Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Setter Roche Smith & Shellenberger LLP

62 pending office actions • 34 clients • 62 examiners • 43 art units • 0 of 62 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=2753 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.6%
Allowance Rate
n=2753
+0.52σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=2753
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=1481
-0.11σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1481
1000 days
Time to Allowance
n=1481
+5.6pp
Interview Lift
n=2753
33.3%
RCE Rate
n=2753
5.7%
Appeal Rate
n=2753

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

75.0%
§101 Overcome
n=352
80.7%
§102 Overcome
n=600
79.6%
§103 Overcome
n=1175
84.0%
§112 Overcome
n=644

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H02J
Top CPC Subclasses
33%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=2753
9
Practitioners
n=2753
305.9
Apps / Practitioner
n=2753

Portfolio Summary

62
Total Pending OAs
45
Non-Final OAs
14
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

14
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
6
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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (14)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (6)

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.

29
Hard (47%)
23
Medium (37%)
8
Easy (13%)
2
Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (6%)
§101 + other10 (16%)
§103 only21 (34%)
§102 only1 (2%)
§112 only3 (5%)
Double-patenting only5 (8%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)15 (24%)
No statute on record2 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
6% of docket
17
Information Tech
27% of docket
4
Communications
6% of docket
3
Semiconductors
5% of docket
21
Mechanical / Eng
34% of docket
13
Business / Other
21% 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.

620 h
Manual time on pending OAs
124 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
217 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WHALEN, MICHAEL F 1 64.4% +19.0%
WINDER, PATRICE L 1 86.9% +11.4%
MERCADO, RAMON A 1 81.5% +18.4%
SHAH, PRIYANK J 1 67.7% +18.1%
KAN, YURI 1 85.9% +12.3%
CHANG, EDWARD 1 63.3% +32.1%
SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 1 61.4% +26.5%
OQUENDO, CARIB A 1 77.9% +12.9%
DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 1 89.3% +5.1%
KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE 1 73.5% +19.2%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19220386 FOUNDATIONAL MACHINE LEARNING MODEL APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) SECURITY WINDER, PATRICE L
19170710 Aerial Vehicle Touchdown Detection KAN, YURI

Hard Cases (29)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18373105 DYNAMIC DATA RESAMPLING BASED ON MEDICAL RELEVANCE SASS, KIMBERLY A. 58d overdue
18249958 ORCHESTRATING DATACENTER WORKLOADS BASED ON ENERGY FORECASTS WAI, ERIC CHARLES 24d overdue
18834933 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES GOODBODY, JOAN T 19d overdue
18956411 ELECTRIC VEHICLE POWERTRAIN CONTROL ALGORITHM LAGUARDA, GONZALO 17d overdue
18546996 Methods And Systems For High-Resolution And High Signal-To-Noise Ratio Imaging Through Generalized Media DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER 11d overdue
18627677 AUGMENTED FRONT IMPACT PROTECTION USING A VEHICLE SUBFRAME FREEDMAN, LAURA 3d overdue
18961575 Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Rotor Configurations BADAWI, MEDHAT 71d
18808517 Collection Of State Information By Nodes In A Cluster To Handle Cluster Management After Master-Node Failover SHIN, KYUNG H 75d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
19214896 AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSET INTEGRATION WITH WEARABLE TRAINING DEVICES SHAH, PRIYANK J 24d overdue
19038062 Enhanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flight With Situational Awareness For Moving Vessels KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE 83d
19246129 Task Management For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles WHALEN, MICHAEL F
19220386 FOUNDATIONAL MACHINE LEARNING MODEL APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) SECURITY WINDER, PATRICE L
19214865 MOBILE DEVICE INTEGRATION WITH WEARABLE TRAINING DEVICES MERCADO, RAMON A
19170710 Aerial Vehicle Touchdown Detection KAN, YURI
19096690 COMPARATIVE SEARCHING IN A REAL ESTATE SEARCH ENGINE CHANG, EDWARD
19073827 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR ENHANCED RISK ASSESSMENT SINGH, GURKANWALJIT

Client Portfolio (34 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36614
24472
21952
24382
36282
26261
36251
21321
36621
36421

