Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Spq Ip LLC

14 pending office actions • 2 clients • 14 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=41 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.7%
Allowance Rate
n=41
+0.52σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=41
OAs to Allowance
n=6 (min 20)
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=6 (min 20)
Time to Allowance
n=6 (min 20)
+33.3pp
Interview Lift
n=41
142.9%
RCE Rate
n=41
2.0%
Appeal Rate
n=41

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=13 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=18 (min 20)
15.4%
§103 Overcome
n=26
§112 Overcome
n=11 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

A61B, G06T, G16H
Top CPC Subclasses
79%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=41
1
Practitioners
n=41
41.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=41

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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.

7
Hard (50%)
7
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (21%)
§103 only7 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
3
Communications
21% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
79% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SNYDER, ADAM J 1 69.8% +18.7%
FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 1 61.9% +39.6%
MALDONADO, STEVEN 1 30.4% +46.2%
LI, JOHN DENNY 1 64.2% +47.8%
BREIER, KRYSTINE E 1 82.1% +8.5%
NGUYEN, TRAN N 1 61.9% +16.9%
LY, TOMMY TAI 1 81.1% +21.6%
ALDARRAJI, ZAINAB MOHAMMED 1 66.7% +18.7%
CELESTINE, NYROBI I 1 81.4% +23.1%
BEE, ANDREW W. 1 73.1% +31.8%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19061813 METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING BREAST DENSITY AND ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 49d overdue
18889284 SCANNING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ULTRASOUND SCANNING SYSTEM, AND ULTRASOUND SCANNING SYSTEM CELESTINE, NYROBI I 41d
19005219 SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATION OF AN ULTRASOUND PROBE BASED ON DETERMINED SENSITIVITES OF TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS OF THE ULTRASOUND PROBE BREIER, KRYSTINE E
18967196 SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A MEDICAL IMAGE CORRESPONDING TO A RADIOLOGY REPORT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS NGUYEN, TRAN N
18932217 ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD, ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM LY, TOMMY TAI
18487341 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A DATA QUALITY OF DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE (DICOM) DATA WILLIAMS, TERESA S
18326759 MEDICAL IMAGING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM KLEIN, BROOKE L

Interview Candidates (9)

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
19061813 METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING BREAST DENSITY AND ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 49d overdue
19044358 ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD, ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM MALDONADO, STEVEN 35d overdue
18594805 ADVANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS FOR LUNG DIAGNOSTICS BEE, ANDREW W. 35d overdue
18889284 SCANNING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ULTRASOUND SCANNING SYSTEM, AND ULTRASOUND SCANNING SYSTEM CELESTINE, NYROBI I 41d
19065887 MEDICAL INPUT APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS SNYDER, ADAM J 76d
19008164 SINGLE ML/AI MODEL ON MULTIPLE ULTRASOUND PLATFORMS AND FOR MULTIPLE SCANNING MODES LI, JOHN DENNY
18967196 SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A MEDICAL IMAGE CORRESPONDING TO A RADIOLOGY REPORT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS NGUYEN, TRAN N
18932217 ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD, ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM LY, TOMMY TAI

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
GE Precision Healthcare LLC 12
Caption Health 2

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37975
37983
26231
36451
36851
26771
26821
36871

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19065887 MEDICAL INPUT APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS GE Precision Healthcare LLC SNYDER, ADAM J 2623 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Feb 27, 2025
19061813 METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING BREAST DENSITY AND ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEM GE Precision Healthcare LLC FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 3798 §101§103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2025
19044358 ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD, ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM GE Precision Healthcare LLC MALDONADO, STEVEN 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2025
19008164 SINGLE ML/AI MODEL ON MULTIPLE ULTRASOUND PLATFORMS AND FOR MULTIPLE SCANNING MODES GE Precision Healthcare LLC LI, JOHN DENNY 3798 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 02, 2025
19005219 SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATION OF AN ULTRASOUND PROBE BASED ON DETERMINED SENSITIVITES OF TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS OF THE ULTRASOUND PROBE GE Precision Healthcare LLC BREIER, KRYSTINE E 3645 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2024
18967196 SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A MEDICAL IMAGE CORRESPONDING TO A RADIOLOGY REPORT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS GE Precision Healthcare LLC NGUYEN, TRAN N 3685 §101§102 Final Rejection Pending Dec 03, 2024
18932217 ULTRASOUND IMAGING METHOD, ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM GE Precision Healthcare LLC LY, TOMMY TAI 3797 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Oct 30, 2024
18893265 ULTRASOUND PROBE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MOVING A TRANSDUCER OF THE ULTRASOUND PROBE BETWEEN A NEUTRAL POSITION AND AN OFFSET POSITION BASED ON DETECTING A NON-USAGE TRIGGER OR A USAGE TRIGGER GE Precision Healthcare LLC ALDARRAJI, ZAINAB MOHAMMED 3797 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 23, 2024
18889284 SCANNING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ULTRASOUND SCANNING SYSTEM, AND ULTRASOUND SCANNING SYSTEM GE Precision Healthcare LLC CELESTINE, NYROBI I 3798 §102§103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Sep 18, 2024
18594805 ADVANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS FOR LUNG DIAGNOSTICS Caption Health, Inc. BEE, ANDREW W. 2677 §103 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2024
18420004 ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT INDICATOR Caption Health, Inc. CWERN, JONATHAN 3797 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jan 23, 2024
18541916 MEDICAL SCANNING DEVICE GE Precision Healthcare LLC HUNTSINGER, PETER K 2682 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18487341 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A DATA QUALITY OF DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE (DICOM) DATA GE Precision Healthcare LLC WILLIAMS, TERESA S 3687 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 16, 2023
18326759 MEDICAL IMAGING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM GE Precision Healthcare LLC KLEIN, BROOKE L 3797 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2023

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