Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Garlick & Markison (Ocient)

59 pending office actions • 11 clients • 49 examiners • 29 art units • 0 of 59 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1313 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.6%
Allowance Rate
n=1313
+0.45σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1313
2.5
OAs to Allowance
n=869
-0.53σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=869
717 days
Time to Allowance
n=869
+7.4pp
Interview Lift
n=1313
25.6%
RCE Rate
n=1313
4.7%
Appeal Rate
n=1313

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

59.9%
§101 Overcome
n=177
78.3%
§102 Overcome
n=221
70.0%
§103 Overcome
n=416
75.7%
§112 Overcome
n=226

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
44%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1313
6
Practitioners
n=1313
218.8
Apps / Practitioner
n=1313

Portfolio Summary

59
Total Pending OAs
41
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
8
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

31
Hard (53%)
18
Medium (31%)
7
Easy (12%)
3
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (7%)
§101 + other21 (36%)
§103 only17 (29%)
§102 only1 (2%)
§112 only3 (5%)
Double-patenting only4 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (10%)
No statute on record3 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
34
Information Tech
58% of docket
5
Communications
8% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
12
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
7
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.

590 h
Manual time on pending OAs
118 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
206 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 5 49.7% +20.4%
TO, BAOQUOC N 4 90.0% +8.0%
CHEUNG, HUBERT G 3 63.2% +48.0%
SOMERS, MARC S 2 64.9% +34.3%
LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 1 88.5% +5.3%
DAYE, CHELCIE L 1 76.4% +16.0%
MILEF, ELDA G 1 40.6% +7.5%
HARMON, COURTNEY N 1 62.6% +9.0%
RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J 1 76.8% +14.6%
BOYD, JONATHAN A 1 69.0% +7.2%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19262983 Compression of Data Segments within a Database System LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE
19055801 GENERATION AND STORAGE OF NEW RECORDS BASED ON COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND AN OBJECT STORAGE SYSTEM TO, BAOQUOC N
19033772 QUERY EXECUTION VIA COMMUNICATION WITH A DATA LAKEHOUSE PLATFORM VIA A DATA STORAGE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL TO, BAOQUOC N

Hard Cases (31)

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
18766241 DISPERSING ROWS ACROSS A PLURALITY OF PARALLELIZED PROCESSES IN PERFORMING A NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROCESS BASED ON POWER MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 162d overdue
17449429 BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL ASSET POINT OF SALE COMPUTING DEVICE YU, ARIEL J 97d overdue
18193541 MULTI-ACCESS POINT ITEM DATA EXTRACTION AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTING SYSTEM WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M 26d overdue
19073147 SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM OUSSIR, EL MEHDI 4d overdue
19047807 CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM PAYMENTS BACKED BY ASSIGNABLE TOKENS SHARON, AYAL I 2d overdue
18751444 DATABASE SYSTEM WITH QUERY REDACTION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 8d
19032973 FILTERING RECORDS INCLUDED IN FILES OF A DATA LAKEHOUSE PLATFORM BASED ON APPLYING A RECORD IDENTIFICATION PIPELINE TO, BAOQUOC N 14d
18810948 PIPELINE ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER WITH A DIFFERENTIAL TO SINGLE ENDED STAGE JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY 16d

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18766241 DISPERSING ROWS ACROSS A PLURALITY OF PARALLELIZED PROCESSES IN PERFORMING A NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROCESS BASED ON POWER MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 162d overdue
18901144 DATA BASE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A K MEANS MODEL MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 124d overdue
18648342 DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEM CHEUNG, HUBERT G 12d
19318514 DATA SLABS AND SORTED SLABS OF A PARALLELIZED DATABASE SYSTEM CHEUNG, HUBERT G
19286847 GENERATION OF AN OPTIMIZED QUERY PLAN WITH MULTIPLE EXECUTION PATHS CHEUNG, HUBERT G
19262741 Secondary Indexing Adjustments within a Database System DAYE, CHELCIE L
19232705 DATABASE SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE SUB-SYSTEMS OF COMPUTING CLUSTERS RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J
19207178 DATABASE SYSTEMS WITH A SET OF SUBSYSTEMS SOMERS, MARC S

Client Portfolio (11 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21597
21546
21613
21563
36912
21642
26292
21662
21632
21142

