Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, Pa

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security

18 pending office actions • 8 clients • 16 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

SHEEHAN PHINNEY BASS & GREEN, PA has 19 pending office actions in Computing & Software and 1013 career applications. The data shows an active software-focused prosecution docket with a substantial application history.

The resolved allowance rate is 86.96%, while allowed matters averaged 3.36 office actions per allowance. The rate measures the share of resolved matters allowed, and the action average describes the examination effort associated with those allowances. Together, the figures give practitioners a basis for separating outcome history from the expected interaction reflected in allowed matters.

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

Quality Metrics (n=1013 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.0%
Allowance Rate
n=1013
+0.51σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1013
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=600
-0.07σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=600
960 days
Time to Allowance
n=600
+4.3pp
Interview Lift
n=1013
30.1%
RCE Rate
n=1013
0.9%
Appeal Rate
n=1013

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

71.0%
§101 Overcome
n=100
81.4%
§102 Overcome
n=247
80.1%
§103 Overcome
n=437
85.5%
§112 Overcome
n=269

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H04N
Top CPC Subclasses
21%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1013
0
Practitioners
n=1013
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=1013 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 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.

11
Hard (61%)
5
Medium (28%)
2
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§101 + other6 (33%)
§103 only5 (28%)
§112 only2 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
6% of docket
15
Information Tech
83% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
6% 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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SAXENA, AKASH 2 49.1% +30.5%
MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN 2 67.3% +13.0%
ARYAL, AAYUSH 1 87.2% +7.8%
MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A 1 58.3% +26.0%
MERCADO, GABRIEL S 1 42.5% +25.7%
CHORBAJI, MONZER R 1 76.3% +21.5%
RAHIM, MONJUR 1 84.6% +16.2%
DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH 1 29.4% +71.4%
CHEN, YU 1 67.9% +29.8%
POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 1 53.6% +78.9%

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
18842501 System and Method for Light Data File Upload Prevention RAHIM, MONJUR 85d overdue
19234392 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE STREAM ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION ARYAL, AAYUSH —

Hard Cases (12)

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
18041807 AUTOMATIC DESIGN OF MOLECULES HAVING SPECIFIC DESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS HUANG, YAO D 111d overdue
17735198 MANAGING ITERATIONS AND BRANCHING IN DESIGN MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN 85d overdue
17760527 MANAGING AND ROUTING OF ENDPOINT TELEMETRY USING REALMS LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 18d overdue
19013636 SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING AUTOMATED FEEDBACK FOR WRITERS MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A —
18923045 DYNAMIC INPUT INTERACTION MERCADO, GABRIEL S —
18842942 SPACE DECONTAMINATION METHOD AND SPACE DECONTAMINATION DEVICE CHORBAJI, MONZER R —
18840131 DOCUMENT OPEN DETECTION AND REMEDIATION DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH —
18703346 DETECTING INSIDER USER BEHAVIOR THREATS BY COMPARING A USER’S BEHAVIOR TO THE USER’S PRIOR BEHAVIOR POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN —

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18842501 System and Method for Light Data File Upload Prevention RAHIM, MONJUR 85d overdue
17735198 MANAGING ITERATIONS AND BRANCHING IN DESIGN MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN 85d overdue
19013636 SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING AUTOMATED FEEDBACK FOR WRITERS MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A —
18923045 DYNAMIC INPUT INTERACTION MERCADO, GABRIEL S —
18842942 SPACE DECONTAMINATION METHOD AND SPACE DECONTAMINATION DEVICE CHORBAJI, MONZER R —
18840131 DOCUMENT OPEN DETECTION AND REMEDIATION DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH —
18788590 System and Method for Retrieval of Two Dimensional Drawings CHEN, YU —
18703346 DETECTING INSIDER USER BEHAVIOR THREATS BY COMPARING A USER’S BEHAVIOR TO THE USER’S PRIOR BEHAVIOR POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN —

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21884
24362
21892
24351
37151
21711
17991
24981
26131
21241

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19234392 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE STREAM ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION Neursciences LLC ARYAL, AAYUSH 2435 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 11, 2025
19013636 SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING AUTOMATED FEEDBACK FOR WRITERS Thinkcerca.Com, Inc. MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A 3715 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 08, 2025
18923045 DYNAMIC INPUT INTERACTION Human Systems, Inc. MERCADO, GABRIEL S 2171 §101§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 22, 2024
18842942 SPACE DECONTAMINATION METHOD AND SPACE DECONTAMINATION DEVICE Nippon Air Conditioning Services Co., Ltd. CHORBAJI, MONZER R 1799 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 30, 2024
18842501 System and Method for Light Data File Upload Prevention Proofpoint, Inc. RAHIM, MONJUR 2436 §103 Non-Final OA 85d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2024
18840131 DOCUMENT OPEN DETECTION AND REMEDIATION Proofpoint, Inc. DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH 2498 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 21, 2024
18788590 System and Method for Retrieval of Two Dimensional Drawings DASSAULT SYSTEMES CHEN, YU 2613 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 30, 2024
18703346 DETECTING INSIDER USER BEHAVIOR THREATS BY COMPARING A USER’S BEHAVIOR TO THE USER’S PRIOR BEHAVIOR Proofpoint, Inc. POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 2436 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 21, 2024
18326284 Simulation methodology for Fuel Cell stacks using RVE technique DASSAULT SYSTEMES MARKS, AARIC R 2188 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 31, 2023
18321837 Method for Parametrized Multi-compartment Housing Model Creation DASSAULT SYSTEMES SAXENA, AKASH 2188 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 23, 2023
18041807 AUTOMATIC DESIGN OF MOLECULES HAVING SPECIFIC DESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS Nnaisense, SA HUANG, YAO D 2124 §101§103 Non-Final OA 111d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2023
18162764 Computer simulation methodology to analyze mass, momentum, energy and charge transport in a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell DASSAULT SYSTEMES HANN, JAY B 2187 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 01, 2023
18046972 System and Methods for Automatic Repair of Missing Mate References DASSAULT SYSTEMES SAXENA, AKASH 2188 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 17, 2022
18046976 System and Methods for Automatic Repair of Missing Mate References for Tessellated Data DASSAULT SYSTEMES MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN 2189 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 17, 2022
17735198 MANAGING ITERATIONS AND BRANCHING IN DESIGN DASSAULT SYSTEMES MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN 2189 §101§102§112 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending May 03, 2022
17760527 MANAGING AND ROUTING OF ENDPOINT TELEMETRY USING REALMS Proofpoint, Inc. LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 2496 §103§112 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2022
17585641 Method for Suggesting Mates for a User Selected Modeled Component DASSAULT SYSTEMES JIANG, HAIMEI 2142 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jan 27, 2022
17580695 Critical Points for Test Data Preprocessing DASSAULT SYSTEMES DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL 2188 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 21, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, Pa's patent allowance rate?

87.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, Pa were allowed, across 1,013 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, Pa average before allowance?

3.36 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, Pa have?

18 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 8 clients, before 16 examiners in 13 art units.

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