Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Onyx Ip Group, Pllc

Technology area: Computing & Software

49 pending office actions • 1 client • 49 examiners • 32 art units • 0 of 49 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

ONYX IP GROUP, PLLC specializes in Computing & Software, with a total of 234 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 97.85 percent.

The firm currently manages 36 pending office actions and averages 2.86 office actions per allowance. This average of 2.86 suggests the typical path to allowance for the firm's 234 career applications.

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

Quality Metrics (n=74 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

84.0%
Allowance Rate
n=74
+0.10σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=74
2.0
OAs to Allowance
n=21
-0.59σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=21
1473 days
Time to Allowance
n=21
+7.6pp
Interview Lift
n=74
32.0%
RCE Rate
n=74
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=74

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=1 (min 20)
—
§102 Overcome
n=14 (min 20)
—
§103 Overcome
n=15 (min 20)
—
§112 Overcome
n=6 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H03K, H04W
Top CPC Subclasses
35%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=74
0
Practitioners
n=74
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=74 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

49
Total Pending OAs
27
Non-Final OAs
18
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

25
Hard (51%)
23
Medium (47%)
1
Easy (2%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (4%)
§101 + other9 (18%)
§103 only23 (47%)
§112 only1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)14 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
24
Information Tech
49% of docket
5
Communications
10% of docket
5
Semiconductors
10% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
9
Business / Other
18% 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.

490 h
Manual time on pending OAs
98 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
172 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
THERKORN, ERICA GERALDINE 1 100.0% +0.0%
REYES, REGINALD R 1 41.0% +31.9%
HOANG, HAN DINH 1 75.0% +17.7%
RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR 1 88.5% +17.7%
USSERY, CAIDEN ALEXANDER 1 50.0% +100.0%
WONG, NANCI N 1 87.2% +22.5%
SOFRONIOU, MICHAEL MARIO 1 100.0% +0.0%
SARWAR, BABAR 1 85.7% +19.7%
VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN 1 76.9% +28.3%
VU, TOAN H 1 77.4% +20.4%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19059254 EXTENDED REALITY QUALITY CONTROL PLATFORM THERKORN, ERICA GERALDINE —
18991223 AUTHENTICATING FIRMWARE CODE LEVELS ASSOCIATED WITH INSTRUCTIONS RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR —
18935411 COMPUTER-BASED ORCHESTRATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE MOVEMENT SARWAR, BABAR —

Hard Cases (25)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18525962 BLOCKING ACCESS TO HIGH TEMPERATURE COMPONENTS HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL 32d overdue
18499366 PRIORITIZATION OF CALL HOME DATA CHU, GABRIEL L 26d overdue
18442083 APPLICATION SETTING SHARING MALIK, ZEERICK ASIM 10d overdue
17704674 REDUCED LOGIC CONVERSION OF BINARY INTEGERS TO BINARY CODED DECIMALS BUI, KENNY KIM 20d
18650384 ON-DIE CONTROL FOR ACTIVE INTERPOSER VOLTAGE REGULATION SHAW, LAUREN ASHLEY 30d
18756002 SOCKET DOWNSTOP CREEP DETECTION WITH IN-LINE ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN 36d
18753616 VOLTAGE DROP DETECTION IN A POWER GRID ON AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MONSUR, NASIMA 61d
19032053 OCCUPATIONAL STRESS MANAGEMENT USING DIGITAL HUMANS AND HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTIONS REYES, REGINALD R —

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19032053 OCCUPATIONAL STRESS MANAGEMENT USING DIGITAL HUMANS AND HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTIONS REYES, REGINALD R —
19009223 HANDWRITING RECOGNITION USING EXTRACTED TRAJECTORY INFORMATION HOANG, HAN DINH —
18991223 AUTHENTICATING FIRMWARE CODE LEVELS ASSOCIATED WITH INSTRUCTIONS RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR —
18991310 FACILITATING COMMUNICATION AMONG AVATARS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT USSERY, CAIDEN ALEXANDER —
18982675 METHOD TO PERFORM ADAPTER SNOOP IN HARDWARE USING SPLIT STRUCTURE CACHE FOR SNOOP DATA CONSTRUCTS WONG, NANCI N —
18935411 COMPUTER-BASED ORCHESTRATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE MOVEMENT SARWAR, BABAR —
18934197 VEHICLE EVENT DETECTION BASED ON LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY OF EVENTS VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN —
18895213 DATA ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT GENERATION VU, TOAN H —

