Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Stevens & Showalter LLP

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

10 pending office actions • 5 clients • 10 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

STEVENS & SHOWALTER LLP has 10 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 1208 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 92.46%, showing a high share of resolved matters reaching allowance in the reported record.

The firm averages 2.61 office actions per allowance. This combination indicates that allowed matters generally required more than one examination interaction, while the allowance rate shows that continued prosecution often produced a favorable result. The pending docket gives practitioners a current workload signal, and the career application figure supplies substantial context for interpreting the historical outcome measures.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=1208 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

92.5%
Allowance Rate
n=1208
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1208
2.6
OAs to Allowance
n=907
-0.56σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=907
1039 days
Time to Allowance
n=907
+1.0pp
Interview Lift
n=1208
17.5%
RCE Rate
n=1208
5.2%
Appeal Rate
n=1208

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

98.8%
§101 Overcome
n=86
90.1%
§102 Overcome
n=263
89.3%
§103 Overcome
n=447
92.9%
§112 Overcome
n=297

Specialization & Scale

B66F, G05D, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
19%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1208
2
Practitioners
n=1208
604.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1208

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

4
Hard (40%)
5
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (50%)
§112 only1 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (40%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
10% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WANG, KAI NMN 1 56.6% +16.1%
JELSMA, JONATHAN G 1 69.9% +14.7%
PHILLIPS, FORREST M 1 83.2% +14.2%
MUNION, JAMES E 1 77.4% +22.9%
BAAJOUR, SHAHIRA 1 71.2% +20.2%
TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 1 78.0% +16.0%
KIM, SUN U 1 78.2% +11.6%
COOPERRIDER, KELLY MARIE 1 — —
WASIL, DANIEL D 1 79.9% +24.8%
STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A 1 63.6% +19.8%

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
19003523 HEARING PROTECTION DEVICE WITH THERAPEUTIC COOLING MODULE PHILLIPS, FORREST M —

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18554010 RADIOISOTOPE PRODUCTION TARGET FOR LOW MELTING POINT MATERIALS WASIL, DANIEL D 34d
18940203 COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LANYARD AND INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE MUNION, JAMES E —
18643075 CONVERSION PRESS FOR CAN ENDS TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS —
18560132 SOLID TARGET IRRADIATOR SYSTEM FOR RADIOISOTOPES PRODUCTION COOPERRIDER, KELLY MARIE —

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
19187224 BATTERY SYSTEM FOR AN INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE JELSMA, JONATHAN G 16d
18554010 RADIOISOTOPE PRODUCTION TARGET FOR LOW MELTING POINT MATERIALS WASIL, DANIEL D 34d
19240142 PERFORMANCE TUNING OF A MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE WANG, KAI NMN —
19003523 HEARING PROTECTION DEVICE WITH THERAPEUTIC COOLING MODULE PHILLIPS, FORREST M —
18940203 COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LANYARD AND INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE MUNION, JAMES E —
18935799 ADAPTIVE ACCELERATION FOR SEMI-AUTOMATED DRIVING OPERATION OF A MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE BAAJOUR, SHAHIRA —
18643075 CONVERSION PRESS FOR CAN ENDS TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS —
18570955 A FILTER AND A METHOD OF MAKING A FILTER KIM, SUN U —

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36462
36641
17221
28371
26881
36661
37251
17771
37941

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19240142 PERFORMANCE TUNING OF A MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE Crown Equipment Corporation WANG, KAI NMN 3664 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 17, 2025
19187224 BATTERY SYSTEM FOR AN INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE Crown Equipment Corporation JELSMA, JONATHAN G 1722 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Apr 23, 2025
19003523 HEARING PROTECTION DEVICE WITH THERAPEUTIC COOLING MODULE You Tune Hearing Protection LLC PHILLIPS, FORREST M 2837 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 27, 2024
18940203 COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LANYARD AND INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE Crown Equipment Corporation MUNION, JAMES E 2688 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 07, 2024
18935799 ADAPTIVE ACCELERATION FOR SEMI-AUTOMATED DRIVING OPERATION OF A MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE Crown Equipment Corporation BAAJOUR, SHAHIRA 3666 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 04, 2024
18643075 CONVERSION PRESS FOR CAN ENDS Alfons Haar, Inc. TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 3725 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 23, 2024
18570955 A FILTER AND A METHOD OF MAKING A FILTER Nematiq Ip Pty Ltd. KIM, SUN U 1777 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 15, 2023
18560132 SOLID TARGET IRRADIATOR SYSTEM FOR RADIOISOTOPES PRODUCTION Best Theratronics Ltd. COOPERRIDER, KELLY MARIE 3646 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 10, 2023
18554010 RADIOISOTOPE PRODUCTION TARGET FOR LOW MELTING POINT MATERIALS Best Theratronics Ltd. WASIL, DANIEL D 3646 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Oct 05, 2023
18341288 HEARING PROTECTION DEVICE WITH THERAPEUTIC COOLING MODULE You Tune Hearing Protection LLC STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A 3794 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 26, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Stevens & Showalter LLP's patent allowance rate?

92.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Stevens & Showalter LLP were allowed, across 1,208 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Stevens & Showalter LLP average before allowance?

2.61 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Stevens & Showalter LLP have?

10 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 10 examiners in 9 art units.

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