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19246129 Task Management For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Skydio, Inc. WHALEN, MICHAEL F 3661 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 23, 2025
19220386 FOUNDATIONAL MACHINE LEARNING MODEL APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) SECURITY Cequence Security, Inc. WINDER, PATRICE L §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 28, 2025
19214865 MOBILE DEVICE INTEGRATION WITH WEARABLE TRAINING DEVICES Sunday Robotics, Inc. MERCADO, RAMON A §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 21, 2025
19214896 AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSET INTEGRATION WITH WEARABLE TRAINING DEVICES Sunday Robotics, Inc. SHAH, PRIYANK J 2626 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending May 21, 2025
19170710 Aerial Vehicle Touchdown Detection Skydio, Inc. KAN, YURI 3661 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 04, 2025
19096690 COMPARATIVE SEARCHING IN A REAL ESTATE SEARCH ENGINE R.E. Data Lab Inc. CHANG, EDWARD DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 31, 2025
19073827 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR ENHANCED RISK ASSESSMENT Alessa Inc. SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 3625 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 07, 2025
19069808 CONDUIT GUIDE AND SPACER SYSTEM Quantum Loophole, Inc. OQUENDO, CARIB A DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 04, 2025
19066396 DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH CONFIGURABLE POLICY-BASED STORAGE DEVICE BEHAVIOR Gaea LLC DUDEK JR, EDWARD J 2132 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 28, 2025
19038062 Enhanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flight With Situational Awareness For Moving Vessels Skydio, Inc. KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE 3661 §101DP Non-Final OA 83d Pending Jan 27, 2025
19010961 Data Transfer Management For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Skydio, Inc. NGUYEN, LINH T 2447 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 06, 2025
18990382 User Interaction With An Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Skydio, Inc. ISMAIL, MAHMOUD S 3662 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 20, 2024
18961575 Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Rotor Configurations Skydio, Inc. BADAWI, MEDHAT 3642 §103§112 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Nov 27, 2024
18956411 ELECTRIC VEHICLE POWERTRAIN CONTROL ALGORITHM Gillig LLC LAGUARDA, GONZALO 3747 §102§103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2024
18956153 ELECTRIC VEHICLE POWERTRAIN CONTROL ALGORITHM Gillig LLC CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 3661 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2024
18943331 AUTHENTICATION OF PUBLIC ENCRYPTION KEYS USING AN ADMINISTRATIVE SIGNATURE Tailscale Inc. GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D 2446 DPOther Non-Final OA 62d Pending Nov 11, 2024
18924266 MULTIFUNCTIONAL STORAGE AND PROTECTION SYSTEM Ip/Austria Assets Trust PANG, ROGER L §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 23, 2024
18895741 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RENDERING SCENES WITH OBJECT-COMPOSABLE NERFS Embodied Intelligence Inc. DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 25, 2024
18893257 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AGENT THAT LEVERAGES APPLICATION BEHAVIORAL MODELS AppLand Inc. LEE, MARINA §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 23, 2024
18889029 LOCATION BASED RESTRICTIONS ON NETWORKED GAMING AG 18, LLC KIM, KEVIN Y DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 18, 2024
18843777 METHOD FOR CONNECTING SHEET METAL PARTS TO FORM LAMINATION STACKS, AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD Voestalpine Automotive Components Dettingen GmbH & Co. Kg MCNALLY, DANIEL 1746 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 04, 2024
18808517 Collection Of State Information By Nodes In A Cluster To Handle Cluster Management After Master-Node Failover Netapp, Inc. SHIN, KYUNG H 2447 §101§103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Aug 19, 2024
18838138 OPHTHALMIC INSTRUMENT FOR SELF-TONOMETRY Eye To Eye Telehealth, Inc. SHAH, JAY B §101 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 13, 2024
18799034 Data Storage System Drive Utilization Netapp, Inc. KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R 2114 §103 Final Rejection 103d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2024
18796042 AI-GENERATED ALGORITHMS FOR PROCESSING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA Gtwerx AI, Inc. HODAC, ERIC KHOI 3648 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 06, 2024
18834933 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES Fisker Inc. GOODBODY, JOAN T 3664 §102§103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18787306 Systems And Methods For Resource Lifecyle Management Netapp, Inc. LIN, HSING CHUN 2195 §102§103§112Other Final Rejection Pending Jul 29, 2024
18785888 Data Exfiltration Monitoring Using Hash Values Netapp, Inc. HERZOG, MADHURI R 2438 §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2024
18779845 ITEM IDENTIFICATION IN AN IMAGE BY A VISUAL IDENTIFICATION MODEL TRAINED USING INFORMATION FROM AN ITEM SCANNER SYSTEM DRAGONFRUIT AI, INC. WERONSKI, MATTHEW S 3627 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 22, 2024
18771027 PROPERTY VALUATION USING HISTORICAL DATA Quantarium Group, LLC MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT 3628 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 12, 2024
