Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Liu & Liu

7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 7 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1724 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.5%
Allowance Rate
n=1724
+0.46σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1724
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=1097
-0.02σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1097
1042 days
Time to Allowance
n=1097
+3.7pp
Interview Lift
n=1724
18.3%
RCE Rate
n=1724
1.2%
Appeal Rate
n=1724

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

86.1%
§101 Overcome
n=36
86.9%
§102 Overcome
n=490
87.6%
§103 Overcome
n=712
88.4%
§112 Overcome
n=345

Specialization & Scale

H01L, H10W, G02F
Top CPC Subclasses
34%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1724
1
Practitioners
n=1724
1724.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1724

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
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
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (1)Due later (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.

4
Hard (57%)
3
Medium (43%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (14%)
§102 only1 (14%)
Double-patenting + other1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (57%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
43% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
2
Business / Other
29% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J 1 70.8% +39.6%
JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T 1 63.8% +30.1%
DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 1 71.8% +19.9%
TSO, EDWARD H 1 87.4% +6.9%
ANBACHT, BRIT ELIZA 1 73.6% +20.9%
HAQ, SHAFIQUL 1 64.9% +55.1%
LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 1 81.7% +16.0%

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
18149029 CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 26d

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18914626 INTERVERTEBRAL DEVICES JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T 2d overdue
18622059 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MEMS DEVICE DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 77d
18868773 INSERTION INSTRUMENTS PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J
18561505 BIPOLAR STORAGE BATTERY SYSTEM TSO, EDWARD H

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18914626 INTERVERTEBRAL DEVICES JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T 2d overdue
18149029 CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 26d
18622059 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MEMS DEVICE DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 77d
18868773 INSERTION INSTRUMENTS PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J
18278392 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ENCASING A FILTER UNIT AND/OR SEPARATION UNIT ANBACHT, BRIT ELIZA
18353318 FLUORESCENCE BIOSENSING SYSTEM AND BIODETECTION METHOD HAQ, SHAFIQUL

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37731
17131
17761
16781
28181

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18868773 INSERTION INSTRUMENTS Axis Spine Technologies Ltd. PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2025
18914626 INTERVERTEBRAL DEVICES Axis Spine Technologies Ltd. JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T 3773 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Oct 14, 2024
18622059 MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MEMS DEVICE Xintec Inc. DUCLAIR, STEPHANIE P. 1713 §102§103 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Mar 29, 2024
18561505 BIPOLAR STORAGE BATTERY SYSTEM Commeo GmbH TSO, EDWARD H §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 16, 2023
18278392 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ENCASING A FILTER UNIT AND/OR SEPARATION UNIT Neufilter GmbH ANBACHT, BRIT ELIZA 1776 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 28, 2023
18353318 FLUORESCENCE BIOSENSING SYSTEM AND BIODETECTION METHOD Visera Technologies Company Ltd. HAQ, SHAFIQUL 1678 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 17, 2023
18149029 CHIP PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF Xintec Inc. LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Dec 30, 2022

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