Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Fish & Richardson P.C. (Blackberry)

8 pending office actions • 3 clients • 8 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=229459 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.8%
Allowance Rate
n=229459
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=229459
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=119358
-0.10σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=119358
1024 days
Time to Allowance
n=119358
+8.5pp
Interview Lift
n=229459
31.1%
RCE Rate
n=229459
1.8%
Appeal Rate
n=229459

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

83.1%
§101 Overcome
n=5299
84.7%
§102 Overcome
n=17786
81.1%
§103 Overcome
n=72424
88.4%
§112 Overcome
n=14274

Specialization & Scale

G06F, A61K, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
16%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=229459
205
Practitioners
n=229459
1119.3
Apps / Practitioner
n=229459

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

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%)
7
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (88%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
6
Information Tech
75% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 1 77.9% +30.3%
MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER 1 34.5% +47.0%
KAMRUZZAMAN, MD 1
VO, TED T 1 81.0% +9.4%
LI, LIANG Y 1 61.3% +69.0%
LEE, TSU-CHANG 1 72.5% +14.7%
SITIRICHE, LUIS A 1 77.5% +21.7%
KIM, DAVID 1 100.0% +0.0%

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
18589738 DETERMINING NATURAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION OF A SOFTWARE CODE VO, TED T
18099722 DETECTING OUT-OF-DISTRIBUTION DATA SAMPLE IN A MACHINE LEARNING OPERATION KIM, DAVID

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19053659 EVENT DATA PROCESSING UDDIN, MOHAMMED R
18661917 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TOPIC MINING MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER
18482251 DETERMINING SIMILARITY SAMPLES USING A MACHINE LEARNING OPERATION LI, LIANG Y
18482258 DETERMINING SIMILARITY SAMPLES USING A MACHINE LEARNING OPERATION WITH CLUSTERING LEE, TSU-CHANG
18179248 CLUSTERING ANALYSIS FOR DEDUPLICATION OF TRAINING SET SAMPLES FOR MACHINE LEARNING BASED COMPUTER THREAT ANALYSIS SITIRICHE, LUIS A

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
CYLANCE INC. 4
BlackBerry Limited 3
BlackBerry 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21912
21611
26541
21431
21281
21411

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19053659 EVENT DATA PROCESSING Blackberry Limited UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 2161 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 14, 2025
18661917 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TOPIC MINING Blackberry Limited MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER 2654 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 13, 2024
18611085 MODIFYING SOFTWARE CODE CYLANCE INC. KAMRUZZAMAN, MD 2191 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 20, 2024
18589738 DETERMINING NATURAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION OF A SOFTWARE CODE CYLANCE INC. VO, TED T 2191 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 28, 2024
18482251 DETERMINING SIMILARITY SAMPLES USING A MACHINE LEARNING OPERATION CYLANCE INC. LI, LIANG Y 2143 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 06, 2023
18482258 DETERMINING SIMILARITY SAMPLES USING A MACHINE LEARNING OPERATION WITH CLUSTERING CYLANCE INC. LEE, TSU-CHANG 2128 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 06, 2023
18179248 CLUSTERING ANALYSIS FOR DEDUPLICATION OF TRAINING SET SAMPLES FOR MACHINE LEARNING BASED COMPUTER THREAT ANALYSIS CYLANCE INC. SITIRICHE, LUIS A Non-Final OA Pending Mar 06, 2023
18099722 DETECTING OUT-OF-DISTRIBUTION DATA SAMPLE IN A MACHINE LEARNING OPERATION Blackberry Limited KIM, DAVID 2141 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 20, 2023

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