Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Eip US LLP

71 pending office actions • 34 clients • 70 examiners • 51 art units • 0 of 71 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=1935 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.0%
Allowance Rate
n=1935
+0.49σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1935
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=1207
-0.16σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1207
990 days
Time to Allowance
n=1207
+7.5pp
Interview Lift
n=1935
33.3%
RCE Rate
n=1935
1.7%
Appeal Rate
n=1935

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

72.5%
§101 Overcome
n=295
80.7%
§102 Overcome
n=571
78.0%
§103 Overcome
n=988
78.7%
§112 Overcome
n=507

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06T
Top CPC Subclasses
26%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1935
4
Practitioners
n=1935
483.8
Apps / Practitioner
n=1935

Portfolio Summary

71
Total Pending OAs
42
Non-Final OAs
26
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

15
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
Due this month
1
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. 27 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (15)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

35
Hard (49%)
29
Medium (41%)
7
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only6 (8%)
§101 + other13 (18%)
§103 only26 (37%)
§102 only3 (4%)
§112 only4 (6%)
Double-patenting only3 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)16 (23%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
10% of docket
24
Information Tech
34% of docket
6
Communications
8% of docket
9
Semiconductors
13% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
15% of docket
14
Business / Other
20% 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.

710 h
Manual time on pending OAs
142 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
248 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
STCLAIR, ANDREW D 2 60.3% +25.3%
TRAN, LOI H 1 64.7% +23.1%
RAMESH, KRISHNAN 1 80.9% +17.9%
PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS 1 59.6% +9.5%
LEE, EDMUND H 1 69.4% +17.9%
VO, HUYEN X 1 83.3% +20.0%
MCPHERSON, JAMES M 1 82.3% +17.2%
MINSKEY, JACOB T 1 69.0% +33.3%
SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK 1 86.0% +10.8%
WRIGHT, BRYAN F 1 78.3% +23.8%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19229450 IMPACT DETECTION ON VEHICLE UNDERSIDE RAMESH, KRISHNAN
18981165 TRAINING METHOD FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION MODEL, SPINNERET PLATE DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK

Hard Cases (35)

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
17846060 Method and Apparatus for Transmitting System Parameters of Soft Access Device, Device and Medium STCLAIR, ANDREW D 381d overdue
18262601 PROCESSING DATA FOR TRANSMISSION OVER A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM NGO, ANGELIE THIEN THAN 147d overdue
18255637 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER 133d overdue
18093190 HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD CHANG, AUDREY Y 81d overdue
18956791 ENGINE CONTROL UNIT CALIBRATION HOLBROOK, TEUTA BAJRAMOVIC 77d overdue
18131121 ISOLATED PLANT PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS WITH LOWERED VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 67d overdue
17649277 NEURAL NETWORK SYNTHESIZER FACCENDA, GISEL GABRIELA 66d overdue
17995199 FORCE-DIRECTED GRAPH LAYOUT WAJE, CARLO C 19d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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
17900859 Method, Apparatus and Device for Negotiating Traffic-to-link Mapping Configuration and Storage Medium STCLAIR, ANDREW D 483d overdue
17846060 Method and Apparatus for Transmitting System Parameters of Soft Access Device, Device and Medium STCLAIR, ANDREW D 381d overdue
19283040 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF COMBINING VIDEO CONTENT WITH ONE OR MORE AUGMENTATIONS TO PRODUCE AUGMENTED VIDEO TRAN, LOI H
19229450 IMPACT DETECTION ON VEHICLE UNDERSIDE RAMESH, KRISHNAN
18991177 METHOD AND MOULD SYSTEM LEE, EDMUND H
18987878 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF ELECTRONIC ACTIVITY CONTENT FOR RECORD OBJECTS USING MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURES VO, HUYEN X
18986582 TRAFFIC FLOW VECTOR FIELDS MCPHERSON, JAMES M
18984866 EXPANDABLE MEMBER FOR RECEPTACLE MOULDING MINSKEY, JACOB T

Client Portfolio (34 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28744
21832
39922
26452
17932
21782
21272
36341
17441
36631

