Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Haverstock & Owens

6 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=3885 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

90.2%
Allowance Rate
n=3885
+0.60σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=3885
4.9
OAs to Allowance
n=2684
+0.82σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=2684
1133 days
Time to Allowance
n=2684
+4.2pp
Interview Lift
n=3885
37.8%
RCE Rate
n=3885
1.4%
Appeal Rate
n=3885

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

86.0%
§101 Overcome
n=136
91.3%
§102 Overcome
n=392
88.4%
§103 Overcome
n=1797
93.9%
§112 Overcome
n=329

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H04N
Top CPC Subclasses
21%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=3885
0
Practitioners
n=3885
Apps / Practitioner
n=3885 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
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%)
2
Medium (33%)
2
Easy (33%)
2
Unknown (33%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (17%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only2 (33%)
No statute on record2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
3
Communications
50% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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
HSU, AMY R 1 86.5% -1.2%
KALAPODAS, DRAMOS 1 79.5% +26.6%
SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK 1 86.1% +10.8%
THOMPSON, JAMES A 1 85.3% +3.2%
AZARIAN, SEYED H 1 89.5% +12.0%
PARK, SOO JIN 1 81.9% +17.4%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18957396 CELL ENUMERATION MODULE FOR SECRETION SORTING SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK
18758246 SPARSE GLCM: GRAY-LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX COMPUTATION FOR POINT CLOUD PROCESSING THOMPSON, JAMES A
18677008 ZIPPERING SEI MESSAGE AZARIAN, SEYED H
18200474 SINGLE EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE SORTING BASED ON SURFACE BIOMARKERS PARK, SOO JIN

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19193731 Untitled KALAPODAS, DRAMOS
18957396 CELL ENUMERATION MODULE FOR SECRETION SORTING SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK
18677008 ZIPPERING SEI MESSAGE AZARIAN, SEYED H
18200474 SINGLE EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE SORTING BASED ON SURFACE BIOMARKERS PARK, SOO JIN

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Sony 6

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26752
24871
26151

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19081770 Untitled Sony Corporation Of America HSU, AMY R Non-Final OA Pending
19193731 Untitled Sony Corporation Of America KALAPODAS, DRAMOS 2487 Non-Final OA Pending
18957396 CELL ENUMERATION MODULE FOR SECRETION SORTING Sony Group Corporation SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 22, 2024
18758246 SPARSE GLCM: GRAY-LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX COMPUTATION FOR POINT CLOUD PROCESSING Sony Corporation Of America THOMPSON, JAMES A 2615 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2024
18677008 ZIPPERING SEI MESSAGE Sony Corporation Of America AZARIAN, SEYED H 2675 §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 29, 2024
18200474 SINGLE EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE SORTING BASED ON SURFACE BIOMARKERS Sony Corporation Of America PARK, SOO JIN 2675 §112 Final Rejection Pending May 22, 2023

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