Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 4 examiners • 2 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Howard IP Law Group operates in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm has managed 2045 career applications, establishing a substantial record of filings in these categories. Its resolved allowance rate pct of 91.07 indicates a high level of success in moving applications toward a final grant. This metric serves as a key performance indicator for the firm's ability to secure intellectual property rights for its clients.
The firm's current active workload includes 2 pending office actions. On average, the firm experiences 3.72 avg office actions per allowance during the prosecution cycle. This metric reflects the typical number of interactions with examiners required to secure a patent. For practitioners, the 91.07 resolved allowance rate pct and 3.72 avg office actions per allowance provide a clear picture of the firm's historical performance and procedural expectations within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These data points help define the firm's standing across its 2045 career applications.
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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAZIMI, HANI M | 2 | 48.5% | +19.4% |
| GREGG, MARY M | 1 | 14.0% | +14.2% |
| HUANG, DAVID Z | 1 | 80.3% | +13.3% |
| CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 1 | 62.4% | +39.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17949172 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING DATA FLOWS ASSOCIATED WITH AN INTERACTIVE DISPLAY | KAZIMI, HANI M | 9d |
| 18855021 | Medication packaging | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 22d |
| 19238705 | ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE FOR PARALLEL EXEMPT OFFERINGS OF PUBLIC COMPANIES | GREGG, MARY M | — |
| 18859194 | CONTAINER FOR PRESSURIZED LIQUID GAS AND LIQUID LEVEL MEASURING SYSTEM | HUANG, DAVID Z | — |
| 18892890 | HAIL HISTORY EVALUATION SYSTEM | KAZIMI, HANI M | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17949172 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING DATA FLOWS ASSOCIATED WITH AN INTERACTIVE DISPLAY | KAZIMI, HANI M | 9d |
| 18855021 | Medication packaging | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 22d |
| 19238705 | ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE FOR PARALLEL EXEMPT OFFERINGS OF PUBLIC COMPANIES | GREGG, MARY M | — |
| 18859194 | CONTAINER FOR PRESSURIZED LIQUID GAS AND LIQUID LEVEL MEASURING SYSTEM | HUANG, DAVID Z | — |
| 18892890 | HAIL HISTORY EVALUATION SYSTEM | KAZIMI, HANI M | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Four Deuces Ip LLC | 1 |
| Rochester Sensors, LLC | 1 |
| KNAPP AG | 1 |
| The Hartford | 1 |
| TALCOTT RESOLUTION LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 2 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19238705 | ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE FOR PARALLEL EXEMPT OFFERINGS OF PUBLIC COMPANIES | Four Deuces Ip LLC | GREGG, MARY M | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 | |
| 18859194 | CONTAINER FOR PRESSURIZED LIQUID GAS AND LIQUID LEVEL MEASURING SYSTEM | Rochester Sensors, LLC | HUANG, DAVID Z | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 | |
| 18855021 | Medication packaging | Knapp AG | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18892890 | HAIL HISTORY EVALUATION SYSTEM | Hartford Fire Insurance Company | KAZIMI, HANI M | 3691 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 17949172 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING DATA FLOWS ASSOCIATED WITH AN INTERACTIVE DISPLAY | Talcott Resolution Life Insurance Company | KAZIMI, HANI M | 3691 | §101 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Sep 20, 2022 |
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