Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Rahman LLC

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

11 pending office actions • 9 clients • 11 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Rahman LLC focuses on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and has 11 pending office actions. The firm reports 933 career applications, a resolved allowance rate of 89.47%, and an average of 2.76 office actions per allowance.

The allowance rate indicates that most resolved applications reached allowance. The office-action average shows that allowed matters commonly required more than two examination actions, providing a historical indication of response effort rather than a guarantee for current cases.

The pending docket represents active work within a broader application portfolio. Practitioners can use the metrics to assess general prosecution expectations for transportation and mechanical claims, while reviewing each file for the relevant commercial system, claim structure, and outstanding rejection.

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

Quality Metrics (n=933 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.5%
Allowance Rate
n=933
+0.67σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=933
2.8
OAs to Allowance
n=688
-0.47σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=688
1089 days
Time to Allowance
n=688
+6.8pp
Interview Lift
n=933
20.7%
RCE Rate
n=933
0.8%
Appeal Rate
n=933

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

87.2%
§101 Overcome
n=148
83.5%
§102 Overcome
n=236
85.2%
§103 Overcome
n=431
79.9%
§112 Overcome
n=309

Specialization & Scale

H04L, G06F, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
27%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=933
1
Practitioners
n=933
933.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=933

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
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.

10
Hard (91%)
1
Medium (9%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (9%)
§103 only1 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (82%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
9% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
9% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
82% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L 1 47.7% +28.6%
PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 1 10.0% +15.0%
BURGESS, JOSEPH D 1 39.7% +35.7%
NEWTON, CHAD A 1 38.4% +23.4%
HAILU, TADESSE 1 78.0% +4.0%
TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. 1 65.7% +27.8%
HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. 1 65.3% +11.9%
LEE, NATHANIEL J. 1 63.4% +21.5%
TRAN, TIFFANY T 1 60.6% +47.0%
BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M 1 67.0% +14.3%

Hard Cases (10)

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
18326369 THREE-DIMENSIONAL FOLDING FRAME, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, BICYCLE, AND MOTORCYCLE BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M 1d overdue
18963451 COLLABORATIVE, CONTINUOUS, AND COMPREHENSIVE RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM NEWTON, CHAD A 62d
19113922 AN IMPROVED ENDOSCOPE TIP SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L —
19026240 COMPUTER-CONTROLLED SMART REFERRALS SYSTEM AND METHOD PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL —
18828660 CONTENT GENERATION IN AN ORGANISATION HAILU, TADESSE —
18843182 AUTOMATED DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRYING MICROSCOPE SLIDES TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. —
18569105 MODULAR SHAFT-HUB CONNECTION CHARACTERISED BY A SHAFT MADE OF REGULAR POLYGONS HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. —
18287552 ENERGY CELL LEE, NATHANIEL J. —

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
18326369 THREE-DIMENSIONAL FOLDING FRAME, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, BICYCLE, AND MOTORCYCLE BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M 1d overdue
18963451 COLLABORATIVE, CONTINUOUS, AND COMPREHENSIVE RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM NEWTON, CHAD A 62d
19113922 AN IMPROVED ENDOSCOPE TIP SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L —
19026240 COMPUTER-CONTROLLED SMART REFERRALS SYSTEM AND METHOD PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL —
18977822 DIGITAL NATIVE TRIALS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BURGESS, JOSEPH D —
18843182 AUTOMATED DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRYING MICROSCOPE SLIDES TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. —
18569105 MODULAR SHAFT-HUB CONNECTION CHARACTERISED BY A SHAFT MADE OF REGULAR POLYGONS HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. —
18287552 ENERGY CELL LEE, NATHANIEL J. —

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36852
37991
36811
21741
37621
36471
28751
37611
36111
37911

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19113922 AN IMPROVED ENDOSCOPE TIP Biorad Medisys Private Limited SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L 3799 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 21, 2025
19026240 COMPUTER-CONTROLLED SMART REFERRALS SYSTEM AND METHOD Intellectual Frontiers LLC PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 3685 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 16, 2025
18977822 DIGITAL NATIVE TRIALS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Intellectual Frontiers LLC BURGESS, JOSEPH D 3685 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 11, 2024
18963451 COLLABORATIVE, CONTINUOUS, AND COMPREHENSIVE RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Intellectual Frontiers LLC NEWTON, CHAD A 3681 §101§103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Nov 27, 2024
18828660 CONTENT GENERATION IN AN ORGANISATION Contility Limited HAILU, TADESSE 2174 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 09, 2024
18843182 AUTOMATED DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRYING MICROSCOPE SLIDES Axata Neoscience Private Limited TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. 3762 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 30, 2024
18569105 MODULAR SHAFT-HUB CONNECTION CHARACTERISED BY A SHAFT MADE OF REGULAR POLYGONS Neuhaus Maschinenbau GmbH HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. 3647 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 11, 2023
18287552 ENERGY CELL Eng8 Limited LEE, NATHANIEL J. 2875 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 19, 2023
18277579 Welding Robot Checker Albaksan Dis Ticaret Ve Pazarlama A.S. TRAN, TIFFANY T 3761 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 16, 2023
18326369 THREE-DIMENSIONAL FOLDING FRAME, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, BICYCLE, AND MOTORCYCLE Feng Lin BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M 3611 §103§112Other Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending May 31, 2023
17639810 BIOLOGICAL FLUID TEST DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR A SALIVA TEST DEVICE Toda Groupe ABOUELELA, MAY A 3791 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 02, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Rahman LLC's patent allowance rate?

89.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Rahman LLC were allowed, across 933 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Rahman LLC average before allowance?

2.76 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Rahman LLC have?

11 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 9 clients, before 11 examiners in 10 art units.

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