Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Dergosits & Noah LLP

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

21 pending office actions • 15 clients • 21 examiners • 20 art units • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

The profile covers Computing & Software and shows 21 pending office actions. It records 2247 career applications, supplying a substantial application-history context for the current software docket.

The resolved allowance rate is 85.16%, with an average of 3.5 office actions per allowance. The figures show resolved allowance performance alongside a recurring examination sequence before allowance. For prosecution planning, they provide separate guidance on outcome expectations and the effort associated with responding to office actions.

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

Quality Metrics (n=2247 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.2%
Allowance Rate
n=2247
+0.58σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=2247
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=1458
-0.05σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1458
1110 days
Time to Allowance
n=1458
+10.0pp
Interview Lift
n=2247
27.3%
RCE Rate
n=2247
4.8%
Appeal Rate
n=2247

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

82.0%
§101 Overcome
n=283
80.5%
§102 Overcome
n=632
80.8%
§103 Overcome
n=954
84.3%
§112 Overcome
n=606

Specialization & Scale

G06F, A61B, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
21%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=2247
6
Practitioners
n=2247
374.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=2247

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

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

14
Hard (67%)
7
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (14%)
§101 + other3 (14%)
§103 only7 (33%)
Multi-statute (no §101)8 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
5% of docket
5
Information Tech
24% of docket
4
Communications
19% of docket
3
Semiconductors
14% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
38% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NORTON, JENNIFER L 1 49.7% +2.4%
KAKARLA, BHASKAR 1 20.0% +0.0%
KOLB JR, BRETT DAVID 1 — —
EDMONDS, DONALD J 1 39.5% +35.3%
ALIZADA, OMEED 1 77.6% +32.3%
SMALL, NAOMI J 1 63.9% +23.7%
NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE 1 — —
FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C 1 76.5% +30.2%
LIEUWEN, CODY J 1 59.6% +45.8%
MILORD, MARCEAU 1 89.2% +11.2%

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
18406449 WI-FI SENSING DEVICE MILORD, MARCEAU 78d

Hard Cases (14)

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
18177631 Methods and Systems for Real Time Mission Coordination of Law Enforcement Operations LABOGIN, DORETHEA L 98d overdue
18487960 Evaluating a Surface Microstructure BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 26d
19004177 Sequenced Approach for Determining Wafer Path Quality NORTON, JENNIFER L —
18925726 AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL KAKARLA, BHASKAR —
18736923 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THAT DYNAMICALLY SUMMARIZES TEXT INCLUDING SUPPORT TICKETS KOLB JR, BRETT DAVID —
18736130 PLATFORM FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CUSTOMER DEVICES AND BACK-END SERVER FOR RETAIL LOCATION EDMONDS, DONALD J —
18596233 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CROWDSOURCED CREATION OF MAGNETIC MAP NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE —
18442735 Lidar Device FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C —

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
18614016 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING A STATIONARY TARGET WITH ULTRASOUND SMALL, NAOMI J 2d overdue
18406449 WI-FI SENSING DEVICE MILORD, MARCEAU 78d
18736130 PLATFORM FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CUSTOMER DEVICES AND BACK-END SERVER FOR RETAIL LOCATION EDMONDS, DONALD J —
18617478 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ULTRASOUNIC SENSOR OBSTRUCTION ALIZADA, OMEED —
18442735 Lidar Device FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C —
18418604 Spin-Air Speaker LIEUWEN, CODY J —

Client Portfolio (15 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28572
21171
21161
21451
36001
26861
26851
36451
37521
26411

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19004177 Sequenced Approach for Determining Wafer Path Quality Pdf Solutions, Inc. NORTON, JENNIFER L 2117 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 27, 2024
18925726 AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL Mclaren Automotive Limited KAKARLA, BHASKAR 2116 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 24, 2024
18736923 GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THAT DYNAMICALLY SUMMARIZES TEXT INCLUDING SUPPORT TICKETS SupportLogic, Inc. KOLB JR, BRETT DAVID 2145 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 07, 2024
18736130 PLATFORM FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CUSTOMER DEVICES AND BACK-END SERVER FOR RETAIL LOCATION Bonder, Inc. EDMONDS, DONALD J 3600 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 06, 2024
18617478 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ULTRASOUNIC SENSOR OBSTRUCTION Invensense, Inc. ALIZADA, OMEED 2686 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 26, 2024
18614016 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING A STATIONARY TARGET WITH ULTRASOUND Invensense, Inc. SMALL, NAOMI J 2685 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2024
18596233 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CROWDSOURCED CREATION OF MAGNETIC MAP Invensense, Inc. NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE 2857 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 05, 2024
18442735 Lidar Device Ball Photonics, Inc. FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C 3645 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 15, 2024
18418604 Spin-Air Speaker Fire Jammers Co. LIEUWEN, CODY J 3752 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2024
18406449 WI-FI SENSING DEVICE Nami AI Pte. Ltd. MILORD, MARCEAU 2641 §103 Final Rejection 78d Pending Jan 08, 2024
18392462 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAP BUILDING USING RADAR AND MOTION SENSORS Invensense, Inc. SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN 3661 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 21, 2023
18527156 Time-Series Segmentation and Anomaly Detection Pdf Solutions, Inc. KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 2857 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 01, 2023
18524379 SYSTEM AND METHOD THAT ASSISTS WITH WRITING ISSUE REPORTS THAT DESCRIBE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TASKS AND ISSUE INFORMATION Laredo Labs, Inc. GOORAY, MARK A 2199 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Nov 30, 2023
18487960 Evaluating a Surface Microstructure Pdf Solutions, Inc. BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 2674 §103§112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 16, 2023
18335670 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SINGULATING AND DISPENSING BEADS Air Industrial Robotics, Inc. KUMAR, RAKESH 3651 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 15, 2023
18141389 Predicting Equipment Fail Mode from Process Trace Pdf Solutions, Inc. XU, MICHAEL 2113 §103 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2023
18177631 Methods and Systems for Real Time Mission Coordination of Law Enforcement Operations Pryme Infil LABOGIN, DORETHEA L 3624 §101 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2023
18155856 CYSTOSCOPE WITH DOCKING INTERCHANGEABLE TOOLS Prodeon Medical, Inc. STARKEY, OLIVIA GRACE 3795 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 18, 2023
17913413 LIQUID CRYSTAL CELLS Flexenable Limited JUNG, JONATHAN Y 2871 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 21, 2022
17948489 DELIVERY AND DEPLOYMENT OF A PROSTATIC IMPLANT Prodeon Medical Corporation MANNAN, MIKAIL A 3774 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 20, 2022
16336878 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, SYSTEMS AND/OR KITS FOR PREVENTING AND/OR TREATING NEOPLASMS Research Cancer Institute Of America KOSTURKO, GEORGE W 1621 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 26, 2019

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Dergosits & Noah LLP's patent allowance rate?

85.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Dergosits & Noah LLP were allowed, across 2,247 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Dergosits & Noah LLP average before allowance?

3.50 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Dergosits & Noah LLP have?

21 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 15 clients, before 21 examiners in 20 art units.

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