Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Kim And Lahey Law Firm, LLC

12 pending office actions • 10 clients • 12 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=555 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.2%
Allowance Rate
n=555
+0.46σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=555
2.4
OAs to Allowance
n=306
-0.51σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=306
839 days
Time to Allowance
n=306
+6.5pp
Interview Lift
n=555
14.2%
RCE Rate
n=555
0.4%
Appeal Rate
n=555

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=9 (min 20)
71.8%
§102 Overcome
n=39
71.7%
§103 Overcome
n=184
85.7%
§112 Overcome
n=56

Specialization & Scale

G06Q, B64B, F41A
Top CPC Subclasses
14%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=555
0
Practitioners
n=555
Apps / Practitioner
n=555 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

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 (17%)
8
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (8%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (17%)
§103 only6 (50%)
§102 only2 (17%)
§112 only1 (8%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
8% of docket
1
Information Tech
8% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
67% of docket
1
Business / Other
8% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FREEDMAN, LAURA 1 87.1% +1.3%
CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE 1 69.5% +18.6%
KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE 1 26.5% +30.9%
GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S 1 66.9% +29.2%
SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY 1 28.5% +30.9%
GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A 1 22.3% +23.8%
URBIEL GOLDNER, GARY D 1 73.5% +60.9%
EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD 1 42.7% +32.5%
NANO, SARGON N 1 80.7% -1.7%
SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 1 64.4% +26.2%

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
19171289 VEHICLE POWER TAKE OFF SYSTEM FREEDMAN, LAURA 16d overdue

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
18362891 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR TEMPORAL, VOLUME, AND VELOCITY ANALYSIS OF AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM NANO, SARGON N 30d overdue
18816833 Rolling Feedback System For Financial And Risk Analysis Using Disparate Data Sources SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY 14d
19016776 SYSTEM FOR UNIFIED HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE DATA INTEGRATION KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE
18777262 METHOD OF MUSIC INSTRUCTION GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A

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
18765693 VARIABLE LOAD BILATERAL DEADLIFT MACHINE URBIEL GOLDNER, GARY D 51d overdue
18816833 Rolling Feedback System For Financial And Risk Analysis Using Disparate Data Sources SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY 14d
18667276 PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL TASK SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE SYSTEM EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD 14d
18318345 ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM GENERATION SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 28d
19032389 AMBIDEXTROUS INTEGRATED BOLT AND MAGAZINE RELEASE SYSTEM FOR FIREARMS CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE
19016776 SYSTEM FOR UNIFIED HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE DATA INTEGRATION KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE
19012763 MODULAR FIREARM HANDGUARD WITH INTEGRATED MOUNTING SYSTEM GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S
18777262 METHOD OF MUSIC INSTRUCTION GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A

Client Portfolio (10 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36412
36141
36871
36911
37841
37151
24431
28721
37621
17621

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19171289 VEHICLE POWER TAKE OFF SYSTEM Cf Usa LLC FREEDMAN, LAURA 3614 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 06, 2025
19032389 AMBIDEXTROUS INTEGRATED BOLT AND MAGAZINE RELEASE SYSTEM FOR FIREARMS Daniel Defense, LLC CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE 3641 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 20, 2025
19016776 SYSTEM FOR UNIFIED HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE DATA INTEGRATION United States Performance Center, LLC KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE 3687 Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 10, 2025
19012763 MODULAR FIREARM HANDGUARD WITH INTEGRATED MOUNTING SYSTEM Daniel Defense, LLC GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S 3641 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 07, 2025
18816833 Rolling Feedback System For Financial And Risk Analysis Using Disparate Data Sources Fp Alpha, Inc. SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY 3691 §101 Final Rejection 14d Pending Aug 27, 2024
18777262 METHOD OF MUSIC INSTRUCTION Music Academy Success, LLC GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2024
18765693 VARIABLE LOAD BILATERAL DEADLIFT MACHINE United States Performance Center, LLC URBIEL GOLDNER, GARY D 3784 §112 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2024
18667276 PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL TASK SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE SYSTEM New Forge Tech Inc. EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD 3715 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 17, 2024
18362891 COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR TEMPORAL, VOLUME, AND VELOCITY ANALYSIS OF AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Virtual Connect Technologies, Inc. NANO, SARGON N 2443 §101 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18318345 ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM GENERATION Clemson University Research Foundation SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 2872 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending May 16, 2023
18159326 DEHUMIDIFYING HAIR DRYER Rearden Creative, LLC MCCORMACK, JOHN PATRICK 3762 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 25, 2023
17606219 RAPID GEL POLYMERIC COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS 3V Sigma Usa Inc. AMATO, ELIZABETH KATHRYN 1762 §102 Final Rejection 113d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2021

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