Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Goldilocks Zone Ip Law

8 pending office actions • 8 clients • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=561 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.4%
Allowance Rate
n=561
+0.76σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=561
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=423
-0.17σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=423
914 days
Time to Allowance
n=423
+14.5pp
Interview Lift
n=561
23.6%
RCE Rate
n=561
0.5%
Appeal Rate
n=561

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=12 (min 20)
80.6%
§102 Overcome
n=62
81.1%
§103 Overcome
n=322
88.5%
§112 Overcome
n=78

Specialization & Scale

A61K, Y02E, G01N
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=561
0
Practitioners
n=561
Apps / Practitioner
n=561 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
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
1
Due this month
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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.

2
Hard (25%)
4
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (12%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (25%)
§103 only3 (38%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
38% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% 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
MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 1 53.3% +31.1%
HOSSAIN, KAMAL M 1 81.8% +26.5%
HABTE, KAHSAY 1 85.0% +7.4%
ZHAI, KYLE 1 74.6% +18.5%
JOHANSEN, PETER N. 1 59.4% +22.8%
COONEY, JOHN M 1 62.4% +21.3%
RASTOVSKI, CATHERINE T 1 67.5% +28.5%
TU, AURELIE H 1 56.4% +60.2%

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
18697782 JOINT TRAFFIC ROUTING AND SCHEDULING METHOD FOR REMOVING NON-DETERMINISTIC INTERRUPT FOR TSN NETWORK USED IN INDUSTRIAL IOT HOSSAIN, KAMAL M
18717626 BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE COMPOUNDS AND USE THEREOF HABTE, KAHSAY

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17485316 Monitoring Device, System, and Method for Unrestrained Neural Signal Analysis TU, AURELIE H 38d overdue
18088709 METHOD OF DIRECTION ESTIMATION FOR NONCIRCULAR SIGNALS VIA DECOUPLED OPTIMIZATION RASTOVSKI, CATHERINE T

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17485316 Monitoring Device, System, and Method for Unrestrained Neural Signal Analysis TU, AURELIE H 38d overdue
18210503 POLYURETHANE FOAM COMPOSITION CONTAINING TPU POWDER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SHOE INSOLE USING THE SAME COONEY, JOHN M 28d overdue
18278121 METHOD FOR SCREENING FUNCTIONAL MATERIAL PALLIATIVE OF ALLERGY, ATOPY, AND ITCHINESS JOHANSEN, PETER N. 14d
18705916 METHOD FOR CONFIGURING OBJECT-BASED MULTIMEDIA FOR SHORT-FORM CONTENT AND DEVICE USING SAME ZHAI, KYLE 83d
19296853 RECYCLED POLYESTER YARN USING WASTE FABRIC MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T
18697782 JOINT TRAFFIC ROUTING AND SCHEDULING METHOD FOR REMOVING NON-DETERMINISTIC INTERRUPT FOR TSN NETWORK USED IN INDUSTRIAL IOT HOSSAIN, KAMAL M
18088709 METHOD OF DIRECTION ESTIMATION FOR NONCIRCULAR SIGNALS VIA DECOUPLED OPTIMIZATION RASTOVSKI, CATHERINE T

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17891
24441
26111
16441
17651
28571
37911

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19296853 RECYCLED POLYESTER YARN USING WASTE FABRIC Heedae Park MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 1789 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 11, 2025
18697782 JOINT TRAFFIC ROUTING AND SCHEDULING METHOD FOR REMOVING NON-DETERMINISTIC INTERRUPT FOR TSN NETWORK USED IN INDUSTRIAL IOT Nestfield Co,. Ltd. HOSSAIN, KAMAL M 2444 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2024
18717626 BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE COMPOUNDS AND USE THEREOF Pharmgen Science, Inc. HABTE, KAHSAY §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 07, 2024
18705916 METHOD FOR CONFIGURING OBJECT-BASED MULTIMEDIA FOR SHORT-FORM CONTENT AND DEVICE USING SAME Industry-Academic Cooperation Group Of Sejong University ZHAI, KYLE 2611 Final Rejection 83d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18278121 METHOD FOR SCREENING FUNCTIONAL MATERIAL PALLIATIVE OF ALLERGY, ATOPY, AND ITCHINESS Shebah Biotech Inc. JOHANSEN, PETER N. 1644 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Aug 21, 2023
18210503 POLYURETHANE FOAM COMPOSITION CONTAINING TPU POWDER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SHOE INSOLE USING THE SAME Sam Bu Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. COONEY, JOHN M 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2023
18088709 METHOD OF DIRECTION ESTIMATION FOR NONCIRCULAR SIGNALS VIA DECOUPLED OPTIMIZATION Kangwon National University-Industry Cooperation Foundation RASTOVSKI, CATHERINE T 2857 §101 Final Rejection Pending Dec 26, 2022
17485316 Monitoring Device, System, and Method for Unrestrained Neural Signal Analysis Korea Institute Of Science And Technology TU, AURELIE H 3791 §101 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Sep 24, 2021

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