Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Luedeka Neely, P.C.

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

13 pending office actions • 11 clients • 12 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

LUEDEKA NEELY, P.C. has handled 2687 career applications, primarily in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 85.65 percent, showing success in these technical fields.

On average, the firm sees 2.57 office actions per allowance, which provides a standard for the level of examiner interaction. Currently, the firm is managing 10 pending office actions, a fraction of its 2687 career applications.

The 85.65 percent allowance rate indicates the firm's proficiency in mechanical and medical device prosecution. The 10 pending office actions represent the current active workload for the firm's ongoing cases. Practitioners can rely on the 2.57 average office actions per allowance to estimate the resources required for new applications in these sectors.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=2690 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.6%
Allowance Rate
n=2690
+0.57σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=2690
2.6
OAs to Allowance
n=1848
-0.60σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1848
950 days
Time to Allowance
n=1848
-0.6pp
Interview Lift
n=2690
14.4%
RCE Rate
n=2690
3.5%
Appeal Rate
n=2690

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

89.3%
§101 Overcome
n=122
77.8%
§102 Overcome
n=616
77.9%
§103 Overcome
n=971
84.2%
§112 Overcome
n=701

Specialization & Scale

A61F, Y10T, A61B
Top CPC Subclasses
8%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=2690
0
Practitioners
n=2690
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=2690 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
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
1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

10
Hard (77%)
3
Medium (23%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (23%)
Multi-statute (no §101)10 (77%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
15% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
46% of docket
5
Business / Other
38% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RAMSEY, JEREMY C 2 52.5% +46.9%
LO, ANDREW S 1 72.2% +27.6%
LONG, DONNELL ALAN 1 75.8% +15.1%
MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE 1 23.5% +92.9%
MURPHY, KEVIN F 1 67.8% +27.7%
HOLMES, JUSTIN 1 88.9% +10.0%
MUDD, HENRY HOOPER 1 69.9% +24.0%
RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W 1 72.4% +24.0%
MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S 1 54.1% +21.3%
RASSAVONG, ERIC 1 71.6% +34.4%

Hard Cases (10)

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
18760797 Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Tank RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W 146d overdue
19229910 Spring Ankle Torque Device LO, ANDREW S —
19213390 Metered Dose Topical Applicator LONG, DONNELL ALAN —
19032773 ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITION MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE —
18980742 Motorized Retractable Screen System RAMSEY, JEREMY C —
18874237 OPTIMIZED GAS DELIVERY SYSTEM MURPHY, KEVIN F —
18833948 PALLETIZING/DE-PALLETIZING SYSTEM HOLMES, JUSTIN —
18782773 Door Threshold MUDD, HENRY HOOPER —

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18760797 Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Tank RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W 146d overdue
19229910 Spring Ankle Torque Device LO, ANDREW S —
19213390 Metered Dose Topical Applicator LONG, DONNELL ALAN —
19032773 ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITION MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE —
18980742 Motorized Retractable Screen System RAMSEY, JEREMY C —
18874237 OPTIMIZED GAS DELIVERY SYSTEM MURPHY, KEVIN F —
18833948 PALLETIZING/DE-PALLETIZING SYSTEM HOLMES, JUSTIN —
18782773 Door Threshold MUDD, HENRY HOOPER —

Client Portfolio (11 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37531
36421
17461
37241
36341
37811
17731
37151

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19229910 Spring Ankle Torque Device Triphasic Xiathlete Institute, Inc. LO, ANDREW S §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 05, 2025
19213390 Metered Dose Topical Applicator Team Technologies Inc. LONG, DONNELL ALAN §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 20, 2025
19032773 ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITION Midlab, Inc. MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 21, 2025
18980742 Motorized Retractable Screen System Four Season Industries, LLC RAMSEY, JEREMY C §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 13, 2024
18874237 OPTIMIZED GAS DELIVERY SYSTEM Gasokay Aps MURPHY, KEVIN F 3753 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 12, 2024
18833948 PALLETIZING/DE-PALLETIZING SYSTEM Körber Supply Chain Dk A/S HOLMES, JUSTIN §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 29, 2024
18782773 Door Threshold Clayton Supply, Inc. MUDD, HENRY HOOPER 3642 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 24, 2024
18760797 Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Tank Nationwide Tanks, Inc. RAIMUND, CHRISTOPHER W 1746 §102§103 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Jul 01, 2024
18676547 Folding Knife Yangjiang Zeth Trading Co., Ltd. MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S 3724 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending May 29, 2024
18390875 Motorized Retractable Screen System Four Season Industries, LLC RAMSEY, JEREMY C 3634 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2023
18368277 CANISTER CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR DISPOSABLE NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY SYSTEM Deroyal Industries, Inc. RASSAVONG, ERIC 3781 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 14, 2023
18124900 Rainwater Harvesting Prefilter Sycamore Technical Services, LLC GONZALEZ, MADELINE 1773 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Mar 22, 2023
16256585 COMPLIANCE SYSTEM FOR USE WITH JANITORIAL AND CLEANING PRODUCTS Midlab, Inc. GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A 3715 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Jan 24, 2019

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