Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Duane Morris LLP - Boca Raton

50 pending office actions • 38 clients • 49 examiners • 32 art units • 0 of 50 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 63 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=13206 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.8%
Allowance Rate
n=13206
+0.65σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=13206
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=8298
-0.18σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=8298
1054 days
Time to Allowance
n=8298
+8.4pp
Interview Lift
n=13206
25.8%
RCE Rate
n=13206
1.6%
Appeal Rate
n=13206

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

80.0%
§101 Overcome
n=1019
81.6%
§102 Overcome
n=3407
82.1%
§103 Overcome
n=5432
83.3%
§112 Overcome
n=4545

Specialization & Scale

H10K, A61B, C09K
Top CPC Subclasses
14%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=13206
0
Practitioners
n=13206
Apps / Practitioner
n=13206 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

50
Total Pending OAs
27
Non-Final OAs
20
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
4
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. 24 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (4)

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.

27
Hard (54%)
19
Medium (38%)
3
Easy (6%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other5 (10%)
§103 only12 (24%)
§102 only7 (14%)
§112 only3 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)22 (44%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

21
Life Sciences
42% of docket
3
Information Tech
6% of docket
2
Communications
4% of docket
4
Semiconductors
8% of docket
13
Mechanical / Eng
26% of docket
7
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.

500 h
Manual time on pending OAs
100 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
175 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MYERS, KEITH STANLEY 2 51.7% +20.2%
DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H 1 23.4% +23.9%
HUANG, GRACE 1 56.6% +55.6%
WEIS, RAQUEL M. 1 43.2% +62.6%
PHILLIPS, RUFUS L 1 62.1% +32.8%
DUBOIS, PHILIP A 1 24.9% +24.6%
SANTOS, ROBERT G 1 73.0% +35.1%
AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A 1 80.3% +18.4%
NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER 1 44.2% +44.8%
KWIECINSKI, RYAN D 1 68.4% +19.5%

Hard Cases (27)

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
18256613 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SHOCKABSORBING LANYARD FOR EASY LENGTH ADJUSTMENT OF POY NGUYEN, UYEN T 31d overdue
17316101 PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PHOTOELECTRODE FOR WATER SPLITTING CAPABLE OF SCALE-UP AND WATER SPLITTING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA 26d overdue
18717519 BASE BODY HAVING A COATING CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 8d overdue
17295754 MATERIAL FOR VIBRATION DAMPING AND WEARABLE GARMENT COMPRISING SUCH A MATERIAL SIMONE, CATHERINE A 8d overdue
17801632 CHARGING STATION FOR CHARGING ELECTRIC VEHICLES PARIHAR, SUCHIN 15d
18565425 DUAL-LAYER CULTURE SUBSTRATE WESTON, ALYSSA G 20d
17395972 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DETERMINATION OF SYSTEM DATA INTEGRITY ALSHAHARI, SADIK AHMED 27d
18024741 BENTHIC PENNATE DIATOM FRUSTULES AS AN SPF BOOSTER MATTISON, LORI K 28d

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18834213 TILE LEVELLING DEVICE KWIECINSKI, RYAN D 22d overdue
18992409 HELMET FITTING SYSTEM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR WEIS, RAQUEL M. 15d
18394530 LIQUID-DESICCANT STACK WITH INTEGRATED FLUID DISTRIBUTION MYERS, KEITH STANLEY 70d
18624637 LIQUID DESICCANT AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM WITH DIRECTED FLUID FLOW MYERS, KEITH STANLEY 86d
19174621 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RESOLUTION DATA DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H
19073315 AIRBAG STRUCTURE HUANG, GRACE
18864772 WATER QUALITY MEASUREMENT DEVICE PHILLIPS, RUFUS L
18925751 KIMCHI LACTIC ACID BACTERIA LACTOBACILLUS SAKEI IKIM0109 HAVING EFFICACY FOR RELIEF OF ARTHRITIS DUBOIS, PHILIP A

Client Portfolio (38 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37325
28772
17762
37632
21162
17142
16192
16372
36731
26491

