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Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 7 clients • 8 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Smith Keane LLP handles 264 career applications in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm has achieved a resolved allowance rate pct of 88.89. Its prosecution process averages 2.57 avg office actions per allowance.
The firm is currently managing 4 pending office actions. The 88.89 resolved allowance rate pct for its 264 career applications indicates the firm's success in securing allowances. An avg office actions per allowance of 2.57 provides a benchmark for the examination process in its primary technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +18.9% |
| KOLB, NATHANIEL J | 1 | 62.3% | +35.1% |
| TRAN, QUOC DUC | 1 | 85.8% | +4.8% |
| PHAN, AN BACH | 1 | 75.0% | +50.0% |
| VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
| TON, TRI T | 1 | 86.1% | +10.5% |
| VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 1 | 58.5% | +50.2% |
| QUAIM, LAMIA | 1 | 74.0% | +17.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550247 | Method and System for Calibrating Detection Efficiencies For Condensation Particle Counters | TON, TRI T | 71d overdue |
| 18923417 | Telecommunications Technology | TRAN, QUOC DUC | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18811752 | PCM Cell and System Technology | PHAN, AN BACH | 9d overdue |
| 18621907 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE DELIVERY OF ELECTRICAL CURRENT TO AN ORAL CAVITY | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 9d overdue |
| 19217613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO CUSTOMIZABLE DUNNAGE | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550247 | Method and System for Calibrating Detection Efficiencies For Condensation Particle Counters | TON, TRI T | 71d overdue |
| 18811752 | PCM Cell and System Technology | PHAN, AN BACH | 9d overdue |
| 18621907 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE DELIVERY OF ELECTRICAL CURRENT TO AN ORAL CAVITY | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 9d overdue |
| 17633107 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT | QUAIM, LAMIA | 13d |
| 19217613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO CUSTOMIZABLE DUNNAGE | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 18933915 | Tuning Aerosolization Parameters to Distinguish the Contributions of Particle and Particle-Precursor Concentrations for Liquid Samples | KOLB, NATHANIEL J | — |
| 17918614 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORAL IONTOPHORESIS | VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Kanomax FMT | 2 |
| Keiding Inc. | 1 |
| T. W. Vending, Inc. | 1 |
| Michaels Energy | 1 |
| JODI VENTURES, INC. | 1 |
| Biolectrics LLC | 1 |
| Nemein Limited | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19217613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO CUSTOMIZABLE DUNNAGE | Keiding Inc. | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 | |
| 18933915 | Tuning Aerosolization Parameters to Distinguish the Contributions of Particle and Particle-Precursor Concentrations for Liquid Samples | Kanomax Fmt, Inc. | KOLB, NATHANIEL J | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 | |
| 18923417 | Telecommunications Technology | T. W. Vending, Inc. | TRAN, QUOC DUC | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 | |
| 18811752 | PCM Cell and System Technology | Michaels Energy, Inc. | PHAN, AN BACH | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18621907 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE DELIVERY OF ELECTRICAL CURRENT TO AN ORAL CAVITY | Jodi Ventures, Inc. | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18550247 | Method and System for Calibrating Detection Efficiencies For Condensation Particle Counters | Kanomax Fmt, Inc. | TON, TRI T | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 17918614 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORAL IONTOPHORESIS | Biolectrics LLC | VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 17633107 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT | Nemein Limited | QUAIM, LAMIA | 3676 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
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