Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Ipkey Pllc

Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

6 pending office actions • 3 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

IPkey PLLC handles Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and has 170 career applications recorded. Its resolved allowance rate is 94.39%, indicating a high proportion of resolved matters reaching allowance.

The firm has 7 pending office actions, representing a limited active examination docket. The average of 1.88 office actions per allowance suggests that allowed matters generally required fewer than two responses. For practitioners, the profile connects favorable resolved outcomes with a relatively contained response burden in this technology area.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=170 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

94.4%
Allowance Rate
n=170
+0.43σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=170
1.9
OAs to Allowance
n=101
-1.07σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=101
677 days
Time to Allowance
n=101
+4.6pp
Interview Lift
n=170
15.0%
RCE Rate
n=170
1.6%
Appeal Rate
n=170

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=8 (min 20)
75.0%
§102 Overcome
n=32
72.6%
§103 Overcome
n=51
76.5%
§112 Overcome
n=34

Specialization & Scale

G06T, B25J, B23K
Top CPC Subclasses
31%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=170
2
Practitioners
n=170
85.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=170

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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.

2
Hard (33%)
4
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (67%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
17% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
83% 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
LAROSE, RENEE MARIE 1 79.0% +9.6%
HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE 1 46.9% +30.6%
BELAY, DILNESSA B 1 62.6% +24.9%
KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE 1 31.8% +23.7%
LAZO, THOMAS E 1 86.8% +8.9%
STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM 1 61.5% -7.1%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19005504 GEOMETRIC PUZZLE HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE 3d overdue
18347711 LOCAL SENSOR UNITS FOR MANUFACTURING CELLS LAZO, THOMAS E —

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19005504 GEOMETRIC PUZZLE HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE 3d overdue
18419428 SCAN PLANNING AND SCAN OPERATIONS FOR WELDING AN OBJECT BELAY, DILNESSA B —
18560634 PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SYNTHETIC HYDROCARBONS FROM BIOMASS KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE —

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36561
37111
37611
16921
37451
36581

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19252489 MACHINE LEARNING LOGIC-BASED ADJUSTMENT TECHNIQUES FOR ROBOTS Path Robotics, Inc. LAROSE, RENEE MARIE 3656 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 27, 2025
19005504 GEOMETRIC PUZZLE Andreas Hoenigschmid HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE 3711 §103§112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2024
18419428 SCAN PLANNING AND SCAN OPERATIONS FOR WELDING AN OBJECT Path Robotics, Inc. BELAY, DILNESSA B 3761 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2024
18560634 PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SYNTHETIC HYDROCARBONS FROM BIOMASS Atomic Energy Of Canada Limited KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE 1692 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 13, 2023
18347711 LOCAL SENSOR UNITS FOR MANUFACTURING CELLS Path Robotics, Inc. LAZO, THOMAS E 3745 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 06, 2023
18179796 TOOL CALIBRATION FOR MANUFACTURING ROBOTS Path Robotics, Inc. STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM 3658 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending Mar 07, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ipkey Pllc's patent allowance rate?

94.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Ipkey Pllc were allowed, across 170 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Ipkey Pllc average before allowance?

1.88 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Ipkey Pllc have?

6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 3 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.

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