Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Klarquist Sparkman, LLP (Osu)

6 pending office actions • 2 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=107478 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

93.1%
Allowance Rate
n=107478
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=107478
3.3
OAs to Allowance
n=68401
-0.19σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=68401
1031 days
Time to Allowance
n=68401
+3.7pp
Interview Lift
n=107478
29.5%
RCE Rate
n=107478
3.1%
Appeal Rate
n=107478

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

89.8%
§101 Overcome
n=2227
90.3%
§102 Overcome
n=9037
87.5%
§103 Overcome
n=40558
93.9%
§112 Overcome
n=6449

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04W, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
28%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=107478
62
Practitioners
n=107478
1733.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=107478

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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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
SAMPLE, DAVID R 1 79.8% +10.1%
ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D 1 53.5% +3.3%
XU, QING 1 50.7% +54.7%
BRIDGES, DONAVAN LEE 1
CHU, JOHN S Y 1 77.1% +5.6%
MACH, ANDRE 1 45.9% +53.2%

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
18503854 BIOREMEDIATION USING CO-METABOLISM SUBSTRATES XU, QING 128d overdue
17259535 NON-PESTICIDAL ATTRACT AND KILL COMPOSITION FOR CONTROL OF INSECTS MACH, ANDRE 36d overdue
19049891 SOLUTION DEPOSITION OF METAL SALTS TO FORM METAL OXIDES SAMPLE, DAVID R

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17121
28341
16561
17581
17371
16151

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19049891 SOLUTION DEPOSITION OF METAL SALTS TO FORM METAL OXIDES Oregon State University SAMPLE, DAVID R 1712 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 10, 2025
18844373 RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL CORRELATOR UTILIZING PARAMETRIC PUMPING OF SPIN WAVES Oregon State University ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D 2834 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 05, 2024
18503854 BIOREMEDIATION USING CO-METABOLISM SUBSTRATES North Carolina State University XU, QING 1656 §103 Final Rejection 128d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2023
18448091 DEVICE FOR MODULAR CONTROL OF MICROENVIROMENT FOR CELL MIGRATION AND CULTURE ASSAY AND METHOD FOR ITS USE Oregon State University BRIDGES, DONAVAN LEE 1758 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 10, 2023
17802083 TIN-BASED PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF MAKING Oregon State University CHU, JOHN S Y 1737 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 24, 2022
17259535 NON-PESTICIDAL ATTRACT AND KILL COMPOSITION FOR CONTROL OF INSECTS Oregon State University MACH, ANDRE 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2021

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