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19318514 DATA SLABS AND SORTED SLABS OF A PARALLELIZED DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Inc. CHEUNG, HUBERT G 2161 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 04, 2025
19286847 GENERATION OF AN OPTIMIZED QUERY PLAN WITH MULTIPLE EXECUTION PATHS Ocient Inc. CHEUNG, HUBERT G §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2025
19262983 Compression of Data Segments within a Database System Ocient Holdings LLC LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 2161 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 08, 2025
19262741 Secondary Indexing Adjustments within a Database System Ocient Holdings LLC DAYE, CHELCIE L 2161 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 08, 2025
19244042 STAKE POOL OF A SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM Flexa Inc. MILEF, ELDA G 3691 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 20, 2025
19232273 MANAGING LOCK STATE DATA OF DATASETS DISPERSEDLY STORED ACROSS A DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Holdings LLC HARMON, COURTNEY N 2159 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 09, 2025
19232705 DATABASE SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE SUB-SYSTEMS OF COMPUTING CLUSTERS Ocient Holdings LLC RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J 2156 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 09, 2025
19224993 FINGERPRINT IMAGING DEVICE INCORPORATING ELECTRODES AND DRIVE-SENSE CIRCUITRY Sigmasense, Llc. BOYD, JONATHAN A 2627 §102Other Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2025
19207178 DATABASE SYSTEMS WITH A SET OF SUBSYSTEMS Ocient Holdings LLC SOMERS, MARC S 2159 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2025
19206322 DATABASE SYSTEMS WITH A SET OF SUBSYSTEMS Ocient Holdings LLC TRAN, LOC 2164 §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 13, 2025
19190337 DATABASE SYSTEMS WITH A SET OF SUBSYSTEMS Ocient Holdings LLC SOMERS, MARC S §101§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 25, 2025
19079856 ELECTRONIC PEN GENERATION OF TILT ORIENTATION DATA BASED ON CAPACITANCE DIFFERENCE DETECTION Sigmasense, Llc. EARLES, BRYAN E 2625 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 14, 2025
19079028 3D DATA IMAGING USING DRIVE SENSE CIRCUITS Sigmasense, Llc. ARONOVICH, OLGA 2629 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2025
19073147 SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM Flexa Inc. OUSSIR, EL MEHDI 3699 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2025
19055801 GENERATION AND STORAGE OF NEW RECORDS BASED ON COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND AN OBJECT STORAGE SYSTEM Ocient Holdings LLC TO, BAOQUOC N 2154 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 18, 2025
19055741 PROCESSING MESSAGES VIA A PLURALITY OF FEED RECEIVER MODULES AND A CENTRAL DATA STREAMING MODULE Ocient Holdings LLC SURVILLO, OLEG §112Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 18, 2025
19050452 GENERATING A FILTERED SUPERSET GUARANTEEING EXPRESSION FOR EXECUTION VIA A DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Holdings LLC HALE, BROOKS T 2166 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 11, 2025
19047807 CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM PAYMENTS BACKED BY ASSIGNABLE TOKENS Flexa Inc. SHARON, AYAL I 3695 §101 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2025
19044883 ESTIMATING ENERGY UTILIZATION REQUIRED TO EXECUTE AN OPERATION VIA A DATA LAKEHOUSE PLATFORM Ocient Holdings LLC TO, BAOQUOC N 2154 §101§103Other Final Rejection Pending Feb 04, 2025
19033772 QUERY EXECUTION VIA COMMUNICATION WITH A DATA LAKEHOUSE PLATFORM VIA A DATA STORAGE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL Ocient Holdings LLC TO, BAOQUOC N 2154 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 22, 2025
19032973 FILTERING RECORDS INCLUDED IN FILES OF A DATA LAKEHOUSE PLATFORM BASED ON APPLYING A RECORD IDENTIFICATION PIPELINE Ocient Holdings LLC TO, BAOQUOC N 2154 §101§103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jan 21, 2025
19019895 Wheatstone Bridge High Accuracy Impedance Sensing Circuit with Increased Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) Sigmasense, Llc. NGUYEN, KHAI M DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 14, 2025
18982348 PROXY CARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Paypulz LLC RANKINS, WILLIAM E 3694 §101§112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 16, 2024
18973551 LOW VOLTAGE DRIVE CIRCUIT FOR TRANSMITTING ANALOG DATA AT DIFFERENT OSCILLATION RATE Sigmasense, Llc. MYERS, PAUL R DP Non-Final OA Pending Dec 09, 2024
18969537 STORING A SEGMENT DIRECTORY GROUP VIA A DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Holdings LLC WILLIS, AMANDA LYNN 2156 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2024
18945755 TASK EXECUTION VIA MULTIPLE NODES OF A DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Holdings LLC PHAM, KHANH B 2166 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 13, 2024
18944204 Multi-stage power supply signal conditioning Sigmasense, Llc. DEROSE, VOLVICK 2176 DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 12, 2024
18940277 EXPANSION OF STORAGE STRUCTURES VIA A STORAGE SYSTEM Ocient Holdings LLC DOAN, KHOA D 2133 Other Non-Final OA 120d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2024
18937412 Single line Hall effect sensor drive and sense Sigmasense, Llc. AURORA, REENA DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 05, 2024
18925873 Device with Touch Screen Controller Sigmasense, Llc. PERVAN, MICHAEL 2629 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 19d Pending Oct 24, 2024
18918194 DRIVE-SENSE IMAGING ARRAY FOR HANDHELD DEVICE AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH Sigmasense, Llc. MONK, MARK T 2637 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Oct 17, 2024
