Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Paradice and Li, LLP

7 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=14046 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

92.8%
Allowance Rate
n=14046
+0.63σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=14046
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=8527
-0.18σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=8527
1083 days
Time to Allowance
n=8527
+4.0pp
Interview Lift
n=14046
27.4%
RCE Rate
n=14046
2.9%
Appeal Rate
n=14046

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

87.7%
§101 Overcome
n=342
89.5%
§102 Overcome
n=1263
85.4%
§103 Overcome
n=4559
91.5%
§112 Overcome
n=680

Specialization & Scale

G06F, A61B, A61F
Top CPC Subclasses
28%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=14046
7
Practitioners
n=14046
2006.6
Apps / Practitioner
n=14046

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. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
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%)
4
Medium (57%)
3
Easy (43%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (43%)
§102 only1 (14%)
§112 only3 (43%)

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
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
57% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
2
Business / Other
29% 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
LOGIE, MICHAEL J 3 63.9% +10.3%
KIM, KIHO 1 85.4% +4.3%
FABIAN JR, ROBERTO 1 70.6% +25.5%
LE, HUNG VAN 1
EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 1 40.8% +39.5%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18986584 METROLOGY BASED ON TIME RESOLVED NON-ACOUSTIC SIGNALS KIM, KIHO

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
18339971 METROLOGY SOLUTIONS FOR COMPLEX STRUCTURES OF INTEREST EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 24d overdue
18784611 TRANSIENT ELLIPSOMETRY WITH ASYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL SAMPLING FABIAN JR, ROBERTO
18674631 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AEROSOL PARTICLES LOGIE, MICHAEL J
18653437 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AEROSOL PARTICLES LOGIE, MICHAEL J
18642553 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AEROSOL PARTICLES WITHOUT USING COMPLEX ORGANIC MALDI MATRICES LOGIE, MICHAEL J

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Onto Innovation Inc. 4
Zeteo Tech, Inc. 3

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28813
28771
36231

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18986584 METROLOGY BASED ON TIME RESOLVED NON-ACOUSTIC SIGNALS Onto Innovation Inc. KIM, KIHO §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2024
18784611 TRANSIENT ELLIPSOMETRY WITH ASYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL SAMPLING Onto Innovation Inc. FABIAN JR, ROBERTO 2877 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 25, 2024
18674631 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AEROSOL PARTICLES Zeteo Tech, Inc. LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 24, 2024
18653437 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AEROSOL PARTICLES Zeteo Tech, Inc. LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 02, 2024
18642553 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING AEROSOL PARTICLES WITHOUT USING COMPLEX ORGANIC MALDI MATRICES Zeteo Tech, Inc. LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2024
18611195 TRANSFER LEARNING FOR METROLOGY DATA ANALYSIS Onto Innovation Inc. LE, HUNG VAN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 20, 2024
18339971 METROLOGY SOLUTIONS FOR COMPLEX STRUCTURES OF INTEREST Onto Innovation Inc. EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A 3623 §102 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Jun 22, 2023

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