Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Sci-Law Strategies, Pc

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Sci-Law Strategies, PC focuses on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and has 5 pending office actions. The profile also records 367 career applications, indicating a smaller but measurable prosecution base.

The resolved allowance rate is 91.84%, and an allowance has required an average of 3.02 office actions. These results point to frequent allowance among resolved matters, with prosecution generally involving more than one examination exchange. Practitioners may view the profile as evidence of a strong resolution record alongside a manageable active docket.

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

Quality Metrics (n=367 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

91.8%
Allowance Rate
n=367
+0.67σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=367
3.0
OAs to Allowance
n=259
-0.35σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=259
963 days
Time to Allowance
n=259
+10.3pp
Interview Lift
n=367
22.7%
RCE Rate
n=367
0.4%
Appeal Rate
n=367

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

90.5%
§101 Overcome
n=21
86.4%
§102 Overcome
n=66
88.0%
§103 Overcome
n=125
81.2%
§112 Overcome
n=117

Specialization & Scale

G01N, G06T, A61B
Top CPC Subclasses
25%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=367
0
Practitioners
n=367
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=367 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

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%)
2
Medium (33%)
3
Easy (50%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (33%)
§112 only3 (50%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
33% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHERALI, ISHRAT I 1 93.2% +6.2%
WINDSOR, COURTNEY J 1 86.3% +9.0%
RICKS, DONNA J 1 76.7% +10.3%
DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1 47.2% +21.6%
TOWA, RENE T 1 49.5% +17.5%
ALLEN, MARIANNE P 1 60.1% +18.4%

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
18984863 AUTOMATIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHODS AND ANALYSIS WINDSOR, COURTNEY J —

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17768138 Natural non-pathogenic microorganisms capable of associating glycolipids or lipopeptides and use thereof DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 80d overdue
18424594 MULTI-USER MULTI-GPU RENDER SERVER APPARATUS AND METHODS RICKS, DONNA J 59d overdue
16492987 TARGET DETECTION USING A MONOVALENT ANTIBODY ALLEN, MARIANNE P 49d overdue
17666730 FRICTIONAL TISSUE SAMPLING AND COLLECTION METHOD AND DEVICE TOWA, RENE T —

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
PME IP PTY LTD 3
ACARYON GMBH 1
Histologics, LLC 1
NanoTag 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26671
26181
16451
37911
16471

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19030219 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS AND OTHER VOLUMETRIC IMAGES Pme Ip Pty Ltd. SHERALI, ISHRAT I 2667 Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
18984863 AUTOMATIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHODS AND ANALYSIS Pme Ip Pty Ltd. WINDSOR, COURTNEY J §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 17, 2024
18424594 MULTI-USER MULTI-GPU RENDER SERVER APPARATUS AND METHODS Pme Ip Pty Ltd. RICKS, DONNA J 2618 §103 Final Rejection 59d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2024
17768138 Natural non-pathogenic microorganisms capable of associating glycolipids or lipopeptides and use thereof Acaryon GmbH DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1645 §112 Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2022
17666730 FRICTIONAL TISSUE SAMPLING AND COLLECTION METHOD AND DEVICE Histologics, LLC TOWA, RENE T 3791 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 08, 2022
16492987 TARGET DETECTION USING A MONOVALENT ANTIBODY Nanotag Biotechnologies GmbH ALLEN, MARIANNE P 1647 §112 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Sep 11, 2019

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Sci-Law Strategies, Pc's patent allowance rate?

91.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Sci-Law Strategies, Pc were allowed, across 367 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Sci-Law Strategies, Pc average before allowance?

3.02 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Sci-Law Strategies, Pc have?

6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 6 examiners in 5 art units.

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