Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Hoffman Warnick LLC

58 pending office actions • 29 clients • 57 examiners • 43 art units • 0 of 58 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=10541 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.2%
Allowance Rate
n=10541
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=10541
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=7273
-0.32σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=7273
943 days
Time to Allowance
n=7273
+8.8pp
Interview Lift
n=10541
19.9%
RCE Rate
n=10541
2.4%
Appeal Rate
n=10541

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

82.0%
§101 Overcome
n=637
82.7%
§102 Overcome
n=2935
83.3%
§103 Overcome
n=4583
84.7%
§112 Overcome
n=3288

Specialization & Scale

F01D, F05D, H10D
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=10541
8
Practitioners
n=10541
1317.6
Apps / Practitioner
n=10541

Portfolio Summary

58
Total Pending OAs
40
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

13
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (13)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due later (2)

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.

27
Hard (47%)
28
Medium (48%)
3
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (3%)
§101 + other4 (7%)
§103 only23 (40%)
§102 only3 (5%)
§112 only3 (5%)
Double-patenting + other2 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)21 (36%)

Industry Mix

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

17
Life Sciences
29% of docket
3
Information Tech
5% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
22
Semiconductors
38% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
16% of docket
7
Business / Other
12% 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.

580 h
Manual time on pending OAs
116 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
203 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE 2 94.4% -2.6%
HOANG, HUAN 1 93.2% +5.6%
LOPEZ, ERICK I 1 53.1% +29.6%
ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 1 33.7% +41.3%
ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 1 67.2% +26.0%
AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD 1 70.3% +14.0%
HON, SOW FUN 1 57.7% +64.6%
WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY 1 62.8% +19.6%
FERNANDEZ, SUSAN EMILY 1 52.3% +60.9%
DION, MARCEL T 1 40.4% +36.5%

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
18973257 METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR BIT READ DURING NON-VOLATILE MEMEORY POWER-ON-RESET AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE

Hard Cases (27)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18521653 TILT TOWER WITH TWO SWING ARMS LAUX, JESSICA L 36d overdue
18724731 APPARATUS AND METHOD TO ADJUST VANE ANGLE OF DOUBLE FABRIC SHADING BY RESTRAINT OF FACING AUBREY, BETH A 31d overdue
17908684 METHODS OF SLOWING BRAIN VOLUME LOSS SHOWALTER, ALEXANDER KEITH 22d overdue
17996478 HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEROLOGY ASSAY DUNN, MCKENZIE A 9d overdue
18506033 BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE WITH BOUNDING STRUCTURE AT HORIZONTAL END AND METHODS TO FORM SAME MUSLIM, SHAWN SHAW 3d overdue
18724094 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TELEMEDICINE SERVICE GO, JOHN PHILIP 9d
18534863 STRUCTURE WITH FERROELECTRIC MEMORY STACKS HAVING DIFFERENT SWITCHING VOLTAGES AND RELATED METHODS YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY 84d
18888250 Untitled AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE

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
19269607 PROTECTIVE BATTING GLOVE WITH HAND AND FOREARM GUARD LOPEZ, ERICK I 8d
19138640 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HOSPITAL CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT CONTENT ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K
19172846 ASYNCHRONOUS DATA SHARING COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S
19068158 DATABASE DATA ACQUISITION AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD
18867904 OPTICALLY READABLE PHYSICAL UNCLONABLE FUNCTIONS HON, SOW FUN
18839564 TRICHOSTATIN A (TSA) SENSITIVITY IN THE TREATMENT OF TUMORS WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY
18833576 PROMOTER, THREONINE-PRODUCING RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM AND USE THEREOF FERNANDEZ, SUSAN EMILY
18781154 MODULAR FLAT WETBLAST NOZZLE DION, MARCEL T

Client Portfolio (29 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28984
28242
16252
28962
28912
28142
37321
36821
21541
21611

