Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Dergosits & Noah LLP

16 pending office actions • 13 clients • 16 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=13847 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

91.8%
Allowance Rate
n=13847
+0.57σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=13847
3.3
OAs to Allowance
n=7083
-0.22σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=7083
870 days
Time to Allowance
n=7083
+2.2pp
Interview Lift
n=13847
37.8%
RCE Rate
n=13847
1.5%
Appeal Rate
n=13847

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

73.4%
§101 Overcome
n=350
75.5%
§102 Overcome
n=1239
70.8%
§103 Overcome
n=5275
86.0%
§112 Overcome
n=465

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04N, G06T
Top CPC Subclasses
48%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=13847
6
Practitioners
n=13847
2307.8
Apps / Practitioner
n=13847

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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.

0
Hard (0%)
15
Medium (94%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (81%)
§102 only2 (12%)
§112 only1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
6% of docket
1
Information Tech
6% of docket
3
Communications
19% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
3
Business / Other
19% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JOHNSON, VICKY A 1 79.8% +12.2%
WANG, MICHAEL H 1 52.0% +25.8%
GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A 1 76.0% +12.7%
ALIZADA, OMEED 1 77.6% +32.6%
NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE 1
FIX, THOMAS S 1 71.7% +15.5%
LIEUWEN, CODY J 1 59.7% +46.1%
MILORD, MARCEAU 1 89.1% +11.3%
BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 1 75.4% +30.2%
KUMAR, RAKESH 1 57.0% +28.4%

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

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
18293693 FLOATING WIND TURBINE PLATFORM FIX, THOMAS S 26d
18487960 Evaluating a Surface Microstructure BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 26d
18406449 WI-FI SENSING DEVICE MILORD, MARCEAU 78d
18962868 MOVABLE PEDAL BOX JOHNSON, VICKY A
18951361 FOUR-COLUMN FLOATING WIND TURBINE FOUNDATIONS WANG, MICHAEL H
18859109 MOTOR AND ELECTRIC DRIVE SYSTEM GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A
18617478 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ULTRASOUNIC SENSOR OBSTRUCTION ALIZADA, OMEED
18418604 Spin-Air Speaker LIEUWEN, CODY J

Client Portfolio (13 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36171
26861
36181
37521
26411
26741
36511
21131
36241
37951

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18962868 MOVABLE PEDAL BOX Mclaren Automotive Limited JOHNSON, VICKY A 3617 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 27, 2024
18951361 FOUR-COLUMN FLOATING WIND TURBINE FOUNDATIONS Principle Power, Inc. WANG, MICHAEL H §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 18, 2024
18859109 MOTOR AND ELECTRIC DRIVE SYSTEM Jing-Jin Electric Technologies Co., Ltd. GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 22, 2024
18617478 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ULTRASOUNIC SENSOR OBSTRUCTION Invensense, Inc. ALIZADA, OMEED 2686 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 26, 2024
18596233 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CROWDSOURCED CREATION OF MAGNETIC MAP Invensense, Inc. NAFOOSHE, SAEEDE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 05, 2024
18293693 FLOATING WIND TURBINE PLATFORM Aker Offshore Wind Operating Company AS FIX, THOMAS S 3618 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18418604 Spin-Air Speaker Fire Jammers Co. LIEUWEN, CODY J 3752 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 22, 2024
18406449 WI-FI SENSING DEVICE Nami AI Pte. Ltd. MILORD, MARCEAU 2641 §102 Non-Final OA 78d Pending Jan 08, 2024
18487960 Evaluating a Surface Microstructure Pdf Solutions, Inc. BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 2674 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Oct 16, 2023
18335670 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SINGULATING AND DISPENSING BEADS Air Industrial Robotics, Inc. KUMAR, RAKESH 3651 §103 Non-Final OA 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 §103 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2023
18155856 CYSTOSCOPE WITH DOCKING INTERCHANGEABLE TOOLS Prodeon Medical, Inc. STARKEY, OLIVIA GRACE 3795 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 18, 2023
17980015 PULSE GENERATOR FOR IRREVERSIBLE ELECTROPORATION BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD. DELLA, JAYMI E 3794 §112 Final Rejection 22d Pending Nov 03, 2022
17060765 SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING ORGANIC SYNTHESIS PATHWAYS FOR DESIRED ORGANIC MOLECULES Molecule One Sp. Z O.O. BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM 1687 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Oct 01, 2020
16999179 DETECTING PRESENCE OF A MOVING OBJECT WITH AN ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER Invensense, Inc. ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN 3645 §103 Non-Final OA 92d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2020

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