Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Provision Ip

Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

12 pending office actions • 7 clients • 12 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Provision IP manages 240 career applications in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 68.09 percent. Prosecution is relatively direct, with an average of 2.63 office actions per allowance. The firm currently has 8 pending office actions.

With 240 career applications, the firm has established a track record in its primary technology area. The 68.09 percent allowance rate and 2.63 office actions per allowance suggest a balanced approach between success rates and prosecution speed. These metrics provide a clear baseline for clients seeking patent protection in the transportation and mechanical engineering fields.

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

Quality Metrics (n=242 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

69.7%
Allowance Rate
n=242
+0.15σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=242
2.8
OAs to Allowance
n=69
-0.44σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=69
960 days
Time to Allowance
n=69
-1.1pp
Interview Lift
n=242
31.3%
RCE Rate
n=242
0.7%
Appeal Rate
n=242

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

29.0%
§101 Overcome
n=31
53.1%
§102 Overcome
n=49
48.4%
§103 Overcome
n=91
45.8%
§112 Overcome
n=72

Specialization & Scale

G06F, A47L, G06V
Top CPC Subclasses
22%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=242
0
Practitioners
n=242
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=242 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

11
Hard (92%)
1
Medium (8%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§101 + other6 (50%)
Double-patenting + other1 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
67% of docket
4
Business / Other
33% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EMMETT, MADISON B 1 80.2% +10.1%
YOUNG, TIFFANY P 1 79.7% +22.7%
REYES, REGINALD R 1 41.0% +31.9%
SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY 1 52.7% +27.2%
SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY 1 16.7% +16.3%
QAYYUM, ZESHAN 1 40.5% +30.8%
MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD 1 84.0% +11.0%
POLAY, ANDREW 1 74.0% +20.9%
PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 1 10.7% +14.4%
MOTAZEDI, SAHAR 1 65.8% +52.7%

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
19291687 ROBOTICS CONTROL AND SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD EMMETT, MADISON B —

Hard Cases (11)

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
18192598 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATION OF SERVICE ENGINE PLATFORM WITH AN EMR SYSTEM PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 45d overdue
18488106 ELECTRIC-POWERED BOAT WITH RETRACTABLE HYDROFOIL POLAY, ANDREW 8d overdue
18705259 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PEDIATRIC HEARTBEAT MONITORING SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY 9d
18971064 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATION OF IN-PERSON AND IN-CLINIC SERVICE ENGINE PLATFORM WITH AN EMR SYSTEM REYES, REGINALD R 22d
19174450 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AN ADAPTIVE MAPPING SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS FOR IMPROVED NAVIGATION YOUNG, TIFFANY P —
18827698 APPARATUS FOR COLLECTION OF NON-METALLIC AND METALLIC FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY —
18416858 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATED DOCUMENT PAGE CLASSIFICATION AND TARGETED DATA EXTRACTION QAYYUM, ZESHAN —
18536134 RARE EARTH PORTABLE MAGNET CLEANING APPARATUS HAVING A QUICK CLEAN SLEEVE MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD —

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18192598 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATION OF SERVICE ENGINE PLATFORM WITH AN EMR SYSTEM PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 45d overdue
18488106 ELECTRIC-POWERED BOAT WITH RETRACTABLE HYDROFOIL POLAY, ANDREW 8d overdue
18705259 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PEDIATRIC HEARTBEAT MONITORING SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY 9d
18971064 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATION OF IN-PERSON AND IN-CLINIC SERVICE ENGINE PLATFORM WITH AN EMR SYSTEM REYES, REGINALD R 22d
19291687 ROBOTICS CONTROL AND SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD EMMETT, MADISON B —
19174450 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AN ADAPTIVE MAPPING SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS FOR IMPROVED NAVIGATION YOUNG, TIFFANY P —
18827698 APPARATUS FOR COLLECTION OF NON-METALLIC AND METALLIC FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY —
18416858 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATED DOCUMENT PAGE CLASSIFICATION AND TARGETED DATA EXTRACTION QAYYUM, ZESHAN —

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36852
36841
37921
36531
36151
36671
37231

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19291687 ROBOTICS CONTROL AND SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD 11712381 Canada Corporation EMMETT, MADISON B §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 06, 2025
19174450 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AN ADAPTIVE MAPPING SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS FOR IMPROVED NAVIGATION Avidbots Corp YOUNG, TIFFANY P §101§102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 09, 2025
18971064 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATION OF IN-PERSON AND IN-CLINIC SERVICE ENGINE PLATFORM WITH AN EMR SYSTEM Teledact Inc. REYES, REGINALD R 3684 §101 Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 06, 2024
18827698 APPARATUS FOR COLLECTION OF NON-METALLIC AND METALLIC FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS Bluestreak Equipment Inc. SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 07, 2024
18705259 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PEDIATRIC HEARTBEAT MONITORING VITASCOPE INC. SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY 3792 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection 9d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18416858 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATED DOCUMENT PAGE CLASSIFICATION AND TARGETED DATA EXTRACTION Shinydocs Corporation QAYYUM, ZESHAN §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 18, 2024
18536134 RARE EARTH PORTABLE MAGNET CLEANING APPARATUS HAVING A QUICK CLEAN SLEEVE Bluestreak Equipment Inc. MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD 3653 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 11, 2023
18488106 ELECTRIC-POWERED BOAT WITH RETRACTABLE HYDROFOIL Envgo Inc. POLAY, ANDREW 3615 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Oct 17, 2023
18192598 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATION OF SERVICE ENGINE PLATFORM WITH AN EMR SYSTEM Teledact Inc. PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 3685 §101§112 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023
17964873 LOCALIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS FOR AUTONOMOUS INDOOR SEMI-AUTONOMOUS DEVICES Avidbots Corp MOTAZEDI, SAHAR 3667 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 12, 2022
17662486 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATING TEXT MESSAGING READ NOTIFICATION WITH AN EMR SYSTEM Teledact Inc. GARTLAND, SCOTT D 3685 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 09, 2022
17650678 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEMI-AUTONOMOUS CLEANING OF SURFACES Avidbots Corp CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES 3723 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 11, 2022

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