Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Perilla Knox & Hildebrandt LLP

Technology area: Networking & Security

106 pending office actions • 47 clients • 103 examiners • 82 art units • 0 of 106 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

PERILLA KNOX & HILDEBRANDT LLP works in Networking & Security and has 109 pending office actions. Its career application volume is 1799, placing the active docket within a substantial recorded prosecution history.

The resolved allowance rate is 99.12%, and the average office actions per allowance is 3.31. These figures provide separate views of outcome and examination effort: the rate addresses resolved allowances, while the action average reflects the prosecution activity preceding them. For practitioners, the profile combines a large current response workload with clear historical measures for assessing case handling in this technology area.

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

Quality Metrics (n=1799 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.4%
Allowance Rate
n=1799
+0.44σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1799
2.4
OAs to Allowance
n=874
-0.54σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=874
867 days
Time to Allowance
n=874
+4.7pp
Interview Lift
n=1799
23.2%
RCE Rate
n=1799
1.4%
Appeal Rate
n=1799

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

50.4%
§101 Overcome
n=111
71.0%
§102 Overcome
n=472
68.6%
§103 Overcome
n=698
66.9%
§112 Overcome
n=414

Specialization & Scale

H04W, G06F, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
17%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1799
12
Practitioners
n=1799
149.9
Apps / Practitioner
n=1799

Portfolio Summary

106
Total Pending OAs
73
Non-Final OAs
30
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

61
Hard (58%)
42
Medium (40%)
3
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (2%)
§101 + other9 (8%)
§103 only30 (28%)
§102 only11 (10%)
§112 only3 (3%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)50 (47%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
9% of docket
24
Information Tech
23% of docket
18
Communications
17% of docket
19
Semiconductors
18% of docket
31
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
4
Business / Other
4% 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.

1,060 h
Manual time on pending OAs
212 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
371 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
9.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ROJAS, BERNARD 3 82.9% +8.0%
POOS, JOHN W 2 93.4% +4.6%
WORRELL JR, LARRY D 1 82.8% +9.8%
MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI 1 53.3% +65.4%
YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW 1 77.8% +14.3%
SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN 1 78.3% +21.8%
WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA 1 31.0% +40.0%
LAM, TUAN THIEU 1 77.6% +13.1%
TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE 1 8.3% -12.5%
MCBETH, WILLIAM C 1 66.7% +58.3%

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
19475079 ARTICLE HAVING A TUBULAR WEFT-KNITTED JERSEY-BASED FABRIC WITH AN ENHANCED ECONOMIC GRIP TOP BAND WORRELL JR, LARRY D —

Hard Cases (61)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18351396 TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AHSAN, UMAIR 155d overdue
18717931 METHOD FOR OPERATING CREDIT EVALUATION MODEL USING TWO-STEP LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS AND SERVER FOR PERFORMING SAME KWONG, CHO YIU 45d overdue
18698949 A MESH FOR CONNECTING ITEMS THERETO WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN 22d overdue
18588498 INTERPRETER SERVICES LIFECYCLE APPLICATIONS AND ENVIRONMENT BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S 17d overdue
18850539 TOLL-FREE SUBSCRIPTION AND RENTAL SERVICE SYSTEM WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA 3d overdue
18257259 A CAMELLIA SINENSIS AND VITISBASED COMPOSITION AND A PROCESS OF PREPARATION THEREOF DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 8d
18588553 DETECTION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE FOLLANSBEE, KEITH TRAN-DANH 23d
19356246 IMPROVED SPLINTS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI —

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
18850539 TOLL-FREE SUBSCRIPTION AND RENTAL SERVICE SYSTEM WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA 3d overdue
19356246 IMPROVED SPLINTS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI —
19343545 LAUNCHER AND LIFTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW —
19235070 LATCH MECHANISM FOR PREVENTING LANCET OSCILLATION IN A LANCING DEVICE SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN —
19200758 POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT LAM, TUAN THIEU —
19173927 MODEL REQUEST METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM MCBETH, WILLIAM C —

