Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Gray Reed

7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=44 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

95.6%
Allowance Rate
n=44
+0.63σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=44
4.6
OAs to Allowance
n=22
+0.63σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=22
1006 days
Time to Allowance
n=22
-11.1pp
Interview Lift
n=44
65.2%
RCE Rate
n=44
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=44

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=0 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=7 (min 20)
50.0%
§103 Overcome
n=22
§112 Overcome
n=8 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

E21B, H01R, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
28%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=44
0
Practitioners
n=44
Apps / Practitioner
n=44 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
86% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SINGH, ESVINDER 1 76.7% +23.9%
KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 1 34.9% +27.7%
SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL 1 67.2% +32.7%
AKARAGWE, YANICK A 1 83.2% +12.3%
PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 1 43.7% +27.6%
LEE, GILBERT Y 1 78.7% +10.6%
KONERU, LAKSHMI S 1 62.7% +16.2%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17652379 WELLHEAD ELECTRICAL FEED-THRU PENETRATOR WITH SEALING, BREAKAWAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INSTALLATION AKARAGWE, YANICK A 6d

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
17606923 Themed Smart Basket For Online Shopping PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 42d overdue
18345238 LUBRICATION UNIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL 17d overdue
17652379 WELLHEAD ELECTRICAL FEED-THRU PENETRATOR WITH SEALING, BREAKAWAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INSTALLATION AKARAGWE, YANICK A 6d
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
17111057 SENSOR-EMBEDDED GASKET FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING KONERU, LAKSHMI S

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36752
36571
37111
21161
36721
36881

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18659998 GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS FOR DETECTING ERRONEOUS RESULTS Traclabs, Inc. SINGH, ESVINDER 3657 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending May 09, 2024
18460826 BALL PRESSURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD Pinpoint Data Systems, LLC KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 05, 2023
18345238 LUBRICATION UNIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Dualco, Inc. SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL 2116 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
17652379 WELLHEAD ELECTRICAL FEED-THRU PENETRATOR WITH SEALING, BREAKAWAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INSTALLATION Power Feed-Thru Systems And Connectors LLC AKARAGWE, YANICK A 3672 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 24, 2022
17606923 Themed Smart Basket For Online Shopping Mercatus Technologies Inc. PRESTON, ASHLEY DAWN 3688 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2021
17305378 GLASS REINFORCED EPOXY KAMMPROFILE SEALING GASKET LGC US Asset Holdings, LLC LEE, GILBERT Y 3675 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jul 06, 2021
17111057 SENSOR-EMBEDDED GASKET FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING LGC US Asset Holdings, LLC KONERU, LAKSHMI S 3675 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 03, 2020

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