Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Ipla P.A.

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

8 pending office actions • 7 clients • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

IPLA P.A. focuses on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and has 1,457 career applications recorded. Its resolved allowance rate is 74.73%, indicating that allowance was achieved in a smaller share of resolved matters than the profile’s non-allowance outcomes.

The firm has 8 pending office actions, showing a limited active workload in the available record. Allowed matters averaged 1.96 office actions, suggesting that matters reaching allowance generally required around two examination responses. Practitioners should distinguish the relatively low response average from the more selective resolved allowance outcome.

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

Quality Metrics (n=1457 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

74.7%
Allowance Rate
n=1457
+0.39σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1457
2.0
OAs to Allowance
n=1050
-0.81σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1050
895 days
Time to Allowance
n=1050
+14.3pp
Interview Lift
n=1457
6.7%
RCE Rate
n=1457
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=1457

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

74.8%
§101 Overcome
n=99
67.4%
§102 Overcome
n=343
71.4%
§103 Overcome
n=671
76.9%
§112 Overcome
n=558

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06Q, Y10T
Top CPC Subclasses
7%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1457
1
Practitioners
n=1457
1457.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1457

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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 (62%)
1
Medium (12%)
2
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§101 + other2 (25%)
§103 only1 (12%)
§112 only2 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
12% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
75% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 1 76.1% +16.6%
BETIT, JACOB F 1 33.7% +16.9%
BENJAMIN GOSLING, ANNA K 1 84.9% +12.9%
TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN 1 81.5% +6.8%
PORTER, JR, GARY A 1 68.9% +25.0%
MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 1 53.7% +75.5%
BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1 34.9% +46.5%
THONG, YEONG JUEN 1 48.8% +53.9%

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
18599504 ANTI-FREEZING PIPE HAVING BUILT-IN TUBE AND HIGH-EFFICIENCY HEAT EXCHANGER USING THE SAME TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN 103d overdue

Hard Cases (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18275643 COMPOSITION CONTAINING BLACK GINSENG AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT FOR PREVENTION, ALLEVIATION, OR TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTION BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 13d
18235346 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MEASUREMENT APPARATUS MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 55d
18829735 RF SIGNAL ABSORPTION MODULE BENJAMIN GOSLING, ANNA K —
18380632 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MEASUREMENT APPARATUS PORTER, JR, GARY A —
18268928 AUTOMATIC WELDING SYSTEM FOR PIPE THONG, YEONG JUEN —

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
18275643 COMPOSITION CONTAINING BLACK GINSENG AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT FOR PREVENTION, ALLEVIATION, OR TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTION BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 13d
18235346 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MEASUREMENT APPARATUS MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 55d
18858411 TORQUE WRENCH CALIBRATION AUTOMATION SYSTEM DUNLAP, JONATHAN M —
18884462 SEISMIC-RESISTANT JOINT STRUCTURE OF PC COLUMN AND PC BEAM USING STEEL BRACKET BETIT, JACOB F —
18829735 RF SIGNAL ABSORPTION MODULE BENJAMIN GOSLING, ANNA K —
18380632 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MEASUREMENT APPARATUS PORTER, JR, GARY A —
18268928 AUTOMATIC WELDING SYSTEM FOR PIPE THONG, YEONG JUEN —

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28551
36331
36481
37631
37961
37941
16551
37611

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18858411 TORQUE WRENCH CALIBRATION AUTOMATION SYSTEM Yu-Shin Kang DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 2855 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 21, 2024
18884462 SEISMIC-RESISTANT JOINT STRUCTURE OF PC COLUMN AND PC BEAM USING STEEL BRACKET Samsung Electronics BETIT, JACOB F 3633 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 13, 2024
18829735 RF SIGNAL ABSORPTION MODULE Rfcore Co.,Ltd. BENJAMIN GOSLING, ANNA K 3648 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 10, 2024
18599504 ANTI-FREEZING PIPE HAVING BUILT-IN TUBE AND HIGH-EFFICIENCY HEAT EXCHANGER USING THE SAME S&H Eng. Co., Ltd. TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 103d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18380632 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MEASUREMENT APPARATUS Hexacheck Co., Ltd. PORTER, JR, GARY A 3796 §101Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 16, 2023
18235346 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MEASUREMENT APPARATUS Hexacheck Co., Ltd. MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC 3794 §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA 55d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18275643 COMPOSITION CONTAINING BLACK GINSENG AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT FOR PREVENTION, ALLEVIATION, OR TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTION Ginseng Bypharm Co., Ltd. BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1655 §101§102 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18268928 AUTOMATIC WELDING SYSTEM FOR PIPE Weldtek Co., Ltd. THONG, YEONG JUEN 3761 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 21, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ipla P.A.'s patent allowance rate?

74.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Ipla P.A. were allowed, across 1,457 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Ipla P.A. average before allowance?

1.96 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Ipla P.A. have?

8 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 7 clients, before 8 examiners in 8 art units.

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