Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Garlick & Markison

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

45 pending office actions • 11 clients • 34 examiners • 20 art units • 0 of 45 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1326 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.9%
Allowance Rate
n=1326
+0.44σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1326
2.5
OAs to Allowance
n=882
-0.56σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=882
718 days
Time to Allowance
n=882
+8.1pp
Interview Lift
n=1326
25.4%
RCE Rate
n=1326
4.6%
Appeal Rate
n=1326

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

60.0%
§101 Overcome
n=180
79.3%
§102 Overcome
n=222
70.2%
§103 Overcome
n=420
77.5%
§112 Overcome
n=227

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
44%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1326
6
Practitioners
n=1326
221.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1326

Portfolio Summary

45
Total Pending OAs
25
Non-Final OAs
20
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
3
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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.

29
Hard (64%)
10
Medium (22%)
5
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only8 (18%)
§101 + other15 (33%)
§103 only9 (20%)
Double-patenting only5 (11%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (13%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
19
Information Tech
42% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
18
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
7
Business / Other
16% 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.

450 h
Manual time on pending OAs
90 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
158 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHEUNG, HUBERT G 3 63.4% +47.5%
GETACHEW, WODAJO 3 40.8% +38.6%
HUANG, JAY 3 53.0% +20.7%
SOMERS, MARC S 2 65.0% +34.4%
THAI, HANH B 2 87.1% +2.4%
TO, BAOQUOC N 2 89.8% +7.9%
MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 2 49.7% +20.0%
DANG, CHRISTINE 2 50.0% +51.1%
SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN 1 26.3% +14.2%
DAYE, CHELCIE L 1 76.6% +16.0%

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
19032908 APPLYING FILTERING PARAMETER DATA BASED ON ACCESSING INDEX STRUCTURES STORED VIA A DATA LAKEHOUSE PLATFORM TO, BAOQUOC N 42d overdue
18887562 OPTIMIZING EXECUTION OF OPERATIONS BY A DATABASE SYSTEM BASED ON ENERGY UTILIZATION AND/OR PERFORMANCE TO, BAOQUOC N —

Hard Cases (29)

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
17449429 BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL ASSET POINT OF SALE COMPUTING DEVICE YU, ARIEL J 97d overdue
17390878 Real-time Cryptocurrency Backed Payment with Code Initiation HUANG, JAY 80d overdue
18810948 PIPELINE ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER WITH A DIFFERENTIAL TO SINGLE ENDED STAGE JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY 16d
18051810 SMART CONTRACT DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT UNIT ANDREI, RADU 55d
19044994 SCHEDULING OPERATIONS FOR EXECUTION BY A DATA LAKEHOUSE PLATFORM BASED ON PEAK POWER THAI, HANH B 56d
18895673 SCHEDULING OPERATIONS FOR EXECUTION BY A DATABASE SYSTEM BASED ON PEAK POWER THAI, HANH B 60d
19539394 SECURE AND TRUSTED CONVEYANCE FROM USER COMPUTING DEVICE TO MERCHANT COMPUTING ENTITY SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN —
19349172 PARALLELIZED DATA INPUT SUB-SYSTEM OF A DATABASE SYSTEM CHEUNG, HUBERT G —

Interview Candidates (17)

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
18901144 DATA BASE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A K MEANS MODEL MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO 124d overdue
17390878 Real-time Cryptocurrency Backed Payment with Code Initiation HUANG, JAY 80d overdue
19539394 SECURE AND TRUSTED CONVEYANCE FROM USER COMPUTING DEVICE TO MERCHANT COMPUTING ENTITY SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN —
19349172 PARALLELIZED DATA INPUT SUB-SYSTEM OF A DATABASE SYSTEM CHEUNG, HUBERT G —
19318553 DATA SLAB COMPRESSION OF A PARALLELIZED DATABASE SYSTEM CHEUNG, HUBERT G —
19318663 NULL ELIMINATION DATA SLAB COMPRESSION SCHEME OF A PARALLELIZED DATABASE SYSTEM CHEUNG, HUBERT G —
19262741 Secondary Indexing Adjustments within a Database System DAYE, CHELCIE L —
19201349 DATABASE SYSTEM WITH SUBSYSTEMS SOMERS, MARC S —

Client Portfolio (11 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36975
21614
21544
36913
36983
21632
21592
36002
36192
21561

