Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Hershkovitz And Associates, Pllc

7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=1699 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

82.6%
Allowance Rate
n=1699
+0.65σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1699
2.8
OAs to Allowance
n=1294
-0.36σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1294
1022 days
Time to Allowance
n=1294
+9.7pp
Interview Lift
n=1699
15.6%
RCE Rate
n=1699
1.9%
Appeal Rate
n=1699

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

88.2%
§101 Overcome
n=110
81.3%
§102 Overcome
n=497
83.0%
§103 Overcome
n=822
86.4%
§112 Overcome
n=575

Specialization & Scale

H04L, H04W, Y10T
Top CPC Subclasses
16%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1699
0
Practitioners
n=1699
Apps / Practitioner
n=1699 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 60 days (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 (71%)
2
Medium (29%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (14%)
Double-patenting + other1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (71%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
2
Information Tech
29% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LACHICA, ERICSON M 1 30.4% +34.9%
MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 1 89.8% +8.7%
POPE, KHARYE 1 65.5% +21.6%
KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 1 63.1% +21.4%
HALL JR, TYRONE VINCENT 1 76.7% +23.1%
JUNG, ANDREW J 1 57.8% +40.0%
ADAMS, MICHELLE 1 58.5% +40.7%

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
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
18849499 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NETWORK DEVICES MCNALLY, MICHAEL S
18668098 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK DEVICE(S) AT A PRIMARY NETWORK DEVICE POPE, KHARYE
17282747 USE OF A SUBSTITUTED OR UNSUBSTITUTED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON COMPOUND FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY ADAMS, MICHELLE

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
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
18668098 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK DEVICE(S) AT A PRIMARY NETWORK DEVICE POPE, KHARYE
17282747 USE OF A SUBSTITUTED OR UNSUBSTITUTED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON COMPOUND FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY ADAMS, MICHELLE

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24321
26931
37521
37231
21751
17971

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
18849499 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NETWORK DEVICES Pismo Labs Technology Limited MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 2432 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 21, 2024
18668098 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK DEVICE(S) AT A PRIMARY NETWORK DEVICE Pismo Labs Technology Limited POPE, KHARYE 2693 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 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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