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19174621 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING RESOLUTION DATA Hs Vk Idea Factory, LLC DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 09, 2025
19073315 AIRBAG STRUCTURE BNR CO., LTD. HUANG, GRACE 3732 §102 Final Rejection Pending Mar 07, 2025
18992409 HELMET FITTING SYSTEM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR Hjc Corp. WEIS, RAQUEL M. 3732 §102 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jan 08, 2025
18864772 WATER QUALITY MEASUREMENT DEVICE Mimbly AB PHILLIPS, RUFUS L 2877 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 11, 2024
18925751 KIMCHI LACTIC ACID BACTERIA LACTOBACILLUS SAKEI IKIM0109 HAVING EFFICACY FOR RELIEF OF ARTHRITIS Korea Food Research Institute DUBOIS, PHILIP A §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 24, 2024
18855937 TURNING A PERSON IN A BED Careturner A/S SANTOS, ROBERT G 3673 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 10, 2024
18903601 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OBJECT DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING BASED PROCESSES Nv5 Geospatial Solutions. Inc. AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A 2649 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 01, 2024
18888880 UNDERGARMENT WITH COMPARTMENTS TO LOCATE BALLISTIC PROTECTION ELEMENTS C.I.A Miguel Caballero S.A.S NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER 3732 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 18, 2024
18834213 TILE LEVELLING DEVICE Dakota Group S.A.S. Di Zeno Cipriani E C. KWIECINSKI, RYAN D 3635 §112 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18717763 AROMATIC AND NAPHTHENIC SOLVENTS BASED ON ETHANOL TotalEnergies OneTech SAS STEIN, MICHELLE 1771 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 07, 2024
18717519 BASE BODY HAVING A COATING Hpl Technologies GmbH CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 1784 §103§112 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2024
18654640 PARALLEL PLATE SUPPORT ELEMENTS Blue Frontier Inc. SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 1776 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 03, 2024
18705888 ANTIBACTERIAL PEPTIDE Curenc AB COFFA, SERGIO §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 29, 2024
18624637 LIQUID DESICCANT AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM WITH DIRECTED FLUID FLOW Blue Frontier Inc. MYERS, KEITH STANLEY 3763 §102§103 Final Rejection 86d Pending Apr 02, 2024
18613251 CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR HEATING VENTILATION AND COOLING SYSTEMS Blue Frontier Inc. JARRETT, RYAN A 2116 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 22, 2024
18596274 TISSUE REPAIR AND WOUND HEALING COMPOSITION AND METHOD USING LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HYDROLYZED COLLAGEN Sanara Medtech Applied Technologies, LLC BANERJEE, KOYELI §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 05, 2024
18683721 MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A WORKPIECE WITH A REFINEMENT LAYER, AND WORKPIECE WITH A REFINEMENT LAYER Hpl Technologies GmbH RASHID, MAHBUBUR 3616 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 14, 2024
18416075 METHOD AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR MATCHING OF OBJECT MODEL INSTANCES WITH IMAGED OBJECT INSTANCES IN AN IMAGE Sick Ivp AB SHOEMAKER, ERIC JAMES 2664 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 18, 2024
17768576 SWEEPER AND FILTER ASSEMBLY FOR JUICERS AND JUICER INCORPORATING SAME Zumex Group, S.A. LIU, CHRIS Q §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 10, 2024
18396777 ELECTRODE FOR METAL BATTERY INCLUDING METAL STORAGE HOST AND METAL BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University SLIFKA, COLIN W §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2023
18394530 LIQUID-DESICCANT STACK WITH INTEGRATED FLUID DISTRIBUTION Blue Frontier Inc. MYERS, KEITH STANLEY 3763 §102§103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18567298 IMPELLER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN IMPELLER Ebara Pumps Europe S.P.A HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH 3745 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2023
18565425 DUAL-LAYER CULTURE SUBSTRATE Waseda University WESTON, ALYSSA G 1633 §102§103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Nov 29, 2023
18517693 SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR COMPRISING CELLULOSE COATING LAYER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University RESTO OQUENDO, NATHALY MARIE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 22, 2023
18551351 APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE IN FLUE GAS Airrane Co., Ltd. JONES, CHRISTOPHER P 1776 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 19, 2023
18549045 METHOD OF GROWING HIGH-QUALITY SINGLE CRYSTAL SILICON CARBIDE Kiselkarbid I Stockholm AB SONG, MATTHEW J 1714 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 05, 2023
18549053 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRODUCING MONOCRYSTALLINE LAYERS ON A SUBSTRATE Kiselkarbid I Stockholm AB BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A 1714 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Sep 05, 2023
