Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Dittavong, Mori & Steiner, P.C.

46 pending office actions • 14 clients • 46 examiners • 37 art units • 4 of 46 (9%) have an AI response strategy ready • 79 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=6320 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.9%
Allowance Rate
n=6320
+0.56σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=6320
4.5
OAs to Allowance
n=4938
+0.49σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=4938
1202 days
Time to Allowance
n=4938
+2.6pp
Interview Lift
n=6320
36.3%
RCE Rate
n=6320
6.2%
Appeal Rate
n=6320

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

89.3%
§101 Overcome
n=224
87.9%
§102 Overcome
n=1000
84.6%
§103 Overcome
n=3803
95.0%
§112 Overcome
n=465

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H01L
Top CPC Subclasses
21%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=6320
0
Practitioners
n=6320
Apps / Practitioner
n=6320 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

46
Total Pending OAs
21
Non-Final OAs
19
Final Rejections
6
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

14
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (14)Due ≤ 30 days (5)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.

6
Hard (13%)
37
Medium (80%)
3
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only6 (13%)
§103 only35 (76%)
§102 only2 (4%)
§112 only3 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
13% of docket
8
Information Tech
17% of docket
9
Communications
20% of docket
10
Semiconductors
22% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
24% of docket
2
Business / Other
4% 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.

460 h
Manual time on pending OAs
92 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
161 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MONSUR, NASIMA 1 78.7% +26.1%
TSUI, WILSON W 1 61.7% +57.2%
DAVIS, JERROD I 1 86.7% +11.0%
GREINER, TRISTAN J 1 78.3% +18.2%
LIN, KATHERINE Y 1 91.2% +6.5%
MOTSINGER, SEAN T 1 78.3% +11.9%
PRIFTI, AUREL 1 83.0% +22.3%
MOORE, WHITNEY 1 88.2% +9.9%
HAIDER, SYED 1 83.4% +8.0%
CRITE, ANTONIO B 1 81.2% -13.1%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18419045 MEASUREMENT DEVICE BEING ACTIVATABLE VIA WAKE-ON NETWORK CAPABILITIES PRIFTI, AUREL 43d overdue
18397545 PACKAGE STRUCTURE CRITE, ANTONIO B 31d overdue
18576543 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR LOCALIZATION HAIDER, SYED 30d overdue
18800771 VEHICLE OPERATION DAVIS, JERROD I 2d overdue
18410483 RADAR TARGET SIMULATOR, CORRESPONDING ANTENNA ARRAY AND RADAR TARGET SIMULATION METHOD MOORE, WHITNEY 26d

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17941607 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED PREDICTION OF AN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL KHALED, ABDALLA A 66d overdue
18394603 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TRAFFIC DATA KNUDSON, ELLE ROSE 42d overdue
18090082 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION OF LANE DATA SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA 9d overdue
18649222 ERROR PREDICTION IN LOCATION SENSOR DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL LIN, KATHERINE Y 28d
18432174 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR SPATIAL-TEMPORAL AUTHENTICATION MOTSINGER, SEAN T
18088315 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING BUILDING DATA HOANG, KEN

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
18419045 MEASUREMENT DEVICE BEING ACTIVATABLE VIA WAKE-ON NETWORK CAPABILITIES PRIFTI, AUREL 43d overdue
18800771 VEHICLE OPERATION DAVIS, JERROD I 2d overdue
18990760 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING A DEVICE-UNDER-TEST MONSUR, NASIMA
18807597 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SPEED PROFILE DATA GIVEN A ROAD ATTRIBUTE USING MACHINE LEARNING TSUI, WILSON W
18790948 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL ROUTE GREINER, TRISTAN J
18432174 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR SPATIAL-TEMPORAL AUTHENTICATION MOTSINGER, SEAN T

Client Portfolio (14 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36674
28153
36562
26732
21131
21751
36461
26331
28171
36661

