Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Daniel Law Offices, P.A.

7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=972 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

86.8%
Allowance Rate
n=972
+0.58σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=972
2.5
OAs to Allowance
n=587
-0.54σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=587
715 days
Time to Allowance
n=587
+10.8pp
Interview Lift
n=972
14.4%
RCE Rate
n=972
0.2%
Appeal Rate
n=972

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

68.2%
§101 Overcome
n=22
80.2%
§102 Overcome
n=288
80.6%
§103 Overcome
n=459
84.6%
§112 Overcome
n=267

Specialization & Scale

A63B, F41A, A47G
Top CPC Subclasses
8%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=972
1
Practitioners
n=972
972.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=972

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 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.

2
Hard (29%)
5
Medium (71%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
43% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEE, WILLIAM Y 2 48.2% +34.0%
STERLING, AMY JO 1 76.6% +10.5%
VANTERPOOL, LESTER L 1 54.8% -10.3%
KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 1 31.7% +31.1%
SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN 1 4.5% +25.0%
TEHRANI, DANIEL 1 60.0% +49.3%

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
17171784 CELLULITE AND FAT REDUCING DEVICE AND METHOD UTILIZING OPTICAL EMITTERS TEHRANI, DANIEL 20d
18971940 LIGHT THERAPY DEVICE STAND STERLING, AMY JO
17961258 LIGHT THERAPY SYSTEM SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18243147 EDIBLE PET CHEW PRODUCT AND RELATED METHOD OF MANUFACTURE KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 43d overdue
17367876 STABLE CANNABINOID FORMULATIONS LEE, WILLIAM Y 8d
17171784 CELLULITE AND FAT REDUCING DEVICE AND METHOD UTILIZING OPTICAL EMITTERS TEHRANI, DANIEL 20d
18971940 LIGHT THERAPY DEVICE STAND STERLING, AMY JO
17961258 LIGHT THERAPY SYSTEM SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN
17559155 STABLE CANNABINOID FORMULATIONS LEE, WILLIAM Y

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16232
37341
17911
37961
37921

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18971940 LIGHT THERAPY DEVICE STAND Platinum Ip LLC STERLING, AMY JO §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2024
18612152 PET WALKER FANNY PACK SYSTEM Surnook LLC VANTERPOOL, LESTER L 3734 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2024
18243147 EDIBLE PET CHEW PRODUCT AND RELATED METHOD OF MANUFACTURE Brazilian Pet LLC KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 1791 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
17961258 LIGHT THERAPY SYSTEM Platinum Ip LLC SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN 3796 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 06, 2022
17559155 STABLE CANNABINOID FORMULATIONS Fresh Cut Development, LLC LEE, WILLIAM Y 1623 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2021
17367876 STABLE CANNABINOID FORMULATIONS Fresh Cut Development LLC LEE, WILLIAM Y 1623 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jul 06, 2021
17171784 CELLULITE AND FAT REDUCING DEVICE AND METHOD UTILIZING OPTICAL EMITTERS BLUE WATER INNOVATIONS, LLC TEHRANI, DANIEL 3792 §103§112 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Feb 09, 2021

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