Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Patent Capital Group

6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=632 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

92.6%
Allowance Rate
n=632
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=632
3.7
OAs to Allowance
n=427
+0.07σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=427
1048 days
Time to Allowance
n=427
+2.5pp
Interview Lift
n=632
39.5%
RCE Rate
n=632
3.7%
Appeal Rate
n=632

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

70.8%
§101 Overcome
n=96
85.7%
§102 Overcome
n=189
84.1%
§103 Overcome
n=309
84.9%
§112 Overcome
n=159

Specialization & Scale

H04L, H04W, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
32%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=632
7
Practitioners
n=632
90.3
Apps / Practitioner
n=632

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
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
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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.

3
Hard (50%)
2
Medium (33%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (33%)
§103 only1 (17%)
Double-patenting only1 (17%)
Double-patenting + other1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
50% of docket
2
Communications
33% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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
MEHEDI, MORSHED 1 85.9% -0.8%
KAPLAN, BENJAMIN A 1 88.7% +11.8%
KHANAL, SANDARVA 1 67.4% +15.4%
VO, HUYEN X 1 83.3% +20.0%
HASHEM, LISA 1 74.7% +12.4%
PAN, PHOEBE X 1 46.9% +42.2%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19097706 Providing Access to Data in a Secure Communication MEHEDI, MORSHED
18823389 CLOUD BASED JUST IN TIME MEMORY ANALYSIS FOR MALWARE DETECTION KAPLAN, BENJAMIN A

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
18401159 Artificial Intelligence Queries with Multiple Constraints VO, HUYEN X 2d overdue
18401174 Content-Independent Dropped Call Detection HASHEM, LISA 83d
18601683 SCRIPT APPLICATION FOR INFORMATION GATHERING KHANAL, SANDARVA

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
18401159 Artificial Intelligence Queries with Multiple Constraints VO, HUYEN X 2d overdue
18401174 Content-Independent Dropped Call Detection HASHEM, LISA 83d
18823389 CLOUD BASED JUST IN TIME MEMORY ANALYSIS FOR MALWARE DETECTION KAPLAN, BENJAMIN A
18601683 SCRIPT APPLICATION FOR INFORMATION GATHERING KHANAL, SANDARVA
18452408 COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERACTIVE CONTENT PRESENTATION AND REAL-TIME ASSISTANCE PAN, PHOEBE X

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24341
24531
26561
26921
21791

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19097706 Providing Access to Data in a Secure Communication Sonicwall Inc. MEHEDI, MORSHED DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 01, 2025
18823389 CLOUD BASED JUST IN TIME MEMORY ANALYSIS FOR MALWARE DETECTION Sonicwall Inc. KAPLAN, BENJAMIN A 2434 DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Sep 03, 2024
18601683 SCRIPT APPLICATION FOR INFORMATION GATHERING Intrado Life & Safety, Inc. KHANAL, SANDARVA 2453 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 11, 2024
18401159 Artificial Intelligence Queries with Multiple Constraints Cx360, Inc. VO, HUYEN X 2656 §101§103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2023
18401174 Content-Independent Dropped Call Detection Cx360, Inc. HASHEM, LISA 2692 §102§112 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18452408 COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERACTIVE CONTENT PRESENTATION AND REAL-TIME ASSISTANCE Digital Media Innovations, LLC PAN, PHOEBE X 2179 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 18, 2023

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