Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Kwan & Olynick LLP

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

21 pending office actions • 10 clients • 20 examiners • 18 art units • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Kwan & Olynick LLP focuses on Computing & Software and has 1,247 career applications associated with the profile. It currently records 20 pending office actions. The resolved allowance rate is 88.03%, showing that allowance is the recorded result for a substantial share of resolved matters.

The average of 4.07 office actions per allowance indicates the amount of office-action activity associated with allowed matters. The two measures support different questions for prosecution planning: the allowance rate addresses resolved outcomes, while the action average describes process intensity. The pending docket also identifies work requiring attention, and the application total provides the historical scale needed to place these indicators in context.

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

Quality Metrics (n=1247 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.0%
Allowance Rate
n=1247
+0.65σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1247
4.1
OAs to Allowance
n=787
+0.04σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=787
957 days
Time to Allowance
n=787
+13.5pp
Interview Lift
n=1247
32.7%
RCE Rate
n=1247
0.4%
Appeal Rate
n=1247

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

80.8%
§101 Overcome
n=286
82.1%
§102 Overcome
n=307
84.6%
§103 Overcome
n=619
84.0%
§112 Overcome
n=376

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06Q, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
33%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1247
4
Practitioners
n=1247
311.8
Apps / Practitioner
n=1247

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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
2
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

8
Hard (38%)
11
Medium (52%)
1
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (5%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (14%)
§103 only8 (38%)
§102 only2 (10%)
Double-patenting only1 (5%)
Double-patenting + other1 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (24%)
No statute on record1 (5%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
5% of docket
10
Information Tech
48% of docket
3
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER 2 48.6% +39.3%
FOROUHARNEJAD, FAEZEH 1 66.4% +25.7%
BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. 1 68.1% +11.7%
DEERY, ERIN LEAH 1 58.4% +48.7%
JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 1 74.1% +15.8%
BAKER, LORI LYNN 1 78.6% +6.6%
CELANI, NICHOLAS P 1 46.1% +41.2%
ANDERSON, MICHAEL D 1 80.1% +15.1%
MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 1 19.0% +23.2%
NGUYEN, NYCA T 1 67.4% +24.8%

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
19013917 DYNAMIC RISK PROFILING USING DIMENSIONAL RISK FACTORS IN VENDOR-CLIENT DATA SECURITY ANDERSON, MICHAEL D —

Hard Cases (9)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18748078 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VECTOR RETRIEVAL, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BLACK, LINH 5d overdue
18983968 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TARGET BUSINESS MODEL GENERATION AND DATA PROCESSING BASED ON LARGE MODEL MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 9d
17662177 HALOTHERAPY MODULE ASSOCIATED WITH SAUNAS PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER 40d
18247038 DETECTION SYSTEM FOR DETECTING BIOLOGICAL FLUID SAMPLE WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R 49d
19090208 SEGMENTING TRANSCRIPTS INTO NATURALISTIC CONVERSATIONAL TURNS JACKSON, JAKIEDA R —
19067595 ENTERPRISE DATA PRIVACY FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GENERATIVE OPERATIONS CELANI, NICHOLAS P —
18969113 REFLEXIVE TRAINING APPARATUS NGUYEN, NYCA T —
18745529 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING QUESTION SOLVING MODEL, QUESTION SOLVING METHOD AND APPARATUS ACOSTA, RILEY SULLIVAN —

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18983968 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TARGET BUSINESS MODEL GENERATION AND DATA PROCESSING BASED ON LARGE MODEL MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 9d
17662177 HALOTHERAPY MODULE ASSOCIATED WITH SAUNAS PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER 40d
19314730 IT GENERATIVE OPERATIONS QUERY ANALYSIS AND DECONSTRUCTION FOROUHARNEJAD, FAEZEH —
19242716 METHOD FOR DATA PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. —
19172252 NARROWBAND ULTRAVIOLET SAUNA DEERY, ERIN LEAH —
19090208 SEGMENTING TRANSCRIPTS INTO NATURALISTIC CONVERSATIONAL TURNS JACKSON, JAKIEDA R —
19067595 ENTERPRISE DATA PRIVACY FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GENERATIVE OPERATIONS CELANI, NICHOLAS P —
19013917 DYNAMIC RISK PROFILING USING DIMENSIONAL RISK FACTORS IN VENDOR-CLIENT DATA SECURITY ANDERSON, MICHAEL D —