18901266 DATABASE SYSTEM WITH LEADER NODE AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH Ocient Inc. CHOUDHURY, AZIZUL Q 2455 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 30, 2024
18901144 DATA BASE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A K MEANS MODEL Ocient Holdings LLC MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 2159 §103 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2024
18895673 SCHEDULING OPERATIONS FOR EXECUTION BY A DATABASE SYSTEM BASED ON PEAK POWER Ocient Holdings LLC THAI, HANH B 2163 §101§112 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Sep 25, 2024
18830993 DATABASES OF AN IMPROVED COMPUTER FOR TECHNOLOGY Markison Patent Portal, Inc. SHRESTHA, BIJENDRA K 3691 §101 Final Rejection Pending Sep 11, 2024
18814194 GENERATION OF AN ISSUE RECOVERY COMMUNICATIONS EVALUATION REGARDING A SYSTEM ASPECT OF A SYSTEM UncommonX Inc. PATEL, JIGAR P 2114 §101§112Other Non-Final OA 70d Pending Aug 23, 2024
18810948 PIPELINE ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER WITH A DIFFERENTIAL TO SINGLE ENDED STAGE Dunmore Circuits, LLC JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY 2845 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 21, 2024
18796490 DIVIDED MAIN MEMORY WITH COMPUTING DEVICE MEMORY SECTION AND DATABASE MEMORY SECTION Ocient Inc. MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 2159 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 07, 2024
18766241 DISPERSING ROWS ACROSS A PLURALITY OF PARALLELIZED PROCESSES IN PERFORMING A NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROCESS BASED ON POWER Ocient Holdings LLC MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 2159 §101§103 Non-Final OA 162d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2024
18754532 DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION VIA AN INTERACTION COMPUTING ENTITY Flexa Inc. GETACHEW, WODAJO 3697 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2024
18751444 DATABASE SYSTEM WITH QUERY REDACTION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH Ocient Holdings LLC RAJAPUTRA, SUMAN 2163 §101§103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jun 24, 2024
18745424 EXECUTION OF MULTIPLE QUERIES OVER A PLURALITY OF SEQUENTIAL OPERATOR EXECUTION STEPS Ocient Holdings LLC MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 2159 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 17, 2024
18676762 HANDLING DIFFERENT SCHEMAS IN MAINTAINING A RESULT SET CACHE OF A DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Holdings LLC ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 2154 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 29, 2024
18650712 MULTI-DIGITAL ASSET SOURCE DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION FACILITATION VIA DESTINATION COMPUTING ENTITY-PRESENTED USER INTERFACE Flexa Inc. XIAO, ZESHENG 3698 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Apr 30, 2024
18648342 DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Inc. CHEUNG, HUBERT G 2152 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Apr 27, 2024
18646896 AUTO-CORRECTING DEFICIENCIES OF A SYSTEM UncommonX Inc. WILSON, YOLANDA L 2114 §101§102Other Final Rejection Pending Apr 26, 2024
18632629 DATABASE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE OF A STORAGE REBALANCING PROCESS Ocient Holdings LLC YUAN, PETER LI §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 11, 2024
18402968 APPLYING FILTERING PARAMETER DATA BASED ON ACCESSING AN INDEX STRUCTURES STORED VIA OBJECTS OF AN OBJECT STORAGE SYSTEM Ocient Holdings LLC ELIAS, EARL L 2169 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 03, 2024
18328238 DISPERSING ROWS ACROSS A PLURALITY OF PARALLELIZED PROCESSES IN PERFORMING A NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROCESS Ocient Holdings LLC MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 2159 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 02, 2023
18193541 MULTI-ACCESS POINT ITEM DATA EXTRACTION AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTING SYSTEM Patricia M. Healy WILLOUGHBY, ALICIA M 2156 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18117934 COMPUTER AND NEW OPERATIONS REGARDING TECHNOLOGY PROTECTION Markison Patent Portal, Inc. ULLAH, ARIF 3625 §101 Final Rejection Pending Mar 06, 2023
18051810 SMART CONTRACT DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT UNIT Flexa Inc. ANDREI, RADU 3697 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 55d Pending Nov 01, 2022
18051346 SMART CODE MODULE OF A DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM Flexa Inc. DANG, CHRISTINE 3698 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 31, 2022
17931286 Data Logging with Indication of Violation Axzon Inc. ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N 2441 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 12, 2022
17821650 BIT SEQUENCE STORAGE METHOD AND SYSTEM UncommonX Inc. DAUD, ABDULLAH AHMED 2164 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 23, 2022
17651551 GENERATION OF DESIRED DATA FOR EVALUATION OF AT LEAST A PORTION OF A SYSTEM UncommonX Inc. ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 2154 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Feb 17, 2022
17449429 BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL ASSET POINT OF SALE COMPUTING DEVICE Flexa Inc. YU, ARIEL J 3627 §101§103 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2021
17448633 VEHICLE SENSOR SYSTEM Sigmasense, Llc. SMITH, JORDAN T 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2021
17304771 GENERATION OF A CONTINUOUS SECURITY MONITORING EVALUATION REGARDING A SYSTEM ASPECT OF A SYSTEM UncommonX Inc. CERVETTI, DAVID GARCIA 2409 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 25, 2021

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