Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Maine Cernota & Curran

14 pending office actions • 12 clients • 14 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 67 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=2297 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.7%
Allowance Rate
n=2297
+0.55σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=2297
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=1455
-0.26σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1455
935 days
Time to Allowance
n=1455
+7.8pp
Interview Lift
n=2297
21.4%
RCE Rate
n=2297
2.0%
Appeal Rate
n=2297

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

91.8%
§101 Overcome
n=134
82.0%
§102 Overcome
n=543
82.8%
§103 Overcome
n=901
84.4%
§112 Overcome
n=705

Specialization & Scale

G06F, Y10T, B29C
Top CPC Subclasses
8%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=2297
2
Practitioners
n=2297
1148.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=2297

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

9
Hard (64%)
5
Medium (36%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (7%)
§103 only3 (21%)
§102 only1 (7%)
Double-patenting + other1 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)8 (57%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
21% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
29% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
3
Business / Other
21% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DANGOL, ASHESH 1 69.4% +49.9%
MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H 1 73.5% +14.8%
AMARA, MOHAMED K 1 75.7% +30.0%
SINAKI, ARFAN Y 1 79.3% +41.7%
BUSHEY, CHARLES S 1 75.6% +21.9%
SIEFKE, SAMUEL P 1 63.1% +17.1%
MOURAD, RASEM 1 74.3% +25.3%
RUPPERT, ERIC S 1 59.8% +24.0%
CURRENS, GRANT CARSON 1 54.4% +62.5%
SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD 1 52.3% +38.6%

Hard Cases (9)

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
18839002 SYSTEM FOR MAKING OBJECT COOPERATIVE AND METHOD FOR MAKING OBJECT COOPERATIVE SINAKI, ARFAN Y 53d overdue
18021981 A COMBINED SAMPLE COLLECTION AND FILTRATION DEVICE GRAVES, TIMOTHY P 19d overdue
18551718 THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE RUPPERT, ERIC S 10d overdue
17793118 PFAS PROCESSING SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH 12d
18556203 WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM MOURAD, RASEM 21d
18852873 LASER BASED GAS DETECTOR AMARA, MOHAMED K 41d
19089955 INJECTION DEVICE, INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE HAVING THE SAME, AND INJECTION MOLDING METHOD MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H
18026430 FUEL BREAK WITH INTEGRAL WATERING SYSTEM SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18839002 SYSTEM FOR MAKING OBJECT COOPERATIVE AND METHOD FOR MAKING OBJECT COOPERATIVE SINAKI, ARFAN Y 53d overdue
18551718 THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE RUPPERT, ERIC S 10d overdue
18556203 WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM MOURAD, RASEM 21d
18852873 LASER BASED GAS DETECTOR AMARA, MOHAMED K 41d
19474568 AIRFLOW MODIFYING DEVICE DANGOL, ASHESH
19089955 INJECTION DEVICE, INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE HAVING THE SAME, AND INJECTION MOLDING METHOD MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H
18832578 AUTOMATIC OIL DISPENSER FOR MOUNTING ONTO AN OBJECTIVE IN AN INVERTED MICROSCOPE SYSTEM BUSHEY, CHARLES S
18697673 IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO A DEVICE FOR IMAGING SIEFKE, SAMUEL P

Client Portfolio (12 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36422
28771
28361
37631
16511
37521
17821
28551
28411
17351

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19474568 AIRFLOW MODIFYING DEVICE BAE Systems PLC DANGOL, ASHESH 3642 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 10, 2025
19089955 INJECTION DEVICE, INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE HAVING THE SAME, AND INJECTION MOLDING METHOD Doshisha University MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 25, 2025
18852873 LASER BASED GAS DETECTOR Wi-Charge Ltd. AMARA, MOHAMED K 2877 §103§112 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Sep 30, 2024
18839002 SYSTEM FOR MAKING OBJECT COOPERATIVE AND METHOD FOR MAKING OBJECT COOPERATIVE Astroscale Japan Inc. SINAKI, ARFAN Y 3642 §102§103§112Other Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2024
18832578 AUTOMATIC OIL DISPENSER FOR MOUNTING ONTO AN OBJECTIVE IN AN INVERTED MICROSCOPE SYSTEM Panacea Diagnostics Ltd. BUSHEY, CHARLES S §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2024
18697673 IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO A DEVICE FOR IMAGING Panacea Diagnostics Ltd. SIEFKE, SAMUEL P §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 01, 2024
18556203 WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM Wi-Charge Ltd. MOURAD, RASEM 2836 §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 19, 2023
18551718 THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE Richard William Yemm RUPPERT, ERIC S 3763 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Sep 21, 2023
18269663 AVIAN FOOD ADDITIVE Tharos Limited CURRENS, GRANT CARSON 1651 §103DP Final Rejection Pending Jun 26, 2023
18026430 FUEL BREAK WITH INTEGRAL WATERING SYSTEM VIRIDIS ARBOR LLC SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD 3752 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 15, 2023
18117807 CONTROLLED MOISTURE TRANSPORT PACKAGING FOR FRESH PRODUCE Windham Packaging, LLC KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH 1782 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 06, 2023
18021981 A COMBINED SAMPLE COLLECTION AND FILTRATION DEVICE VIDYA HOLDINGS LTD GRAVES, TIMOTHY P 2855 §102§103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Feb 17, 2023
18105613 SECURITY CAGE FOR COMPUTER SERVERS Colo Security Cage LLC WU, JERRY 2841 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 03, 2023
17793118 PFAS PROCESSING Amt Remediation Pty Ltd. SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH 1735 §103§112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jul 15, 2022

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