Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Neustel Law Offices, Ltd.

7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=1795 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

92.1%
Allowance Rate
n=1795
+0.73σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1795
2.1
OAs to Allowance
n=1166
-0.69σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1166
712 days
Time to Allowance
n=1166
+4.8pp
Interview Lift
n=1795
9.5%
RCE Rate
n=1795
0.9%
Appeal Rate
n=1795

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

83.7%
§101 Overcome
n=49
87.9%
§102 Overcome
n=422
87.4%
§103 Overcome
n=555
86.1%
§112 Overcome
n=317

Specialization & Scale

A63B, Y10T, B65G
Top CPC Subclasses
17%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1795
1
Practitioners
n=1795
1795.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1795

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 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.

7
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (14%)
§101 + other2 (29%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (57%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
57% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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
LAU, HOI CHING 1 74.3% +16.2%
SINGH, KAVEL 1 83.6% +13.9%
ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS 1 30.5% +57.6%
JIMENEZ, LOAN B 1 6.0% +1.9%
DOWNEY, JOHN R 1 59.7% +23.6%
MOSS, JAMES R 1 51.1% +40.7%
THAKUR, VIREN A 1 13.5% +27.0%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18177391 SYSTEM FOR INTRAORAL MONITORING AND RELATED METHODS THEREOF DOWNEY, JOHN R 46d overdue
18479503 Livestock Weighing and Isolation System ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS 11d overdue
18354053 Rower Accessory System for Exercise Machine JIMENEZ, LOAN B 12d
17845513 Microwave Food Container THAKUR, VIREN A 29d
19065392 Vehicle Flow Monitoring System LAU, HOI CHING
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
18177391 SYSTEM FOR INTRAORAL MONITORING AND RELATED METHODS THEREOF DOWNEY, JOHN R 46d overdue
18479503 Livestock Weighing and Isolation System ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS 11d overdue
17845513 Microwave Food Container THAKUR, VIREN A 29d
19065392 Vehicle Flow Monitoring System LAU, HOI CHING
19047756 Cleanup Conveyor System SINGH, KAVEL
18069302 INTRAORAL MONITORING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD MOSS, JAMES R

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37922
26891
36431
37841
17921

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19065392 Vehicle Flow Monitoring System Frogparking Limited LAU, HOI CHING 2689 §101Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2025
19047756 Cleanup Conveyor System Kringstad Ironworks, Inc. SINGH, KAVEL §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 07, 2025
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
18177391 SYSTEM FOR INTRAORAL MONITORING AND RELATED METHODS THEREOF Dianyx Innovations, LLC DOWNEY, JOHN R 3792 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2023
18069302 INTRAORAL MONITORING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD Dianyx Innovations, LLC MOSS, JAMES R 3792 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 21, 2022
17845513 Microwave Food Container Inline Packaging, LLC THAKUR, VIREN A 1792 §103§112 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 21, 2022

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