Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Shumaker and Sieffert, P.A.

63 pending office actions • 5 clients • 63 examiners • 44 art units • 10 of 63 (16%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=15991 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

94.2%
Allowance Rate
n=15991
+0.62σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=15991
3.6
OAs to Allowance
n=10270
-0.02σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=10270
1032 days
Time to Allowance
n=10270
+4.4pp
Interview Lift
n=15991
33.5%
RCE Rate
n=15991
3.5%
Appeal Rate
n=15991

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

92.7%
§101 Overcome
n=2618
88.3%
§102 Overcome
n=4101
89.6%
§103 Overcome
n=7654
89.7%
§112 Overcome
n=3166

Specialization & Scale

H04L, G06F, H04N
Top CPC Subclasses
41%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=15991
26
Practitioners
n=15991
615.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=15991

Portfolio Summary

63
Total Pending OAs
40
Non-Final OAs
20
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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.

23
Hard (37%)
38
Medium (60%)
2
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§101 + other11 (17%)
§103 only32 (51%)
§102 only4 (6%)
§112 only2 (3%)
Double-patenting + other2 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)11 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
10% of docket
22
Information Tech
35% of docket
9
Communications
14% of docket
4
Semiconductors
6% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
17% of docket
11
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.

630 h
Manual time on pending OAs
126 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
220 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SU, SARAH 1 80.2% +18.0%
VO, ETHAN VIET 1 74.1% +28.9%
DUGER, JASON H 1 70.5% +51.4%
HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 1 79.5% +11.0%
MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 1 51.5% +57.0%
WRIGHT, BRYAN F 1 78.3% +23.8%
SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 1 73.3% +20.9%
BROWN, SHEREE N 1 65.2% +26.5%
GEORGANDELLIS, ANDREW C 1 56.5% +40.4%
STEVENS, ROBERT 1 81.3% +11.7%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19117327 Untitled SU, SARAH

Hard Cases (23)

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
19104664 MIXED REALITY BONE GRAFT SHAPING SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 21d
18307084 PRIORITIZING INVENTORY CHECK AND AUDITS FOR A MULTI-PRODUCT RETAILER MOORE, REVA R 40d
19292256 ELECTRIC GENERATOR BEHIND FAN IN TURBINE ENGINE DUGER, JASON H 70d
17608715 PATIENT-MATCHED ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS 71d
19107381 ULTRASOUND-BASED MIXED REALITY ASSISTANCE FOR ORTHOPEDIC SURGERIES MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP
19033464 PROGRAMMATICALLY CHOOSING PREFERRED STORAGE PARAMETERS FOR FILES BROWN, SHEREE N
18983302 ACCESSING OBJECTS IN HOSTED STORAGE STEVENS, ROBERT
18912069 COATING FOR GRAPHITE VESSELS USED IN MELT INFILTRATION HUSON, MONICA ANNE

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
19104664 MIXED REALITY BONE GRAFT SHAPING SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 21d
19065789 CRAWL ALGORITHM HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 62d
19292256 ELECTRIC GENERATOR BEHIND FAN IN TURBINE ENGINE DUGER, JASON H 70d
19117327 Untitled SU, SARAH
19104045 Untitled VO, ETHAN VIET
19107381 ULTRASOUND-BASED MIXED REALITY ASSISTANCE FOR ORTHOPEDIC SURGERIES MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP
19105025 CONTROLLING ACCESS TO DIGITAL KEY WRIGHT, BRYAN F
19033464 PROGRAMMATICALLY CHOOSING PREFERRED STORAGE PARAMETERS FOR FILES BROWN, SHEREE N

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37973
37412
37152
21532
24992
26932
17952
24311
21661
26121

