Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Gray Reed

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

This profile covers Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and shows 5 pending office actions. The record includes 49 career applications, giving the current docket a defined but limited historical application base.

The resolved allowance rate is 95.65%, and the average is 4.64 office actions per allowance. The data shows a very high allowance rate alongside an extended office-action path for matters that reached allowance.

Practitioners should distinguish favorable resolved outcomes from prosecution effort. The allowance rate supports the former, while the action average indicates that reaching allowance may require repeated examination responses.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=49 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

95.6%
Allowance Rate
n=49
+0.65σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=49
4.6
OAs to Allowance
n=22
+0.67σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=22
1006 days
Time to Allowance
n=22
-10.0pp
Interview Lift
n=49
73.9%
RCE Rate
n=49
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=49

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=2 (min 20)
58.3%
§102 Overcome
n=24
48.0%
§103 Overcome
n=25
61.9%
§112 Overcome
n=21

Specialization & Scale

E21B, H01R, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
27%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=49
0
Practitioners
n=49
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=49 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 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.

3
Hard (50%)
3
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (17%)
§103 only3 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
83% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SINGH, ESVINDER 1 77.4% +23.2%
MERCADO, ALEXANDER A 1 69.4% +19.7%
KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 1 35.1% +27.4%
RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A 1 78.3% +14.7%
PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 1 42.9% +27.5%
LEE, GILBERT Y 1 78.8% +10.7%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17606923 Themed Smart Basket For Online Shopping PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 42d overdue
18460826 BALL PRESSURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 12d
17305378 GLASS REINFORCED EPOXY KAMMPROFILE SEALING GASKET LEE, GILBERT Y 12d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18480791 ENHANCED LEAK DETECTING GASKETS AND RELATED METHODS MERCADO, ALEXANDER A 77d overdue
17606923 Themed Smart Basket For Online Shopping PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 42d overdue
18659998 GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS FOR DETECTING ERRONEOUS RESULTS SINGH, ESVINDER 8d
18460826 BALL PRESSURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 12d
17305378 GLASS REINFORCED EPOXY KAMMPROFILE SEALING GASKET LEE, GILBERT Y 12d
18340173 AUTOMATED MULTI-VALVE/POINT LUBE SYSTEM RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A —

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36571
28551
37111
36541
36881
36751

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18659998 GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS FOR DETECTING ERRONEOUS RESULTS Traclabs, Inc. SINGH, ESVINDER 3657 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending May 09, 2024
18480791 ENHANCED LEAK DETECTING GASKETS AND RELATED METHODS LGC US Asset Holdings, LLC MERCADO, ALEXANDER A 2855 §103 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2023
18460826 BALL PRESSURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD Pinpoint Data Systems, LLC KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 3711 §102§112 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 05, 2023
18340173 AUTOMATED MULTI-VALVE/POINT LUBE SYSTEM Dualco, Inc. RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A 3654 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 23, 2023
17606923 Themed Smart Basket For Online Shopping Mercatus Technologies Inc. PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §101§103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2021
17305378 GLASS REINFORCED EPOXY KAMMPROFILE SEALING GASKET LGC US Asset Holdings, LLC LEE, GILBERT Y 3675 §103§112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jul 06, 2021

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Gray Reed's patent allowance rate?

95.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Gray Reed were allowed, across 49 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Gray Reed average before allowance?

4.64 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Gray Reed have?

6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.

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