Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
NOBLITT & NEWSON, PLLC operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm has managed 970 career applications and currently oversees 3 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 83.44. On average, the firm receives 3.28 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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, VERNAL U | 1 | 69.6% | +13.5% |
| DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | 1 | 66.6% | +37.6% |
| MINTZ, RODNEY K | 1 | 79.0% | +10.7% |
| SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | 1 | 75.4% | +8.0% |
| QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1 | 64.7% | +9.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19268892 | Methods and Apparatus for Pet Doors | BROWN, VERNAL U | — |
| 19187853 | ELECTRONIC GREETING CARD SYSTEM AND METHOD | DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | — |
| 19088026 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CASTELLATED EXTRUDED MULLION | MINTZ, RODNEY K | — |
| 18911636 | MICROPROCESSOR CONTROLLED PROSTHETIC ANKLE SYSTEM FOR FOOTWEAR AND TERRAIN ADAPTATION | SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | — |
| 18358290 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIFTING AND HANDLING MECHANISM FOR CRYOGENIC SPECIMENS | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | — |
| 18090881 | METHODS AND PREPARATION FOR HEMP BIODEGRADABLE ABSORBENT | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19268892 | Methods and Apparatus for Pet Doors | BROWN, VERNAL U | — |
| 19187853 | ELECTRONIC GREETING CARD SYSTEM AND METHOD | DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | — |
| 19088026 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CASTELLATED EXTRUDED MULLION | MINTZ, RODNEY K | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Smartec Products LLC | 1 |
| Ink'D Greetings, Inc. | 1 |
| Innovation Glass, LLC | 1 |
| Proteor Usa, LLC | 1 |
| Alcor Life Extension Foundation | 1 |
| Organa Dry LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19268892 | Methods and Apparatus for Pet Doors | Smartec Products LLC | BROWN, VERNAL U | 2686 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19187853 | ELECTRONIC GREETING CARD SYSTEM AND METHOD | Ink'D Greetings, Inc. | DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 | |
| 19088026 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CASTELLATED EXTRUDED MULLION | Innovation Glass, LLC | MINTZ, RODNEY K | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 | |
| 18911636 | MICROPROCESSOR CONTROLLED PROSTHETIC ANKLE SYSTEM FOR FOOTWEAR AND TERRAIN ADAPTATION | Proteor Usa, LLC | SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 | |
| 18358290 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIFTING AND HANDLING MECHANISM FOR CRYOGENIC SPECIMENS | Alcor Life Extension Foundation | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | 4100 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18090881 | METHODS AND PREPARATION FOR HEMP BIODEGRADABLE ABSORBENT | Organa Dry LLC | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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