Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

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

Analysis

MURABITO, HAO & BARNES LLP has 9 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 911 career applications. The data shows an established practice with active matters in a broad mechanical and commerce-related technology area.

The resolved allowance rate is 88.2%, and the average is 5.07 office actions per allowance. The allowance result is accompanied by a comparatively involved response path within this profile, making prosecution planning and amendment strategy important considerations.

Practitioners can use the record to distinguish outcome performance from examination effort. The pending-action count describes current activity, while the career applications provide the historical base for the reported metrics.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=911 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.2%
Allowance Rate
n=911
+0.50σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=911
5.1
OAs to Allowance
n=598
+0.77σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=598
1268 days
Time to Allowance
n=598
+10.0pp
Interview Lift
n=911
49.6%
RCE Rate
n=911
1.4%
Appeal Rate
n=911

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

88.5%
§101 Overcome
n=165
82.3%
§102 Overcome
n=271
84.1%
§103 Overcome
n=453
82.2%
§112 Overcome
n=236

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
42%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=911
0
Practitioners
n=911
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=911 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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.

4
Hard (50%)
1
Medium (12%)
3
Easy (38%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§101 + other1 (12%)
§103 only1 (12%)
§112 only3 (38%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
12% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
2
Semiconductors
25% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
38% 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.

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
LE, HOA T 1 72.7% +11.9%
ELISCA, PIERRE E 1 90.2% +6.3%
MOTSINGER, TANYA THERESA NGO 1 76.1% +14.6%
SIGMOND, BENNETT M 1 25.7% +32.5%
PARENDO, KEVIN A 1 72.3% +11.5%
KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES 1 79.5% +24.1%
MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE 1 73.6% +16.0%
KIM, JAY C 1 49.4% +21.6%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18435921 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING A VIRTUAL RACE EVENT BASED ON REAL-WORLD ACTIVITY USING A SPLIT SCREEN GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ELISCA, PIERRE E 35d
18416786 DEAL FLOW MANAGER WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE SIGMOND, BENNETT M —
18569162 ELECTRON OVERFLOW OF AIGaN DEEP ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT EMITTING DIODES PARENDO, KEVIN A —
18369709 TRACTOR WITH INJECTOR FOR DEEP APPLICATION AND MIXING OF AMENDMENT WITH SOIL MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE —

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
18507936 MEMORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES 29d
18649306 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING HIGHLY-FUNCTIONAL META-MATERIALS FROM LUMINESCING NANOPARTICLES LE, HOA T 84d
18423091 METHOD OF FORMING A VIRTUAL NETWORK MOTSINGER, TANYA THERESA NGO —
18416786 DEAL FLOW MANAGER WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE SIGMOND, BENNETT M —
18569162 ELECTRON OVERFLOW OF AIGaN DEEP ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT EMITTING DIODES PARENDO, KEVIN A —
18369709 TRACTOR WITH INJECTOR FOR DEEP APPLICATION AND MIXING OF AMENDMENT WITH SOIL MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE —
17800878 MICROMETER SCALE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES KIM, JAY C —

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17881
37151
26351
36941
28961
21391
36711
28151

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18649306 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING HIGHLY-FUNCTIONAL META-MATERIALS FROM LUMINESCING NANOPARTICLES Pixeldisplay, Inc. LE, HOA T 1788 §112 Final Rejection 84d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18435921 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING A VIRTUAL RACE EVENT BASED ON REAL-WORLD ACTIVITY USING A SPLIT SCREEN GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE Lena Faber, Inc. ELISCA, PIERRE E 3715 §101 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18423091 METHOD OF FORMING A VIRTUAL NETWORK Primewan Limited MOTSINGER, TANYA THERESA NGO 2635 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 25, 2024
18416786 DEAL FLOW MANAGER WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE The Machine, LLC SIGMOND, BENNETT M 3694 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 18, 2024
18569162 ELECTRON OVERFLOW OF AIGaN DEEP ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT EMITTING DIODES The Regents of the University of Michigan PARENDO, KEVIN A 2896 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 11, 2023
18507936 MEMORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, PROCESSOR, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM Alibaba Group Holding Limited KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES 2139 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 13, 2023
18369709 TRACTOR WITH INJECTOR FOR DEEP APPLICATION AND MIXING OF AMENDMENT WITH SOIL Monterey Pacific Inc. MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE 3671 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 18, 2023
17800878 MICROMETER SCALE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES Ns Nanotech, Inc. KIM, JAY C 2815 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 18, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP's patent allowance rate?

88.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP were allowed, across 911 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP average before allowance?

5.07 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP have?

8 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 8 clients, before 8 examiners in 8 art units.

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