Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP

10 pending office actions • 8 clients • 9 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=656 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

77.3%
Allowance Rate
n=656
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=656
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=351
-0.40σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=351
1002 days
Time to Allowance
n=351
+17.0pp
Interview Lift
n=656
15.4%
RCE Rate
n=656
1.4%
Appeal Rate
n=656

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

54.6%
§101 Overcome
n=55
72.5%
§102 Overcome
n=142
71.2%
§103 Overcome
n=236
73.3%
§112 Overcome
n=176

Specialization & Scale

A61B, G06F, A61C
Top CPC Subclasses
11%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=656
0
Practitioners
n=656
Apps / Practitioner
n=656 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
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.

2
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

8
Hard (80%)
2
Medium (20%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§101 + other4 (40%)
§103 only2 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (30%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
40% of docket
1
Information Tech
10% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
1
Business / Other
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FELTON, AILEEN BAKER 2 51.6% +17.7%
PATEL, PINALBEN V 1 88.9% +9.9%
UTAMA, ROBERT J 1 60.4% +29.6%
LOONAN, ERIC T 1 64.8% +26.6%
HALL, DEANNA K 1 75.6% +15.7%
SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 1 32.6% +46.8%
DOZE, PETER DAVON 1 80.0% +17.8%
ZHANG, KELING NMN 1 65.7% +17.0%
BAKSHI, PANCHAM 1 77.0% +30.2%

Hard Cases (8)

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
18702776 BREATH-POWERED NASAL DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI), INCLUDING CONCUSSION, AND METHODS HALL, DEANNA K 215d overdue
18659055 MECHANISM FOR PREVENTING UNINTENTIONAL SECURE ERASE OR SANITIZE OPERATIONS ON A STORAGE DEVICE LOONAN, ERIC T 45d overdue
18629437 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING HEALTH STATUS SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 27d
18868075 COMPOSITE POWDER CONTAINING PRIMARY NANOPARTICLES OF ALUMINUM OR ALUMINUM OXIDE FELTON, AILEEN BAKER
18807551 DENTAL SYSTEM AND METHOD PATEL, PINALBEN V
18782173 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING A STUDENT'S READING SKILLS UTAMA, ROBERT J
18011859 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A RECEIVER GROUND POSITION DOZE, PETER DAVON
17740520 TRI-REGIME COMPOSITE SOLID PROPELLANT FELTON, AILEEN BAKER

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18702776 BREATH-POWERED NASAL DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI), INCLUDING CONCUSSION, AND METHODS HALL, DEANNA K 215d overdue
18659055 MECHANISM FOR PREVENTING UNINTENTIONAL SECURE ERASE OR SANITIZE OPERATIONS ON A STORAGE DEVICE LOONAN, ERIC T 45d overdue
18629437 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING HEALTH STATUS SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 27d
17924479 A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN ON DEMAND ZHANG, KELING NMN 29d
18868075 COMPOSITE POWDER CONTAINING PRIMARY NANOPARTICLES OF ALUMINUM OR ALUMINUM OXIDE FELTON, AILEEN BAKER
18782173 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING A STUDENT'S READING SKILLS UTAMA, ROBERT J
18011859 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A RECEIVER GROUND POSITION DOZE, PETER DAVON
17740520 TRI-REGIME COMPOSITE SOLID PROPELLANT FELTON, AILEEN BAKER

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17342
37151
21371
37831
37961
36481
17321
16231

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18868075 COMPOSITE POWDER CONTAINING PRIMARY NANOPARTICLES OF ALUMINUM OR ALUMINUM OXIDE Helicon Chemical Company FELTON, AILEEN BAKER 1734 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2024
18807551 DENTAL SYSTEM AND METHOD Biolase Mg LLC PATEL, PINALBEN V §101 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 16, 2024
18782173 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING A STUDENT'S READING SKILLS Objective Ed, Inc. UTAMA, ROBERT J 3715 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2024
18659055 MECHANISM FOR PREVENTING UNINTENTIONAL SECURE ERASE OR SANITIZE OPERATIONS ON A STORAGE DEVICE New Concepts Development Corporation LOONAN, ERIC T 2137 §103§112 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending May 09, 2024
18702776 BREATH-POWERED NASAL DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI), INCLUDING CONCUSSION, AND METHODS Oragenics, Inc. HALL, DEANNA K 3783 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA 215d overdue Pending Apr 18, 2024
18629437 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING HEALTH STATUS Aicure Corporation SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 3796 §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 08, 2024
18011859 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A RECEIVER GROUND POSITION Esc Aerospace US, Inc. DOZE, PETER DAVON 3648 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2022
17924479 A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN ON DEMAND Element 1 Technologies, LLC ZHANG, KELING NMN 1732 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 10, 2022
17740520 TRI-REGIME COMPOSITE SOLID PROPELLANT Helicon Chemical Company FELTON, AILEEN BAKER 1734 §101§102§112 Final Rejection Pending May 10, 2022
14857331 C-20 STEROID COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF TO TREAT TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI), INCLUDING CONCUSSIONS Oragenics, Inc. BAKSHI, PANCHAM 1623 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 17, 2015

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