Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Harness Dickey - Vantor

6 pending office actions • 3 clients • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=203912 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.6%
Allowance Rate
n=203912
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=203912
3.1
OAs to Allowance
n=133308
-0.18σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=133308
1029 days
Time to Allowance
n=133308
+5.3pp
Interview Lift
n=203912
24.4%
RCE Rate
n=203912
2.2%
Appeal Rate
n=203912

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

81.4%
§101 Overcome
n=2976
87.0%
§102 Overcome
n=18368
82.9%
§103 Overcome
n=77991
91.4%
§112 Overcome
n=14406

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H01L
Top CPC Subclasses
10%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=203912
71
Practitioners
n=203912
2872.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=203912

Portfolio Summary

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

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%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§102 only1 (17%)

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
3
Communications
50% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% of docket
2
Business / Other
33% 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
HUANG, WEN WU 2 72.9% +15.7%
RENZE, GEORGE NICHOLAS 1 71.9% +18.8%
THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI 1 73.9% +11.9%
MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA 1 72.1% +30.1%
ZHANG, WAYNE 1 56.5% +34.9%

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
18983005 METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR RELATIVE DEPTH MAP IMAGE GENERATION RENZE, GEORGE NICHOLAS
18940284 CLOUD COMPUTING FLEXIBLE LARGE AREA MOSAIC ENGINE THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI
18737594 Ground Control Point Height Adjustment for Improved Ortho Accuracy MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA
18203967 TECHNIQUES FOR DERIVING AND/OR LEVERAGING APPLICATION-CENTRIC MODEL METRIC HUANG, WEN WU
18134370 TECHNIQUES FOR DERIVING AND/OR LEVERAGING APPLICATION-CENTRIC MODEL METRIC HUANG, WEN WU
18177270 ESTIMATING FORESTRY TIMBER VOLUMES ZHANG, WAYNE

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
VANTOR SWEDEN AB 2
VANTOR INC. 2
VANTOR SERVICES INC. 2

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26482
36481
26721

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18983005 METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR RELATIVE DEPTH MAP IMAGE GENERATION VANTOR SWEDEN AB RENZE, GEORGE NICHOLAS §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2024
18940284 CLOUD COMPUTING FLEXIBLE LARGE AREA MOSAIC ENGINE VANTOR INC. THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 07, 2024
18737594 Ground Control Point Height Adjustment for Improved Ortho Accuracy VANTOR INC. MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA 3648 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 07, 2024
18203967 TECHNIQUES FOR DERIVING AND/OR LEVERAGING APPLICATION-CENTRIC MODEL METRIC VANTOR SERVICES INC. HUANG, WEN WU 2648 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2023
18134370 TECHNIQUES FOR DERIVING AND/OR LEVERAGING APPLICATION-CENTRIC MODEL METRIC VANTOR SERVICES INC. HUANG, WEN WU 2648 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 13, 2023
18177270 ESTIMATING FORESTRY TIMBER VOLUMES VANTOR SWEDEN AB ZHANG, WAYNE 2672 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 02, 2023

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