Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Leydig, Voit & Mayer (Walnut Creek)

18 pending office actions • 9 clients • 18 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=559 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.2%
Allowance Rate
n=559
+0.73σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=559
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=322
-0.04σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=322
1057 days
Time to Allowance
n=322
+10.0pp
Interview Lift
n=559
32.4%
RCE Rate
n=559
0.9%
Appeal Rate
n=559

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=8 (min 20)
88.1%
§102 Overcome
n=42
81.1%
§103 Overcome
n=243
83.3%
§112 Overcome
n=42

Specialization & Scale

G01N, A61K, A61B
Top CPC Subclasses
17%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=559
0
Practitioners
n=559
Apps / Practitioner
n=559 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
16
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (6%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (83%)
§112 only1 (6%)
Double-patenting + other1 (6%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
17% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
22% of docket
2
Business / Other
11% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN 1 42.9% +52.2%
MAYO III, WILLIAM H 1 77.1% -3.9%
PRIEST, JESSICA MARIE 1
HESS, DOUGLAS A 1 88.8% +10.7%
WIESE, NOAH S 1 83.3% -2.4%
SONG, JIANFENG 1 56.0% +33.5%
TANDY, LAURA ELOISE 1 63.5% +38.5%
RUMP, RICHARD M 1 74.5% +20.1%
SADATE-MOUALEU, MIREILLE SANDRA 1 90.9% +10.5%
GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1 35.2% +45.3%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18474473 HIGH-ENTROPY METAL/CERAMIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENTS WIESE, NOAH S 5d
18304244 SURFACE SENSITIZATION FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION THERMAL IMAGING SADATE-MOUALEU, MIREILLE SANDRA 70d
18500341 MULTI-CHAMBER SMART SUCTION CUP FOR TACTILE SENSING HESS, DOUGLAS A

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
18039894 GRAPHENE PRODUCTION METHOD RUMP, RICHARD M 24d overdue
18166229 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF ZrO2-BASED CERAMIC DENTAL CROWNS GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 26d
18985468 DENTAL APPLIANCES, MATERIAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND IMPROVED TREATMENT SYSTEMS HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN 30d
18364942 DIRECTIONAL BROADBAND EMISSIVITY WITH ANGLED MICROSTRUCTURES PRODUCED BY LASER SURFACE PROCESSING (LSP) TANDY, LAURA ELOISE 33d
18548816 DISSOCIATING POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITIONS OF FULVESTRANT AND METHODS OF THEIR MAKING AND USE SONG, JIANFENG 70d
18304244 SURFACE SENSITIZATION FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION THERMAL IMAGING SADATE-MOUALEU, MIREILLE SANDRA 70d
18500341 MULTI-CHAMBER SMART SUCTION CUP FOR TACTILE SENSING HESS, DOUGLAS A

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37722
17002
28411
17311
16131
28811
17591
28551
17541
17981

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18985468 DENTAL APPLIANCES, MATERIAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND IMPROVED TREATMENT SYSTEMS Bay Materials, LLC HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN 3772 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Dec 18, 2024
18697292 A COMPOSITE CABLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE Amnack Limited MAYO III, WILLIAM H 2841 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2024
18573370 EFPEGLENATIDE TO REDUCE RISK OF DEVELOPING CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE OR RENAL DYSFUNCTION Hanmi Pharm. Co., Ltd. PRIEST, JESSICA MARIE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2023
18500341 MULTI-CHAMBER SMART SUCTION CUP FOR TACTILE SENSING The Regents of the University of California HESS, DOUGLAS A §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 02, 2023
18474473 HIGH-ENTROPY METAL/CERAMIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENTS Nutech Ventures, Inc. WIESE, NOAH S 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18548816 DISSOCIATING POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITIONS OF FULVESTRANT AND METHODS OF THEIR MAKING AND USE Veramorph LLC SONG, JIANFENG 1613 DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending Sep 01, 2023
18364942 DIRECTIONAL BROADBAND EMISSIVITY WITH ANGLED MICROSTRUCTURES PRODUCED BY LASER SURFACE PROCESSING (LSP) Nutech Ventures, Inc. TANDY, LAURA ELOISE 2881 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Aug 03, 2023
18039894 GRAPHENE PRODUCTION METHOD Lig Nanowise Limited RUMP, RICHARD M 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2023
18304244 SURFACE SENSITIZATION FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION THERMAL IMAGING The Regents of the University of California SADATE-MOUALEU, MIREILLE SANDRA 2855 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Apr 20, 2023
18166229 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF ZrO2-BASED CERAMIC DENTAL CROWNS Nutech Ventures GROUX, JENNIFER LILA 1754 §112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Feb 08, 2023
17933947 HIGH-THROUGHPUT POROUS SUBSTRATE ELECTROPORATION DEVICES AND METHODS Nutech Ventures MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER 1798 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Sep 21, 2022
17899151 EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE COMPOSITIONS AND THE USE THEREOF IN THE TREATMENT OF SKIN CONDITIONS AND IN IMMUNE MODULATION Mvex Japan, Inc. KIM, TAEYOON 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2022
17890955 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR CORRELATING LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS) MEASUREMENTS WITH DEGREE OF SENSITIZATION (DOS) VALUES TO DETERMINE THE SENSITIZATION OF AN ALLOY Nutech Ventures UTECH, BENJAMIN L 1700 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 18, 2022
17856477 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW TEMPERATURE GROWTH OF PRISTINE, DOPED AND NANOPOROUS GRAPHENE FILMS Nutech Ventures MAYY, MOHAMMAD 1718 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2022
17745383 POTENTIOMETRIC MECHANICAL SENSORS AND TEMPERATURE SENSORS The Regents of the University of California KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K 1700 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending May 16, 2022
17721478 DENTAL PRODUCTS AND PROCEDURES Bay Materials, LLC LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D 3772 Final Rejection Pending Apr 15, 2022
17691437 ORGANIC MULTI-CHANNEL OPTOELECTRONIC SENSORS FOR WEARABLE HEALTH MONITORING The Regents of the University of California NGUYEN, HUONG Q 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 56d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2022
17235627 RETINAL STIMULATOR The Regents of the University of California FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR 3796 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Apr 20, 2021

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