Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Patent Capital Group-Match Group, LLC

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Patent Capital Group-Match Group, LLC demonstrates a resolved allowance rate pct of 100.0 across its 52 career applications. This success rate in the Computing & Software technology area indicates that every resolved application has resulted in an allowance. The firm currently manages 4 pending office actions, showing active engagement with the USPTO.

The process for these 52 career applications involves an avg office actions per allowance of 3.11. This figure shows that multiple rounds of negotiation are typical before reaching the 100.0 resolved allowance rate pct. Practitioners can use this avg office actions per allowance of 3.11 to anticipate the duration of the prosecution phase.

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

Quality Metrics (n=52 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

100.0%
Allowance Rate
n=52
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=52
—
OAs to Allowance
n=18 (min 20)
—
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=18 (min 20)
—
Time to Allowance
n=18 (min 20)
+0.0pp
Interview Lift
n=52
94.4%
RCE Rate
n=52
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=52

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=19 (min 20)
—
§102 Overcome
n=15 (min 20)
43.3%
§103 Overcome
n=30
—
§112 Overcome
n=8 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06N, G06V
Top CPC Subclasses
54%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=52
0
Practitioners
n=52
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=52 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

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.

3
Hard (60%)
2
Medium (40%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (60%)
§103 only2 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
80% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI 1 71.9% +20.5%
DETWEILER, JAMES M 1 38.8% +43.5%
LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 1 88.5% +5.3%
BREEN, JAKE TIMOTHY 1 65.0% +70.0%
HICKS, SHIRLEY D. 1 60.8% +50.5%

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
18847058 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER COMMUNICATION IN A NETWORK LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE —

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19176404 APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDED BROADCASTING INFORMATION AND METHOD THEREOF EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI —
18903549 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER COMMUNICATION IN A NETWORK DETWEILER, JAMES M —
17646465 Method and Device for Classifying Data BREEN, JAKE TIMOTHY —

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
19176404 APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDED BROADCASTING INFORMATION AND METHOD THEREOF EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI —
18903549 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER COMMUNICATION IN A NETWORK DETWEILER, JAMES M —
17646465 Method and Device for Classifying Data BREEN, JAKE TIMOTHY —
17545641 Method of Providing User Profile and Apparatus Therefor HICKS, SHIRLEY D. —

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Hyperconnect 3
Tinder LLC 2

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24251
36211
21611
21431
21681

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19176404 APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDED BROADCASTING INFORMATION AND METHOD THEREOF Hyperconnect LLC EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI 2425 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 11, 2025
18903549 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER COMMUNICATION IN A NETWORK Tinder LLC DETWEILER, JAMES M 3621 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 01, 2024
18847058 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER COMMUNICATION IN A NETWORK Tinder LLC LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 2161 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 13, 2024
17646465 Method and Device for Classifying Data Hyperconnect LLC BREEN, JAKE TIMOTHY 2143 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 29, 2021
17545641 Method of Providing User Profile and Apparatus Therefor Hyperconnect LLC HICKS, SHIRLEY D. 2168 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 08, 2021

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