Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Miller Nash LLP - Abp

5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=38 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

100.0%
Allowance Rate
n=38
+0.69σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=38
2.1
OAs to Allowance
n=22
-0.56σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=22
930 days
Time to Allowance
n=22
+0.0pp
Interview Lift
n=38
18.2%
RCE Rate
n=38
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=38

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=0 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=4 (min 20)
§103 Overcome
n=15 (min 20)
§112 Overcome
n=7 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

B42D, B65G, G06V
Top CPC Subclasses
15%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=38
0
Practitioners
n=38
Apps / Practitioner
n=38 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§102 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
20% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEWIS, JUSTIN V 1 55.2% +17.6%
TAUFIQ, FARAH N 1 61.7% +26.0%
MARKMAN, MAKENA 1 59.5% +40.1%
PHAM, QUAN L 1 70.0% +28.1%
GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 1 48.3% +16.4%

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
18254362 METAL STRIP PRODUCTION BY GRINDING MARKMAN, MAKENA 25d overdue
17754479 SECURITY ELEMENT WITH AN OPTICAL EFFECT LAYER FORMED AS A THIN LAYER GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 15d overdue
18687491 SECURITY ELEMENT FOR VALUE DOCUMENTS OR SECURITY DOCUMENTS LEWIS, JUSTIN V
18577000 EXTRUSION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ARTICLE HAVING A CAVITY TAUFIQ, FARAH N
18466803 TELESCOPE WITH AT LEAST ONE VIEWING CHANNEL PHAM, QUAN L

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36372
17541
37231
26371

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18687491 SECURITY ELEMENT FOR VALUE DOCUMENTS OR SECURITY DOCUMENTS Hueck Folien Gesellschaft m.b.H. LEWIS, JUSTIN V 3637 §102 Final Rejection Pending Feb 28, 2024
18577000 EXTRUSION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ARTICLE HAVING A CAVITY Collin Lab & Pilot Solutions GmbH TAUFIQ, FARAH N 1754 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 05, 2024
18254362 METAL STRIP PRODUCTION BY GRINDING Berndorf Band GmbH MARKMAN, MAKENA 3723 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18466803 TELESCOPE WITH AT LEAST ONE VIEWING CHANNEL Swarovski-Optik AG & Co. KG PHAM, QUAN L 2637 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 13, 2023
17754479 SECURITY ELEMENT WITH AN OPTICAL EFFECT LAYER FORMED AS A THIN LAYER Hueck Folien Gesellschaft m.b.H. GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 3637 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Apr 01, 2022

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