Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Merchant & Gould P.C. - Sciex

11 pending office actions • 1 client • 11 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=89 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

96.2%
Allowance Rate
n=89
+0.43σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=89
2.2
OAs to Allowance
n=25
-0.62σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=25
1100 days
Time to Allowance
n=25
+4.4pp
Interview Lift
n=89
19.2%
RCE Rate
n=89
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=89

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=2 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=4 (min 20)
36.4%
§103 Overcome
n=22
§112 Overcome
n=3 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

H01J, G01N, G16C
Top CPC Subclasses
76%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=89
0
Practitioners
n=89
Apps / Practitioner
n=89 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
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.

1
Hard (9%)
8
Medium (73%)
1
Easy (9%)
1
Unknown (9%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (9%)
§103 only7 (64%)
§102 only1 (9%)
§112 only1 (9%)
No statute on record1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
27% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
5
Semiconductors
45% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
3
Business / Other
27% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BALL, JOHN C 1 78.8% +16.1%
DO, AN H 1 90.5% +6.9%
MCCORMACK, JASON L 1 84.6% +8.0%
HAMMOND III, THOMAS M 1 75.9% +28.8%
LI, LARRY 1 100.0% +0.0%
HISHAM, MOSTOFA AHMED 1
CHANG, HANWAY 1 86.1% +8.6%
KRCHA, MATTHEW D 1 65.4% +35.3%
FISHER, BRITTANY I 1 84.4% +12.3%
EL HAJ HASSAN, BACHAR 1

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18689522 ION TYPE TAILORED LIBRARY SEARCH PRE-PROCESSING, CONSTRAINTS AND SPECTRAL DATABASE BUILDING MCCORMACK, JASON L
18556200 POWER SUPPLY CHANG, HANWAY
18262829 LIQUID FLOW/AIR FLOW COMBINATION FOR SAMPLE TRANSPORT FISHER, BRITTANY I

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18698672 METHODS FOR ENHANCING COMPLETE DATA EXTRACTION OF DIA DATA DO, AN H

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18871844 CARTRIDGE FOR CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS BALL, JOHN C
18689600 THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHEMICAL PEAK FINDER FOR QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYTICAL WORKFLOWS HAMMOND III, THOMAS M
18551248 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING FLUID CONTAINERS KRCHA, MATTHEW D
18262829 LIQUID FLOW/AIR FLOW COMBINATION FOR SAMPLE TRANSPORT FISHER, BRITTANY I

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. 11

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28812
17962
28551
28571
28781
17981

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18871844 CARTRIDGE FOR CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. BALL, JOHN C §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2024
18698672 METHODS FOR ENHANCING COMPLETE DATA EXTRACTION OF DIA DATA DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. DO, AN H §101 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 04, 2024
18689522 ION TYPE TAILORED LIBRARY SEARCH PRE-PROCESSING, CONSTRAINTS AND SPECTRAL DATABASE BUILDING DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. MCCORMACK, JASON L §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 06, 2024
18689600 THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHEMICAL PEAK FINDER FOR QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYTICAL WORKFLOWS DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. HAMMOND III, THOMAS M 2855 §112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 06, 2024
18294386 STANDARD ADDITION WORKFLOW FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. LI, LARRY 2881 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 01, 2024
18558592 IMPROVEMENTS TO PEAK INTEGRATION BY INTEGRATION PARAMETER ITERATION DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. HISHAM, MOSTOFA AHMED 2857 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 02, 2023
18556200 POWER SUPPLY DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. CHANG, HANWAY 2878 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 19, 2023
18551248 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING FLUID CONTAINERS DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. KRCHA, MATTHEW D 1796 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 19, 2023
18262829 LIQUID FLOW/AIR FLOW COMBINATION FOR SAMPLE TRANSPORT DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. FISHER, BRITTANY I 1796 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 25, 2023
18036485 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING A FLUID SAMPLE DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. EL HAJ HASSAN, BACHAR 1798 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 11, 2023
17755597 Method of Mass Analysis - SWATH with Orthogonal Fragmentation Methodology DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 03, 2022

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