Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Hg Law LLP (Ford)

5 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=14875 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

90.4%
Allowance Rate
n=14875
+0.60σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=14875
4.0
OAs to Allowance
n=9813
+0.11σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=9813
1046 days
Time to Allowance
n=9813
+4.8pp
Interview Lift
n=14875
39.0%
RCE Rate
n=14875
1.0%
Appeal Rate
n=14875

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

85.5%
§101 Overcome
n=551
89.0%
§102 Overcome
n=1342
85.3%
§103 Overcome
n=6264
90.8%
§112 Overcome
n=782

Specialization & Scale

H04N, G06F, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
41%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=14875
13
Practitioners
n=14875
1144.2
Apps / Practitioner
n=14875

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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 (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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.

1
Hard (20%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (20%)
§103 only4 (80%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
40% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHEUNG, CALVIN K 1 87.7% +8.3%
ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC 1 44.4% +26.7%
LAGUARDA, GONZALO 1 72.7% +6.7%
KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE 1 47.8% +63.2%
CAROC, LHEIREN MAE ANGLO 1 77.9% +13.6%

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
19209255 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONFIGURATION CHEUNG, CALVIN K

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17746557 Methods and Systems for Charging an Electric Vehicle KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE 30d overdue
17545792 STARTING A VEHICLE MOTOR CAROC, LHEIREN MAE ANGLO 14d
18102329 Housing for an Electrical Energy Store ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Ford 5

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24221
37521
37471
28591
28311

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19209255 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONFIGURATION Ford Global Technologies, LLC CHEUNG, CALVIN K 2422 §101 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2025
18102329 Housing for an Electrical Energy Store Ford Global Technologies, LLC ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC 3752 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 27, 2023
17979219 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING BRAKE PARTICULATE EMISSIONS AND BATTERY THROUGHPUT Ford Global Technologies, LLC LAGUARDA, GONZALO 3747 §103 Final Rejection 54d Pending Nov 02, 2022
17746557 Methods and Systems for Charging an Electric Vehicle Ford Global Technologies, LLC KOTOWSKI, LISA MICHELLE 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending May 17, 2022
17545792 STARTING A VEHICLE MOTOR Ford Global Technologies, LLC CAROC, LHEIREN MAE ANGLO 2831 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Dec 08, 2021

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