Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hershkovitz and Associates, PLLC has 1702 career applications in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm currently manages 6 pending office actions. The resolved allowance rate pct is 82.71, showing the proportion of its applications that successfully reach allowance. This history of 1702 applications provides a strong data set for assessing the firm's long-term performance in these fields.
The average office actions per allowance is 2.76. This figure indicates the typical number of office actions required to reach an allowance. With 1702 career applications and an 82.71 resolved allowance rate pct, the firm has an established record of performance. The average of 2.76 office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for the expected level of examiner interaction. The 6 pending office actions reflect the firm's current workload in its primary technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 30.0% | +35.4% |
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.5% |
| HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT | 1 | 76.4% | +23.7% |
| JUNG, ANDREW J | 1 | 57.8% | +40.0% |
| ADAMS, MICHELLE | 1 | 58.6% | +40.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18079868 | ADJUSTABLE FLIP STOP | HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT | 190d overdue |
| 18106392 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FLUID FLOW IN A FLUID COMMUNICATING DEVICE AND A WATERING SYSTEM COMPRISING A FLUID FLOW DETECTING SYSTEM | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 182d overdue |
| 17282747 | USE OF A SUBSTITUTED OR UNSUBSTITUTED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON COMPOUND FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY | ADAMS, MICHELLE | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18079868 | ADJUSTABLE FLIP STOP | HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT | 190d overdue |
| 18106392 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FLUID FLOW IN A FLUID COMMUNICATING DEVICE AND A WATERING SYSTEM COMPRISING A FLUID FLOW DETECTING SYSTEM | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 182d overdue |
| 17752860 | COMPUTER SYSTEM USING ENERGY BARRIER INSTRUCTIONS | JUNG, ANDREW J | 41d |
| 18961437 | CAPSULE CONTAINING BEVERAGE POWDER, IN PARTICULAR FORPREPARING BREWED COFFEE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
| 17282747 | USE OF A SUBSTITUTED OR UNSUBSTITUTED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON COMPOUND FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY | ADAMS, MICHELLE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SWISS COFFEE INNOVATION AG | 1 |
| 7Sense Products AS | 1 |
| Hui-Chuan Liao | 1 |
| ONiO AS | 1 |
| MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2175 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18961437 | CAPSULE CONTAINING BEVERAGE POWDER, IN PARTICULAR FORPREPARING BREWED COFFEE | Swiss Coffee Innovation AG | LACHICA, ERICSON M | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 | |
| 18106392 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FLUID FLOW IN A FLUID COMMUNICATING DEVICE AND A WATERING SYSTEM COMPRISING A FLUID FLOW DETECTING SYSTEM | 7Sense Products AS | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 182d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 18079868 | ADJUSTABLE FLIP STOP | Hui-Chuan Liao | HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 190d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 17752860 | COMPUTER SYSTEM USING ENERGY BARRIER INSTRUCTIONS | Onio AS | JUNG, ANDREW J | 2175 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
| 17282747 | USE OF A SUBSTITUTED OR UNSUBSTITUTED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON COMPOUND FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. | ADAMS, MICHELLE | 1797 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2021 |
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