Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Laurence & Phillips Ip Law

9 pending office actions • 7 clients • 9 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=506 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

90.5%
Allowance Rate
n=506
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=506
4.1
OAs to Allowance
n=354
+0.28σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=354
1316 days
Time to Allowance
n=354
+2.6pp
Interview Lift
n=506
38.9%
RCE Rate
n=506
7.2%
Appeal Rate
n=506

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

83.6%
§101 Overcome
n=67
84.8%
§102 Overcome
n=164
83.4%
§103 Overcome
n=241
79.2%
§112 Overcome
n=149

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04N, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
28%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=506
4
Practitioners
n=506
126.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=506

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)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.

3
Hard (33%)
4
Medium (44%)
1
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (33%)
§112 only1 (11%)
Double-patenting + other1 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (33%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
67% of docket
3
Business / Other
33% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RODDEN, JOANNE M 1 64.4% +47.1%
CAMPBELL, JOSHUA D 1 65.0% +10.7%
LOUIE, WAE LENNY 1 84.8% +7.7%
DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 1 74.9% +15.1%
DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 1 45.6% +27.2%
LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P 1 34.2% +39.0%
CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 1 64.7% +28.4%
MITCHELL, NATHAN A 1 72.9% +9.9%
NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO 1 69.0% +22.1%

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
19027022 VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH NAVIGATION LOUIE, WAE LENNY

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18232163 PERSONALIZED VOICE RECOGNITION SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AUTOMATIC SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND SERVICE PROVIDING SERVER USED THEREIN DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 42d overdue
17579175 SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR TRACKING GOODS OF A VALUE CHAIN ORIGINATING FROM A LOCATION MITCHELL, NATHAN A 22d
17535821 BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO

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
17988606 BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 81d overdue
18232163 PERSONALIZED VOICE RECOGNITION SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AUTOMATIC SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND SERVICE PROVIDING SERVER USED THEREIN DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 42d overdue
18601921 BONE BIOPSY DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 4d overdue
19272521 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RADIOFREQUENCY NEUROTOMY RODDEN, JOANNE M 56d
19179369 COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING 1-BIT IMAGE DATA FROM MULTIPLE-BIT IMAGE DATA CAMPBELL, JOSHUA D
18106930 BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P
17535821 BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37913
39922
37941
36271
37831

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19272521 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RADIOFREQUENCY NEUROTOMY Stratus Medical, LLC RODDEN, JOANNE M 3794 Other Final Rejection 56d Pending Jul 17, 2025
19179369 COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING 1-BIT IMAGE DATA FROM MULTIPLE-BIT IMAGE DATA Hamillroad Software Limited CAMPBELL, JOSHUA D 3992 DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Apr 15, 2025
19027022 VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH NAVIGATION Value8 Co., Ltd. LOUIE, WAE LENNY §112Other Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2025
18601921 BONE BIOPSY DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS Piper Access, LLC DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2024
18232163 PERSONALIZED VOICE RECOGNITION SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AUTOMATIC SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND SERVICE PROVIDING SERVER USED THEREIN Kaifi, LLC DESAI, RACHNA SINGH 3992 §103§112Other Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2023
18106930 BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS Avia Vascular, LLC LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P 3791 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 07, 2023
17988606 BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS Avia Vascular, LLC CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2022
17579175 SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR TRACKING GOODS OF A VALUE CHAIN ORIGINATING FROM A LOCATION Chektec Pte. Ltd. MITCHELL, NATHAN A 3627 §103§112 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jan 19, 2022
17535821 BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS Avia Vascular, LLC NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO 3783 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 26, 2021

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