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19283040 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF COMBINING VIDEO CONTENT WITH ONE OR MORE AUGMENTATIONS TO PRODUCE AUGMENTED VIDEO Genius Sports Ss, LLC TRAN, LOI H §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 28, 2025
19229450 IMPACT DETECTION ON VEHICLE UNDERSIDE Zoox, Inc. RAMESH, KRISHNAN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 05, 2025
19108114 AN ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A ROTATABLE UPRIGHT BLAST DOOR Hunan Yunhui Technology Co., Ltd. PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS 3634 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2025
18991177 METHOD AND MOULD SYSTEM Pulpex Limited LEE, EDMUND H 1744 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2024
18987878 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF ELECTRONIC ACTIVITY CONTENT FOR RECORD OBJECTS USING MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURES People.Ai, Inc. VO, HUYEN X §101 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 19, 2024
18986582 TRAFFIC FLOW VECTOR FIELDS Zoox, Inc. MCPHERSON, JAMES M 3663 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 18, 2024
18984866 EXPANDABLE MEMBER FOR RECEPTACLE MOULDING Pulpex Limited MINSKEY, JACOB T §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 17, 2024
18981165 TRAINING METHOD FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION MODEL, SPINNERET PLATE DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS Zhejiang Hengyi Petrochemical Co., Ltd. SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK DP Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2024
18972271 BLIND SIGNATURE SYSTEM AND METHOD USING LATTICE-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHY Pqshield Ltd. WRIGHT, BRYAN F 2497 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2024
18963621 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSING DATA REPRENTATIVE OF A MAPPING FOR USE IN IMAGE PROCESSING Arm Limited TAHA, AHMED §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 28, 2024
18956791 ENGINE CONTROL UNIT CALIBRATION Secondmind Limited HOLBROOK, TEUTA BAJRAMOVIC 3747 §101 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2024
18950921 MANDREL SYSTEM AND METHOD Pulpex Limited FORTUNA, JOSE A DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 18, 2024
18941769 METHOD FOR UPDATING A SCENE REPRESENTATION MODEL Imperial College Innovations Limited NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 3668 §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 08, 2024
18938358 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING MULTIPLE LINKS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. LIN, WILL W 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Nov 06, 2024
18934176 METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR REGISTERING A USER WITH A THIRD-PARTY SERVICE Paycasso Verify Ltd. BINCZAK, BRANDON MICHAEL 2437 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 31, 2024
18919168 PROCESSOR Arm Limited METZGER, MICHAEL J 2183 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 17, 2024
18912141 HANDOVER FROM A MOVING BASE STATION British Telecommunications Public Limited Company HENEGHAN, MATTHEW E 3992 §112 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2024
18850344 MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEME PROVISIONING British Telecommunications Public Limited Company CRIGLER, RYAN ALEXANDER §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Sep 24, 2024
18892083 MEASUREMENT OF INSULATION RESISTANCE OF AN ELECTRICAL INSULATOR Megger Instruments Ltd. GONZALEZ, MILTON 2852 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18890765 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING SHARED TXOP, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. MILORD, MARCEAU §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18784629 METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING TARGETED CONTENT DELIVERY Novatiq Technologies Limited ANDERSON, SCOTT C 3694 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jul 25, 2024
18774060 SYSTEM ADJUSTMENT BASED ON RISK Egress Software Technologies Ip Limited GURSKI, AMANDA KAREN 3625 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 16, 2024
18758573 AUDIO PRIORITIZATION Zoox, Inc. BRINEY III, WALTER F 2692 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18754740 POLARISATION CONVERTER AND METHOD OF FABRICATION Smart Photonics Holding B.V. KIANNI, KAVEH C 2874 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2024
18749113 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATMENT OF VIRAL INFECTIONS Virenc AB VARADARAJ, ARCHANA DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 20, 2024
18680361 USER ACCOUNT OBJECT MANAGEMENT Immersive Labs Holdings Limited YUAN, PETER LI §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2024
35522476 Part of tugboat Svitzer A/S HSU, JERRY SHIUAN-HUA 2961 §102 Final Rejection Pending May 13, 2024
18658831 ELECTRO-OPTICAL MODULATOR Technische Universiteit Eindhoven RADKOWSKI, PETER 2874 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2024
18654728 AUDIO PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING NOISE Iris Audio Technologies Limited KY, KEVIN 2671 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending May 03, 2024
18613750 GROUP BETTING SYSTEM AND METHOD Bet Theory UK Ltd. WONG, JEFFREY KEITH 3715 §101 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Mar 22, 2024
18604274 EYEBOX TARGETING USING AN IMAGE-REPLICATING COMBINER Vividq Limited TAVLYKAEV, ROBERT FUATOVICH 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 13, 2024
18604344 ELECTRO-OPTICAL MODULATOR Technische Universiteit Eindhoven WONG, TINA MEI SENG 2874 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Mar 13, 2024
18600464 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING CONFIDENCE SCORES OF ENTITY ASSOCIATIONS DERIVED FROM SYSTEMS OF RECORD People.Ai, Inc. ALMANI, MOHSEN 2159 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 08, 2024
18684136 APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING FLUID TO A TISSUE AREA Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited SU, SUSAN SHAN 3781 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 15, 2024
18434373 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED SOFTWARE ADD-ON FOR PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTAL DATA Ivalua SAS TRUONG, BENJAMIN LY 3626 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 06, 2024
18427768 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF GENERATING AN ENGAGEMENT PROFILE People.Ai, Inc. ESKRIDGE, CORY W 3624 §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 30, 2024
