Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Patterson and Sheridan, LLP

6 pending office actions • 3 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=64842 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

91.6%
Allowance Rate
n=64842
+0.60σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=64842
3.7
OAs to Allowance
n=40597
+0.05σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=40597
1052 days
Time to Allowance
n=40597
+4.7pp
Interview Lift
n=64842
33.7%
RCE Rate
n=64842
3.1%
Appeal Rate
n=64842

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

88.0%
§101 Overcome
n=1414
88.8%
§102 Overcome
n=5780
85.4%
§103 Overcome
n=28503
91.1%
§112 Overcome
n=3865

Specialization & Scale

H04W, H04L, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
23%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=64842
11
Practitioners
n=64842
5894.7
Apps / Practitioner
n=64842

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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 only4 (67%)
§102 only2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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
TOOMER, CEPHIA D 1 74.1% +2.5%
SHARMA, SANTOSH 1 75.0% +26.3%
RUNYAN, SILVANA C 1 82.3% +17.2%
RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1 45.1% +33.1%
KWAK, DEAN P 1 58.4% +38.0%
WRIGHT, SARAH C 1 41.1% +46.4%

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
18827255 METHODS AND FORMULATIONS FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY RUNYAN, SILVANA C

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
17463362 HYDROGEL-ENCAPSULATED CELLS AND HYDROGEL-DISPERSED CELLS WRIGHT, SARAH C 23d
18981231 TOMATO PROPAGATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BREEDING SHARMA, SANTOSH
18827255 METHODS AND FORMULATIONS FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY RUNYAN, SILVANA C
17968700 MICROEMULSIONS AND USES THEREOF TO DISPLACE OIL IN HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD
17484381 APPARATUS AND PROCESSES FOR ISOLATING BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL KWAK, DEAN P

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING 4
MJNN 1
Piri Technologies, LLC 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17711
16631
36741
17591
17981
16191

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19103251 APPARATUS AND PROCESSES FOR SOLVENT EXTRACTION OF COAL UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING TOOMER, CEPHIA D 1771 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 12, 2025
18981231 TOMATO PROPAGATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BREEDING Mjnn LLC SHARMA, SANTOSH 1663 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2024
18827255 METHODS AND FORMULATIONS FOR ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY Piri Technologies, LLC RUNYAN, SILVANA C 3674 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 06, 2024
17968700 MICROEMULSIONS AND USES THEREOF TO DISPLACE OIL IN HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1759 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 18, 2022
17484381 APPARATUS AND PROCESSES FOR ISOLATING BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING KWAK, DEAN P 1798 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 24, 2021
17463362 HYDROGEL-ENCAPSULATED CELLS AND HYDROGEL-DISPERSED CELLS UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING WRIGHT, SARAH C 1619 §102 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Aug 31, 2021

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