Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
277 pending office actions • 125 clients • 262 examiners • 146 art units • 0 of 277 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
LEE & HAYES, P.C. manages a portfolio in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems with 11093 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 81.85 percent for applications that reach a final resolution. Achieving these results involves an average of 4.13 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm has 236 pending office actions to address.
The 11093 career applications and 81.85 percent allowance rate reflect the firm's practice in its primary technology area. The 4.13 average office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for expected examiner interaction during the patent acquisition process. These figures offer a data-grounded view of the firm's historical performance and current workload for practitioners evaluating the firm's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems experience.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 95 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 95 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 16 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 50 (18%) |
| §103 only | 86 (31%) |
| §102 only | 11 (4%) |
| §112 only | 12 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 8 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 24 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 70 (25%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLMES, REX R | 4 | 80.1% | +17.9% |
| GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 3 | 64.0% | +43.3% |
| RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 2 | 76.5% | +12.7% |
| GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 2 | 43.0% | +51.4% |
| CUNNINGCHEN, KATHLEEN MARY | 2 | 61.1% | +62.5% |
| JUSTICE, GINA CHIEUN YU | 2 | 55.6% | +8.5% |
| WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 2 | 82.6% | +22.6% |
| BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 2 | 26.7% | +57.1% |
| NGUYEN, QUANG | 2 | 37.9% | +52.7% |
| BAHL, SANGEETA | 2 | 20.8% | +20.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18611609 | PATIENT MONITORING AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLMES, REX R | 30d |
| 18443910 | LAWN MOWER | WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 46d |
| 18935409 | LIGHT-BASED NON-INVASIVE BLOOD PRESSURE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLMES, REX R | — |
| 18882630 | REDUCING ELECTROCARDIOGRAM ARTIFACTS DURING AND POST CPR | HOLMES, REX R | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17624764 | METHODS FOR DIAGNOSING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS | SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN | 341d overdue |
| 18318102 | WAREHOUSE SYSTEM FOR ASSET TRACKING AND LOAD SCHEDULING | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 189d overdue |
| 17184169 | SIMULATED AGENTS BASED ON DRIVING LOG DATA | KIM, EUNHEE | 119d overdue |
| 18052335 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY ADMINISTRATION | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 70d overdue |
| 18401341 | GENERATING EVENTS BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA | LABOGIN, DORETHEA L | 66d overdue |
| 17704980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 53d overdue |
| 18458108 | EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS VACCINES | WANG, RUIXUE | 49d overdue |
| 18595066 | BI-DIRECTIONAL FISH PASS HELIX | SINGH, SUNIL | 46d overdue |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18104158 | INTELLIGENTLY MANAGING MULTIPLE CALENDAR BOOKINGS VIA A GROUP-BASED COMMUNICAITON PLATFORM | BOROWSKI, MICHAEL | 25d overdue |
| 18173485 | METHODS FOR ENHANCING ANTI-TUMOR ACTIVITY OF EXHAUSTED T CELLS | NGUYEN, QUANG | 2d overdue |
| 18072195 | CHANNEL RECOMMENDATIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING | BAHL, SANGEETA | 14d |
| 18427536 | AUTOMATIC LAWN MOWER | WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 21d |
| 18611609 | PATIENT MONITORING AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HOLMES, REX R | 30d |
| 18443910 | LAWN MOWER | WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 46d |
| 18128573 | Product Object Processing Method, Apparatus and Electronic Device | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 54d |
| 19260023 | DECODER-SIDE CHROMA INTRA PREDICTION MODE GRADIENT-BASED DERIVATION | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 6 |
| 3666 | 5 |
| 3624 | 5 |
| 3629 | 4 |
| 3797 | 4 |
| 3685 | 4 |
| 3628 | 4 |
| 3626 | 4 |
| 3661 | 3 |
| 3663 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19432853 | Generation and Real-time Ranking of Customized Quotes | Arkestro Inc. | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2025 |