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
IBM 49

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21143
26612
21372
28582
21752
37632
21922
26181
36841
24341

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19059254 EXTENDED REALITY QUALITY CONTROL PLATFORM International Business Machines Corporation THERKORN, ERICA GERALDINE 2618 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 20, 2025
19032053 OCCUPATIONAL STRESS MANAGEMENT USING DIGITAL HUMANS AND HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTIONS International Business Machines Corporation REYES, REGINALD R 3684 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 18, 2025
19009223 HANDWRITING RECOGNITION USING EXTRACTED TRAJECTORY INFORMATION International Business Machines Corporation HOANG, HAN DINH 2661 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 03, 2025
18991223 AUTHENTICATING FIRMWARE CODE LEVELS ASSOCIATED WITH INSTRUCTIONS International Business Machines Corporation RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR 2434 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18991310 FACILITATING COMMUNICATION AMONG AVATARS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT International Business Machines Corporation USSERY, CAIDEN ALEXANDER 2611 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18982675 METHOD TO PERFORM ADAPTER SNOOP IN HARDWARE USING SPLIT STRUCTURE CACHE FOR SNOOP DATA CONSTRUCTS International Business Machines Corporation WONG, NANCI N 2137 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 16, 2024
18959600 PROBABILISTIC FEATURE MATCHING IN IMAGES International Business Machines Corporation SOFRONIOU, MICHAEL MARIO 2661 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 25, 2024
18935411 COMPUTER-BASED ORCHESTRATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE MOVEMENT International Business Machines Corporation SARWAR, BABAR 3667 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 01, 2024
18934197 VEHICLE EVENT DETECTION BASED ON LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY OF EVENTS International Business Machines Corporation VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN 3665 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 31, 2024
18895213 DATA ASSESSMENT DOCUMENT GENERATION International Business Machines Corporation VU, TOAN H 2178 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 24, 2024
18756002 SOCKET DOWNSTOP CREEP DETECTION WITH IN-LINE ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS International Business Machines Corporation NAVARRO, HUGO IVAN 2858 §103§112 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Jun 27, 2024
18753616 VOLTAGE DROP DETECTION IN A POWER GRID ON AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT International Business Machines Corporation MONSUR, NASIMA 2858 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 61d Pending Jun 25, 2024
18660429 AUTOMATED ON-DEMAND OCCUPANT ENVIRONMENT MODULATION IN A DATA CENTER International Business Machines Corporation NGUYEN, VAN H §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 10, 2024
18652449 POWER SUPPLY CONFIGURATION BASED POWER CAPPING International Business Machines Corporation CLEARY, THOMAS J 2175 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 01, 2024
18650384 ON-DIE CONTROL FOR ACTIVE INTERPOSER VOLTAGE REGULATION International Business Machines Corporation SHAW, LAUREN ASHLEY 2838 §102§103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18646921 EDGE DATA CENTER WITH INTEGRATED GEOTHERMAL COOLING International Business Machines Corporation SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN 2835 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18643616 TWO-STAGE PROCESSOR VOLTAGE REGULATION International Business Machines Corporation CHAN, DANNY 2175 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 23, 2024
18635109 DATA-FREE KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION International Business Machines Corporation KIM, DAVID §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 15, 2024
18625805 COMPUTE RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR CHANNEL LOGIN ACTIVITY International Business Machines Corporation BARTELS, CHRISTOPHER A. §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 03, 2024
18624245 AUTOMATED TRAINING DATASET MODIFICATIONS TO BALANCE DATA VARIATION International Business Machines Corporation ASEGDEW, NATNAEL AREGA §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 02, 2024
18622938 DYNAMICALLY CHANGING CPU FEATURES OF VIRTUAL CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS International Business Machines Corporation HUARACHA, WILLY W §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 30, 2024
18592840 RECONFIGURABLE TESTING OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT International Business Machines Corporation TANG, RONG 2111 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Mar 01, 2024
18442083 APPLICATION SETTING SHARING International Business Machines Corporation MALIK, ZEERICK ASIM 2193 §101§103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2024
18430339 CONFIDENCE-BASED EVENT GROUP MANAGEMENT, WORKFLOW EXPLOITATION AND ANOMALY DETECTION International Business Machines Corporation ALRIYASHI, ABDULKADER MOHAMED 2447 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 01, 2024
