Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Heer Law

6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=237 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

64.0%
Allowance Rate
n=237
+0.00σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=237
3.0
OAs to Allowance
n=87
-0.42σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=87
976 days
Time to Allowance
n=87
+28.6pp
Interview Lift
n=237
21.3%
RCE Rate
n=237
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=237

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=6 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=16 (min 20)
50.0%
§103 Overcome
n=94
§112 Overcome
n=13 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06N, A61F
Top CPC Subclasses
17%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=237
1
Practitioners
n=237
237.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=237

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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.

1
Hard (17%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (17%)
§103 only4 (67%)
§102 only1 (17%)

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
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
67% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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
CHAN, KO HUNG 1 66.4% +15.2%
COLLINS, RAVEN 1 62.4% +10.3%
MAGAR, DIL KUMAR 1 54.9% +17.5%
TOKARCZYK, CHRISTOPHER B 1 43.4% +23.0%
SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD 1 53.5% +38.8%
LEE, MICHAEL M 1 83.7% +42.5%

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
18370631 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR IDENTITY VERIFICATON LEE, MICHAEL M

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
18657515 SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IN PHARMACOGENOMICS TOKARCZYK, CHRISTOPHER B 51d overdue
18404074 OVERHEAD DOOR LOCKING DEVICE SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD 24d overdue
19183438 ADJUSTABLE FIXTURE SUPPORT MAGNET, AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD CHAN, KO HUNG
19175908 PRODUCT HANDLE COLLINS, RAVEN
18871012 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR LIMITER DEVICES MAGAR, DIL KUMAR
18370631 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR IDENTITY VERIFICATON LEE, MICHAEL M

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37351
36751
36871
36341
24361

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19183438 ADJUSTABLE FIXTURE SUPPORT MAGNET, AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD Kluods Construction Inc. CHAN, KO HUNG §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 18, 2025
19175908 PRODUCT HANDLE Hughes Containers Ltd. COLLINS, RAVEN 3735 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 10, 2025
18871012 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR LIMITER DEVICES Spirol Industries Ltd. MAGAR, DIL KUMAR 3675 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 02, 2024
18657515 SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IN PHARMACOGENOMICS Myengene Inc. TOKARCZYK, CHRISTOPHER B 3687 §102 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending May 07, 2024
18404074 OVERHEAD DOOR LOCKING DEVICE The Parts Department Ltd. SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD 3634 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2024
18370631 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR IDENTITY VERIFICATON Bitsproof Inc. LEE, MICHAEL M 2436 §101 Final Rejection Pending Sep 20, 2023

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