| 19348225 | INTELLIGENT VEHICLE PULL OVER | Zoox, Inc. | DEL VALLE, LUIS GERARDO | 3666 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2025 |
| 19156517 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING NAVICULAR DROP MEASUREMENTS | Xrpro, LLC | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19298598 | TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION IN MULTI-AGENT ENVIRONMENTS | Zoox, Inc. | CODUROGLU, JALAL C | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 | |
| 19277179 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VERIFYING AND CERTIFYING MOBILE AI BASED ON MICRO AGENT | Piamond Corp. | HENNING, MATTHEW T | 2491 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19266528 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ON-DEVICE REAL-TIME ACCESS AND REVIEW OF EVENTS DURING A PATIENT TREATMENT EPISODE | Physio-Control, Inc. | NGUYEN, TRAN N | 3685 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19260023 | DECODER-SIDE CHROMA INTRA PREDICTION MODE GRADIENT-BASED DERIVATION | Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd. | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 | |
| 19256360 | COLLABORATIVE GUIDANCE FOR VEHICLE INTERACTIONS | Zoox, Inc. | HATCH, DAVID P | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 | |
| 19253387 | METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING A WORKING BOUNDARY OF AN OPERATING EQUIPMENT | Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. | MIRZA, ADNAN M | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 | |
| 19253010 | ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED GENE AND DRUG DELIVERY | Seattle Children’S Hospital D/B/A Seattle Children’S Research Institute | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 | |
| 19253605 | SENSOR FUSION FOR OBJECT DETECTION | Zoox, Inc. | SWEENEY, BRIAN P | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 | |
| 19230182 | CONNECTOR FOR MEDICAL EQUIPMENT | Welch Allyn, Inc. | DUNWOODY, AARON M | 3679 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19224603 | PRODUCTION TOOLS FOR COLLABORATIVE VIDEOS | Salesforce, Inc. | COONEY, ADAM A | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 | |
| 19217607 | VECTOR-BASED GENE THERAPY FOR ELONGATOR ACETYLTRANSFERASE COMPLEX SUBUNIT 1 (ELP1) | UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | SALVOZA, M FRANCO G | 1672 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19215510 | SEARCH SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION | Kayak Software Corporation | ELIAS, EARL L | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 | |
| 19174575 | REMOTE VEHICLE BATTERY DISCONNECT SYSTEM | Safelot Ltd. | AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19171619 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE OPERATIONS RELATED TO DETECTION OF AN UNSAFE PASSENGER PICKUP/DELIVERY CONDITION | Zoox, Inc. | DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19170923 | REMOTE VEHICLE GUIDANCE | Zoox, Inc. | DAVIS, JERROD I | 3661 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19096546 | PROGRESSIVE GENERATIVE FACE VIDEO COMPRESSION WITH BANDWIDTH INTELLIGENCE | Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd. | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 2426 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19087351 | VIRTUAL TRYOUT EFFECT PRESENTATION METHOD FOR COMMODITY, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Hangzhou Alibaba International Internet Industry Co., Ltd. | LE, MICHAEL | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 | |
| 19084479 | GRIDEYE SENSOR | Key Tronic Corporation | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19084196 | AUTOMATED BOT BLOCKING | Kayak Software Corporation | AHSAN, SYED M | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 | |
| 19084355 | GRIDEYE SENSOR | Key Tronic Corporation | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19084417 | GRIDEYE SENSOR | Key Tronic Corporation | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19076404 | USING MAPS COMPRISING COVARIANCES IN MULTI-RESOLUTION VOXELS | Zoox, Inc. | SAJOUS, WESNER | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 | |
| 19075097 | AUTOMATED CHICKEN SORTING CONVEYOR BELT | Hatchery Planning, Inc. | DEUBLE, MARK A | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| 19071394 | IN-PATH OBSTACLE DETECTION AND AVOIDANCE SYSTEM | Zoox, Inc. | LANG, MICHAEL DEAN | 3667 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19066499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MULTI-RESOLUTION VOXEL SPACES | Zoox, Inc. | ALHARBI, ADAM MOHAMED | 3663 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19054610 | SEAMLESS COMMUNICATION RESOURCE TRANSITION BETWEEN A GROUP-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND AN EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | Salesforce, Inc. | JOO, JOSHUA | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 | |
