Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, Pa

16 pending office actions • 7 clients • 15 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=1011 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.2%
Allowance Rate
n=1011
+0.49σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1011
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=600
-0.08σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=600
960 days
Time to Allowance
n=600
+4.8pp
Interview Lift
n=1011
29.6%
RCE Rate
n=1011
0.9%
Appeal Rate
n=1011

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

71.7%
§101 Overcome
n=99
82.7%
§102 Overcome
n=243
81.0%
§103 Overcome
n=432
86.4%
§112 Overcome
n=265

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H04N
Top CPC Subclasses
21%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1011
0
Practitioners
n=1011
Apps / Practitioner
n=1011 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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.

9
Hard (56%)
7
Medium (44%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§101 + other6 (38%)
§103 only7 (44%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
11
Information Tech
69% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
6% of docket
3
Business / Other
19% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COTHRAN, BERNARD E 2 45.5% +15.9%
BAKER, IRENE H 1 53.0% +26.7%
MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A 1 58.2% +25.7%
KHAN, MOEEN 1 69.5% +60.9%
KORZUCH, WILLIAM R 1 75.0% +0.0%
LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER 1 7.1% +11.1%
CHEN, YU 1 67.9% +29.7%
POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN 1 50.0% +78.6%
IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 1 55.7% +24.0%
HUANG, YAO D 1 63.6% +33.4%

Hard Cases (9)

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
18057238 THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODELING OF A THREADED FEATURE USING COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN COTHRAN, BERNARD E 26d
18693540 SELF-HEATING PRODUCT CONTAINER AND/OR ASSOCIATED WAXING KIT IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 30d
19107497 APPLICATION OF AN AI-BASED MODEL TO A PREPROCESSED DATA SET BAKER, IRENE H
19013636 SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING AUTOMATED FEEDBACK FOR WRITERS MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A
18800452 MANAGING AND ROUTING OF ENDPOINT TELEMETRY USING REALMS LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER
18703346 DETECTING INSIDER USER BEHAVIOR THREATS BY COMPARING A USER’S BEHAVIOR TO THE USER’S PRIOR BEHAVIOR POUDEL, SAMIKSHYA NMN
18162764 Computer simulation methodology to analyze mass, momentum, energy and charge transport in a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell HANN, JAY B

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18041807 AUTOMATIC DESIGN OF MOLECULES HAVING SPECIFIC DESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS HUANG, YAO D 111d overdue
16235424 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STABILITY-BASED CONSTRAINED NUMERICAL CALIBRATION OF MATERIAL MODELS COTHRAN, BERNARD E 21d
18057238 THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODELING OF A THREADED FEATURE USING COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN COTHRAN, BERNARD E 26d
18693540 SELF-HEATING PRODUCT CONTAINER AND/OR ASSOCIATED WAXING KIT IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 30d
19107497 APPLICATION OF AN AI-BASED MODEL TO A PREPROCESSED DATA SET BAKER, IRENE H
19013636 SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING AUTOMATED FEEDBACK FOR WRITERS MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A
18892952 Preventing Disclosure of Sensitive Information in Attempting to Utilize Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through an In-line Interface KHAN, MOEEN
18800452 MANAGING AND ROUTING OF ENDPOINT TELEMETRY USING REALMS LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21883
24362
21521
24911
26131
37991
21241
21871
21421
21861

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19107497 APPLICATION OF AN AI-BASED MODEL TO A PREPROCESSED DATA SET Formic Al Ltd. BAKER, IRENE H 2152 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2025
19013636 SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING AUTOMATED FEEDBACK FOR WRITERS Thinkcerca.Com, Inc. MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 08, 2025
18892952 Preventing Disclosure of Sensitive Information in Attempting to Utilize Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through an In-line Interface Proofpoint, Inc. KHAN, MOEEN 2436 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 23, 2024
18892876 Preventing Disclosure of Sensitive Information In Attempts to Utilize Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Through a Web Browser Interface Proofpoint, Inc. KORZUCH, WILLIAM R 2491 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 23, 2024
18800452 MANAGING AND ROUTING OF ENDPOINT TELEMETRY USING REALMS Proofpoint, Inc. LOPEZ, MIGUEL ALEXANDER §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 12, 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
18693540 SELF-HEATING PRODUCT CONTAINER AND/OR ASSOCIATED WAXING KIT Tempra Technology, Inc. IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 3799 §103§112 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Mar 20, 2024
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
18057238 THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODELING OF A THREADED FEATURE USING COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN DASSAULT SYSTEMES COTHRAN, BERNARD E §101§103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Nov 21, 2022
18046972 System and Methods for Automatic Repair of Missing Mate References DASSAULT SYSTEMES SAXENA, AKASH 2188 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 17, 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 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 21, 2022
17210804 In-situ formulation of calibrated models in multi component physics simulation DASSAULT SYSTEMES DEBNATH, NUPUR 2186 §103 Final Rejection 114d overdue Pending Mar 24, 2021
16235424 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STABILITY-BASED CONSTRAINED NUMERICAL CALIBRATION OF MATERIAL MODELS DASSAULT SYSTEMES COTHRAN, BERNARD E 2188 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Dec 28, 2018

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