18416480 HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING EFFECTS OF QUANTISATION NOISE Vividq Limited VU, PHU 2871 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 18, 2024
18414230 OPERATION DISTRIBUTION ACROSS MULTIPLE PROCESSING CORES Arm Limited DOMAN, SHAWN 2183 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jan 16, 2024
18411258 NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREFOR Fujian Golden Dragon Rare-Earth Co., Ltd. CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE 1738 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 12, 2024
18409417 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE Zoox, Inc. TROOST, AARON L 3666 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 10, 2024
18574644 NETWORK SECURITY British Telecommunications Public Limited Company DAILEY, THOMAS J 2458 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18543371 IMAGE PROCESSING WITHOUT COLOR CHANNEL CLIPPING Arm Limited LIN, JESSICA YIFANG 2668 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2023
18534580 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING MULTI-LINK AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. CHOWDHURY, MOHAMMED SHAMSUL 2467 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 09, 2023
18495630 VERIFICATION METHOD FOR INTRUSION RESPONSE SYSTEM British Telecommunications Public Limited Company HARRIS, CHRISTOPHER C 2432 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 26, 2023
18476101 VIDEO FACE CLUSTERING Flawless Holdings Limited RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON 2672 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Sep 27, 2023
18277523 R-T-B MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR Fujian Golden Dragon Rare-Earth Co., Ltd. CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 16, 2023
18358995 EFFICIENT TASK ALLOCATION Arm Limited AKBARI, FARAZ TIMA 2196 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2023
18262601 PROCESSING DATA FOR TRANSMISSION OVER A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM British Telecommunications Public Limited Company NGO, ANGELIE THIEN THAN 2416 §102§103 Final Rejection 147d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2023
18261712 HANDOVER OF A GROUP OF USER EQUIPMENT WITH INDIVIDUAL ACCESS REQUEST British Telecommunications Public Limited Company GENACK, MATTHEW W 2645 §103 Final Rejection 68d Pending Jul 17, 2023
18341443 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE FOR PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE Smart Photonics Holding B.V. SMITH, CHAD 2874 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2023
18255637 DEVICE IDENTIFICATION British Telecommunications Public Limited Company BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER 2858 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 133d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18324825 RESIST MIXTURE Faradaic Sensors GmbH TRAYWICK, ANDREW PRESTON 1737 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending May 26, 2023
18316602 EFFICIENT DATA PROCESSING, ARBITRATION AND PRIORITIZATION Arm Limited RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 2197 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending May 12, 2023
18312868 METHOD AND PROCESSING UNIT FOR GENERATING AN OUTPUT FEATURE MAP Arm Limited CHOI, DAVID E 2148 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 05, 2023
18131121 ISOLATED PLANT PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS WITH LOWERED VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS Eat Just, Inc. SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 1793 §102§103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2023
18101360 ESTABLISHING A WIRELESS CONNECTION WITH A MOBILE DEVICE Cellxion Ltd. CUMMING, WILLIAM D 2645 §101 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2023
18093190 HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD Vividq Limited CHANG, AUDREY Y 2872 §103§112 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2023
18002706 USER DEVICE CONFIGURATION British Telecommunications Public Limited Company ALI, AFAQ 2434 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2022
18053051 HANDOVER FROM A MOVING BASE STATION British Telecommunications Public Limited Company LIE, ANGELA M 3992 §112Other Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022
17995199 FORCE-DIRECTED GRAPH LAYOUT British Telecommunications Public Limited Company WAJE, CARLO C 2151 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17900859 Method, Apparatus and Device for Negotiating Traffic-to-link Mapping Configuration and Storage Medium Aegis 11 S.A. STCLAIR, ANDREW D 2178 §102 Non-Final OA 483d overdue Pending Aug 31, 2022
17846060 Method and Apparatus for Transmitting System Parameters of Soft Access Device, Device and Medium Aegis 11 S.A. STCLAIR, ANDREW D 2178 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 381d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2022
17807054 FAULT DETECTION IN NEURAL NETWORKS Arm Limited TRUONG, LOAN 2114 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 15, 2022
17807121 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING APPLICATION INTERFACES FOR MULTIPHYSICS MODELING Comsol AB NGUYEN, KENNY 2171 §101§103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jun 15, 2022
17633564 IMPROVEMENTS TO QKD METHODS British Telecommunications Public Limited Company ALMEIDA, DEVIN E 2492 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 07, 2022
17649277 NEURAL NETWORK SYNTHESIZER Arm Limited FACCENDA, GISEL GABRIELA 2127 §103§112 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Jan 28, 2022
17551983 FOOD PRODUCTS COMPRISING CULTIVATED BOVINE CELLS AND METHODS THEREOF Good Meat, Inc. HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM 1631 §102§103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2021
17460083 EXTRUDATE FOOD COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING CULTIVATED ANIMAL CELLS AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION THEREOF Good Meat, Inc. PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 1793 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Aug 27, 2021
17387454 OPTIMISED MACHINE LEARNING PROCESSING Arm Limited HAN, JOSEP 2122 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 28, 2021
17076392 PROVIDING NEURAL NETWORKS Arm Limited RAMESH, TIRUMALE K 2121 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 21, 2020
16392366 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING Arm Limited KWON, JUN 2127 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 23, 2019

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