Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Rahman LLC

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

10 pending office actions • 9 clients • 10 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Rahman LLC has handled 930 career applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm reports a resolved allowance rate of 89.6 percent. On average, the firm navigates 2.76 office actions per allowance to secure these results. There are 8 pending office actions currently in the firm's queue.

The 89.6 percent allowance rate reflects the outcomes of the 930 applications processed by the firm. Practitioners can use the 2.76 average to benchmark the prosecution cycle for the 8 pending actions currently being managed.

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

Quality Metrics (n=931 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.6%
Allowance Rate
n=931
+0.67σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=931
2.8
OAs to Allowance
n=690
-0.48σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=690
1089 days
Time to Allowance
n=690
+6.5pp
Interview Lift
n=931
20.6%
RCE Rate
n=931
0.8%
Appeal Rate
n=931

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

87.8%
§101 Overcome
n=148
83.9%
§102 Overcome
n=236
85.4%
§103 Overcome
n=431
80.5%
§112 Overcome
n=308

Specialization & Scale

H04L, G06F, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
27%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=931
1
Practitioners
n=931
931.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=931

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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.

9
Hard (90%)
1
Medium (10%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (90%)

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
2
Semiconductors
20% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
60% of docket
2
Business / Other
20% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 1 10.7% +14.4%
BURGESS, JOSEPH D 1 39.7% +35.8%
HAILU, TADESSE 1 78.0% +4.0%
TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. 1 65.6% +27.7%
MIKAILOFF, STEFAN 1 42.7% +29.1%
HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. 1 65.5% +11.6%
LEE, NATHANIEL J. 1 63.4% +21.5%
TRAN, TIFFANY T 1 59.4% +48.6%
BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M 1 67.0% +14.1%
ABOUELELA, MAY A 1 75.3% +36.1%

Hard Cases (9)

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
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. —
18771805 KINETIC ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM MIKAILOFF, STEFAN —
18569105 MODULAR SHAFT-HUB CONNECTION CHARACTERISED BY A SHAFT MADE OF REGULAR POLYGONS HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. —
18287552 ENERGY CELL LEE, NATHANIEL J. —
18277579 Welding Robot Checker TRAN, TIFFANY T —

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
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. —
18771805 KINETIC ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM MIKAILOFF, STEFAN —
18569105 MODULAR SHAFT-HUB CONNECTION CHARACTERISED BY A SHAFT MADE OF REGULAR POLYGONS HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. —
18287552 ENERGY CELL LEE, NATHANIEL J. —
18277579 Welding Robot Checker TRAN, TIFFANY T —

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36852
28341
36471
28751
37611
36111
37911

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
18828660 CONTENT GENERATION IN AN ORGANISATION Contility Limited HAILU, TADESSE §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. §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 30, 2024
18771805 KINETIC ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM R2E Enterprises Ltd. MIKAILOFF, STEFAN 2834 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 12, 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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