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18888250 Untitled Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE 2824 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending
18953954 Untitled Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. HOANG, HUAN §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending
19269607 PROTECTIVE BATTING GLOVE WITH HAND AND FOREARM GUARD Sames Media LOPEZ, ERICK I 3732 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Jul 15, 2025
19138640 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HOSPITAL CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT CONTENT Flyingdoctor Inc. ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 3682 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 12, 2025
19172846 ASYNCHRONOUS DATA SHARING COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE Friction Free Dental, Inc. ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 2154 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 08, 2025
19068158 DATABASE DATA ACQUISITION Growers Tech Inc. AGHARAHIMI, FARHAD 2161 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 03, 2025
18973257 METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR BIT READ DURING NON-VOLATILE MEMEORY POWER-ON-RESET Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE 2824 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 09, 2024
18867904 OPTICALLY READABLE PHYSICAL UNCLONABLE FUNCTIONS Quantum Base Limited HON, SOW FUN 1782 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2024
18839564 TRICHOSTATIN A (TSA) SENSITIVITY IN THE TREATMENT OF TUMORS VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS INC. WHITE, DAWANNA SHAR-DAY §101§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 19, 2024
18833576 PROMOTER, THREONINE-PRODUCING RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM AND USE THEREOF Langfang Meihua Biotechnology Development Co.,Ltd FERNANDEZ, SUSAN EMILY 1651 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2024
18781154 MODULAR FLAT WETBLAST NOZZLE The Guyson Corporation Of U.S.A. DION, MARCEL T §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 23, 2024
18724731 APPARATUS AND METHOD TO ADJUST VANE ANGLE OF DOUBLE FABRIC SHADING BY RESTRAINT OF FACING Comfortex Corporation AUBREY, BETH A 3633 §102§103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2024
18724094 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TELEMEDICINE SERVICE Flyingdoctor Inc. GO, JOHN PHILIP 3681 §101 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jun 25, 2024
18751865 METHOD OF TREATMENT VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS INC. OH, TAYLOR V 1625 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 24, 2024
18746537 Fluid Transfer Fitment, Fluid Dispensing Device, and Related Methods Hovina Inc. POOS, MADISON LYNN 3733 §102Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 18, 2024
18668706 HIGH-DENSITY STACKED CAPACITOR AND METHOD Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. ONUTA, TIBERIU DAN §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 20, 2024
18653261 HAND EQUIPMENT AND AN ENCLOSED GAME COURT FOR PLAYING A RECREATIONAL SPORTING GAME Bammer Ideas LLC ZHANG, YINGCHUAN 3711 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 02, 2024
18648553 STRUCTURE WITH DOPED WELL BETWEEN PHOTODETECTOR AND OPTICAL INTERFACE OF SEMICONDUCTOR LAYER Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. HAWKINS, IHSAN TAIWO §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 29, 2024
18613524 Sleep or Post-Sleep Performance VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS INC. BAEK, BONG-SOOK 1611 §103DP Final Rejection Pending Mar 22, 2024
18611987 TREATMENT OF DISORDERS WITH TASIMELTEON VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS INC. RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B §102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 21, 2024
18604947 ISOLATION STRUCTURE FOR MULTI-VOLTAGE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. AHMADI, MOHSEN 2896 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 14, 2024
18595694 MULTIMODE SOLID-STATE DRIVE WITH ADAPTIVE ADDRESS MAPPING TABLE COMPACTION Scaleflux, Inc. WU, STEPHANIE 2133 §103 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2024
18594074 CAPACITIVE JUNCTION BETWEEN CONDUCTIVE LINE AND CONDUCTIVE PILLAR WITH METHODS TO FORM SAME Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. NETTLES, CORALIE ANN 2893 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 04, 2024
18589686 BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE WITH FERROELECTRIC MATERIAL Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. PRIDEMORE, NATHAN ANDREW 2898 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 28, 2024
18442188 DISCONTINUOUS BARRIER FILM BETWEEN EMITTER AND BASE OF BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR Globalfoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. CLINTON, EVAN GARRETT 2899 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 15, 2024
18294587 TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF SARS-COV-2 INFECTION USING (S)-CRIZOTINIB The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Illinois PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT 1627 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 02, 2024
18415955 STRUCTURE WITH TWO WORK FUNCTION METALS OVER CONDUCTIVE BRIDGE, AND METHOD TO FORM SAME Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. PETERSON, ERIK T 2898 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 18, 2024
18544194 NANOSHEET DEVICES WITH REDUCED WIDTH INNER SPACER AND METHOD Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. YUSHINA, GALINA G 2811 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2023
18534863 STRUCTURE WITH FERROELECTRIC MEMORY STACKS HAVING DIFFERENT SWITCHING VOLTAGES AND RELATED METHODS Globalfoundries Dresden Module One Limited Liability Company & Co. Kg YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY 2891 §102§103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Dec 11, 2023
