Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Hamilton Ip Law, Pc

6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1731 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.1%
Allowance Rate
n=1731
+0.67σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1731
3.3
OAs to Allowance
n=969
-0.18σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=969
988 days
Time to Allowance
n=969
+8.4pp
Interview Lift
n=1731
23.7%
RCE Rate
n=1731
2.1%
Appeal Rate
n=1731

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

77.8%
§101 Overcome
n=36
86.4%
§102 Overcome
n=103
80.6%
§103 Overcome
n=649
89.4%
§112 Overcome
n=169

Specialization & Scale

Y10T, G06Q, E06B
Top CPC Subclasses
10%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1731
2
Practitioners
n=1731
865.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=1731

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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 (4)Due ≤ 30 days (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 (33%)
3
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (33%)
§103 only2 (33%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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
GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A 2 36.4% +34.9%
EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE 1 47.9% +42.7%
JOERGER, KAITLIN S 1 86.6% +11.0%
KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 1 34.9% +27.7%
VERDES, RICKY 1 74.2% +42.1%

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
18784374 NATURAL PLANT FIBER PILE FABRIC TEXTILE EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE 85d overdue
18427815 Enclosed Boat Trailer JOERGER, KAITLIN S 8d

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
18784374 NATURAL PLANT FIBER PILE FABRIC TEXTILE EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE 85d overdue
18220810 Method For Producing A High Protein Food GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A 46d overdue
17983375 Doped Diamond SemiConductor and Method of Manufacture Using Laser Abalation VERDES, RICKY 38d overdue
18427747 Ball Game and Method of Playing KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 22d overdue
18427815 Enclosed Boat Trailer JOERGER, KAITLIN S 8d
17677798 FORTIFIED HIGH PROTEIN FOOD & PRODUCTION METHOD GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17592
17891
36551
37111
28981

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18784374 NATURAL PLANT FIBER PILE FABRIC TEXTILE Biofluff Inc. EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE 1789 §101 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2024
18427815 Enclosed Boat Trailer Shield Boat Trailers, LLC JOERGER, KAITLIN S 3655 §101 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18427747 Ball Game and Method of Playing Core Sports Revolution LLC KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2024
18220810 Method For Producing A High Protein Food Erie Group International, Inc. GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
17983375 Doped Diamond SemiConductor and Method of Manufacture Using Laser Abalation Adamantite Technologies LLC VERDES, RICKY 2898 §102 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2022
17677798 FORTIFIED HIGH PROTEIN FOOD & PRODUCTION METHOD Erie Group International, Inc. GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A 1759 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 22, 2022

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