Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Stip Law Group, LLC

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

42 pending office actions • 31 clients • 42 examiners • 37 art units • 0 of 42 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

STIP Law Group, LLC has 45 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and 1237 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 81.13%, indicating that most resolved matters reached allowance, with a meaningful remainder ending otherwise.

The practice averages 3.16 office actions per allowance. This suggests that successful prosecution generally involves repeated examination engagement rather than a single response. The pending docket represents a material active workload, and the historical application count gives the allowance and action figures a substantive base for practitioners evaluating biotechnology and pharmaceutical prosecution experience.

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

Quality Metrics (n=1237 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

81.1%
Allowance Rate
n=1237
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1237
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=817
-0.34σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=817
1011 days
Time to Allowance
n=817
+18.6pp
Interview Lift
n=1237
25.0%
RCE Rate
n=1237
3.1%
Appeal Rate
n=1237

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

46.6%
§101 Overcome
n=116
71.0%
§102 Overcome
n=421
70.3%
§103 Overcome
n=676
74.9%
§112 Overcome
n=581

Specialization & Scale

H10K, A61B, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
9%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1237
1
Practitioners
n=1237
1237.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1237

Portfolio Summary

42
Total Pending OAs
28
Non-Final OAs
14
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

28
Hard (67%)
12
Medium (29%)
2
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (2%)
§101 + other4 (10%)
§103 only12 (29%)
§112 only2 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)23 (55%)

Industry Mix

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

21
Life Sciences
50% of docket
3
Information Tech
7% of docket
2
Communications
5% of docket
2
Semiconductors
5% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

420 h
Manual time on pending OAs
84 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
147 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY 1 28.3% +30.1%
LIEUWEN, CODY J 1 59.6% +45.8%
JIMENEZ, JUSTIN ABEL 1 20.0% +88.9%
SREEVATSA, SREEYA 1 85.9% +4.4%
MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR 1 75.0% +40.0%
NGUYEN, THUY N 1 57.8% +24.9%
LOHARIKAR, ANAND R 1 70.1% +25.7%
HALE, BROOKS T 1 52.7% +33.2%
GAW, MARK H 1 49.8% +59.7%
LEWIS, JUSTIN V 1 55.4% +17.6%

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
19001651 EXTERNAL MAGNETIZATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE SOLENOID MODULES WITH HALBACH ARRAY AND OPERATION METHOD THEREFOR SREEVATSA, SREEYA —

Hard Cases (28)

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
17915405 CELL CAPSULATING LAYER, CAPSULATED CELLS, CELL CAPSULATING COMPOSITION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR EIX, EMILY FAY 89d overdue
18296763 ADM2 GENE MARKER FOR DIAGNOSIS OR PROGNOSIS PREDICTION OF THYROID CANCER AND USES THEREOF BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M 16d overdue
18864936 SERVICE SYSTEM FOR STRENGTHENING FELLOWSHIP BETWEEN GROUP MEMBERS BY USING GROUP-ONLY SIGNAGE LEWIS, JUSTIN V 9d overdue
18271640 NANOWIRE-BASED IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE KIT FOR DETECTING SARS CORONAVIRUS 2 ANTIBODY, AND USE THEREOF GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 9d
18872317 METHOD FOR SUPPORTING NFC PAYMENTS AND AUTHENTICATION, AND DEVICE THEREFOR GAW, MARK H 56d
18884247 FOLDABLE CARTRIDGE RAZOR RILEY, JONATHAN G 68d
17845406 NOVEL ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE INCLUDING SAME SIMBANA, RACHEL A 77d
18879671 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NFT-LINKED GIFT CERTIFICATE SERVICE JIMENEZ, JUSTIN ABEL 78d

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
18864936 SERVICE SYSTEM FOR STRENGTHENING FELLOWSHIP BETWEEN GROUP MEMBERS BY USING GROUP-ONLY SIGNAGE LEWIS, JUSTIN V 9d overdue
18872317 METHOD FOR SUPPORTING NFC PAYMENTS AND AUTHENTICATION, AND DEVICE THEREFOR GAW, MARK H 56d
18879671 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NFT-LINKED GIFT CERTIFICATE SERVICE JIMENEZ, JUSTIN ABEL 78d
19332623 DATA QUANTIZATION METHOD BASED ON DEFINITE VALUES, ESTIMATED VALUES, AND WEIGHT VALUES SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY —
19033763 FIREFIGHTING CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY WITH GUIDE FUNCTION LIEUWEN, CODY J —
18989723 METHOD, A SMART ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND A SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED VOICE CONVERSATION ENVIRONMENT MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR —
18874813 METHOD FOR PROVIDING REWARD ACCORDING TO ATTENDANCE VERIFICATION, AND SYSTEM THEREFOR NGUYEN, THUY N —
18874801 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTIONAL PLATFORM ALBUM-BASED SERVICE LOHARIKAR, ANAND R —

