Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Mindful Ip Pllc

5 pending office actions • 3 clients • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=169 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

95.2%
Allowance Rate
n=169
+0.57σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=169
2.5
OAs to Allowance
n=100
-0.61σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=100
925 days
Time to Allowance
n=100
+5.3pp
Interview Lift
n=169
22.9%
RCE Rate
n=169
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=169

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=6 (min 20)
75.6%
§102 Overcome
n=41
75.4%
§103 Overcome
n=65
76.2%
§112 Overcome
n=63

Specialization & Scale

G01S, G06F, G01R
Top CPC Subclasses
19%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=169
1
Practitioners
n=169
169.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=169

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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.

2
Hard (40%)
2
Medium (40%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§112 only1 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (40%)

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
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% 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
HELLNER, MARK 1 90.5% +8.4%
MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L 1 80.8% -0.8%
CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE 1 45.8% +65.0%
LIN, ARIC 1 59.9% +12.2%
WARD, THOMAS JOHN 1 51.2% +26.4%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18268235 PLATFORM FOR A MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY, AND MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY HELLNER, MARK
18038063 LASER SCANNER MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18029918 MOBILE SCANNING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOBILE SCANNING ARRANGEMENT CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE 33d
17761286 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND FLUID HEATER WARD, THOMAS JOHN

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17772228 IMPURITY-CENTER-BASED QUANTUM COMPUTER LIN, ARIC 28d overdue
18029918 MOBILE SCANNING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOBILE SCANNING ARRANGEMENT CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE 33d
17761286 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND FLUID HEATER WARD, THOMAS JOHN

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36452
28511
37611

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18268235 PLATFORM FOR A MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY, AND MOBILE SCANNING ASSEMBLY ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH HELLNER, MARK §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2024
18038063 LASER SCANNER ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L 3645 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 25, 2023
18029918 MOBILE SCANNING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOBILE SCANNING ARRANGEMENT ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE 3645 §102§103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Apr 02, 2023
17772228 IMPURITY-CENTER-BASED QUANTUM COMPUTER Quantum Technologies Ug (Haftungsbeschränkt) LIN, ARIC 2851 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2022
17761286 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND FLUID HEATER Dbk David + Baader GmbH WARD, THOMAS JOHN 3761 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 17, 2022

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