Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Shaver & Swanson, LLP

5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=1126 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

72.5%
Allowance Rate
n=1126
+0.33σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1126
2.6
OAs to Allowance
n=522
-0.37σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=522
1027 days
Time to Allowance
n=522
+14.1pp
Interview Lift
n=1126
18.1%
RCE Rate
n=1126
3.0%
Appeal Rate
n=1126

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=6 (min 20)
72.1%
§102 Overcome
n=68
68.2%
§103 Overcome
n=330
92.1%
§112 Overcome
n=76

Specialization & Scale

Y10T, A63B, B05B
Top CPC Subclasses
8%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1126
1
Practitioners
n=1126
1126.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1126

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
1
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%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only2 (40%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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
GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S 1 66.9% +29.2%
QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL 1 72.7% +31.7%
SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A 1 65.3% +34.3%
THEIS, MATTHEW T 1 41.4% +33.1%
SHIAO, YIH-HORNG 1 72.6% +75.8%

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
17637906 Edible Formulations Based on Active Ingredients and Arginine SHIAO, YIH-HORNG 331d overdue
18420468 COVER FOR TRANSPARENT ARMAMENT WINDOWS OF A VEHICLE SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A 67d overdue
18516676 Survival Sack THEIS, MATTHEW T 30d overdue
19022690 Firearm Assembly GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S
18619074 Archery Peep and Apparatus Constrictor QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36411
28551
36341
37341
16911

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19022690 Firearm Assembly Fm-Products, Inc. GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S 3641 §112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 15, 2025
18619074 Archery Peep and Apparatus Constrictor Sawtooth Outdoor Products LLC QUINN, DANIEL MICHAEL 2855 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 27, 2024
18420468 COVER FOR TRANSPARENT ARMAMENT WINDOWS OF A VEHICLE Secure Glass, Inc. SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A 3634 §103 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Jan 23, 2024
18516676 Survival Sack M.A.D. Survival Gear LLC THEIS, MATTHEW T 3734 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
17637906 Edible Formulations Based on Active Ingredients and Arginine Graal S.r.l. SHIAO, YIH-HORNG 1691 §102 Final Rejection 331d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2022

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