Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Los Angeles-Ladas & Parry

9 pending office actions • 8 clients • 9 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=70522 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

83.8%
Allowance Rate
n=70522
+0.49σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=70522
3.1
OAs to Allowance
n=49036
-0.15σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=49036
1069 days
Time to Allowance
n=49036
+7.8pp
Interview Lift
n=70522
24.2%
RCE Rate
n=70522
1.9%
Appeal Rate
n=70522

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

84.0%
§101 Overcome
n=1001
84.6%
§102 Overcome
n=6454
82.1%
§103 Overcome
n=27566
91.9%
§112 Overcome
n=5853

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H04W
Top CPC Subclasses
13%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=70522
20
Practitioners
n=70522
3526.1
Apps / Practitioner
n=70522

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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%)
8
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (89%)
Double-patenting only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
33% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
1
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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR 1 100.0% +0.0%
BOYD, ALEXANDER L 1 74.4% +23.3%
TOOMER, CEPHIA D 1 74.1% +2.5%
QI, HUA 1 56.3% +22.8%
IGEL JR, MARK ALAN 1 66.5% +28.7%
BRANDT, DAVID NELSON 1 69.6% +49.5%
NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z 1 44.4% +40.2%
LIU, ZHEN 1 43.9% +43.6%
RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW 1 72.6% +34.6%

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
18770412 METHOD FOR DATA ANALYSIS BY LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL, AND GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE SYSTEM THEREOF MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR 19d overdue

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
18250524 SYRINGE GASKET AND SYRINGE BRANDT, DAVID NELSON 46d overdue
18641321 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF CONTENT DELIVERY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK BOYD, ALEXANDER L
18501985 POLYSILICON ROD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POLYSILICON ROD QI, HUA
18250507 SYRINGE IGEL JR, MARK ALAN
17851637 APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING POLYSILICON ROD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POLYSILICON ROD NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z
17600722 STAIN RESISTANT COATING COMPOSITION LIU, ZHEN
17439392 SYRINGE AUXILIARY TOOL RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37833
26551
24241
17141
17161
17671

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18770412 METHOD FOR DATA ANALYSIS BY LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL, AND GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE SYSTEM THEREOF Indico Data Solutions Inc. MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR 2655 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2024
18641321 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF CONTENT DELIVERY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK Jiostar India Private Limited BOYD, ALEXANDER L 2424 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 19, 2024
18592007 FOAM EXTINGUISHING AGENT RAW LIQUID Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd. TOOMER, CEPHIA D §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 29, 2024
18501985 POLYSILICON ROD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POLYSILICON ROD Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. QI, HUA 1714 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 03, 2023
18250507 SYRINGE Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha IGEL JR, MARK ALAN 3783 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 25, 2023
18250524 SYRINGE GASKET AND SYRINGE Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. BRANDT, DAVID NELSON 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2023
17851637 APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING POLYSILICON ROD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING POLYSILICON ROD Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z 1716 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2022
17600722 STAIN RESISTANT COATING COMPOSITION Ppg Industries Ohio, Inc. LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 01, 2021
17439392 SYRINGE AUXILIARY TOOL Taisei Kako Co., Ltd. RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW 3783 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 14, 2021

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