Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Mills Ip Law, Pllc

8 pending office actions • 8 clients • 8 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=412 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

91.3%
Allowance Rate
n=412
+0.78σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=412
2.3
OAs to Allowance
n=252
-0.76σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=252
915 days
Time to Allowance
n=252
+12.2pp
Interview Lift
n=412
15.6%
RCE Rate
n=412
0.6%
Appeal Rate
n=412

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=6 (min 20)
85.0%
§102 Overcome
n=80
83.1%
§103 Overcome
n=160
81.3%
§112 Overcome
n=91

Specialization & Scale

A61M, G16H, A61B
Top CPC Subclasses
37%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=412
0
Practitioners
n=412
Apps / Practitioner
n=412 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
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
2
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
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 ≤ 7 days (2)

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.

5
Hard (62%)
3
Medium (38%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (12%)
§103 only2 (25%)
§102 only1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
62% of docket
3
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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FREEMAN, JOSHUA E 1 82.2% +11.9%
SANTOS, ROBERT G 1 73.0% +35.1%
STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F 1 75.5% +14.6%
OUYANG, BO 1 60.8% +8.9%
SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS 1 65.4% +38.4%
BAHENA, CHRISTIE L. 1 67.8% +24.0%
FLICK, JASON E 1 80.5% +13.5%
PATEL, ROHAN DEEP 1 57.5% +47.2%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18381535 EMERGENCY MEDICAL INTERVENTION DEVICE FLICK, JASON E 5d
18652593 NASAL CANNULA TEMPERATURE CONTROL OUYANG, BO 7d
19054005 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO MAKE SAFE A HANDGUN FREEMAN, JOSHUA E
18855853 CONTAINER WITH INTERNAL PORT STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F
18650596 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING A LYOPHILIZED MEDICAMENT SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18225805 DRY POWDER INHALATION DEVICE PATEL, ROHAN DEEP 16d overdue
18381535 EMERGENCY MEDICAL INTERVENTION DEVICE FLICK, JASON E 5d
19054005 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO MAKE SAFE A HANDGUN FREEMAN, JOSHUA E
18933860 THERAPEUTIC CUSHION SYSTEMS AND METHODS SANTOS, ROBERT G
18855853 CONTAINER WITH INTERNAL PORT STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F
18650596 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING A LYOPHILIZED MEDICAMENT SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS
18630240 IMPLANTS AND METHODS FOR SHOULDER JOINT RECONSTRUCTION BAHENA, CHRISTIE L.

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36411
36731
37941
37831
37851

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19054005 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO MAKE SAFE A HANDGUN Bombach Solutions LLC FREEMAN, JOSHUA E 3641 §102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 14, 2025
18933860 THERAPEUTIC CUSHION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Amenity Health, Inc. SANTOS, ROBERT G 3673 §102Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18855853 CONTAINER WITH INTERNAL PORT Instant Systems, Inc. STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 10, 2024
18652593 NASAL CANNULA TEMPERATURE CONTROL Neurointact, Inc. OUYANG, BO 3794 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending May 01, 2024
18650596 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING A LYOPHILIZED MEDICAMENT Kaleo, Inc. SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2024
18630240 IMPLANTS AND METHODS FOR SHOULDER JOINT RECONSTRUCTION B/G Ortho Innovations, LLC BAHENA, CHRISTIE L. §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 09, 2024
18381535 EMERGENCY MEDICAL INTERVENTION DEVICE Corvictus, LLC FLICK, JASON E 3783 §101§102§103§112Other Non-Final OA 5d Pending Oct 18, 2023
18225805 DRY POWDER INHALATION DEVICE Concentrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. PATEL, ROHAN DEEP 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023

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