Client Portfolio (47 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28376
37235
28573
26472
28422
36462
26442
37452
24112
17242

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19475079 ARTICLE HAVING A TUBULAR WEFT-KNITTED JERSEY-BASED FABRIC WITH AN ENHANCED ECONOMIC GRIP TOP BAND Sigvaris AG WORRELL JR, LARRY D 3732 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 14, 2025
19356246 IMPROVED SPLINTS AND METHODS OF TREATMENT Ps Medical Services Limited MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI 3786 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 13, 2025
19343545 LAUNCHER AND LIFTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME Nearthlab Inc. YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW 3642 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 29, 2025
19235070 LATCH MECHANISM FOR PREVENTING LANCET OSCILLATION IN A LANCING DEVICE Facet Technologies, LLC SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN 3771 §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 11, 2025
18850539 TOLL-FREE SUBSCRIPTION AND RENTAL SERVICE SYSTEM Life Labo Co., Ltd. WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA 3628 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 28, 2025
19200758 POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT Pu-Dan Limited Corp. LAM, TUAN THIEU §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2025
19196029 METHOD FOR INCORPORATING FUTURE CROP PRODUCTION INTO SAFE CLIMATIC SPACE China Agricultural University TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE 3625 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 01, 2025
19173927 MODEL REQUEST METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. MCBETH, WILLIAM C 2449 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 09, 2025
19089942 INFRARED CAMERA AND OUTER WINDOW ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE GLAZING Lynred WALKER, JARED T 2426 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 25, 2025
19086273 COMMUNICATION METHOD, APPARATUS, UE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. COX, NATISHA D 2458 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 21, 2025
19060961 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME WEB-BASED URBAN FLOOD Tsp Xr RENZE, GEORGE NICHOLAS 2613 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 24, 2025
19054835 THE CONTROL OF CONTINUOUS WATER TREATMENT The Water & Carbon Group Pty. Ltd. KEYWORTH, PETER 1777 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2025
19053545 POSITIONING MESSAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. LEWIS, IYONDA LATIFAH 2647 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 14, 2025
19053595 CHANNEL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS 2633 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 14, 2025
19037562 DUAL-MOTOR STRAIN WAVE GEAR CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION Fox Factory, Inc. BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY 3618 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 27, 2025
19031505 REMOTELY RECONFIGURABLE DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM AND METHODS Dali Wireless, Inc. REGO, DOMINIC E 2648 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 18, 2025
19021522 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING INDOOR SPACE DATA BASED ON VISUAL SLAM Tsp Xr HSIEH, PING Y 2664 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 15, 2025
18717931 METHOD FOR OPERATING CREDIT EVALUATION MODEL USING TWO-STEP LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS AND SERVER FOR PERFORMING SAME Kakaobank Corp. KWONG, CHO YIU 3693 §101 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2024
18878326 SCAN STRATEGY AND POST-PROCESSING FOR POWER BED FUSION OF UHMWPE VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC. SYED, NABIL H 2689 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 23, 2024
18877647 BIOGAS MATERIAL EVALUATION VALUE COMPUTATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM USED FOR BIOGAS MATERIAL EVALUATION VALUE COMPUTATION DEVICE Tbm Co., Ltd. RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM 3626 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18876393 SUPERCONDUCTING UNDULATOR DEVICE Renaissance Fusion MUSLEH, MOHAMAD A 2837 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 18, 2024
18968478 INTERNAL PEDICLE INSULATOR Chap-Med, Inc. COTRONEO, STEVEN J 3773 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 04, 2024
18967952 SELECTIVE SECONDARY PHASE-SHIFTING CONTROL FOR RESONANT CONVERTERS VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC. CHOI, SEUNG HO 2838 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 04, 2024
18871194 AERONAUTICAL MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM China Telecom Corporation Limited NEFF, MICHAEL R 2631 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 03, 2024
18870959 FLEXIBLE MINIATURE STRAIN SENSORS BASED ON HELIX STRUCTURES AND THEIR SCALABLE FABRICATION Advanced Functional Fabrics Of America, Inc. YOUNG, MONICA S 2855 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 02, 2024
18959926 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VISUAL INERTIAL ODOMETRY TO IMPLEMENTING VISUAL SLAM IN REALTIME Tsp Xr OMETZ, RACHEL ANNE 2668 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 26, 2024
