Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 14, 2026

Haynes And Boone, LLP (42940)

5 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=149951 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.0%
Allowance Rate
n=149951
+0.58σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=149951
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=87827
-0.04σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=87827
1053 days
Time to Allowance
n=87827
+7.3pp
Interview Lift
n=149951
30.5%
RCE Rate
n=149951
1.7%
Appeal Rate
n=149951

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

80.9%
§101 Overcome
n=3129
85.9%
§102 Overcome
n=12006
82.9%
§103 Overcome
n=54768
89.5%
§112 Overcome
n=8912

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H10K, H01L
Top CPC Subclasses
13%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=149951
90
Practitioners
n=149951
1666.1
Apps / Practitioner
n=149951

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
§102 only1 (20%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
40% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JONES, GORDON A 1 60.5% +38.8%
KIM, JAMES JAY 1 70.3% +27.2%
DUKE, EMMANUEL E 1 68.6% +27.5%
NILSSON, ERIC 1 82.7% +17.3%
ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER B 1 89.4% +6.7%

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
18365145 MULTI-GPU TRAINING OF NEURAL NETWORKS ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER B

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
18623945 INTELLIGENT SWAPPABLE MODULAR UNIT FOR LOCAL COOLING LOOPS IN A DATACENTER COOLING SYSTEM DUKE, EMMANUEL E 14d
18665311 DATA CENTER COOLING DISTRIBUTION UNITS WITH REPLACEABLE COMPONENTS JONES, GORDON A
18629850 INTELLIGENT AND DYNAMIC COLD PLATE FOR DATACENTER COOLING SYSTEMS KIM, JAMES JAY
18475872 IMAGE GENERATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS NILSSON, ERIC

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
NVIDIA 5

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37632
37471
21511
24431

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18665311 DATA CENTER COOLING DISTRIBUTION UNITS WITH REPLACEABLE COMPONENTS Nvidia Corporation JONES, GORDON A 3763 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 15, 2024
18629850 INTELLIGENT AND DYNAMIC COLD PLATE FOR DATACENTER COOLING SYSTEMS Nvidia Corporation KIM, JAMES JAY 3747 §102 Final Rejection Pending Apr 08, 2024
18623945 INTELLIGENT SWAPPABLE MODULAR UNIT FOR LOCAL COOLING LOOPS IN A DATACENTER COOLING SYSTEM Nvidia Corporation DUKE, EMMANUEL E 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 01, 2024
18475872 IMAGE GENERATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation NILSSON, ERIC 2151 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2023
18365145 MULTI-GPU TRAINING OF NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER B 2443 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 03, 2023

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