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18990760 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING A DEVICE-UNDER-TEST Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. Kg MONSUR, NASIMA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2024
18807597 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SPEED PROFILE DATA GIVEN A ROAD ATTRIBUTE USING MACHINE LEARNING Here Global B.V. TSUI, WILSON W §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 16, 2024
18800771 VEHICLE OPERATION Nokia Technologies Oy DAVIS, JERROD I 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue AI Ready Aug 12, 2024
18790948 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL ROUTE Here Global B.V. GREINER, TRISTAN J 3656 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2024
18649222 ERROR PREDICTION IN LOCATION SENSOR DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Here Global B.V. LIN, KATHERINE Y 2113 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18432174 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR SPATIAL-TEMPORAL AUTHENTICATION Nokia Technologies Oy MOTSINGER, SEAN T 2673 §101 Final Rejection Pending Feb 05, 2024
18419045 MEASUREMENT DEVICE BEING ACTIVATABLE VIA WAKE-ON NETWORK CAPABILITIES Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. Kg PRIFTI, AUREL 2175 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2024
18410483 RADAR TARGET SIMULATOR, CORRESPONDING ANTENNA ARRAY AND RADAR TARGET SIMULATION METHOD Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. Kg MOORE, WHITNEY 3646 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jan 11, 2024
18576543 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR LOCALIZATION Nokia Technologies Oy HAIDER, SYED 2633 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue AI Ready Jan 04, 2024
18397545 PACKAGE STRUCTURE Ireach Corporation CRITE, ANTONIO B 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18394603 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TRAFFIC DATA Here Global B.V. KNUDSON, ELLE ROSE 3667 §101 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18392843 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM OF PROBE VEHICLE ANALYSIS ACROSS TRAVEL ZONES Here Global B.V. TROOST, AARON L 3666 §102 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18543740 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING ERROR IN RELATIVE POSITION DATA FROM A SENSOR Here Global B.V. ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF 3667 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2023
18540278 LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF Epistar Corporation BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER 2811 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 14, 2023
18533323 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A SEMANTIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy WU, MING HAN 2618 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2023
18286329 AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED REGULATION OF A MIXTURE IN A SEED WOMB Aspalli Green Sustainable Ecosystem Private Limited SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 2117 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 10, 2023
18554123 DEVICE MANAGEMENT Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy CUMMING, WILLIAM D 2645 §103 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2023
18243985 LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE Epistar Corporation GONZALES, VICENTE ROLANDO 2899 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 08, 2023
18241451 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SPEED LIMIT DATA Here Global B.V. ZHANG, FAN 2682 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 01, 2023
18240898 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURITY INSPECTION OF IP TRAFFIC IN A CORE NETWORK Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. Kg HABTEGEORGIS, MATTHIAS 2491 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 31, 2023
18231509 OLEFIN SELECTIVE FT CATALYST COMPOSITION AND PREPARATION THEREOF Sasol Wax GmbH TAYLOR, JORDAN W 1692 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 08, 2023
18196264 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MAGNETISM DATA Here Global B.V. CHOU, SHIEN MING 3667 §103 Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
18128110 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYTEM FOR PROVIDING GROUP SYNCHRONY BASED ON BIOMARKERS Syneurgy, Inc. DOWNEY, JOHN R 3792 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 29, 2023
18024917 COMPOSITION FOR USE IN FOOD SUPPLEMENTS AND/OR COSMETIC PRODUCTS, COMPRISING BACILLUS SUBTILIS Institut Dr. Rilling Healthcare GmbH ZEMAN, ROBERT A 1645 §112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 06, 2023
18024693 CONCENTRATED FUNGICIDE COMPOSITION OF PROTHIOCONAZOLE AND PICOXYTROBIN Ouro Fino Química S.A. ARNOLD, ERNST V 1613 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 03, 2023
18105045 LIGHT-EMITTING STRUCTURE Epistar Corporation CHI, SUBERR L 2893 §112 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Feb 02, 2023
18015276 AN AIR PURIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay LEE, AHAM NMN 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 09, 2023
18091739 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRANSACTION PROOF OF LOCATION Here Global B.V. SHAIFER HARRIMAN, DANT B 2434 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2022
18090082 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION OF LANE DATA Here Global B.V. SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA 2164 §101 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2022
18088315 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING BUILDING DATA Here Global B.V. HOANG, KEN 2168 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 23, 2022
18077787 MESSAGE ENCODING FOR POSITIONING Here Global B.V. KELLEY, STEVEN SHAUN 2646 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2022
18075951 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING ROAD NARROWS SIGNS Here Global B.V. O'MALLEY, CONOR AIDAN 2675 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 06, 2022
17977696 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARGING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES Here Global B.V. CAI, PHUONG HAU 2673 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 31, 2022
17997219 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR POSITIONING Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy SIVJI, NIZAR N 2647 §103 Non-Final OA 28d AI Ready Oct 26, 2022
17941607 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED PREDICTION OF AN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL Here Global B.V. KHALED, ABDALLA A 3667 §101 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2022
17892814 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Epistar Corporation WYATT, JOSHUA SCOTT 2815 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2022
17861951 FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT MICROWAVE FILTER, ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT MICROWAVE FILTERING Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. Kg SALAZAR JR, JORGE L 2842 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 11, 2022
17855015 CHIP PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND APPLICATION THEREOF Ireach Corporation KHALIFA, MOATAZ 2815 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 30, 2022
17840117 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MACHINE LEARNING OF VEHICULAR WAIT EVENTS USING MAP DATA AND SENSOR DATA Here Global B.V. LEE, BRANDON DONGPA 3662 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 14, 2022
17825883 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MAPPING AND LEVERAGING USAGE DATA OF LIDAR ON MOBILE DEVICES Here Global B.V. GEISS, BRIAN BUTLER 2857 §103 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending May 26, 2022
17776164 MATRICES FOR CELL CULTURE Agency for Science, Technology and Research BARRON, SEAN C 1653 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 11, 2022
17716760 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING POINT-OF-INTEREST FEATURES USING LIDAR DATA CAPTURED BY MOBILE DEVICES Here Global B.V. CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE 3645 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 08, 2022
17585015 LASER ELEMENT Ireach Corporation VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2022
17550508 METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PRODUCE DIES FOR A WAFER RECONSTITUTION Imec Vzw CULBERT, CHRISTOPHER A 2815 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 14, 2021
17547974 METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING SYNCHRONIZATION OF SETTING CONFIGURATIONS Nokia Technologies Oy NGUYEN, DUSTIN 2446 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue AI Ready Dec 10, 2021
17416985 CROSSLINKING ACCELERATORES FOR SILANE-GROUP CONTAINING POLYMER COMPOSITIONS BOREALIS AG USELDING, JOHN E 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2021

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