18866598 MESOSTRUCTURES AND PROCESS FOR HELMET FIT VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC. SHAH, KAMINI S 2115 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 18, 2024
18860072 AUTOMATED OBJECTS LABELING IN VIDEO DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING AND OTHER CLASSIFIERS VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC. ZAK, JACQUELINE ROSE 2666 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18856671 RELAY TRANSMISSION METHOD, SWITCHING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND USER EQUIPMENT China Telecom Corporation Limited TRAN, PHUC H 2471 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 14, 2024
18854785 SYSTEM, METHOD, SERVER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED ASSISTING THE IDENTIFICATION OF PREFERENCES OF A USER WITH RESPECT TO DIFFERENT CANDIDATES PRESENTED TO THE USER Ars Software Solutions AG BURLESON, MICHAEL L 2681 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 07, 2024
18901218 DEMAND-ADAPTIVE MEMORY COMPRESSION IN HARDWARE VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC. WADDY JR, EDWARD 2135 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 30, 2024
18897995 GATE VOLTAGE LEVEL SHIFTING CIRCUIT MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS, INC. POOS, JOHN W 2842 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18850486 LITHIUM HYDRIDE FIRST WALL Renaissance Fusion DAVIS, SHARON M 3646 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 24, 2024
18850399 MAGNETIC CHAMBER AND MODULAR COILS Renaissance Fusion ROJAS, BERNARD 2837 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 24, 2024
18892873 BEAM PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. MADDOX, MICHAEL WAYNE 2463 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 23, 2024
18892239 NON-PUBLIC NETWORK ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. ELNOUBI, SAID M 2644 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 20, 2024
18846880 CONNECTING DEVICE AND MAGNETIC GRIPPER COMPRISING SUCH A CONNECTING DEVICE Ecm Technologies WIBLIN, MATTHEW 3745 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 13, 2024
18829664 COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL, AND NODE Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. SHIVERS, ASHLEY L 2477 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 10, 2024
18823861 MODEL ACCURACY DETERMINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND NETWORK-SIDE DEVICE Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. WAESCO, JOSEPH M §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 04, 2024
18816732 ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION OF BARRIER METAL LAYER FOR ELECTRODE OF GALLIUM NITRIDE MATERIAL DEVICE MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS, INC. BERRY, PAUL ANTHONY 2898 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 27, 2024
18807660 CODING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. OAKES, JUSTIN MONTGOMERY 2662 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 16, 2024
18804276 BEAM SWITCHING DELAY DETERMINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. TRAN, THINH D 2466 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 14, 2024
18800549 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING DOWNLINK TCI STATE, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. HENSON, JAMAAL R 2411 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 12, 2024
18787457 QOS CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. TANG, KAREN C 2447 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 29, 2024
18782796 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING VALIDITY DURATION OF REFERENCE SIGNAL, AND TERMINAL Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON 2472 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 24, 2024
18773650 BUTTON BATTERY Eskp3 Pty Ltd. OHARA, BRIAN R 1724 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 16, 2024
18728233 AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE BEIJING ROBOROCK INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. RIVERA, CARLOS A 3723 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 11, 2024
18727905 AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE BEIJING ROBOROCK INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R 3723 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 10, 2024
18728064 AUTOMATIC CLEANING DEVICE BEIJING ROBOROCK INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO 3723 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 10, 2024
18765899 GAP INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS AND NETWORK SIDE DEVICE Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. KRUEGER, KENT K 2474 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 08, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Perilla Knox & Hildebrandt LLP's patent allowance rate?

89.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Perilla Knox & Hildebrandt LLP were allowed, across 1,799 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Perilla Knox & Hildebrandt LLP average before allowance?

2.44 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Perilla Knox & Hildebrandt LLP have?

106 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 47 clients, before 103 examiners in 82 art units.

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