Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Fortkort & Houston P.C.

5 pending office actions • 3 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1188 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

78.8%
Allowance Rate
n=1188
+0.45σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1188
3.7
OAs to Allowance
n=540
+0.21σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=540
1252 days
Time to Allowance
n=540
+6.8pp
Interview Lift
n=1188
24.4%
RCE Rate
n=1188
2.3%
Appeal Rate
n=1188

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=15 (min 20)
83.9%
§102 Overcome
n=56
79.6%
§103 Overcome
n=280
94.3%
§112 Overcome
n=53

Specialization & Scale

H01L, G06F, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
15%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1188
1
Practitioners
n=1188
1188.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1188

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
40% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZHANG, DUAN 1 61.2% +16.7%
SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE 1 100.0% +0.0%
KOSLOW, CAROL M 1 81.8% +12.0%
MOORE, KARLA A 1 43.1% +13.9%
DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY 1 72.3% +20.1%

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
17790116 EXTRUDED FLUORESCENT FILMS KOSLOW, CAROL M 45d overdue
18010411 ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR EQUIPPED WITH REPLACEABLE WAFER CONTACT PADS SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE 5d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17790116 EXTRUDED FLUORESCENT FILMS KOSLOW, CAROL M 45d overdue
18582365 DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM WITH DE-CENTRALIZED SECURE TRANSACTIONS AND EDGE AI TECHNOLOGY TO ENABLE PRIVACY PRESERVED ZERO-ID TRANSACTIONS ZHANG, DUAN 8d
17059437 DEGAS CHAMBER LIFT HOOP DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY 14d
17610155 GAS CAPACITOR FOR SEMICONDUCTOR TOOL MOORE, KARLA A

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Fabworx Solutions, Inc. 3
Trustgrid, LLC 1
UbiQD, Inc. 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36991
36541
17341
17161
36321

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18582365 DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM WITH DE-CENTRALIZED SECURE TRANSACTIONS AND EDGE AI TECHNOLOGY TO ENABLE PRIVACY PRESERVED ZERO-ID TRANSACTIONS Trustgrid, LLC ZHANG, DUAN 3699 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Feb 20, 2024
18010411 ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR EQUIPPED WITH REPLACEABLE WAFER CONTACT PADS Fabworx Solutions, Inc. SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
17790116 EXTRUDED FLUORESCENT FILMS UbiQD, Inc. KOSLOW, CAROL M 1734 §112 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2022
17610155 GAS CAPACITOR FOR SEMICONDUCTOR TOOL Fabworx Solutions, Inc. MOORE, KARLA A 1716 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 10, 2021
17059437 DEGAS CHAMBER LIFT HOOP Fabworx Solutions, Inc. DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY 3632 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 29, 2020

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