Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Newhope Law, Pc

5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1340 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

83.4%
Allowance Rate
n=1340
+0.35σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1340
1.6
OAs to Allowance
n=1021
-1.10σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1021
718 days
Time to Allowance
n=1021
+6.9pp
Interview Lift
n=1340
4.2%
RCE Rate
n=1340
2.7%
Appeal Rate
n=1340

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=9 (min 20)
71.7%
§102 Overcome
n=53
74.9%
§103 Overcome
n=363
93.7%
§112 Overcome
n=205

Specialization & Scale

A63B, F21V, H05B
Top CPC Subclasses
13%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1340
0
Practitioners
n=1340
Apps / Practitioner
n=1340 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
60% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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
SADLON, JOSEPH 1 63.3% +26.5%
MENON, KRISHNAN S 1 59.9% +11.8%
SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L 1 37.1% +15.7%
SPAMER, DONALD R 1 59.8% +31.5%
TSAY, MARSHA M 1 45.7% +52.4%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18156299 HEXAHEDRAL HEATING HIGH-TEMPERATURE STERILIZATION BIOLOGICAL SHAKING TABLE SPAMER, DONALD R 36d overdue
18191440 METHOD FOR TREATING CEREBRAL APOPLEXY AND HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA BY COMPOUND FOR INHIBITING COMBINATION OF BILIRUBIN AND TRPM2 CHANNEL SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L 19d overdue
18783988 BOX FRAME STRUCTURE COMPOSED OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL PLATE AND METAL FRAME, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF SADLON, JOSEPH
18694458 ELECTROCHEMICALLY ASSISTED ION EXCHANGE WATER TREATMENT DEVICE HAVING SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENT OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS MENON, KRISHNAN S
17615557 METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVE CO-EXPRESSING MULTIPLE PROTEINS IN VITRO AND APPLICATION THEREOF TSAY, MARSHA M

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36351
16281
17991
16561

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18783988 BOX FRAME STRUCTURE COMPOSED OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL PLATE AND METAL FRAME, AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF Shanghai Top Numerical Control Technology Co., Ltd. SADLON, JOSEPH 3635 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 25, 2024
18694458 ELECTROCHEMICALLY ASSISTED ION EXCHANGE WATER TREATMENT DEVICE HAVING SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENT OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS Zhejiang Qinyuan Water Treatment S. T. Co., Ltd. MENON, KRISHNAN S §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 22, 2024
18191440 METHOD FOR TREATING CEREBRAL APOPLEXY AND HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA BY COMPOUND FOR INHIBITING COMBINATION OF BILIRUBIN AND TRPM2 CHANNEL Shanghai Sixth People'S Hospital SZNAIDMAN, MARCOS L 1628 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2023
18156299 HEXAHEDRAL HEATING HIGH-TEMPERATURE STERILIZATION BIOLOGICAL SHAKING TABLE Shanghai Zhichu Instrument Co., Ltd. SPAMER, DONALD R 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jan 18, 2023
17615557 METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVE CO-EXPRESSING MULTIPLE PROTEINS IN VITRO AND APPLICATION THEREOF Kangma-Healthcode (Shanghai) Biotech Co., Ltd. TSAY, MARSHA M 1656 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 30, 2021

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