Client Portfolio (10 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37544
21661
21841
26571
24491
24331
36241
37841
21681
21631

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19314730 IT GENERATIVE OPERATIONS QUERY ANALYSIS AND DECONSTRUCTION Neubird Inc. FOROUHARNEJAD, FAEZEH 2166 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 29, 2025
19242716 METHOD FOR DATA PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. 2184 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 18, 2025
19172252 NARROWBAND ULTRAVIOLET SAUNA Sauna Works Inc. (Aka Far Infrared Sauna Technology Co.) DEERY, ERIN LEAH 3754 §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 07, 2025
19090208 SEGMENTING TRANSCRIPTS INTO NATURALISTIC CONVERSATIONAL TURNS Betterup, Inc. JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 2657 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 25, 2025
19090368 MODULAR BIDET ATTACHMENT Asset Inc. BAKER, LORI LYNN 3754 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 25, 2025
19067595 ENTERPRISE DATA PRIVACY FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GENERATIVE OPERATIONS Neubird Inc. CELANI, NICHOLAS P 2449 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 28, 2025
19013917 DYNAMIC RISK PROFILING USING DIMENSIONAL RISK FACTORS IN VENDOR-CLIENT DATA SECURITY Valente Sherman, Inc. ANDERSON, MICHAEL D 2433 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 08, 2025
18983968 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TARGET BUSINESS MODEL GENERATION AND DATA PROCESSING BASED ON LARGE MODEL BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD. MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 3624 §102 Final Rejection 9d Pending Dec 17, 2024
18969113 REFLEXIVE TRAINING APPARATUS Rollbott LLC NGUYEN, NYCA T 3784 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 04, 2024
18901831 HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. HICKS, SHIRLEY D. 2168 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 30, 2024
18748078 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VECTOR RETRIEVAL, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. BLACK, LINH 2163 §101§103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jun 19, 2024
18745550 GENERATIVE DIALOG MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS AS WELL AS GENERATIVE DIALOG IMPLEMENTING METHOD AND APPARATUS BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER 2654 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 17, 2024
18745529 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING QUESTION SOLVING MODEL, QUESTION SOLVING METHOD AND APPARATUS BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. ACOSTA, RILEY SULLIVAN 2143 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 17, 2024
18744501 TRAINING SAMPLE ACQUIRING METHOD AND APPARATUS AS WELL AS LARGE MODEL OPTIMIZATION TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. WONG, LUT 2127 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 14, 2024
18667504 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MODEL GENERATION RESULT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. COLUCCI, MICHAEL C 2655 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 17, 2024
18458822 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REDUCING HEATER Sauna Works Inc. (Aka Far Infrared Sauna Technology Co.) VAN, QUANG T 3761 Other Final Rejection — Pending Aug 30, 2023
18247038 DETECTION SYSTEM FOR DETECTING BIOLOGICAL FLUID SAMPLE Bioaces (Shanghai) Life Science Co., Ltd. WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R 1798 §103§112 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Mar 29, 2023
18158355 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR IMPLEMENTING SECURITY PLATFORMS Grayheller, LLC (Dba) Appsian DHAKAD, RUPALI 2437 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 23, 2023
18155685 HALOTHERAPY MODULE ASSOCIATED WITH SAUNAS Sauna Works Inc. (Aka Far Infrared Sauna Technology Co. ) PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER 3754 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 17, 2023
17662177 HALOTHERAPY MODULE ASSOCIATED WITH SAUNAS Sauna Works Inc. (Aka Far Infrared Sauna Technology Co.) PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER 3754 §103§112 Final Rejection 40d Pending May 05, 2022
16414732 ENHANCED MECHANISMS FOR PREDICTIVE ESTIMATION IN AN ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT Planisware SAS SAMARA, HUSAM TURKI 2161 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 16, 2019

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Kwan & Olynick LLP's patent allowance rate?

88.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Kwan & Olynick LLP were allowed, across 1,247 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Kwan & Olynick LLP average before allowance?

4.07 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Kwan & Olynick LLP have?

21 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 10 clients, before 20 examiners in 18 art units.

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