Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Imperium Patent Works

6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=2117 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

90.4%
Allowance Rate
n=2117
+0.47σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=2117
3.1
OAs to Allowance
n=1597
-0.12σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1597
1036 days
Time to Allowance
n=1597
-1.8pp
Interview Lift
n=2117
22.8%
RCE Rate
n=2117
5.6%
Appeal Rate
n=2117

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

92.7%
§101 Overcome
n=41
82.6%
§102 Overcome
n=178
81.6%
§103 Overcome
n=1113
95.8%
§112 Overcome
n=119

Specialization & Scale

H04W, H04L, H04B
Top CPC Subclasses
49%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=2117
2
Practitioners
n=2117
1058.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=2117

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (17%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
33% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L 1 74.3% +14.6%
MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 1 57.0% +45.5%
FISK, KATHLEEN M 1 63.1% +46.0%
LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI 1 65.1% +30.7%
MYERS, CARLA J 1 48.8% +46.8%
CHEN, ALAN S 1 91.1% +6.3%

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
17510254 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-BASED MULTI-LEVEL PERSUASIVE REFERENCE FOR INDEPENDENT INSURANCE SALES AGENT CHEN, ALAN S 27d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18506985 EXERCISE BACKREST ALLOWING FOR INCREASED RANGE OF MOTION FISK, KATHLEEN M 44d overdue
18986722 Compressor Device and a Cooling Device Having the Compressor Device PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L 11d overdue
18153981 Wearable Heartbeat and Breathing Waveform Continuous Monitoring System LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI 5d overdue
18922732 DEVICE AND METHODS FOR ARTICULATING SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS WITH BALANCED HORIZONTAL SCISSOR CANTILEVER BEAMS MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 12d
17576865 Method of Determining a Quantitative Fingerprint of a Subset of Bacteria in a Person's Gastrointestinal Microbiome MYERS, CARLA J

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37461
17261
37841
37961
16821
21251

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18986722 Compressor Device and a Cooling Device Having the Compressor Device Pressure Wave Systems GmbH PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2024
18922732 DEVICE AND METHODS FOR ARTICULATING SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS WITH BALANCED HORIZONTAL SCISSOR CANTILEVER BEAMS Southern Beams Builds, Inc. MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 1726 Other Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 22, 2024
18506985 EXERCISE BACKREST ALLOWING FOR INCREASED RANGE OF MOTION Jon Holsbach Fitness - Mechanical By Nature LLC FISK, KATHLEEN M 3784 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
18153981 Wearable Heartbeat and Breathing Waveform Continuous Monitoring System Bayland Scientific LLC LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI 3796 §102 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2023
17576865 Method of Determining a Quantitative Fingerprint of a Subset of Bacteria in a Person's Gastrointestinal Microbiome Mbiomics GmbH MYERS, CARLA J 1682 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 14, 2022
17510254 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-BASED MULTI-LEVEL PERSUASIVE REFERENCE FOR INDEPENDENT INSURANCE SALES AGENT Lucas Gc Limited CHEN, ALAN S 2125 §112 Final Rejection 27d Pending Oct 25, 2021

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