Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Evan Law Group LLC

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials

11 pending office actions • 11 clients • 11 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

EVAN LAW GROUP LLC focuses on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and records 695 career applications. Its profile includes 11 pending office actions, showing ongoing prosecution activity alongside a meaningful application history.

The resolved allowance rate is 79.79%, while the average office actions per allowance is 4.02. The allowance measure indicates that resolved matters have produced allowance in a substantial portion of cases, while the action average points to repeated examination work before allowance.

For practitioners, the profile highlights the need to evaluate both outcome and prosecution effort. Biotechnology and pharmaceutical matters often depend on precise distinctions among products, compositions, and methods. The available figures support planning for continued response activity while recognizing the firm’s recorded application experience.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=695 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

79.8%
Allowance Rate
n=695
+0.66σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=695
4.0
OAs to Allowance
n=387
+0.07σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=387
1155 days
Time to Allowance
n=387
+17.4pp
Interview Lift
n=695
28.0%
RCE Rate
n=695
1.3%
Appeal Rate
n=695

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

84.6%
§101 Overcome
n=39
78.2%
§102 Overcome
n=170
76.1%
§103 Overcome
n=285
76.6%
§112 Overcome
n=209

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, G01N
Top CPC Subclasses
22%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=695
0
Practitioners
n=695
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=695 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
6
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.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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 (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

4
Hard (36%)
6
Medium (55%)
1
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (36%)
Double-patenting only1 (9%)
Double-patenting + other2 (18%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (36%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
64% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
18% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
18% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM 1 34.2% +76.6%
LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K 1 82.4% +14.2%
KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE 1 16.1% +21.3%
RUSHING, MARK S 1 76.8% +23.5%
LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P 1 34.9% +40.2%
FIORITO, JAMES A 1 71.6% +28.0%
LING, DORIS 1 25.0% +27.3%
SKELDING, ZACHARY S 1 59.8% +41.1%
ZHANG, TINA 1 56.1% +44.6%
WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL 1 45.8% +23.5%

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
18716904 FLEXIBLE CONDUCTIVE HEARING AIDS LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K —

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17825053 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING PLANT ESSENCES, BOTANICAL FLUIDS, ISOLATES, AND OTHER DISTILLATES ZHANG, TINA 138d overdue
17997521 MULTICOLOR WOOD-PLASTIC PROFILE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR AND WOOD-PLASTIC BOARD LING, DORIS 26d
18718990 THERAPY FOR HEPATIC DISORDERS USING ADIPOSE-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL LINE HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM —
18291191 ADHESIVE COMPOSITION CONTAINING BIODEGRADABLE BIO-POLYMER, ADHESIVE AGENT, AND METHOD FOR CHANGING ADHESIVE STRENGTH OF ADHESIVE AGENT KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE —
18030904 TUNGSTEN OXIDE AND OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION CATALYST FIORITO, JAMES A —

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
17825053 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING PLANT ESSENCES, BOTANICAL FLUIDS, ISOLATES, AND OTHER DISTILLATES ZHANG, TINA 138d overdue
18206439 VENOUS ACCESS DEVICE LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P 15d overdue
18211405 DOOR MONITORING SYSTEM RUSHING, MARK S 16d
17997521 MULTICOLOR WOOD-PLASTIC PROFILE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR AND WOOD-PLASTIC BOARD LING, DORIS 26d
18718990 THERAPY FOR HEPATIC DISORDERS USING ADIPOSE-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL LINE HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM —
18716904 FLEXIBLE CONDUCTIVE HEARING AIDS LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K —
18291191 ADHESIVE COMPOSITION CONTAINING BIODEGRADABLE BIO-POLYMER, ADHESIVE AGENT, AND METHOD FOR CHANGING ADHESIVE STRENGTH OF ADHESIVE AGENT KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE —
18030904 TUNGSTEN OXIDE AND OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION CATALYST FIORITO, JAMES A —

Client Portfolio (11 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16311
26911
17651
26891
37911
17311
17641
16441
37851
16191

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18718990 THERAPY FOR HEPATIC DISORDERS USING ADIPOSE-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL LINE Keio University HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM 1631 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 13, 2024
18716904 FLEXIBLE CONDUCTIVE HEARING AIDS BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K 2691 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 05, 2024
18291191 ADHESIVE COMPOSITION CONTAINING BIODEGRADABLE BIO-POLYMER, ADHESIVE AGENT, AND METHOD FOR CHANGING ADHESIVE STRENGTH OF ADHESIVE AGENT Fuence Co., Ltd. KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE 1765 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2024
18211405 DOOR MONITORING SYSTEM Td Ip Holdco, LLC RUSHING, MARK S 2689 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Jun 19, 2023
18206439 VENOUS ACCESS DEVICE Site Saver, Inc. LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P 3791 §103DP Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2023
18030904 TUNGSTEN OXIDE AND OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION CATALYST Tokuyama Corporation FIORITO, JAMES A 1731 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 07, 2023
17997521 MULTICOLOR WOOD-PLASTIC PROFILE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR AND WOOD-PLASTIC BOARD Zouping Damei Rubber And Plastic Technology Co., Ltd. LING, DORIS 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 28, 2022
17922264 METHODS OF TREATING INFECTIONS Siwa Corporation SKELDING, ZACHARY S 1644 §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 28, 2022
17825053 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING PLANT ESSENCES, BOTANICAL FLUIDS, ISOLATES, AND OTHER DISTILLATES Hypnos Virtual, Inc. ZHANG, TINA 3785 §103§112 Final Rejection 138d overdue Pending May 26, 2022
17480350 LIPOPHILLICALLY DISPERSED PHENOLIC POLYMER PARTICLES Nanophase Technologies Corporation WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL 1619 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 21, 2021
17333525 PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR TREATING DIARRHEA Maregade Rx, LLC LEE, WILLIAM Y 1623 DP Final Rejection 7d Pending May 28, 2021

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Evan Law Group LLC's patent allowance rate?

79.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Evan Law Group LLC were allowed, across 695 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Evan Law Group LLC average before allowance?

4.02 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Evan Law Group LLC have?

11 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 11 clients, before 11 examiners in 11 art units.

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