Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

21 pending office actions • 14 clients • 20 examiners • 15 art units • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 59 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=5419 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

90.5%
Allowance Rate
n=5419
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=5419
3.0
OAs to Allowance
n=3254
-0.25σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=3254
979 days
Time to Allowance
n=3254
+3.8pp
Interview Lift
n=5419
25.6%
RCE Rate
n=5419
2.0%
Appeal Rate
n=5419

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

89.8%
§101 Overcome
n=128
94.6%
§102 Overcome
n=406
88.3%
§103 Overcome
n=1568
90.2%
§112 Overcome
n=225

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G11C, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
30%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=5419
3
Practitioners
n=5419
1806.3
Apps / Practitioner
n=5419

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

1
Hard (5%)
11
Medium (52%)
8
Easy (38%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§103 only11 (52%)
§112 only3 (14%)
Double-patenting only5 (24%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
19% of docket
5
Information Tech
24% of docket
3
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
2
Business / Other
10% 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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HOLLAND, PAUL J 2 57.4% +64.6%
HOLDER, ANNER N 1 78.7% +13.5%
STEADMAN, DAVID J 1 57.6% +29.6%
HUQ, FARZANA B 1 79.8% +31.1%
GEE, JASON KAI YIN 1 77.8% +23.0%
MCKNIGHT, CIARA A 1 59.2% +38.1%
KARWAN, SIHAR A 1 56.6% +27.0%
LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER 1 100.0% +0.0%
VITAL, PIERRE M 1 50.5% +20.7%
HOANG, AMY P 1 71.2% +64.2%

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
18799962 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SELF-SERVICE SETUP OF MONITORING OPERATIONS IN AN AREA OF REAL SPACE LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18225662 DISTRIBUTED LEDGER BASED DISTRIBUTED GAMING SYSTEM GARNER, WERNER G

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19071055 PH20 POLYPEPTIDE VARIANTS, FORMULATIONS AND USES THEREOF HOLLAND, PAUL J 141d overdue
19071264 PH20 POLYPEPTIDE VARIANTS, FORMULATIONS AND USES THEREOF STEADMAN, DAVID J 125d overdue
18815706 Method and Device for Filling Video Ad Requests with Video Ad Content Transcoded in Real Time to a Stream at a Temporary URL KARWAN, SIHAR A 30d overdue
18778759 Method And System For Improved Spreadsheet Charts HOANG, AMY P 15d overdue
19212488 DIRECTIONAL IMPRESSION ANALYSIS HOLDER, ANNER N
19071005 PH20 POLYPEPTIDE VARIANTS, FORMULATIONS AND USES THEREOF HOLLAND, PAUL J
19031288 DOMAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HUQ, FARZANA B
19026118 NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIERS FOR BLOCK CHAIN DATA STRUCTURES GEE, JASON KAI YIN

Client Portfolio (14 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16564
36272
24311
36581
26641
21981
21431
21781
36251
26751

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19212488 DIRECTIONAL IMPRESSION ANALYSIS Standard Cognition, Corp. HOLDER, ANNER N §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 19, 2025
19071264 PH20 POLYPEPTIDE VARIANTS, FORMULATIONS AND USES THEREOF Halozyme, Inc. STEADMAN, DAVID J 1656 DP Non-Final OA 125d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2025
19071055 PH20 POLYPEPTIDE VARIANTS, FORMULATIONS AND USES THEREOF Halozyme, Inc. HOLLAND, PAUL J 1656 DP Non-Final OA 141d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2025
19071005 PH20 POLYPEPTIDE VARIANTS, FORMULATIONS AND USES THEREOF Halozyme, Inc. HOLLAND, PAUL J 1656 DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 05, 2025
19031288 DOMAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Namecheap, Inc. HUQ, FARZANA B §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
19026118 NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIERS FOR BLOCK CHAIN DATA STRUCTURES Ledgerdomain Inc. GEE, JASON KAI YIN 2431 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2025
18922889 PH20 POLYPEPTIDE VARIANTS, FORMULATIONS AND USES THEREOF Halozyme, Inc. MCKNIGHT, CIARA A 1656 DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 22, 2024
18815706 Method and Device for Filling Video Ad Requests with Video Ad Content Transcoded in Real Time to a Stream at a Temporary URL Beachfront Media LLC KARWAN, SIHAR A 3658 §112 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 26, 2024
18799962 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SELF-SERVICE SETUP OF MONITORING OPERATIONS IN AN AREA OF REAL SPACE Standard Cognition, Corp. LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER 2664 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 09, 2024
18784787 HETEROGENEOUS ACCELERATED COMPUTE Abacus Semiconductor Corporation VITAL, PIERRE M 2198 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 25, 2024
18778759 Method And System For Improved Spreadsheet Charts Adaptam Inc. HOANG, AMY P 2143 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2024
18777446 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPECIFYING AND USING JOINS BETWEEN DATA SETS IN A SPREADSHEET DATA VISUALIZER Adaptam Inc. BURKE, TIONNA M 2178 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2024
18622225 REGIONAL WILDFIRE VULNERABILITY DETECTION Cabrillo Coastal General Insurance Agency, LLC SINGLETARY, TYRONE E 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18437138 VISUAL-INERTIAL POSITIONAL AWARENESS FOR AUTONOMOUS AND NON-AUTONOMOUS TRACKING Trifo, Inc. MOYER, ANDREW M 2675 Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 08, 2024
18405840 MOISTURE EXTRACTION PRESS AND MOISTURE REMOVAL FROM WOOD MATERIALS Idaho Forest Group, LLC NGUYEN, JIMMY T 3725 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Jan 05, 2024
18522104 SUBJECT-TRACKING IN A CASHIER-LESS SHOPPING STORE FOR AUTONOMOUS CHECKOUT FOR IMPROVING ITEM AND SHELF PLACEMENT AND FOR PERFORMING SPATIAL ANALYTICS USING SPATIAL DATA AND THE SUBJECT-TRACKING Standard Cognition, Corp. LUDWIG, PETER L 3627 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18225662 DISTRIBUTED LEDGER BASED DISTRIBUTED GAMING SYSTEM Spoonread Inc. GARNER, WERNER G 3715 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2023
18198774 Downlink Scheduling Airspan Ip Holdco LLC ACOLATSE, KODZOVI 2478 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 2023
17984963 Visual-Inertial Positional Awareness for Autonomous and Non-Autonomous Tracking Trifo, Inc. GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE 2662 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 10, 2022
17663102 OPTICAL ASSEMBLY FOR LIDAR DETECTION SYSTEM Qlm Technology Limited CHEN, CHIA-LING 3645 §103 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending May 12, 2022
15985618 Method and Apparatus for Automated Bill Timeline Hmbay Patents LLC SULLIVAN, JESSICA E 3627 §112 Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending May 21, 2018

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