Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

J.C. Patents

27 pending office actions • 7 clients • 27 examiners • 21 art units • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 91 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=6005 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

83.4%
Allowance Rate
n=6005
+0.35σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=6005
2.7
OAs to Allowance
n=4844
-0.42σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=4844
934 days
Time to Allowance
n=4844
+4.0pp
Interview Lift
n=6005
18.1%
RCE Rate
n=6005
0.6%
Appeal Rate
n=6005

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

71.7%
§101 Overcome
n=60
86.3%
§102 Overcome
n=725
81.4%
§103 Overcome
n=2657
94.3%
§112 Overcome
n=470

Specialization & Scale

H01L, G06F, H10D
Top CPC Subclasses
22%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=6005
0
Practitioners
n=6005
Apps / Practitioner
n=6005 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

27
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
11
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
3
Due this week
4
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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.

4
Hard (15%)
20
Medium (74%)
2
Easy (7%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (15%)
§103 only17 (63%)
§102 only3 (11%)
§112 only2 (7%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
7% of docket
4
Information Tech
15% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
13
Semiconductors
48% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
15% of docket
4
Business / Other
15% 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.

270 h
Manual time on pending OAs
54 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
94 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AN, IG TAI 1 56.4% +25.0%
LEE, MICHAEL S 1 63.4% +21.0%
BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M 1 81.3% +13.6%
HAN, JONATHAN 1 83.6% +9.7%
SLOMS, NICHOLAS 1 68.3% +10.2%
HARRISTON, WILLIAM A 1 89.4% +8.2%
SUNG, GERALD LUTHER 1 79.7% +28.5%
WEI, ZENGPU 1 71.0% +54.2%
RUTTEN, JAMES D 1 63.2% +37.7%
AHMAD, KHAJA 1 80.9% +26.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18762177 ELECTRONIC DEVICE BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M 40d
18636275 MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME HAN, JONATHAN
18471292 CAPACITOR STRUCTURE AHMAD, KHAJA

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17678998 Multi-time Scale Model Predictive Control of Wastewater Treatment Process SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM 99d overdue
18538863 NETWORK DEVICE WEI, ZENGPU 42d overdue
18972786 Method for constructing episodic memory model based on rat brain visual pathway and entorhinal-hippocampal cognitive mechanism AN, IG TAI 5d overdue
17676692 Intelligent Detection System of Effluent Total Nitrogen based on Fuzzy Transfer Learning Algorithm BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN 3d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18538863 NETWORK DEVICE WEI, ZENGPU 42d overdue
18824357 BUCKLE ASSEMBLY LEE, MICHAEL S 26d overdue
18972786 Method for constructing episodic memory model based on rat brain visual pathway and entorhinal-hippocampal cognitive mechanism AN, IG TAI 5d overdue
18411481 WATER-COOLING STRUCTURE SUNG, GERALD LUTHER 14d
18617884 MULTI-NODE SERVER NETWORK SYSTEM SLOMS, NICHOLAS 28d
18762177 ELECTRONIC DEVICE BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M 40d
18523498 MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND MODEL TRAINING APPARATUS RUTTEN, JAMES D
18471292 CAPACITOR STRUCTURE AHMAD, KHAJA

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28993
36621
36771
28451
24761
37411
21971
28131
28961
28121

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18972786 Method for constructing episodic memory model based on rat brain visual pathway and entorhinal-hippocampal cognitive mechanism BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AN, IG TAI 3662 §101 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2024
18824357 BUCKLE ASSEMBLY Pegatron Corporation LEE, MICHAEL S 3677 §102 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Sep 04, 2024
18762177 ELECTRONIC DEVICE Pegatron Corporation BOUIZZA, MICHAEL M 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Jul 02, 2024
18636275 MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME Macronix International Co., Ltd. HAN, JONATHAN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 16, 2024
18617884 MULTI-NODE SERVER NETWORK SYSTEM Asrock Rack Incorporation SLOMS, NICHOLAS 2476 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 27, 2024
18582676 MEMORY DEVICE Macronix International Co., Ltd. HARRISTON, WILLIAM A 2899 Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 21, 2024
18411481 WATER-COOLING STRUCTURE Pegatron Corporation SUNG, GERALD LUTHER 3741 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jan 12, 2024
18538863 NETWORK DEVICE Pegatron Corporation WEI, ZENGPU 2197 §101 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2023
18523498 MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND MODEL TRAINING APPARATUS Pegatron Corporation RUTTEN, JAMES D §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 29, 2023
18471292 CAPACITOR STRUCTURE Macronix International Co., Ltd. AHMAD, KHAJA 2813 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 21, 2023
18471295 MEMORY DEVICE Macronix International Co., Ltd. COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 2896 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 21, 2023
18466820 MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME Macronix International Co., Ltd. NIELSEN, DEREK LANG 2899 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18465166 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF TUNGSTEN LAYER Macronix International Co., Ltd. SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN 2812 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2023
18464262 MULTI-CIRCUIT CONTROL SYSTEM AND READING METHOD FOR STATUS INFORMATION THEREOF Macronix International Co., Ltd. NGUYEN, VAN THU T 2824 §112 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Sep 11, 2023
18457963 POWER SYSTEM Pegatron Corporation MIKELS, MATTHEW §102 Final Rejection Pending Aug 29, 2023
18327860 ELECTRONIC DEVICE Pegatron Corporation TANINGCO, ALEXANDER H 2844 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 01, 2023
18324772 CHASSIS FOR INSTALLING MULTIPLE COMPUTING ELEMENTS Pegatron Corporation CRUM, GAGE STEPHEN 2841 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending May 26, 2023
18312207 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME Macronix International Co., Ltd. MOVVA, AMAR 2898 §102 Final Rejection 7d Pending May 04, 2023
18136812 DYNAMIC MULTI-OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-BASED OPTIMAL CONTROL METHOD FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY GIRI, PURSOTTAM §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 19, 2023
18177138 MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME Macronix International Co., Ltd. RONO, VINCENT KIPKEMOI 2891 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 02, 2023
18116242 SALINE ELECTRODE CAP FOR LONG-TERM ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH MONITORING AND LONG-TERM ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH MONITORING METHOD Qingdao Tenocom Medical Technology Co., Ltd. BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2023
18164623 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE FOR 3D MEMORY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF Macronix International Co., Ltd. SALAZ, SAMMANTHA KATELYN 2892 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 06, 2023
18162718 SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE FOR 3D MEMORY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF Macronix International Co., Ltd. ANGUIANO, MICHAEL 2899 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2023
17838113 IDL6 MATURE POLYPEPTIDE PLANT AGING PROMOTER, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF Tobacco Research Institute Of Chinese Academy Of Agricultural Sciences HELLMAN, KRISTINA M 1654 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 10, 2022
17684380 RECHARGEABLE BATTERY ENDURANCE ENHANCING DEVICE Chyurn Shan International Co., Ltd. LEE, JOHN 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 107d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2022
17678998 Multi-time Scale Model Predictive Control of Wastewater Treatment Process BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM 2187 §101 Non-Final OA 99d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2022
17676692 Intelligent Detection System of Effluent Total Nitrogen based on Fuzzy Transfer Learning Algorithm BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN 2125 §101 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Feb 21, 2022

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