Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Maynard Nexsen Pc (Columbia Office)

7 pending office actions • 7 clients • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=659 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

86.6%
Allowance Rate
n=659
+0.70σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=659
2.5
OAs to Allowance
n=396
-0.55σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=396
925 days
Time to Allowance
n=396
+9.9pp
Interview Lift
n=659
16.2%
RCE Rate
n=659
3.1%
Appeal Rate
n=659

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=6 (min 20)
80.0%
§102 Overcome
n=30
79.8%
§103 Overcome
n=188
90.4%
§112 Overcome
n=52

Specialization & Scale

A63B, A61B, Y10T
Top CPC Subclasses
11%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=659
0
Practitioners
n=659
Apps / Practitioner
n=659 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (71%)
2
Easy (29%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (43%)
§102 only2 (29%)
§112 only1 (14%)
Double-patenting only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
43% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
29% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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
GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J 1 58.0% +7.0%
ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 1 38.1% +88.9%
SERGENT, RABON A 1 54.8% +24.2%
PARVINI, PEGAH 1 70.1% +12.2%
CURRAN, GREGORY H 1 90.2% +5.2%
RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES 1 54.5% +40.9%
PARCO JR, RUBEN C 1 45.5% +16.4%

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
18211454 MULTI-ATTENUATOR NEUROLOGICAL ELECTRODE SYSTEM FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE ENVIRONMENTS CURRAN, GREGORY H 28d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18451997 FUNCTIONALLY GRADED ABRASIVE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF USING AND MAKING SAME PARVINI, PEGAH 155d overdue
18016590 Mask With Sensor RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES 72d overdue
17926915 MODE LOCALISED ACCELEROMETER PARCO JR, RUBEN C 65d
18745813 BACILLUS VELEZENSIS DRY SUSPENDING AGENT AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU
18571477 N-TYPE CONJUGATED POLYMER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND USE THEREOF SERGENT, RABON A

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21531
16161
17651
17311
28521
37851
28531

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19240706 OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FILE PROTECTION PROCESSES Innovative Process Technologies, LLC GIULIANI, GIUSEPPI J 2153 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 17, 2025
18745813 BACILLUS VELEZENSIS DRY SUSPENDING AGENT AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF Guangdong Branch Of China Tobacco Gen. Co., Ltd. ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 1616 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 17, 2024
18571477 N-TYPE CONJUGATED POLYMER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND USE THEREOF South China University Of Technology SERGENT, RABON A 1765 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2023
18451997 FUNCTIONALLY GRADED ABRASIVE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF USING AND MAKING SAME S. L. Munson & Company PARVINI, PEGAH 1731 §103 Final Rejection 155d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2023
18211454 MULTI-ATTENUATOR NEUROLOGICAL ELECTRODE SYSTEM FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE ENVIRONMENTS Rhythmlink International, LLC CURRAN, GREGORY H 2852 §102 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jun 19, 2023
18016590 Mask With Sensor Pentatonic Limited RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2023
17926915 MODE LOCALISED ACCELEROMETER Cambridge Enterprise Limited PARCO JR, RUBEN C 2853 §103 Final Rejection 65d Pending Nov 21, 2022

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