Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

H&I Partners LLC

Technology area: Communications

11 pending office actions • 9 clients • 10 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

H&I PARTNERS LLC operates in the Communications technology area. The firm has 1102 career applications. A resolved allowance rate of 89.15 percent has been achieved across these matters. On average, the firm receives 2.67 office actions per allowance. There are currently 7 pending office actions requiring responses.

The 2.67 average office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for the expected duration of prosecution. Practitioners can compare the pending office actions to this average to estimate future workload. The 89.15 percent resolved allowance rate indicates the historical probability of success for applications that reach a final resolution. With 1102 career applications, the firm has a documented history in Communications. These 7 pending office actions represent the current focus of the firm's prosecution efforts. The relationship between the average office actions and the allowance rate defines the firm's prosecution profile. This historical data provides a basis for understanding the firm's typical prosecution cycle.

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

Quality Metrics (n=1102 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.2%
Allowance Rate
n=1102
+0.67σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1102
2.7
OAs to Allowance
n=871
-0.41σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=871
934 days
Time to Allowance
n=871
+3.8pp
Interview Lift
n=1102
18.1%
RCE Rate
n=1102
0.6%
Appeal Rate
n=1102

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

74.8%
§101 Overcome
n=111
83.0%
§102 Overcome
n=235
84.2%
§103 Overcome
n=558
85.4%
§112 Overcome
n=418

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06Q, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1102
1
Practitioners
n=1102
1102.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1102

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
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.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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.

7
Hard (64%)
4
Medium (36%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (18%)
§103 only3 (27%)
§102 only1 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (45%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
9% of docket
1
Information Tech
9% of docket
4
Communications
36% of docket
1
Semiconductors
9% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
4
Business / Other
36% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SNIEZEK, ANDREW L 2 84.9% +8.7%
COPPOLA, JACOB C 1 48.5% +18.7%
MAHMUD, RANA HASSAN 1 — —
ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID 1 89.7% +12.5%
HUANG, WEN WU 1 73.0% +15.6%
CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 1 60.4% +40.9%
VISCONTI, GERALDINA 1 86.5% +1.5%
TRUONG, KARL DUC 1 63.5% +36.1%
CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY 1 7.7% +46.2%
RASTOVSKI, CATHERINE T 1 67.8% +29.0%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19269002 STORAGE SYSTEM SNIEZEK, ANDREW L 71d overdue
17784615 METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE LEVEL OF UNUSUALNESS OF INDIVIDUALS, IN PARTICULAR IN ORDER TO STATISTICALLY DETECT UNUSUAL INDIVIDUALS IN A MULTIVARIATE CONTEXT RASTOVSKI, CATHERINE T 18d overdue
18275214 MEDICAL TISSUE ADHESIVE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 7d
17787314 METHOD FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATION BY MACHINE LEARNING CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY 34d
18844962 SEAT EQUIPPED WITH A DATA-COMMUNICATION MODULE USING LI-FI TECHNOLOGY ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID —
18271449 ORGANIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE COMPRISING SAME VISCONTI, GERALDINA —
17863241 MULTIPURPOSE CHARGING APPARATUS SNIEZEK, ANDREW L —

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
17784615 METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE LEVEL OF UNUSUALNESS OF INDIVIDUALS, IN PARTICULAR IN ORDER TO STATISTICALLY DETECT UNUSUAL INDIVIDUALS IN A MULTIVARIATE CONTEXT RASTOVSKI, CATHERINE T 18d overdue
18311678 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALING USING ESTIMATED FACIAL FEATURES TRUONG, KARL DUC 4d overdue
18275214 MEDICAL TISSUE ADHESIVE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 7d
17787314 METHOD FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATION BY MACHINE LEARNING CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY 34d
18413351 ON-DEVICE ACCESSORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HUANG, WEN WU 70d
18878869 LINKED DIGITAL GAMES SYSTEM COPPOLA, JACOB C —
18844962 SEAT EQUIPPED WITH A DATA-COMMUNICATION MODULE USING LI-FI TECHNOLOGY ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID —

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26932
26481
16131
26141
21861
28571

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19269002 STORAGE SYSTEM Advanced Access Technologies LLC SNIEZEK, ANDREW L 2693 §103§112 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2025
18878869 LINKED DIGITAL GAMES SYSTEM Fdj Gaming Solutions France COPPOLA, JACOB C §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 24, 2024
18856097 POSITIONING SYSTEM WITH LEAKY FEEDER SEGMENTS Syntony MAHMUD, RANA HASSAN §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 11, 2024
18844962 SEAT EQUIPPED WITH A DATA-COMMUNICATION MODULE USING LI-FI TECHNOLOGY Latelec ABDELRAHEEM, MOHAMMED SAID §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 08, 2024
18413351 ON-DEVICE ACCESSORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Advanced Access Technologies LLC HUANG, WEN WU 2648 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jan 16, 2024
18275214 MEDICAL TISSUE ADHESIVE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF Haining Zhuluoji Biotechnology Co., Ltd. CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 1613 §103§112 Final Rejection 7d Pending Aug 01, 2023
18271449 ORGANIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE COMPRISING SAME Lapto Co., Ltd. VISCONTI, GERALDINA §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 08, 2023
18311678 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALING USING ESTIMATED FACIAL FEATURES Ditto Technologies, Inc. TRUONG, KARL DUC 2614 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
17863241 MULTIPURPOSE CHARGING APPARATUS Advanced Access Technologies LLC SNIEZEK, ANDREW L 2693 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 12, 2022
17787314 METHOD FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATION BY MACHINE LEARNING Extrality CHAVEZ, ANTHONY RAY 2186 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jun 18, 2022
17784615 METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE LEVEL OF UNUSUALNESS OF INDIVIDUALS, IN PARTICULAR IN ORDER TO STATISTICALLY DETECT UNUSUAL INDIVIDUALS IN A MULTIVARIATE CONTEXT Ippon Innovation RASTOVSKI, CATHERINE T 2857 §101§112 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2022

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