Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Schmidt Patent Law, Inc.

17 pending office actions • 4 clients • 15 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=1049 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

93.6%
Allowance Rate
n=1049
+0.76σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1049
3.3
OAs to Allowance
n=700
-0.18σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=700
950 days
Time to Allowance
n=700
+2.0pp
Interview Lift
n=1049
32.2%
RCE Rate
n=1049
3.0%
Appeal Rate
n=1049

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=15 (min 20)
83.9%
§102 Overcome
n=292
86.4%
§103 Overcome
n=493
87.6%
§112 Overcome
n=290

Specialization & Scale

H10H, Y02E, H10F
Top CPC Subclasses
34%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1049
0
Practitioners
n=1049
Apps / Practitioner
n=1049 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 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.

7
Hard (41%)
9
Medium (53%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (53%)
§112 only1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (41%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
24% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
9
Semiconductors
53% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
4
Business / Other
24% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JONES, ERIC W 2 62.1% +17.0%
SUN, MICHAEL Y 2 57.0% +27.1%
KRYUKOVA, ERIN 1 64.3% +28.8%
AMARA, MOHAMED K 1 75.7% +30.0%
YASMEEN, NISHATH 1 77.1% +9.5%
WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 1 88.3% +19.6%
SANDVIK, BENJAMIN P 1 76.7% +6.2%
GONDARENKO, NATALIA A 1 72.5% +20.9%
UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C 1 79.0% +21.9%
YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY 1 73.8% +19.5%

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
18680059 PATTERNING PHOSPHOR LAYERS USING POLYMER MASKS WINTERS, SEAN AYERS

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18625453 OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ADHESION LAYER TO CONNECT NOBLE METALS TO OXIDES GONDARENKO, NATALIA A 56d overdue
18742116 REDUCING CROSSTALK AND IMPROVING CONTRAST IN LED AND PCLED ARRAYS YASMEEN, NISHATH
18651076 WAVELENGTH CONVERTER FOR LUMINESCENCE THERMOMETRY JONES, ERIC W
18444015 VARIABLE TERRAIN SOLAR TRACKER SUN, MICHAEL Y
18433077 VARIABLE TERRAIN SOLAR TRACKER SUN, MICHAEL Y
18514956 LED WITH METAL REFLECTOR CHEEK, EDWARD RHETT
18207917 TILEABLE MICROLED DISPLAY IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18625453 OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ADHESION LAYER TO CONNECT NOBLE METALS TO OXIDES GONDARENKO, NATALIA A 56d overdue
19095328 ILLUMINATOR COMPRISING BICONVEX LENS WITH TIR TEETH KRYUKOVA, ERIN 15d overdue
18542189 CHIP SCALE PACKAGE LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE WITH THIN, CONFORMAL WAVELENGTH CONVERTER JONES, ERIC W 9d overdue
18409947 LED SENSOR MODULE UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C 7d
18926083 PHOSPHOR COMPOSITIONS AND LIGHT SOURCES FOR SWIR SPECTROSCOPY AMARA, MOHAMED K
18680059 PATTERNING PHOSPHOR LAYERS USING POLYMER MASKS WINTERS, SEAN AYERS
18651076 WAVELENGTH CONVERTER FOR LUMINESCENCE THERMOMETRY JONES, ERIC W
18444015 VARIABLE TERRAIN SOLAR TRACKER SUN, MICHAEL Y

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28772
28912
17282
28751
28121
28921
28131
28171
16811
17261

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19095328 ILLUMINATOR COMPRISING BICONVEX LENS WITH TIR TEETH Lumileds LLC KRYUKOVA, ERIN 2875 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2025
18926083 PHOSPHOR COMPOSITIONS AND LIGHT SOURCES FOR SWIR SPECTROSCOPY Lumileds LLC AMARA, MOHAMED K 2877 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 24, 2024
18742116 REDUCING CROSSTALK AND IMPROVING CONTRAST IN LED AND PCLED ARRAYS Lumileds LLC YASMEEN, NISHATH §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 13, 2024
18680059 PATTERNING PHOSPHOR LAYERS USING POLYMER MASKS Lumileds LLC WINTERS, SEAN AYERS §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2024
18651076 WAVELENGTH CONVERTER FOR LUMINESCENCE THERMOMETRY Lumileds LLC JONES, ERIC W §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2024
18628447 LED LAMP WITH INFRARED OUTPUT Lumileds LLC SANDVIK, BENJAMIN P §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 05, 2024
18625453 OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ADHESION LAYER TO CONNECT NOBLE METALS TO OXIDES Lumileds LLC GONDARENKO, NATALIA A 2891 §103§112 Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2024
18444015 VARIABLE TERRAIN SOLAR TRACKER Nevados Engineering, Inc. SUN, MICHAEL Y 1728 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 16, 2024
18433077 VARIABLE TERRAIN SOLAR TRACKER Nevados Engineering, Inc. SUN, MICHAEL Y 1728 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 05, 2024
18409947 LED SENSOR MODULE Lumileds LLC UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C 2877 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Jan 11, 2024
18397522 Transparent Conductive Oxide Layer With Ohmic Contact On n-type AlInGaP for LEDs and MicroLEDs Lumileds LLC YEMELYANOV, DMITRIY 2891 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2023
18541732 Carrier Confinement Structure of AlInGaP MicroLEDs Lumileds LLC MAZUMDER, DIDARUL A 2812 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 15, 2023
18542189 CHIP SCALE PACKAGE LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE WITH THIN, CONFORMAL WAVELENGTH CONVERTER Lumileds LLC JONES, ERIC W 2892 §103Other Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18514956 LED WITH METAL REFLECTOR Lumileds LLC CHEEK, EDWARD RHETT 2813 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 20, 2023
18207917 TILEABLE MICROLED DISPLAY Lumileds LLC IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA 2817 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jun 09, 2023
18132703 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING ULTIMA GENOMICS, INC. GREENE, CAROLYN LEE 1681 §112 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Apr 10, 2023
17870268 FRONT CONTACT SOLAR CELL WITH FORMED EMITTER Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. PILLAY, DEVINA 1726 §103 Final Rejection 111d overdue Pending Jul 21, 2022

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