Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Quarles & Brady LLP (Tuc)

12 pending office actions • 11 clients • 12 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 46 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1867 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.1%
Allowance Rate
n=1867
+0.62σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1867
2.6
OAs to Allowance
n=1193
-0.44σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1193
891 days
Time to Allowance
n=1193
+8.9pp
Interview Lift
n=1867
16.6%
RCE Rate
n=1867
4.3%
Appeal Rate
n=1867

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

95.4%
§101 Overcome
n=22
88.3%
§102 Overcome
n=128
84.4%
§103 Overcome
n=649
93.1%
§112 Overcome
n=174

Specialization & Scale

G02B, A61B, G01N
Top CPC Subclasses
16%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1867
0
Practitioners
n=1867
Apps / Practitioner
n=1867 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (67%)
3
Easy (25%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (67%)
§112 only3 (25%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
33% of docket
1
Information Tech
8% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
17% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
1
Business / Other
8% 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
NGUYEN, BAO LONG T 1 82.8% +7.4%
CAILLOUET, CHRISTOPHER C 1 67.7% +15.2%
PERREAULT, ANDREW D 1 46.6% +18.6%
PETKOVSEK, DANIEL 1 83.7% +10.1%
VERA, ELISA H 1 71.6% +27.0%
ROY, BAISAKHI 1 77.5% +18.8%
PAK, SUNG H 1 87.8% +11.4%
CHOY, PAN G 1 24.1% +34.5%
LEE, SHUN K 1 41.8% +15.4%
MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 1 65.5% +52.2%

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
18936868 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GUIDED MANEUVERING WITH WAVE-OFF ALERTS NGUYEN, BAO LONG T 16d
18642296 MULTI-FUNCTIONAL DEVICE MOUNT AND APPARATUS UTILIZING SAME PAK, SUNG H

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18592330 System for Improved Remote Processing and Interaction with Artificial Survey Administrator CHOY, PAN G 126d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18807042 HARNESS FOR CONTAINER AND USE OF SAME PERREAULT, ANDREW D 127d overdue
18592330 System for Improved Remote Processing and Interaction with Artificial Survey Administrator CHOY, PAN G 126d overdue
18675569 LITHOTRIPTER WITH DETECTION OF KIDNEY STONES ROY, BAISAKHI 74d overdue
18810379 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR SPLICING SHEET MATERIALS CAILLOUET, CHRISTOPHER C 50d overdue
18769284 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS FOR SELECTIVELY COATING FIBER-BASED FOOD CONTAINERS VERA, ELISA H 24d overdue
18778281 OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS POSSESSING HIGH NONLINEAR EFFICIENCY AND ADAPTIVE-PROFILE POLING PROCESS TO FABRICATE THE SAME PETKOVSEK, DANIEL
18642296 MULTI-FUNCTIONAL DEVICE MOUNT AND APPARATUS UTILIZING SAME PAK, SUNG H
18577433 SUPER-RESOLUTION LENS-FREE MICROSCOPY LEE, SHUN K

Client Portfolio (11 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36561
17451
37351
17481
37971
28741
36241
28841
17731
17991

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18936868 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GUIDED MANEUVERING WITH WAVE-OFF ALERTS Modular Mining Systems, Inc. NGUYEN, BAO LONG T 3656 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Nov 04, 2024
18810379 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR SPLICING SHEET MATERIALS Packsize LLC CAILLOUET, CHRISTOPHER C 1745 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Aug 20, 2024
18807042 HARNESS FOR CONTAINER AND USE OF SAME Arizona Rack Rentals LLC PERREAULT, ANDREW D 3735 §112 Final Rejection 127d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2024
18778281 OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS POSSESSING HIGH NONLINEAR EFFICIENCY AND ADAPTIVE-PROFILE POLING PROCESS TO FABRICATE THE SAME Arizona Board of Regents PETKOVSEK, DANIEL Non-Final OA Pending Jul 19, 2024
18769284 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS FOR SELECTIVELY COATING FIBER-BASED FOOD CONTAINERS Footprint International, LLC VERA, ELISA H 1748 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jul 10, 2024
18675569 LITHOTRIPTER WITH DETECTION OF KIDNEY STONES Storz Medical AG ROY, BAISAKHI 3797 §112 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending May 28, 2024
18642296 MULTI-FUNCTIONAL DEVICE MOUNT AND APPARATUS UTILIZING SAME Inscopix, Inc. PAK, SUNG H 2874 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2024
18592330 System for Improved Remote Processing and Interaction with Artificial Survey Administrator Inmoment, Inc. CHOY, PAN G 3624 §103 Final Rejection 126d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18577433 SUPER-RESOLUTION LENS-FREE MICROSCOPY Arizona Board of Regents LEE, SHUN K 2884 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 08, 2024
18535596 MICROPLASTIC FILTER FOR A WASHING MACHINE Hengst SE MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 1773 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 11, 2023
18556774 PASS BOX FOR DECONTAMINATION Airex Co., Ltd. SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE 1799 §112 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2023
18234121 Method for Using NFC Enabled Wallet Passes as Mobile Credentials and a Convenient Way to Create and Distribute Those Elatec GmbH DHAKAD, RUPALI 2437 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 15, 2023

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