Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Hogan Lovells US LLP - Amazon

7 pending office actions • 2 clients • 7 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=7202 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

84.6%
Allowance Rate
n=7202
+0.50σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=7202
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=5083
-0.01σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=5083
1071 days
Time to Allowance
n=5083
+10.9pp
Interview Lift
n=7202
27.6%
RCE Rate
n=7202
1.3%
Appeal Rate
n=7202

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

82.1%
§101 Overcome
n=552
84.1%
§102 Overcome
n=1514
84.4%
§103 Overcome
n=2667
87.4%
§112 Overcome
n=1672

Specialization & Scale

G06F, E21B, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
21%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=7202
21
Practitioners
n=7202
343.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=7202

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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.

5
Hard (71%)
2
Medium (29%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§101 + other4 (57%)
§103 only1 (14%)
§102 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
29% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
2
Business / Other
29% 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
SUN, JIANGENG 1 82.1% +13.8%
ANTOINE, LISA HOPE 1 12.5% +95.5%
IMMANUEL, ILSE I 1 26.4% +26.5%
KADING, JOSHUA A 1 78.1% +24.4%
RAO, MANJUNATH N 1 11.6% +23.6%
SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN 1 40.3% +66.3%
SAVENKOV, VADIM 1 61.1% +20.8%

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
18930905 VISION-AND-LANGUAGE MODEL TRAINING SUN, JIANGENG

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18663726 OPTIMIZING MEDIA TRANSCODING BASED ON LICENSING MODELS IMMANUEL, ILSE I 21d
18725262 NON-INVASIVE METHODS OF MEASURING THE DEGREE OF CELLULAR ENERGY METABOLISM ANTOINE, LISA HOPE
18029044 MONITORING CIRCULATING TUMOR DNA TO IMPROVE SUBCLONE PENETRATION OF FOLLOW-UP NEOANTIGEN CANCER VACCINES KADING, JOSHUA A
17790169 POLYMERASES FOR ISOTHERMAL NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION RAO, MANJUNATH N
17541405 CLASS 2 CRISPR-CAS RNA-GUIDED ENDONUCLEASES SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN
15878957 REVOCABLE SHREDDING OF SECURITY CREDENTIALS SAVENKOV, VADIM

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18663726 OPTIMIZING MEDIA TRANSCODING BASED ON LICENSING MODELS IMMANUEL, ILSE I 21d
18930905 VISION-AND-LANGUAGE MODEL TRAINING SUN, JIANGENG
18725262 NON-INVASIVE METHODS OF MEASURING THE DEGREE OF CELLULAR ENERGY METABOLISM ANTOINE, LISA HOPE
18029044 MONITORING CIRCULATING TUMOR DNA TO IMPROVE SUBCLONE PENETRATION OF FOLLOW-UP NEOANTIGEN CANCER VACCINES KADING, JOSHUA A
17790169 POLYMERASES FOR ISOTHERMAL NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION RAO, MANJUNATH N
17541405 CLASS 2 CRISPR-CAS RNA-GUIDED ENDONUCLEASES SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN
15878957 REVOCABLE SHREDDING OF SECURITY CREDENTIALS SAVENKOV, VADIM

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Amazon 6
SCIENCE SOLUTIONS LLC 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16562
37151
36991
24321

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18930905 VISION-AND-LANGUAGE MODEL TRAINING Amazon Technologies, Inc. SUN, JIANGENG §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 29, 2024
18725262 NON-INVASIVE METHODS OF MEASURING THE DEGREE OF CELLULAR ENERGY METABOLISM Amazon Technologies, Inc. ANTOINE, LISA HOPE 3715 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2024
18663726 OPTIMIZING MEDIA TRANSCODING BASED ON LICENSING MODELS Amazon Technologies, Inc. IMMANUEL, ILSE I 3699 §101§102Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending May 14, 2024
18029044 MONITORING CIRCULATING TUMOR DNA TO IMPROVE SUBCLONE PENETRATION OF FOLLOW-UP NEOANTIGEN CANCER VACCINES Amazon Technologies, Inc. KADING, JOSHUA A §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2023
17790169 POLYMERASES FOR ISOTHERMAL NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION Amazon Technologies, Inc. RAO, MANJUNATH N 1656 §101 Final Rejection Pending Jun 30, 2022
17541405 CLASS 2 CRISPR-CAS RNA-GUIDED ENDONUCLEASES Science Solutions LLC SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN 1656 §101§103§112DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Dec 03, 2021
15878957 REVOCABLE SHREDDING OF SECURITY CREDENTIALS Amazon Technologies, Inc. SAVENKOV, VADIM 2432 §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 24, 2018

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