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19539394 SECURE AND TRUSTED CONVEYANCE FROM USER COMPUTING DEVICE TO MERCHANT COMPUTING ENTITY Flexa Inc. SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN 3697 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2026
19349172 PARALLELIZED DATA INPUT SUB-SYSTEM OF A DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Inc. CHEUNG, HUBERT G 2161 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 03, 2025
19318553 DATA SLAB COMPRESSION OF A PARALLELIZED DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Inc. CHEUNG, HUBERT G 2161 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 04, 2025
19318663 NULL ELIMINATION DATA SLAB COMPRESSION SCHEME OF A PARALLELIZED DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Inc. CHEUNG, HUBERT G 2161 §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 04, 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
19246091 UTILIZING SECONDARY DATA FORMATS FOR QUERY FUNCTION OPTIMIZATION VIA A NODE OF A PARALLELIZED DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Holdings LLC GANGER, LAUREN ZANNAH 2156 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 23, 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
19231276 CYBERSECURITY THREAT EVALUATION OF A SYSTEM UNDER TEST OR PORTION THEREOF UncommonX Inc. DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 06, 2025
19201349 DATABASE SYSTEM WITH SUBSYSTEMS Ocient Holdings LLC SOMERS, MARC S §101§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2025
19190337 DATABASE SYSTEMS WITH A SET OF SUBSYSTEMS Ocient Holdings LLC SOMERS, MARC S §101§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 25, 2025
19052386 PROCESSING DUPLICATE INSTANCES OF A SAME COLUMN EXPRESSION BY MEMORY REFERENCE WHEN EXECUTING A QUERY VIA A DATABASE SYSTEM Ocient Holdings LLC HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 2166 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2025
19044994 SCHEDULING OPERATIONS FOR EXECUTION BY A DATA LAKEHOUSE PLATFORM BASED ON PEAK POWER Ocient Holdings LLC THAI, HANH B 2163 §101 Final Rejection 56d Pending Feb 04, 2025
19032908 APPLYING FILTERING PARAMETER DATA BASED ON ACCESSING INDEX STRUCTURES STORED VIA A DATA LAKEHOUSE PLATFORM Ocient Holdings LLC TO, BAOQUOC N 2154 §103Other Final Rejection 42d overdue 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
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
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
18887562 OPTIMIZING EXECUTION OF OPERATIONS BY A DATABASE SYSTEM BASED ON ENERGY UTILIZATION AND/OR PERFORMANCE Ocient Holdings LLC TO, BAOQUOC N 2154 DP Final Rejection — Pending Sep 17, 2024
18830993 DATABASES OF AN IMPROVED COMPUTER FOR TECHNOLOGY Markison Patent Portal, Inc. SHRESTHA, BIJENDRA K 3691 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 11, 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
18768445 MODULAR AND CONFIGURABLE SANITIZATION SYSTEM Go Time Design, LLC YOO, REGINA M §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 10, 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
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
18646896 AUTO-CORRECTING DEFICIENCIES OF A SYSTEM UncommonX Inc. WILSON, YOLANDA L 2114 §101DP Final Rejection — Pending Apr 26, 2024
18502152 DIGITAL ASSET-BASED INTERACTION SYSTEM WITH ONE OR MORE STAKED DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY (DLT) NETWORKS Flexa Inc. KAZIMI, HANI M 3691 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 06, 2023
18117934 COMPUTER AND NEW OPERATIONS REGARDING TECHNOLOGY PROTECTION Markison Patent Portal, Inc. ULLAH, ARIF 3625 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 06, 2023
18060402 STAKE POOL OF A SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM Flexa Inc. HAYES, JOHN W 3600 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 30, 2022
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
18051193 ISSUING ENTITY ACCOUNT-BASED DIGITAL ASSETS 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
17654367 SYSTEM DIGITAL ASSET-BACKED DATA INTERACTION SYSTEM Flexa Inc. HUANG, JAY 3600 §101§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 10, 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
17449567 CRYPTOCURRENCY-BASED PAYMENT BACKING ACCOUNT DEVICE OF A CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM Flexa Inc. GETACHEW, WODAJO 3697 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 30, 2021
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
17390878 Real-time Cryptocurrency Backed Payment with Code Initiation Flexa Inc. HUANG, JAY 3619 §103§112Other Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2021
17364366 Collateral Cryptocurrency Backed Payment Flexa Inc. HUANG, JAY 3619 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 30, 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
16867764 CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT SYSTEM Flexa Inc. GETACHEW, WODAJO 3697 §101 Final Rejection — Pending May 06, 2020

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