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19117327 Untitled Google LLC SU, SARAH 2431 §103 Non-Final OA Pending
19104045 Untitled Google LLC VO, ETHAN VIET §102 Non-Final OA Pending
19292256 ELECTRIC GENERATOR BEHIND FAN IN TURBINE ENGINE Rolls-Royce DUGER, JASON H 3741 §103§112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Aug 06, 2025
19065789 CRAWL ALGORITHM Google LLC HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 2166 §103 Final Rejection 62d Pending Feb 27, 2025
19107381 ULTRASOUND-BASED MIXED REALITY ASSISTANCE FOR ORTHOPEDIC SURGERIES Howmedica Osteonics Corp. MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 3797 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2025
19105025 CONTROLLING ACCESS TO DIGITAL KEY Google LLC WRIGHT, BRYAN F §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 19, 2025
19104664 MIXED REALITY BONE GRAFT SHAPING Howmedica Osteonics Corp. SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 3797 §101§103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Feb 18, 2025
19033464 PROGRAMMATICALLY CHOOSING PREFERRED STORAGE PARAMETERS FOR FILES Google LLC BROWN, SHEREE N 2612 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 21, 2025
19005109 DEMAND SERVERLESS CONTAINER BASED STORAGE TRANSFER Google LLC GEORGANDELLIS, ANDREW C §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2024
18983302 ACCESSING OBJECTS IN HOSTED STORAGE Google LLC STEVENS, ROBERT 2164 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 16, 2024
18872185 POINT CLOUD NEURAL NETWORKS FOR LANDMARK ESTIMATION FOR ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY Howmedica Osteonics Corp. ADEDIRAN, ABDUL -SAMAD A §102§103DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2024
18966523 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL DATA ESCROW SERVICE Google LLC KNACKSTEDT, JACOB BENEDICT 2408 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 03, 2024
18952943 ANALYTICS ENGINE AUTOTUNING Google LLC MITIKU, BERHANU 2156 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 19, 2024
18921624 SWITCHING SPEED CONTROL BASED ON OVERSTRESS SIGNAL Infineon Technologies AG PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO 2838 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 21, 2024
18919586 WORKLOAD SECURITY RINGS Google LLC WYSZYNSKI, AUBREY H 2434 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2024
18912069 COATING FOR GRAPHITE VESSELS USED IN MELT INFILTRATION Rolls-Royce HUSON, MONICA ANNE 1742 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 10, 2024
18855262 DEEP LEARNING SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATING FEEDBACK Google LLC VO, HUYEN X 2656 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 08, 2024
18851979 THERMAL CHASSIS Google LLC MUIR, MATTHEW SINCLAIR §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18886745 AUTOMATIC ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT Infineon Technologies AG DINH, KHANH Q 2458 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 16, 2024
18826615 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR COORDINATING MULTIPLAYER GAME SESSIONS Google LLC RENWICK, REGINALD A 3715 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 06, 2024
18815578 TOOL FOR MACHINING CMC SEGMENTS Rolls-Royce WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE 3724 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 26, 2024
18813730 COATING SYSTEMS FOR SILICON-CONTAINING SUBSTRATES Rolls-Royce LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 23, 2024
18812084 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVISION OF A GUARANTEED BATCH Google LLC GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D 2446 §103Other Non-Final OA 19d overdue AI Ready Aug 22, 2024
18811664 Systems and Methods for Receiving Incoming Messages Via Satellite Google LLC SINGH, HIRDEPAL §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2024
18809473 ARBITRARILY GROUPING COMPUTER SYSTEM RESOURCES Google LLC MUNDUR, PADMAVATHI V 2441 §103Other Non-Final OA 36d AI Ready Aug 20, 2024
18835979 CONTROLLER-MANAGED CHARGING CURRENT WITHIN THERMAL BUDGET Google LLC JUNG, ANDREW J 2175 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue AI Ready Aug 05, 2024
18792515 Metro-Level Distributed Caching Google LLC FILIPCZYK, MARCIN R 2153 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready Aug 01, 2024
18777146 Escalating User Privileges in Cloud Computing Environments Google LLC SHEHNI, GHAZAL B 2499 §101§103 Final Rejection AI Ready Jul 18, 2024
18776527 LOCATION DISCOVERY Google LLC LU, TOM Y 2667 §102§103DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2024
18716010 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING AND SERVING OF APPLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KITS Google LLC WANG, RONGFA PHILIP 2199 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 03, 2024
18680588 SMART TAB LANDING IN AN APPLICATION Google LLC LEGGETT, ANDREA C. 2171 §103 Final Rejection 22d AI Ready May 31, 2024
18715461 LOADING STATE DETECTION FOR GAMING APPLICATIONS Google LLC KAMRAN, MEHRAN 3715 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2024
18669924 Cloud-Based Voice Interconnects for Contact Centers and Corporate Telephony Google LLC POPE, KHARYE 2693 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 21, 2024
18667602 VEHICLE ELECTRICAL POWER SYNCHRONIZATION VIA HYDRAULICS Rolls-Royce QUIGLEY, THOMAS K 2834 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 17, 2024
