Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Novel Patent Services

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

6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Novel Patent Services handles Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering matters with 6 pending office actions and 134 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 79.49%, indicating allowance in a majority of resolved applications but not in all of them. The pending inventory is limited, though it represents active work within a relatively contained recorded portfolio.

The average of 2.48 office actions per allowance indicates that allowed matters generally reach resolution after several examination exchanges. Practitioners should consider this response measure alongside the allowance rate when evaluating likely prosecution effort. The profile points to a docket where focused management and claim presentation can be important to moving matters from examination toward allowance.

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

Quality Metrics (n=134 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

79.5%
Allowance Rate
n=134
+0.19σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=134
2.5
OAs to Allowance
n=62
-0.46σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=62
682 days
Time to Allowance
n=62
+0.7pp
Interview Lift
n=134
42.3%
RCE Rate
n=134
2.0%
Appeal Rate
n=134

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=19 (min 20)
41.4%
§102 Overcome
n=29
42.9%
§103 Overcome
n=56
50.0%
§112 Overcome
n=50

Specialization & Scale

H04L, G06F, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
22%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=134
0
Practitioners
n=134
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=134 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
1
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.

5
Hard (83%)
0
Medium (0%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (50%)
§112 only1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (33%)

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
1
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
83% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KHOO, STACY 1 82.1% +14.2%
KANAAN, LIZA TONY 1 23.4% +31.5%
GO, JOHN PHILIP 1 33.9% +43.3%
SHAH, JAY B 1 58.4% +6.0%
DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS 1 25.0% +0.0%
PRONE, JASON D 1 61.9% +24.5%

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
19063383 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND MONETIZING ORAL HEALTH DATA ON A BLOCKCHAIN-BASED PLATFORM KANAAN, LIZA TONY 5d
19333831 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM AGNOSTIC MIXED REALITY EXPERIENCE TO USERS KHOO, STACY —
19063387 SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED ORAL CARE PLANS FOR ENHANCED ORAL HEALTH AND DISEASE PREVENTION GO, JOHN PHILIP —
18674535 NON-INVASIVE SENSOR FUSION AND A1 TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMAN VITAL MEASUREMENT SHAH, JAY B —
18661630 VERTICALLY-MOUNTED MICRO FRICTION DRAG CHAIN MECHANISM DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS —

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19063383 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND MONETIZING ORAL HEALTH DATA ON A BLOCKCHAIN-BASED PLATFORM KANAAN, LIZA TONY 5d
19333831 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM AGNOSTIC MIXED REALITY EXPERIENCE TO USERS KHOO, STACY —
19063387 SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED ORAL CARE PLANS FOR ENHANCED ORAL HEALTH AND DISEASE PREVENTION GO, JOHN PHILIP —
18445555 Rechargeable waterproof smart cutlery and its charging case PRONE, JASON D —

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26241
36831
36811
37911
37251
37241

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19333831 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM AGNOSTIC MIXED REALITY EXPERIENCE TO USERS Flying Flamingos India Pvt Ltd. KHOO, STACY 2624 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 19, 2025
19063383 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND MONETIZING ORAL HEALTH DATA ON A BLOCKCHAIN-BASED PLATFORM Mina Amir Youssef KANAAN, LIZA TONY 3683 §101§103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Feb 26, 2025
19063387 SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED ORAL CARE PLANS FOR ENHANCED ORAL HEALTH AND DISEASE PREVENTION Mina Amir Youssef GO, JOHN PHILIP 3681 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 26, 2025
18674535 NON-INVASIVE SENSOR FUSION AND A1 TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMAN VITAL MEASUREMENT Bluesemi Research & Development Private Limitetd SHAH, JAY B 3791 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 24, 2024
18661630 VERTICALLY-MOUNTED MICRO FRICTION DRAG CHAIN MECHANISM National Institute Of Metrology, China DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS 3725 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending May 12, 2024
18445555 Rechargeable waterproof smart cutlery and its charging case Slow Control PRONE, JASON D 3724 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 16, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Novel Patent Services's patent allowance rate?

79.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Novel Patent Services were allowed, across 134 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Novel Patent Services average before allowance?

2.48 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Novel Patent Services have?

6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.

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