| 19047447 | AUTOMATIC MOWER, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING AND CONTROLLING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. | CULLEN, TANNER L | 3656 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19101010 | SYSTEM FOR YARD CHECK-IN AND CHECK-OUT | Koireader Technologies, Inc. | WILDER, ANDREW H | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 | |
| 19041846 | Textured Barrier Substrate | The Ipe Clip Fastener Company, Inc. | RUMMEL, IAN A | 1785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19038915 | AUTOMATED RISK ASSESSMENT FOR DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS AND PULMONARY EMBOLISM USING RETINAL IMAGES | Welch Allyn, Inc. | GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 | |
| 19030492 | AUTONOMOUS WORKING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD | Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. | VORCE, AMELIA J.I. | 3666 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030071 | PEELABLE LID FOR CONTAINER WITH MULTI-POINT PEEL SYSTEM | Physio-Control, Inc. | COLLINS, RAVEN | 3735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19026278 | LIGHT-BASED NON-INVASIVE BLOOD PRESSURE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Stryker Corporation | HOLMES, REX R | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 | |
| 19025923 | STATICALLY-CONFIGURED INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) NETWORK TRAFFIC SHAPING FOR ADAPTATIVE MODULATION AND CODING DATA LINKS | Itron, Inc. | KHAN, ATTA | 2449 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19011157 | SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING MOULD-BASED EQUIPMENT FOR DIRECT INJECTION PRODUCTION OF FOOTWEAR AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FOOTWEAR | Ecco Sko A/S | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 | |
| 19008505 | RELATIVE DIFFERENCE METRIC FOR FRAME CODING AND TWO-STAGE TRAINING FOR GENERATIVE FACE VIDEO COMPRESSION | Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd. | WALKER, JARED T | 2426 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19008482 | TEMPLATE-MATCHING-BASED SUBBLOCK MOTION REFINEMENT FOR MOTION PREDICTION | Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd. | TORRENTE, RICHARD T | 2485 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19007419 | CROSS-COMPONENT PREDICTION FOR CHROMA PREDICTION | Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd. | SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO | 2485 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18991070 | VEHICLE GUIDANCE BY A MULTIMODAL LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | Zoox, Inc. | PARK, KYLE S | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18991167 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SAFETY OPERATION MODES | Zoox, Inc. | RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18985449 | YARD MAPPING AND ASSET TRACKING SYSTEM | Koireader Technologies, Inc. | NGUYEN, LEON VIET Q | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 | |
| 18983023 | TREATMENT OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS RELATED DISEASES | Doderm GmbH | JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| 18970053 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING DATA SETS AND GENERATING PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS | Opentable, Inc. | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 3689 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18969814 | SINGLE SIGN-ON VERIFICATION PLATFORM AND DECISION MATRIX | Verifast Inc. | MILEF, ELDA G | 2113 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18969944 | SINGLE SIGN-ON VERIFICATION PLATFORM AND DECISION MATRIX | Verifast Inc. | BROWN, LUIS A | 2113 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18962918 | INFORMATION PROMPT METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Hangzhou Alibaba International Internet Industry Co., Ltd. | BEKERMAN, MICHAEL | 3621 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18963292 | TRANSFERRING A DOMAIN NAME ON A SECONDARY BLOCKCHAIN MARKET AND IN THE DNS | Verisign, Inc. | SHIN, KYUNG H | 2447 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial81.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Lee & Hayes, PC were allowed, across 11,119 applications in USPTO records.
4.12 office actions per allowed application on average.
277 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 125 clients, before 262 examiners in 146 art units.