18771296 APPRAISAL ENGINE(S) FOR PROPERTY VALUATION BASED ON COMPARABLE PROPERTIES Quantarium Group, LLC MOORE, DUANE NEIL 3628 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 12, 2024
18767194 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Rooftop Inspection System Skydio, Inc. CASS, JEAN PAUL 3666 DP Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jul 09, 2024
18767440 DYNAMIC CONTENT SCHEDULER Atmosphere.tv NEWLIN, TIMOTHY R 2424 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Jul 09, 2024
18762809 Ground Control Point Center Determination Skydio, Inc. THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI 2668 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 03, 2024
18740944 Hybrid Model Of Fine-Grained Locking And Data Partitioning Netapp, Inc. ELLIS, MATTHEW J 2152 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18710378 METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE CONTENT OF AT LEAST METALLIC IRON IN SPONGE IRON - OR A SAMPLE THEREOF - THAT IS PRODUCED BY DIRECT REDUCTION FROM IRON ORE Voestalpine Stahl GmbH DESTA, ELIAS §101 Non-Final OA Pending May 15, 2024
18627677 AUGMENTED FRONT IMPACT PROTECTION USING A VEHICLE SUBFRAME Fisker Inc. FREEDMAN, LAURA 3614 §102§103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18599466 VIDEO SURVEILLANCE PROCESSING BASED ON DISTORTION IDENTIFIED IN VIDEO STREAMS DRAGONFRUIT AI, INC. BOYAR, NOAH WILLIAM 2669 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2024
18688219 CONTROL DEVICE FOR A BATTERY SYSTEM Elringklinger AG MURATA, AUSTIN §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 29, 2024
18588396 CONNECTED TV OUT-OF-HOME CONTEXTUALIZED ADVERTISING Atmosphere.tv DURAN, ARTHUR D 3622 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 27, 2024
18293258 Dynamic Assessment Of Airway Deformation The Regents of the University of Colorado AZIMA, SHAGHAYEGH 2671 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jan 29, 2024
18424122 Cloud Ransomware Detection Netapp, Inc. JEUDY, JOSNEL 2438 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 26, 2024
18423922 Multi-Level Ransomware Detection Netapp, Inc. WILLIAMS, JEFFERY L 2495 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18424050 Adaptive Chunk Scaling For Ransomware Detection Netapp, Inc. ABYANEH, ALI S 2437 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18579770 COSMETIC BRUSH UNIT Geka GmbH STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING 3772 §103 Non-Final OA 82d Pending Jan 16, 2024
18409946 MODULAR MAGNETICALLY SHIELDED ROOM Fieldline Inc. GLESSNER, BRIAN E 3633 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 11, 2024
18516489 THERMAL PACKAGE FOR AN ATOMIC DEVICE Fieldline Inc. SCHMITT, BENJAMIN R 2852 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2023
18483443 Polarization Adaptive Wireless Power Transmission System Ossia Inc. LE, THIEN MINH 2876 Other Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2023
18482135 Control Method for an HV Contactor in a Battery Storage Device and Control Unit for the Implementation Thereof Elringklinger AG Of Germany HENZE, DAVID V §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 06, 2023
18373105 DYNAMIC DATA RESAMPLING BASED ON MEDICAL RELEVANCE Eye To Eye Telehealth, Inc. SASS, KIMBERLY A. 3686 §101 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18546996 Methods And Systems For High-Resolution And High Signal-To-Noise Ratio Imaging Through Generalized Media The Regents of the University of Colorado DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER 2872 §103§112 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2023
18308876 Acceleration Of Data Transmission Between Producers And Consumers Of A Distributed-Clustered Application Netapp, Inc. SHARPLESS, SAMUEL 2165 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2023
18249958 ORCHESTRATING DATACENTER WORKLOADS BASED ON ENERGY FORECASTS Quantum Loophole, Inc. WAI, ERIC CHARLES 2195 §101§103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023
35520619 Pull tab with ribbon for opening cans Bernhard Simbürger POSTHAUER, CATHERINE SUZANNE 2922 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 13, 2023
18170383 FAST TRAINING FOR A DATA PIPELINE MONITORING SYSTEM Data Culpa, Inc. LEY, SALLY THI 2100 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Feb 16, 2023
18069019 RISK MANAGEMENT SECURITY SYSTEM Living Security, Inc. SHINGLES, KRISTIE D 2453 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Dec 20, 2022
17930234 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, MODELS AND USES FOR SIMIAN VARICELLA VIRUS (SVV) CHIMERIC CONSTRUCTS IN HUMAN HEALTH CONDITIONS Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey CLARKE, TRENT R 1651 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 07, 2022
17882321 AD PROXY SERVICE Atmosphere.tv REFAI, SAM M 3621 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 05, 2022
17792928 HIGH COHESIVE STRENGTH HARD COATINGS CONTAINING SOFT METAL Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon BRAYTON, JOHN JOSEPH 1794 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 14, 2022
17779777 DIE-CAST COMPONENT, BODY COMPONENT HAVING SAID DIE-CAST COMPONENT, MOTOR VEHICLE HAVING SAID BODY COMPONENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID DIE-CAST COMPONENT Audi AG CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 25, 2022
17660900 OBJECT STORAGE CACHE PREWARMING Netapp, Inc. MOTTER, JORDAN SCOTT 2198 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 27, 2022
17556980 METHOD FOR STACKING PUNCHED LAMINATION ELEMENTS TO FORM LAMINATION STACKS Voestalpine Stahl GmbH TRINH, MINH N 3729 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2021

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