Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rauschenbach Patent Law Group, Pllc

9 pending office actions • 5 clients • 9 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (89%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (89%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
33% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
33% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
22% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GYLLSTROM, BRYON T 1 67.7% +8.0%
SONG, MATTHEW J 1 60.4% +14.0%
BOWMAN, ANDREW J 1 65.7% +12.9%
WERNER, DAVID N 1 67.7% +16.5%
CHEN, PATRICK C 1 82.2% +9.5%
NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE 1 25.0% +59.4%
BENNETT, CHARLEE 1 57.6% +36.1%
NOEL, JEMPSON 1 65.0% +35.6%
EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 1 64.1% +56.0%

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
18077270 Inductively Coupled Plasma Light Source with Direct Gas Injection CHEN, PATRICK C 78d overdue

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
17976554 Eye-Safe Long-Range Solid-State LIDAR System NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE 81d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17522953 LiDAR System with Transmit Optical Power Monitor EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 84d overdue
17976554 Eye-Safe Long-Range Solid-State LIDAR System NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE 81d overdue
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
18167847 System and Method for Solid-State LiDAR with Adaptive Blooming Correction WERNER, DAVID N 46d overdue
17687652 LiDAR System with Active Fault Monitoring NOEL, JEMPSON 43d overdue

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36452
28751
17141
17171
24871
28421
17181
28281

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19224646 Deglaring Films for Illumination Systems Brightview Technologies, Inc. GYLLSTROM, BRYON T 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending May 30, 2025
18412905 Method of Growing Personalized Single Crystal Diamond Plasmability, LLC SONG, MATTHEW J 1714 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Jan 15, 2024
18328726 Multiple Chamber System for Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond and Related Materials Plasmability, Llc. BOWMAN, ANDREW J 1717 §103 Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2023
18167847 System and Method for Solid-State LiDAR with Adaptive Blooming Correction Opsys Tech Ltd. WERNER, DAVID N 2487 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Feb 11, 2023
18077270 Inductively Coupled Plasma Light Source with Direct Gas Injection Energetiq Technology, Inc. CHEN, PATRICK C 2842 §103 Non-Final OA 78d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2022
17976554 Eye-Safe Long-Range Solid-State LIDAR System Opsys Tech Ltd. NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE 3645 Other Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2022
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 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2022
17522953 LiDAR System with Transmit Optical Power Monitor Opsys Tech Ltd. EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 2828 §103 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2021

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