Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Law Office Of Paul B. Johnson

5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=186 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.6%
Allowance Rate
n=186
+0.64σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=186
2.5
OAs to Allowance
n=92
-0.53σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=92
809 days
Time to Allowance
n=92
+13.3pp
Interview Lift
n=186
15.2%
RCE Rate
n=186
8.3%
Appeal Rate
n=186

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=2 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=8 (min 20)
69.6%
§103 Overcome
n=56
90.5%
§112 Overcome
n=21

Specialization & Scale

G06F, A44C, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
14%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=186
1
Practitioners
n=186
186.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=186

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§102 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KRYCINSKI, STANTON L 1 68.2% +28.2%
JOHNSON, BENJAMIN W 1 62.0% +45.0%
MANOS, SEFRA DESPINA 1 50.0% +41.7%
KURPLE, KARL 1 51.7% +63.8%
AYALA, FERNANDO A 1 53.3% +26.6%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18274921 MULTI-SENSOR WEARABLE PATCH MANOS, SEFRA DESPINA 125d overdue
18324499 Applicator Devices and Related Methods KURPLE, KARL 15d
18897815 Photovoltaic Shade Structures and Related Methods and Assemblies KRYCINSKI, STANTON L 26d
18676898 Candles and Related Components and Methods JOHNSON, BENJAMIN W
18182265 Saw Stop and Measurement Systems and Related Methods AYALA, FERNANDO A

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36311
37921
17171
37241

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18897815 Photovoltaic Shade Structures and Related Methods and Assemblies Genesis Pergolas LLC KRYCINSKI, STANTON L 3631 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Sep 26, 2024
18676898 Candles and Related Components and Methods Firefly Innovations LLC JOHNSON, BENJAMIN W §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 29, 2024
18274921 MULTI-SENSOR WEARABLE PATCH Biotricity Inc. MANOS, SEFRA DESPINA 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 125d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18324499 Applicator Devices and Related Methods Ultimate Hawk Systems LLC KURPLE, KARL 1717 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending May 26, 2023
18182265 Saw Stop and Measurement Systems and Related Methods Integrity LLC AYALA, FERNANDO A 3724 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 10, 2023

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