Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Sherman Ip LLP

6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 1 of 6 (17%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=1067 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

94.4%
Allowance Rate
n=1067
+0.64σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1067
4.9
OAs to Allowance
n=783
+0.62σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=783
1325 days
Time to Allowance
n=783
+3.0pp
Interview Lift
n=1067
49.0%
RCE Rate
n=1067
0.4%
Appeal Rate
n=1067

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

90.5%
§101 Overcome
n=252
91.5%
§102 Overcome
n=365
93.4%
§103 Overcome
n=648
90.8%
§112 Overcome
n=293

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H04N
Top CPC Subclasses
41%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1067
2
Practitioners
n=1067
533.5
Apps / Practitioner
n=1067

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
0
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
2
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 (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

3
Hard (50%)
2
Medium (33%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (33%)
§103 only2 (33%)
§112 only1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
17% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
3
Communications
50% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 1 89.8% +8.7%
KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J 1 81.3% +7.5%
TRIVISONNO, ANGELO 1 53.1% +26.5%
ZHU, RICHARD Z 1 69.5% +15.6%
DESIRE, GREGORY M 1 90.6% +6.0%
ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN 1 81.3% +12.2%

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
18921616 COLLABORATION PLATFORM SYSTEM AND METHOD KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J
18304651 STANDARD DYNAMIC RANGE (SDR) TO HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR)INVERSE TONE MAPPING USING MACHINE LEARNING ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18631938 PERCEPTUAL LOCAL CONTRAST AND DETAIL ENHANCEMENT DESIRE, GREGORY M 17d overdue
18959213 VERIFYING, MONITORING, AND TOKENIZING DIGITAL ASSETS AS PROOF OF OWNERSHIP AND VALUATION OF THE DIGITAL ASSETS MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 34d
18890397 SOLAR REFLECTOR FOR BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR PANELS TRIVISONNO, ANGELO 54d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18890397 SOLAR REFLECTOR FOR BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR PANELS TRIVISONNO, ANGELO 54d
18678427 LOSSLESS AUDIO CODING FOR MULTICHANNEL HIERARCHICAL RECONSTRUCTION ZHU, RICHARD Z
18304651 STANDARD DYNAMIC RANGE (SDR) TO HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR)INVERSE TONE MAPPING USING MACHINE LEARNING ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24321
17221
26541
26761
26691

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18959213 VERIFYING, MONITORING, AND TOKENIZING DIGITAL ASSETS AS PROOF OF OWNERSHIP AND VALUATION OF THE DIGITAL ASSETS Tulip Digital Asset Exchange, Inc. MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 2432 §101§103§112Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 25, 2024
18921616 COLLABORATION PLATFORM SYSTEM AND METHOD Xliv Collective Inc. KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 21, 2024
18890397 SOLAR REFLECTOR FOR BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR PANELS Sun And Steel Solar LLC TRIVISONNO, ANGELO 1722 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Sep 19, 2024
18678427 LOSSLESS AUDIO CODING FOR MULTICHANNEL HIERARCHICAL RECONSTRUCTION Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ZHU, RICHARD Z 2654 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 30, 2024
18631938 PERCEPTUAL LOCAL CONTRAST AND DETAIL ENHANCEMENT Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. DESIRE, GREGORY M 2676 §101§102 Non-Final OA 17d overdue AI Ready Apr 10, 2024
18304651 STANDARD DYNAMIC RANGE (SDR) TO HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR)INVERSE TONE MAPPING USING MACHINE LEARNING Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN 2669 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 21, 2023

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