Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Rauschenbach Patent Law Group, Pllc

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

8 pending office actions • 5 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Rauschenbach Patent Law Group, PLLC has processed 438 career applications in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 93.85 percent. Prosecution involves 2.66 average office actions per allowance. There are 6 pending office actions currently.

The 93.85 percent allowance rate across 438 applications indicates the frequency of successful outcomes in the chemistry sector. The 2.66 average serves as a prosecution benchmark for the 6 pending matters currently on the docket.

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

Quality Metrics (n=439 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

93.9%
Allowance Rate
n=439
+0.69σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=439
2.7
OAs to Allowance
n=231
-0.37σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=231
1100 days
Time to Allowance
n=231
-4.0pp
Interview Lift
n=439
22.0%
RCE Rate
n=439
0.5%
Appeal Rate
n=439

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=8 (min 20)
90.1%
§102 Overcome
n=71
87.8%
§103 Overcome
n=156
85.9%
§112 Overcome
n=92

Specialization & Scale

H01J, G02B, H04B
Top CPC Subclasses
23%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=439
0
Practitioners
n=439
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=439 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due later (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.

3
Hard (38%)
3
Medium (38%)
2
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (38%)
§112 only1 (12%)
Double-patenting only1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
38% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
2
Business / Other
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SONG, MATTHEW J 2 60.4% +13.9%
GYLLSTROM, BRYON T 1 67.8% +7.5%
MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L 1 80.9% -0.8%
MAK, RODRICK 1 75.5% +26.0%
BOWMAN, ANDREW J 1 65.9% +13.2%
BENNETT, CHARLEE 1 58.6% +34.9%
NOEL, JEMPSON 1 66.5% +32.2%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17687652 LiDAR System with Active Fault Monitoring NOEL, JEMPSON 43d overdue
19224646 Deglaring Films for Illumination Systems GYLLSTROM, BRYON T 69d
18619069 Extrinsic LiDAR Calibration MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L —

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
17717679 Rotating Disk Reactor with Split Substrate Carrier BENNETT, CHARLEE 77d overdue
18412905 Method of Growing Personalized Single Crystal Diamond SONG, MATTHEW J 71d overdue
18328726 Multiple Chamber System for Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond and Related Materials BOWMAN, ANDREW J 70d overdue
17687652 LiDAR System with Active Fault Monitoring NOEL, JEMPSON 43d overdue
18937248 Method of Growing Single Crystal Diamond Assisted by Polycrystalline Diamond Growth SONG, MATTHEW J —
18333298 System and Method for Determining Wireless Service Quality using Inference MAK, RODRICK —

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28751
17141
24161
17171
17181
36451

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19224646 Deglaring Films for Illumination Systems Brightview Technologies, Inc. GYLLSTROM, BRYON T 2875 §102§103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending May 30, 2025
18937248 Method of Growing Single Crystal Diamond Assisted by Polycrystalline Diamond Growth Plasmability, LLC SONG, MATTHEW J DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 05, 2024
18619069 Extrinsic LiDAR Calibration Opsys Tech Ltd. MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 27, 2024
18412905 Method of Growing Personalized Single Crystal Diamond Plasmability, LLC SONG, MATTHEW J 1714 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2024
18333298 System and Method for Determining Wireless Service Quality using Inference 7Signal, Inc. MAK, RODRICK 2416 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 12, 2023
18328726 Multiple Chamber System for Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond and Related Materials Plasmability, Llc. BOWMAN, ANDREW J 1717 §112 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2023
17717679 Rotating Disk Reactor with Split Substrate Carrier VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC. BENNETT, CHARLEE 1718 §103 Final Rejection 77d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2022
17687652 LiDAR System with Active Fault Monitoring Opsys Tech Ltd. NOEL, JEMPSON 3645 §103§112 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2022

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