeal Rate
n=19236

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

78.6%
§101 Overcome
n=1334
78.7%
§102 Overcome
n=5502
80.5%
§103 Overcome
n=8781
82.9%
§112 Overcome
n=5784

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04W, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
11%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=19236
0
Practitioners
n=19236
Apps / Practitioner
n=19236 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

19
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

11
Hard (58%)
7
Medium (37%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other6 (32%)
§103 only5 (26%)
§102 only1 (5%)
Double-patenting only1 (5%)
Double-patenting + other1 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (26%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
11% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
5% of docket
2
Semiconductors
11% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
58% of docket
3
Business / Other
16% 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.

190 h
Manual time on pending OAs
38 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
66 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BARKER, MATTHEW M 2 72.5% +14.7%
YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW 1 77.4% +14.8%
ALLEN, ANDRE J 1 91.4% +6.3%
SCHWARTZ, JOSHUA L 1 67.8% +21.8%
FRAZIER, BRADY W 1 78.4% +27.3%
WANG, ALEXANDER A 1 65.9% +22.1%
MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI 1 86.2% +0.4%
MOSCOLA, MATTHEW JOHN 1 64.2% +18.2%
GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 1 23.0% +33.2%
MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE 1 45.3% +35.7%

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
18722328 MULTI-SPOT IMAGING USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI

Hard Cases (11)

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
18649275 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SOURCING MATERIALS GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 60d overdue
17862691 MANUFACTURING METHODS AND RELATED STRUCTURES, FOR EXAMPLE USEFUL IN AIRFRAMES AND OTHER STRUCTURES LAN, YAN 23d overdue
18520298 SAFETY SYSTEMS AND METHODS EMPLOYED IN ROBOT OPERATIONS GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER 2d overdue
19106847 FLUID STORAGE MONITORING BARKER, MATTHEW M 53d
18683810 IMAGE DIFFERENCE IDENTIFICATION COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 84d
19115689 DRY-BULK STOCKPILE MONITORING BARKER, MATTHEW M
18879476 SATELLITE THERMAL CONTROL YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW
18866179 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS ALLEN, ANDRE J

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18649275 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SOURCING MATERIALS GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 60d overdue
19106847 FLUID STORAGE MONITORING BARKER, MATTHEW M 53d
19115689 DRY-BULK STOCKPILE MONITORING BARKER, MATTHEW M
18879476 SATELLITE THERMAL CONTROL YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW
18933881 DYNAMIC PROFILE SWITCHING SCHWARTZ, JOSHUA L
18851373 DETECTING AND SUPPRESSING AMBIGUITIES IN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA AND IMAGES FRAZIER, BRADY W
18797331 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INTERIM AND END OF PROCESS TREATMENT OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES USING HIGH PRESSURE AND WATERJETS WANG, ALEXANDER A
18719770 SENSORY SUBSTITUTION DEVICES MOSCOLA, MATTHEW JOHN

Client Portfolio (11 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36462
36632
36441
28551
17411
36481
36251
26751
37461
36571

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19115689 DRY-BULK STOCKPILE MONITORING Iceye OY BARKER, MATTHEW M 3646 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 26, 2025
19106847 FLUID STORAGE MONITORING Iceye OY BARKER, MATTHEW M 3646 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection 53d Pending Feb 26, 2025
18879476 SATELLITE THERMAL CONTROL Iceye OY YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW 3644 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2024
18866179 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS Iceye OY ALLEN, ANDRE J 2855 §101§102 Final Rejection Pending Nov 15, 2024
18933881 DYNAMIC PROFILE SWITCHING Cubic Telecom Limited SCHWARTZ, JOSHUA L §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18851373 DETECTING AND SUPPRESSING AMBIGUITIES IN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA AND IMAGES Iceye OY FRAZIER, BRADY W §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 26, 2024
18797331 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INTERIM AND END OF PROCESS TREATMENT OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES USING HIGH PRESSURE AND WATERJETS Flow International Corporation WANG, ALEXANDER A 1741 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 07, 2024
18722328 MULTI-SPOT IMAGING USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR Iceye OY MASHELE, BONGANI JABULANI 3648 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 20, 2024
18719770 SENSORY SUBSTITUTION DEVICES Makesense Technology Limited MOSCOLA, MATTHEW JOHN 3663 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 13, 2024
18649275 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SOURCING MATERIALS Freshtohome Pte. Limited GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 3625 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2024
18701704 SATELLITE OPERATION AND PROCESSING OF SATELLITE STATE DATA Iceye OY MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE 3663 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 16, 2024
18683810 IMAGE DIFFERENCE IDENTIFICATION Iceye OY COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 2675 §101§103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18523439 ENERGY EFFICIENT PUMP AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS Shape Technologies Group, Inc. BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN 3746 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 29, 2023
18520298 SAFETY SYSTEMS AND METHODS EMPLOYED IN ROBOT OPERATIONS Realtime Robotics, Inc. GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER 3657 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2023
18385232 SLOTTED SPECIMEN HOLDER, WIRELESS TRANSPONDER LOADING CARTRIDGE, WIRELESS TRANSPONDER DISPENSER AND METHODS Tmrw Life Sciences, Inc. SHAH, JAY B 3791 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 30, 2023
18039814 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND USER INTERFACES EMPLOYING CLEARANCE DETERMINATIONS IN ROBOT MOTION PLANNING AND CONTROL Realtime Robotics, Inc. CAMERON, ATTICUS A 3658 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 01, 2023
18195204 CONFIGURATION OF A DIGITAL TWIN FOR A BUILDING OR OTHER FACILITY VIA BIM DATA EXTRACTION AND ASSET REGISTER MAPPING Willow Ip Pty Ltd. MAPAR, BIJAN DP Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2023
17862691 MANUFACTURING METHODS AND RELATED STRUCTURES, FOR EXAMPLE USEFUL IN AIRFRAMES AND OTHER STRUCTURES Imagine Aero Inc. LAN, YAN 1782 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2022
17378569 LASER SYSTEM AND COMPONENTS OF SAME Lisa Laser Products GmbH JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY 2872 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 16, 2021

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