18414517 MULTIPLE CHIP MODULE DIRECT ATTACH COOLING International Business Machines Corporation PHAN, AN BACH 3763 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 17, 2024
18398322 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL CODE TRANSLATION ERROR DETECTION International Business Machines Corporation SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2191 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Dec 28, 2023
18397576 CHECKING CODE COMPLETENESS WITH HAPAX LEGOMENON International Business Machines Corporation LEE, MARINA 2192 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 27, 2023
18397433 COMBINATORIC CODE GENERATION FOR TRAINING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS International Business Machines Corporation BUI, HANH THI MINH 2192 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 27, 2023
18536390 CONTINUAL NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING IN AN EDGE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT International Business Machines Corporation WENG, PEI YONG §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 12, 2023
18536977 DEPLOYING A NEURAL NETWORK TO A NEW EDGE SERVER IN AN EDGE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT International Business Machines Corporation HOANG, MICHAEL H §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 12, 2023
18534922 SWAPPING FROM AN ACTIVE ADDRESS SPACE TO A SHADOW ADDRESS SPACE International Business Machines Corporation CHU JOY, JORGE A 2195 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 11, 2023
18531983 SELECTIVE BREEDING FOR DIVERGENT NEURAL NETWORKS IN AN EDGE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT International Business Machines Corporation XIA, XUYANG §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 07, 2023
18532077 DYNAMIC COMBINATORIAL TEST DESIGN MODELING International Business Machines Corporation RUSIN, KAYO LISA 2114 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 07, 2023
18526045 DESIGNATION OF A SWAP CONTROL SYSTEM IN A GROUP OF PEERS WITHIN A COMPUTING CLUSTER International Business Machines Corporation LEE, ADAM 2198 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 01, 2023
18525962 BLOCKING ACCESS TO HIGH TEMPERATURE COMPONENTS International Business Machines Corporation HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL 2841 §102§103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2023
18526161 LIFTING A FLOOR TILE OF A RAISED FLOOR International Business Machines Corporation MONTY, MARZIA T 2117 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 01, 2023
18526313 SYNCHRONIZING MIDDLEWARE PROCESS EXECUTION ON MULTIPLE PLATFORMS WITH CALLBACK CAPABILITIES International Business Machines Corporation ANYA, CHARLES E 2194 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 01, 2023
18517540 OBSCURED LOCATION VERIFICATION International Business Machines Corporation LE, CANH 2439 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Nov 22, 2023
18509628 COORDINATING AN UNPLANNED SWAP EVENT ACROSS MULTIPLE COMPUTING CLUSTERS International Business Machines Corporation PINGA, JASON MICHAEL 2137 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 15, 2023
18507196 MODEL-BASED UPDATING OF CALL HOME DATA International Business Machines Corporation WHITESELL, AUDREY EMMA 2114 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 13, 2023
18499366 PRIORITIZATION OF CALL HOME DATA International Business Machines Corporation CHU, GABRIEL L 2114 §101§112 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2023
18361532 METHOD OF PREDICTING FAILURE IN A CIRCUIT DESIGN CAUSED BY NOISE IMPACT International Business Machines Corporation AISAKA, BRYCE M §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Jul 28, 2023
18358232 COMPLIANT COUNTER-FLOW COLD PLATE International Business Machines Corporation LANE, DEVON 3763 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 25, 2023
18342006 PROVIDING DEDICATED MEMORY ASSIGNMENTS TO APPLICATIONS International Business Machines Corporation CAO, DIEM K 2196 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 27, 2023
18066665 DETECTING X STATE TRANSITIONS BY MONITORING A SUBSET OF SIGNALS DETERMINED BASED ON A DEVICE STATE International Business Machines Corporation KHAN, IFTEKHAR A 2187 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 15, 2022
17971841 REAMING TOOL VACUUM ASSEMBLY International Business Machines Corporation GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS 3619 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 24, 2022
17929305 ANALYZING DIGITAL CONTENT TO DETERMINE UNINTENDED INTERPRETATIONS International Business Machines Corporation AZIMA, SHAGHAYEGH 2671 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Sep 01, 2022
17704674 REDUCED LOGIC CONVERSION OF BINARY INTEGERS TO BINARY CODED DECIMALS International Business Machines Corporation BUI, KENNY KIM 2182 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 20d Pending Mar 25, 2022
17073581 ENSEMBLE MACHINE LEARNING MODEL International Business Machines Corporation STANDKE, ADAM C 2129 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 19, 2020

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