Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Parker Poe Adams and Bernstein, LLP

6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=21154 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.6%
Allowance Rate
n=21154
+0.56σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=21154
3.8
OAs to Allowance
n=14615
-0.02σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=14615
1010 days
Time to Allowance
n=14615
+10.7pp
Interview Lift
n=21154
37.5%
RCE Rate
n=21154
4.1%
Appeal Rate
n=21154

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

92.1%
§101 Overcome
n=837
87.5%
§102 Overcome
n=1949
84.6%
§103 Overcome
n=9817
90.2%
§112 Overcome
n=866

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
39%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=21154
11
Practitioners
n=21154
1923.1
Apps / Practitioner
n=21154

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
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.

1
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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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
PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS 1 60.0% +14.2%
MOU, LIYUAN 1 42.9% +56.4%
LOWERY, BRITTANY A 1 57.1% +43.1%
KISH, JAMES M 1 62.6% +12.0%
PARVINI, PEGAH 1 70.1% +12.2%
MCKENZIE, THOMAS B 1 57.4% +22.5%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18135411 LOW PROFILE BROODER LOWERY, BRITTANY A 70d overdue
17610293 CHITOSAN BASED COATING SYSTEM PARVINI, PEGAH 6d
18417058 Barrier Gate Optimized for Compact Transport and Simplified Onsite Assembly PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS
18487330 Stable Antiemetic Emulsions for Parenteral Administration MOU, LIYUAN
18040621 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROSTHETIC PLACEMENT, SURGICAL GUIDE PLACEMENT, AND ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY REASSEMBLY KISH, JAMES M
16950388 FILTERS, MOUNTS AND METHODS OF MOUNTING FILTERS MCKENZIE, THOMAS B

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36341
16281
36441
37921
17311
17761

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18417058 Barrier Gate Optimized for Compact Transport and Simplified Onsite Assembly Origin Point Brands, LLC PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS 3634 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 19, 2024
18487330 Stable Antiemetic Emulsions for Parenteral Administration Slayback Pharma LLC MOU, LIYUAN 1628 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 16, 2023
18135411 LOW PROFILE BROODER Gas Fired Products, Inc. LOWERY, BRITTANY A 3644 §103 Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending Apr 17, 2023
18040621 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROSTHETIC PLACEMENT, SURGICAL GUIDE PLACEMENT, AND ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY REASSEMBLY Neocis Inc. KISH, JAMES M 3792 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 03, 2023
17610293 CHITOSAN BASED COATING SYSTEM BONA AB PARVINI, PEGAH 1731 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Nov 10, 2021
16950388 FILTERS, MOUNTS AND METHODS OF MOUNTING FILTERS Brooks Equipment Company, LLC MCKENZIE, THOMAS B 1776 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 17, 2020

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