Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Setter Roche LLP

5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=13223 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

94.2%
Allowance Rate
n=13223
+0.58σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=13223
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=8406
-0.07σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=8406
1118 days
Time to Allowance
n=8406
+2.8pp
Interview Lift
n=13223
32.6%
RCE Rate
n=13223
4.1%
Appeal Rate
n=13223

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

85.8%
§101 Overcome
n=337
92.5%
§102 Overcome
n=1022
88.2%
§103 Overcome
n=4840
91.2%
§112 Overcome
n=464

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H04W
Top CPC Subclasses
50%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=13223
14
Practitioners
n=13223
944.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=13223

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

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
4
Communications
80% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WANG, HANNAH S 1 49.6% +52.9%
LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K 1 82.5% +14.0%
ZENATI, AMAL S 1 79.7% +14.7%
DELLA, JAYMI E 1 68.7% +29.8%
BECKER, TYLER JUSTIN 1 75.0% +16.5%

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
18784911 MULTIPLICITY ELASTICITY LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17890454 SPEECH TRANSMISSION FROM A TELECOMMUNICATION ENDPOINT USING PHONETIC CHARACTERS BECKER, TYLER JUSTIN 42d overdue
18915783 IDENTIFYING MEETING PARTICIPANTS IN A REMOTE CONFERENCE WANG, HANNAH S
18784911 MULTIPLICITY ELASTICITY LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K
18777536 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RECONNECT COMMUNICATION TO THE SAME QUEUE AND PROVIDE QUEUE STATUS ON A DIFFERENT CHANNEL ZENATI, AMAL S
18088157 CONDUCTIVE SPACER IN AN ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY OF AN ELECTRICAL TREATMENT APPARATUS DELLA, JAYMI E

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Avaya 4
Pulse Biosciences 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
26311
26911
26931
37941
26571

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18915783 IDENTIFYING MEETING PARTICIPANTS IN A REMOTE CONFERENCE Avaya Management L.P. WANG, HANNAH S 2631 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 15, 2024
18784911 MULTIPLICITY ELASTICITY Avaya Management L.P. LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K 2691 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 25, 2024
18777536 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RECONNECT COMMUNICATION TO THE SAME QUEUE AND PROVIDE QUEUE STATUS ON A DIFFERENT CHANNEL Avaya Management L.P. ZENATI, AMAL S 2693 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2024
18088157 CONDUCTIVE SPACER IN AN ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY OF AN ELECTRICAL TREATMENT APPARATUS Pulse Biosciences, Inc. DELLA, JAYMI E 3794 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 23, 2022
17890454 SPEECH TRANSMISSION FROM A TELECOMMUNICATION ENDPOINT USING PHONETIC CHARACTERS Avaya Management L.P. BECKER, TYLER JUSTIN 2657 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2022

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