Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Epstein Drangel, LLP

9 pending office actions • 6 clients • 9 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1748 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.6%
Allowance Rate
n=1748
+0.46σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1748
2.4
OAs to Allowance
n=1212
-0.72σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1212
807 days
Time to Allowance
n=1212
+6.8pp
Interview Lift
n=1748
17.1%
RCE Rate
n=1748
2.2%
Appeal Rate
n=1748

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

85.7%
§101 Overcome
n=21
88.1%
§102 Overcome
n=101
80.4%
§103 Overcome
n=449
93.2%
§112 Overcome
n=162

Specialization & Scale

G06Q, G06F, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
17%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1748
2
Practitioners
n=1748
874.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1748

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (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%)
8
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only1 (11%)
§112 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
78% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS 1 87.5% +5.6%
TRUONG, KATELYN T 1 57.3% +38.2%
FLYNN, ABBY J 1 33.0% +55.4%
PHAM, QUANG 1 54.5% +57.1%
STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING 1 54.7% +25.7%
KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE 1 45.1% +37.0%
UNG, LANNY N 1 71.1% +25.7%
EIDE, HEIDI MARIE 1 50.5% +32.7%
MORAN, EDWARD JOHN 1 41.6% +61.0%

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
19413573 CORRECTIVE COLLAR UTILIZING GEOLOCATION TECHNOLOGY PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18742091 PROTECTIVE EYE SHIELD STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING 43d overdue
18375699 CORRECTIVE COLLAR UTILIZING GEOLOCATION TECHNOLOGY KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE 38d overdue
18453548 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ANALYZING SOFTWARE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE UNG, LANNY N 15d overdue
18351383 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DENTAL CROWN RESTORATIONS USING PREFABRICATED SLEEVE-CROWN PAIRS EIDE, HEIDI MARIE 26d
19231334 FISHING LURE WITH ENHANCED ATTACHMENT MECHANISM TRUONG, KATELYN T 34d
18776078 SELF SERVICE ART VALIDATION TOOL FLYNN, ABBY J
18750313 CORRECTIVE COLLAR FOR ANIMAL BEHAVIOR TRAINING PHAM, QUANG
17821130 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DENTAL CROWN RESTORATIONS USING PREFABRICATED SLEEVE-CROWN PAIRS MORAN, EDWARD JOHN

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37723
36431
36471
36631
26851
36421
21971

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19413573 CORRECTIVE COLLAR UTILIZING GEOLOCATION TECHNOLOGY Protect Animals With Satellites, LLC PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS 3643 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 09, 2025
19231334 FISHING LURE WITH ENHANCED ATTACHMENT MECHANISM Jyg Pro Fishing LLC TRUONG, KATELYN T 3647 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 06, 2025
18776078 SELF SERVICE ART VALIDATION TOOL Leedsworld, Inc. FLYNN, ABBY J 3663 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 17, 2024
18750313 CORRECTIVE COLLAR FOR ANIMAL BEHAVIOR TRAINING Protect Animals With Satellites, LLC PHAM, QUANG 2685 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 21, 2024
18742091 PROTECTIVE EYE SHIELD David S. Tadros STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING 3772 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2024
18375699 CORRECTIVE COLLAR UTILIZING GEOLOCATION TECHNOLOGY Protect Animals With Satellites, LLC KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE 3642 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2023
18453548 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ANALYZING SOFTWARE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE Product Science Inc. UNG, LANNY N 2197 §112 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2023
18351383 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DENTAL CROWN RESTORATIONS USING PREFABRICATED SLEEVE-CROWN PAIRS Rsl Dental Technologies LLC EIDE, HEIDI MARIE 3772 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jul 12, 2023
17821130 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DENTAL CROWN RESTORATIONS USING PREFABRICATED SLEEVE-CROWN PAIRS Rsl Dental Technologies LLC MORAN, EDWARD JOHN 3772 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 19, 2022

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