Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Neustel Law Offices, Ltd.

Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

NEUSTEL LAW OFFICES, LTD. operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm has managed 1799 career applications and currently oversees 4 pending office actions. These figures indicate the firm's historical experience and its current level of engagement with the USPTO. This data provides a baseline for understanding the firm's presence in this sector.

The firm's resolved allowance rate is 92.04. On average, the firm receives 2.09 office actions per allowance. Practitioners can use this average to estimate the frequency of examiner interactions required to reach a grant for applications in this portfolio. These metrics offer an overview of the firm's prosecution results.

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

Quality Metrics (n=1799 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

92.0%
Allowance Rate
n=1799
+0.75σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1799
2.1
OAs to Allowance
n=1168
-0.69σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1168
711 days
Time to Allowance
n=1168
+4.9pp
Interview Lift
n=1799
9.5%
RCE Rate
n=1799
0.9%
Appeal Rate
n=1799

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

83.7%
§101 Overcome
n=49
87.3%
§102 Overcome
n=424
86.6%
§103 Overcome
n=559
85.5%
§112 Overcome
n=318

Specialization & Scale

A63B, Y10T, B65G
Top CPC Subclasses
17%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1799
1
Practitioners
n=1799
1799.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1799

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
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
1
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.

5
Hard (71%)
1
Medium (14%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (29%)
§103 only1 (14%)
§112 only1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (43%)

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
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% of docket
4
Business / Other
57% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
URBIEL GOLDNER, GARY D 1 73.4% +60.6%
ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO 1 76.5% +15.8%
SINGH, KAVEL 1 83.7% +14.0%
GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN 1 76.8% +18.4%
ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS 1 30.3% +56.9%
JIMENEZ, LOAN B 1 5.9% +1.9%
MOSS, JAMES R 1 51.1% +41.6%

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
18479503 Livestock Weighing and Isolation System ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS 11d overdue
18354053 Rower Accessory System for Exercise Machine JIMENEZ, LOAN B 12d
19052939 Method and System for Automated Neuromodulation through Machine Learning ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO —
19047756 Cleanup Conveyor System SINGH, KAVEL —
18069302 INTRAORAL MONITORING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD MOSS, JAMES R —

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18479503 Livestock Weighing and Isolation System ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS 11d overdue
19200940 Shrouded Exercise Spring Assemblies URBIEL GOLDNER, GARY D —
19052939 Method and System for Automated Neuromodulation through Machine Learning ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO —
19047756 Cleanup Conveyor System SINGH, KAVEL —
18967992 Golf Swing Analyzer System GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN —
18069302 INTRAORAL MONITORING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD MOSS, JAMES R —

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36431
37841
37921

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19200940 Shrouded Exercise Spring Assemblies Lagree Technologies, Inc. URBIEL GOLDNER, GARY D §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2025
19052939 Method and System for Automated Neuromodulation through Machine Learning Soin Neuroscience, LLC ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2025
19047756 Cleanup Conveyor System Kringstad Ironworks, Inc. SINGH, KAVEL §101§102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 07, 2025
18967992 Golf Swing Analyzer System Bwr Innovations LLC GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 04, 2024
18479503 Livestock Weighing and Isolation System 701X Inc. ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS 3643 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2023
18354053 Rower Accessory System for Exercise Machine Lagree Technologies, Inc. JIMENEZ, LOAN B 3784 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18069302 INTRAORAL MONITORING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD Dianyx Innovations, LLC MOSS, JAMES R 3792 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 21, 2022

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