Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma LLP

8 pending office actions • 6 clients • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=9281 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

92.2%
Allowance Rate
n=9281
+0.65σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=9281
4.6
OAs to Allowance
n=4580
+0.32σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=4580
1292 days
Time to Allowance
n=4580
+4.5pp
Interview Lift
n=9281
44.4%
RCE Rate
n=9281
3.8%
Appeal Rate
n=9281

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

84.8%
§101 Overcome
n=316
92.1%
§102 Overcome
n=722
88.1%
§103 Overcome
n=2972
91.4%
§112 Overcome
n=232

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
59%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=9281
1
Practitioners
n=9281
9281.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=9281

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
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.

3
Hard (38%)
4
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (38%)
§103 only4 (50%)
Double-patenting only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
12% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
62% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MUNDUR, PADMAVATHI V 1 81.9% +25.8%
LEE, JENNIFER V 1 25.4% +40.6%
PATEL, JAY M 1 64.4% +38.5%
EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N 1 52.6% +46.5%
NEWLON, WILLIAM D 1 45.2% +29.0%
NGUYEN, TIEN C 1 67.8% +18.2%
SCHREIBER, CHRISTINA MARIE 1 79.7% +15.9%
VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN 1 66.9% +24.3%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18817350 BRIDGE NETWORK DEVICE MANAGER MUNDUR, PADMAVATHI V

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18374919 HELPING PROSPECTIVE MOVERS INTERACTIVELY DISCOVER AND EXPLORE PERSONALIZED LIVING LOCATIONS EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N 147d overdue
18608911 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR UPLOADING IMAGE DATA AND APPROVING SEGMENTED IMAGE DATA LEE, JENNIFER V
18115529 AUTOMATED PACKET CREATION BASED ON CLAIM INGESTION AND VALIDATION NEWLON, WILLIAM D
18104217 END-TO-END INTEGRATION OF DISPARATE DATA SYSTEMS IN CLAIMS PROCESSING NGUYEN, TIEN C

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18374919 HELPING PROSPECTIVE MOVERS INTERACTIVELY DISCOVER AND EXPLORE PERSONALIZED LIVING LOCATIONS EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N 147d overdue
18077077 METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING AN AUDIO OUTPUT FILE SCHREIBER, CHRISTINA MARIE 22d overdue
18817350 BRIDGE NETWORK DEVICE MANAGER MUNDUR, PADMAVATHI V
18608911 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR UPLOADING IMAGE DATA AND APPROVING SEGMENTED IMAGE DATA LEE, JENNIFER V
18402060 Quadruped Lameness Detection using Machine Learning Models PATEL, JAY M
18115529 AUTOMATED PACKET CREATION BASED ON CLAIM INGESTION AND VALIDATION NEWLON, WILLIAM D
18104217 END-TO-END INTEGRATION OF DISPARATE DATA SYSTEMS IN CLAIMS PROCESSING NGUYEN, TIEN C
17150899 MOBILE VASCULAR HEALTH EVALUATION DEVICES USING DOPPLER ULTRASOUND AND CORRELATION OF PARAMETERS TO OUTPUT RECOMMENDATIONS TO A WRIST-MOUNTED DISPLAY VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24411
36881
36811
36281
36961
36941
28371
16861

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18817350 BRIDGE NETWORK DEVICE MANAGER University Of Plymouth MUNDUR, PADMAVATHI V 2441 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 2024
18608911 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR UPLOADING IMAGE DATA AND APPROVING SEGMENTED IMAGE DATA Ricoh Company, Ltd. LEE, JENNIFER V 3688 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 18, 2024
18402060 Quadruped Lameness Detection using Machine Learning Models Bay West Veterinary Surgery, Inc. PATEL, JAY M 3681 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 02, 2024
18374919 HELPING PROSPECTIVE MOVERS INTERACTIVELY DISCOVER AND EXPLORE PERSONALIZED LIVING LOCATIONS Where Might I Live LLP EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N 3628 §101 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18115529 AUTOMATED PACKET CREATION BASED ON CLAIM INGESTION AND VALIDATION Ricoh Company, Ltd. NEWLON, WILLIAM D 3696 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 28, 2023
18104217 END-TO-END INTEGRATION OF DISPARATE DATA SYSTEMS IN CLAIMS PROCESSING Ricoh Company, Ltd. NGUYEN, TIEN C 3694 §101 Final Rejection Pending Jan 31, 2023
18077077 METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING AN AUDIO OUTPUT FILE Hyph Ireland Limited SCHREIBER, CHRISTINA MARIE 2837 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2022
17150899 MOBILE VASCULAR HEALTH EVALUATION DEVICES USING DOPPLER ULTRASOUND AND CORRELATION OF PARAMETERS TO OUTPUT RECOMMENDATIONS TO A WRIST-MOUNTED DISPLAY Alexander F. Castellanos VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN 1686 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 15, 2021

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