18667616 VEHICLE ELECTRICAL POWER SYNCHRONIZATION VIA HYDRAULICS Rolls-Royce HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN 3741 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 17, 2024
18662999 IN-CALL SCAM DETECTION Google LLC HOQUE, NAFIZ E 2693 §103 Final Rejection AI Ready May 13, 2024
18658572 DISTRIBUTED DYNAMIC TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION FOR SHUNTS Infineon Technologies AG ALMO, KHAREEM E 2849 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending May 08, 2024
18704830 MIXED REALITY GUIDANCE OF ULTRASOUND PROBE Howmedica Osteonics Corp. ROY, BAISAKHI 3797 §112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 25, 2024
18633076 POST DEPOSITION HEAT TREATMENT OF COATING ON SUBSTRATE Rolls-Royce BAREFORD, KATHERINE A 1718 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Apr 11, 2024
18598692 AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT WITH DYNAMIC OUTPUT SLOPE COMPENSATION FOR DRIVING LARGE CAPACITIVE LOADS Infineon Technologies AG MARANO, NATASHA YOLANDA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 07, 2024
18593575 MASS AND HEAT FLOW IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS WITH MACHINE LEARNING CONTROL Rolls-Royce STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 01, 2024
18593417 IN-SITU MODEL COMPARISON FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS Rolls-Royce DUNN, DARRIN D 2117 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 01, 2024
18593465 POWDER CONTROL FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS Rolls-Royce TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M 1684 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Mar 01, 2024
18684822 USING MIXED-REALITY HARDWARE FOR RANGE OF MOTION ESTIMATION DURING ROBOT-ASSISTED ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY Howmedica Osteonics Corp. PORTER, JR, GARY A 3796 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 19, 2024
18434653 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR GENERATING A GROUP OF MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS Google LLC HTAY, LIN LIN M 2153 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 06, 2024
18418197 TRAINING IMAGE-TO-IMAGE TRANSLATION NEURAL NETWORKS Google LLC KRETZER, CASEY L 2635 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 19, 2024
18417605 COOLING HOLE AIR FLOW FOR THERMAL SPRAY COATINGS Rolls-Royce THOMAS, BINU §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 19, 2024
18404881 Interpretable Tabular Data Learning Using Sequential Sparse Attention Google LLC LE, HUNG VAN §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 04, 2024
18514917 CAPTIVE SEAL TRIM Google LLC MILLISER, THERON S 2841 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 20, 2023
18363588 AUTOMATED PACING OF VEHICLE OPERATOR CONTENT INTERACTION Google LLC TAYLOR, JOSHUA D 2426 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 01, 2023
18218302 Automated Policy Compliance Using Large Language Models Google LLC BUI, HANH THI MINH 2192 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 05, 2023
18213561 METHOD OF FORMING A SMOOTH AS-FABRICATED CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITE (CMC) SURFACE Rolls-Royce GROSS, CARSON 1783 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 23, 2023
18307084 PRIORITIZING INVENTORY CHECK AND AUDITS FOR A MULTI-PRODUCT RETAILER Google LLC MOORE, REVA R 3627 §101§103 Non-Final OA 40d AI Ready Apr 26, 2023
18165578 PERFORMANCE MONITORING IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM Google LLC MAI, KEVIN S 2499 §103 Non-Final OA AI Ready Feb 07, 2023
18005192 DYNAMIC JOINT ANALYSIS FOR JOINT REPLACEMENT Howmedica Osteonics Corp. YIP, KENT 2681 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 12, 2023
17923191 PRE-MORBID CHARACTERIZATION OF ANATOMICAL OBJECT USING ORTHOPEDIC ANATOMY SEGMENTATION USING HYBRID STATISTICAL SHAPE MODELING (SSM) Howmedica Osteonics Corp. BADER, ROBERT N. 2611 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 03, 2022
18051237 ELECTRODE FOR PULSED ELECTROCHEMICAL MACHINING Rolls-Royce VAN, LUAN V 1795 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2022
17780445 MACHINE-LEARNED MODELS IN SUPPORT OF SURGICAL PROCEDURES Howmedica Osteonics Corp. HIGGS, STELLA EUN 3681 §101§102§103 Final Rejection Pending May 26, 2022
17777553 PRE-OPERATIVE PLANNING AND INTRA OPERATIVE GUIDANCE FOR ORTHOPEDIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES IN CASES OF BONE FRAGMENTATION Howmedica Osteonics Corp. RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON 2672 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending May 17, 2022
17663430 Machine Learning Hyperparameter Tuning Google LLC DASGUPTA, SHOURJO 2144 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue AI Ready May 15, 2022
17662547 Independent Fragment Compactions of Striped Data Google LLC ALLEN, NICHOLAS E 2154 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2022
17661430 NON-ELECTROLYTIC DEPOSITION OF ELECTRODE FOR PULSED ELECTROCHEMICAL MACHINING Rolls-Royce WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2022
17608715 PATIENT-MATCHED ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT Howmedica Osteonics Corp. OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS 2186 §101 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Nov 03, 2021

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