18565690 METHODS FOR TREATING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS INC. GONZALEZ, LUISALBERTO 1624 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 30, 2023
18521653 TILT TOWER WITH TWO SWING ARMS Zero Climb Tower Company, LLC LAUX, JESSICA L 3635 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2023
18562972 IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK BALL, JOHN C 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 61d Pending Nov 21, 2023
18562052 EXTRACORPOREAL DISINFECTION SYSTEM Radiatric Inc. MARCETICH, ADAM M 3781 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Nov 17, 2023
18509669 GRIPPING TOOL Sky Fabrication Inc. VU, STEPHEN A §102§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Nov 15, 2023
18506033 BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE WITH BOUNDING STRUCTURE AT HORIZONTAL END AND METHODS TO FORM SAME Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. MUSLIM, SHAWN SHAW 2897 §102§103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2023
18478452 SILICON CARBIDE CHANNEL WITH CAPPING SEMICONDUCTOR HAVING HIGHER CHARGE CARRIER MOBILITY Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. RAHMAN, MOIN M 2898 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 29, 2023
18453390 STRUCTURE WITH GUARD RING BETWEEN TERMINALS OF SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE PHOTODETECTOR AND RELATED METHOD Globalfoundries Dresden Module One Limited Liability Company & Co. Kg HOANG, DZUNG T 2898 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 22, 2023
18448868 METHOD OF TREATMENT WITH TRADIPITANT VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS INC. HANEY, AMANDA MARIE 1682 §112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 11, 2023
18361123 POROUS BULK MATERIAL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THEREOF, AND APPARATUS CAPABLE OF REDUCING WIND NOISE AND APPLICATION Ssi New Material (Zhenjiang) Co., Ltd. OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B 2837 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 28, 2023
18353995 ISOLATION STRUCTURE HAVING DIFFERENT LINERS ON UPPER AND LOWER PORTIONS Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. SLUTSKER, JULIA 2891 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2023
18257699 IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE The University of Liverpool CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES 1794 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 15, 2023
18332147 CAVITY WITH BOTTOM HAVING DIELECTRIC LAYER PORTION OVER GATE BODY WITHOUT ETCH STOP LAYER AND RELATED METHOD Globalfoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. LUKE, DANIEL M 2896 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 09, 2023
18256707 APTAMER-siRNA FUSIONS Apterna Limited POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA 1637 §103Other Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 09, 2023
18254910 A CELL COUNTER AND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE Microbiosensor Limited SMITH, MAURICE C 2877 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending May 30, 2023
18306311 STRUCTURE WITH DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS HAVING INPUT OFFSET AND RELATED METHODS Globalfoundries Dresden Module One Limited Liability Company & Co. Kg NGUYEN, KHIEM D 2843 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 25, 2023
18302349 SYSTEM FOR IMAGING SUBSTRATE SURFACE AND RELATED METHOD Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. GARBER, ERIN R 2878 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 18, 2023
18174006 Mollusc Barrier Doff Portland Limited NGUYEN, JOHN P 1619 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 24, 2023
18149200 BACK GATE ION-SENSITIVE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR SENSING WITH STACKED HIGH-K NANOSHEETS Globalfoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. KIELIN, ERIK J 2814 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jan 03, 2023
18058932 STRUCTURE WITH COPPER BOND PAD AND COPPER INTERCONNECT Globalfoundries Singapore Pte. Ltd. MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON 2814 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2022
18058992 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY STRUCTURE WITH SINGLE CELL OR TWIN CELL SENSING Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. BUI, THA-O H 2827 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 28, 2022
17996478 HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEROLOGY ASSAY Inanovate, Inc. DUNN, MCKENZIE A 1678 §102§103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2022
18047405 ION-SENSITIVE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR ABOVE MICROFLUIDIC CAVITY FOR ION DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN 2817 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2022
17906805 HYDROGEN STORAGE DEVICE H2Go Power Ltd. PEREZ, JELITZA M 1774 §103 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2022
17908684 METHODS OF SLOWING BRAIN VOLUME LOSS VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS INC. SHOWALTER, ALEXANDER KEITH 1629 §103§112Other Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022
17621447 TASIMELTEON USE IN TREATING SLEEP ABERRATIONS VANDA PHARMACEUTICALS INC. CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S 1625 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2021
17442810 POWER SUPPLY H2Go Power Ltd. SRIPATHI, ANKITH REDDY 1728 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 24, 2021
17418934 METHOD AND PRODUCT FOR DETECTING EMBRYO HEALTH CONDITION BY USING BLASTOCYST CULTURE SOLUTION Xukang Medical Science & Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. MARTIN, PAUL C 1653 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2021
17200106 MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS AGENT OPERATING IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT Andro Computational Solutions, LLC REDA, MATTHEW J 3665 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Mar 12, 2021

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