Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Headland Law & Strategy

9 pending office actions • 5 clients • 8 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=149 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

80.0%
Allowance Rate
n=149
+0.29σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=149
2.0
OAs to Allowance
n=72
-0.96σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=72
617 days
Time to Allowance
n=72
+20.0pp
Interview Lift
n=149
10.0%
RCE Rate
n=149
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=149

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=6 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=18 (min 20)
60.0%
§103 Overcome
n=50
58.7%
§112 Overcome
n=46

Specialization & Scale

A47G, A61J, A47L
Top CPC Subclasses
22%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=149
1
Practitioners
n=149
149.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=149

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 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.

5
Hard (56%)
3
Medium (33%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§103 only3 (33%)
§112 only1 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (44%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
56% of docket
1
Business / Other
11% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PIZIALI, ANDREW T 2 28.5% +27.4%
KIM, SAMUEL CHONG 1 48.5% +70.0%
BARNETT, DEVIN K 1 56.3% +26.7%
SALVATORE, LYNDA 1 64.0% +19.4%
YUEN, JESSICA JIPING 1 60.2% +21.4%
GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA 1 46.4% +50.0%
WEAVER, SUE A 1 61.9% +28.0%
PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE 1 24.1% +13.9%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19044597 DISH RACK BARNETT, DEVIN K 38d overdue
18801567 OVER-THE-SINK DRYING ELEMENT PIZIALI, ANDREW T 30d overdue
18528733 Absorptive Drying Element PIZIALI, ANDREW T 65d
19246161 ASSESSING MOTIVATED ATTENTION WITH CUE REACTIVITY KIM, SAMUEL CHONG
18385676 ENCODING RESPIRATION FLOW AND VOLUME METRICS USING A MOBILE DEVICE PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE

Interview Candidates (9)

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
19044597 DISH RACK BARNETT, DEVIN K 38d overdue
18801567 OVER-THE-SINK DRYING ELEMENT PIZIALI, ANDREW T 30d overdue
18292274 Tissue Ablation and Lesion Assessment System GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA 3d overdue
18667625 SINK CADDY SALVATORE, LYNDA 28d
18528733 Absorptive Drying Element PIZIALI, ANDREW T 65d
19246161 ASSESSING MOTIVATED ATTENTION WITH CUE REACTIVITY KIM, SAMUEL CHONG
18667762 HOLDER YUEN, JESSICA JIPING
18413709 MECHANICAL WALLET WEAVER, SUE A

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17893
37912
36311
37941
37331

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19246161 ASSESSING MOTIVATED ATTENTION WITH CUE REACTIVITY Neurotype Inc. KIM, SAMUEL CHONG 3791 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 23, 2025
19044597 DISH RACK Dorai Home, Inc. BARNETT, DEVIN K 3631 §101 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2025
18801567 OVER-THE-SINK DRYING ELEMENT Dorai Home, Inc. PIZIALI, ANDREW T 1789 §103§112 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Aug 12, 2024
18667625 SINK CADDY Dorai Home, Inc. SALVATORE, LYNDA 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 17, 2024
18667762 HOLDER Dorai Home, Inc. YUEN, JESSICA JIPING §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 2024
18292274 Tissue Ablation and Lesion Assessment System Sigt, LLC GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2024
18413709 MECHANICAL WALLET Peter M. Goodwin WEAVER, SUE A 3733 §112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 16, 2024
18528733 Absorptive Drying Element Dorai Home, Inc. PIZIALI, ANDREW T 1789 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 65d Pending Dec 04, 2023
18385676 ENCODING RESPIRATION FLOW AND VOLUME METRICS USING A MOBILE DEVICE Emercent Technologies LLC PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE 3791 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2023

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