18261795 CHIN-GUARD GAP ADJUSTMENT MEANS FOR HELMET Hjc Corp. SMITH, HALEY ANNE 3732 §102 Non-Final OA 155d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
18339817 NOVEL CYCLIC PEPTIDES BASED ON NANOBIOSTRUCTURAL CONTROL, PEPTIDESOMES WITH CORE/SHELL STRUCTURE COMPRISING SAME, AND USES THEREOF UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §102 Final Rejection 60d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18258287 NON-INVASIVE METHOD OF DETERMINING PROPERTIES OF A CHICKEN EGG AND/OR PROPERTIES OF A CHICKEN EMBRYO INSIDE THE EGG USING NEAR IR SPECTROSCOPY, RESPECTIVE SYSTEM AND USES THEREOF Agri Advanced Technologies GmbH BOLOGNA, DOMINIC JOSEPH 2877 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 19, 2023
18337347 NON-CONTACT IMPEDANCE ANALYZER FOR REAL-TIME DETECTION OF MICROBIAL GROWTH Dansk Fundamental Metrologi A/S GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE 1797 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 19, 2023
18256613 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SHOCKABSORBING LANYARD FOR EASY LENGTH ADJUSTMENT OF POY Eastern Industrial Corp. NGUYEN, UYEN T 3732 §103§112 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jun 08, 2023
18128858 TISSUE REPAIR AND WOUND HEALING COMPOSITION AND METHOD USING LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HYDROLYZED COLLAGEN Sanara Medtech Applied Technologies, LLC MI, QIUWEN 1655 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 30, 2023
18128866 WOUND HEALING AND TISSUE REPAIR COMPOSITION AND METHOD USING LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT COLLAGEN AND BIOACTIVE GLASS Sanara Medtech Applied Technologies, LLC NGUYEN, JOHN P 1619 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
17796312 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ORDER PROCESSING FOR DENTAL PROSTHESIS PART MANUFACTURE BEGO BREMER GOLDSCHLÄGEREI WILH. HERBST GMBH & CO. KG PAN, YUHUI R 2116 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Mar 06, 2023
18024741 BENTHIC PENNATE DIATOM FRUSTULES AS AN SPF BOOSTER Swedish Algae Factory AB MATTISON, LORI K 1619 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 28d Pending Mar 03, 2023
18003968 METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING CANCER METASTASIS THROUGH ALTERATION OF ADHESION DEPENDENCE OF CANCER CELLS Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE 1637 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 30, 2022
18003531 CAMERA SYSTEM WITH LENS HEATER Orlaco Products B.V. LEI, JIE 2872 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 28, 2022
18067995 METHOD FOR THE PROGNOSIS AND/OR DIAGNOSIS OF A DISEASE BASED ON A SAMPLE OF ADIPOSE TISSUE, AND A KIT FOR SAID METHOD Lipozyt Marker Ug POHNERT, STEVEN C 1683 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2022
18062424 BINDER FOR ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, ELECTRODE FOR ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY COMPRISING THE BINDER, AND ALL-SOLIDSTATE BATTERY COMPRISING THE ELECTRODE Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University KLINE, SYDNEY LYNN 1729 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2022
18060065 GAIT REHABILITATION DEVICE BNR CO., LTD. HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA 3785 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Nov 30, 2022
17927932 BIODEGRADABLE CAPSULES My Tea Cup AG SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H 3761 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Nov 28, 2022
17997988 METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp. CONNORS, ALEXANDRA F 1634 §102 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Nov 04, 2022
17801632 CHARGING STATION FOR CHARGING ELECTRIC VEHICLES Eloaded GmbH PARIHAR, SUCHIN 2851 §102§103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 23, 2022
17792169 METHOD FOR PRODUCING A HIGH-PRESSURE TREATED PLANT SEED BASE PRODUCT, AND PLANT SEED BASE PRODUCT Döhler GmbH LACHICA, ERICSON M 1792 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Jul 12, 2022
17782893 IMPROVED WOUND CARE DEVICE Amferia AB CRAIGO, WILLIAM A 1615 Other Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jun 06, 2022
17623045 NOVEL ADP-RIBOSYL CYCLASE AND INHIBITOR THEREOF Dnt Co., Ltd. ANGELL, JON E 1637 §102 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2021
17395972 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DETERMINATION OF SYSTEM DATA INTEGRITY Predictiveiq LLC ALSHAHARI, SADIK AHMED 2121 §101§103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 06, 2021
17295754 MATERIAL FOR VIBRATION DAMPING AND WEARABLE GARMENT COMPRISING SUCH A MATERIAL Ejendals Aktiebolag SIMONE, CATHERINE A 1781 §102§103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending May 20, 2021
17316101 PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PHOTOELECTRODE FOR WATER SPLITTING CAPABLE OF SCALE-UP AND WATER SPLITTING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA 1795 §103§112 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending May 10, 2021

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