Client Portfolio (31 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16923
17863
37912
36911
37521
36971
28381
26551
36221
36891

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19332623 DATA QUANTIZATION METHOD BASED ON DEFINITE VALUES, ESTIMATED VALUES, AND WEIGHT VALUES Titechnology Co., Ltd. SUBRAMANIAN, NARAYANSWAMY 3691 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 18, 2025
19033763 FIREFIGHTING CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY WITH GUIDE FUNCTION Industry-Academic Corporation Foundation, Kunsan National University LIEUWEN, CODY J 3752 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2025
18879671 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NFT-LINKED GIFT CERTIFICATE SERVICE Weverse Company Inc. JIMENEZ, JUSTIN ABEL 3697 §101§103 Final Rejection 78d Pending Dec 27, 2024
19001651 EXTERNAL MAGNETIZATION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE SOLENOID MODULES WITH HALBACH ARRAY AND OPERATION METHOD THEREFOR Advanced Institute Of Convergence Technology SREEVATSA, SREEYA 2838 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 26, 2024
18989723 METHOD, A SMART ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND A SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED VOICE CONVERSATION ENVIRONMENT VIRNECT CO., LTD. MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR 2655 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18874813 METHOD FOR PROVIDING REWARD ACCORDING TO ATTENDANCE VERIFICATION, AND SYSTEM THEREFOR Weverse Company Inc. NGUYEN, THUY N 3622 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 13, 2024
18874801 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTIONAL PLATFORM ALBUM-BASED SERVICE Weverse Company Inc. LOHARIKAR, ANAND R 3689 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 13, 2024
18873267 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MONITORING SERVICE FOR VIEWING HISTORY STORED IN ARTIST'S TERMINAL Weverse Company Inc. HALE, BROOKS T 2166 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 09, 2024
18872317 METHOD FOR SUPPORTING NFC PAYMENTS AND AUTHENTICATION, AND DEVICE THEREFOR Touchngo Co. GAW, MARK H 3693 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Dec 06, 2024
18864936 SERVICE SYSTEM FOR STRENGTHENING FELLOWSHIP BETWEEN GROUP MEMBERS BY USING GROUP-ONLY SIGNAGE Altsoft. Inc. LEWIS, JUSTIN V 3637 §103§112 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2024
18884247 FOLDABLE CARTRIDGE RAZOR Kang, Hie Chan RILEY, JONATHAN G 3724 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 68d Pending Sep 13, 2024
18826763 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING AND TREATING PERIODONTAL DISEASES CONTAINING EXTRACT OF ALNUS JAPONICA PLANT EXTRACTS AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT, FOOD COMPOSITION FOR ALLEVIATING PERIODONTAL DISEASES CONTAINING SAME AND TOOTHPASTE AND FEED CONTAINING SAME Dr. Oregonin Inc. LI, WENHAN 1614 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 06, 2024
18820768 MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND DEVICE THAT MEET DEPRESSIVE DISORDER DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University SHANMUGASUNDARAM, KANNAN 2168 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 30, 2024
18782234 POSITIVE ELECTRODE INCLUDING LiFexMn1-xPO4-BASED POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME Knu-Industry Cooperation Foundation LI, AIQUN 1766 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 24, 2024
18776296 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING OPERATIONAL SAFETY OF RAILCARS Korea Railroad Research Institute BARZEGAR, PEGAH 3615 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 18, 2024
18771691 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING METASTASIS TISSUE OF CANCER BASED ON LINKED MULTIPLE NEURAL NETWORK MODELS Urban Data Lab ORANGE, DAVID BENJAMIN 2663 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 12, 2024
18765383 UNDER-ACTUATION TYPE GRIPPER CAPABLE OF GRIPPING ASYMMETRICAL OBJECT Perazah Inc. MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD 3654 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 08, 2024
18744529 GAIT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD USING MULTIPLE LIDARS AT DIFFERENT HEIGHTS Medicalsolutionsystem DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK 3791 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 14, 2024
18628067 BIODEGRADEBLE MATERIAL MANUFACTURING METHOD AND SYSTEM Noroo Ic Co., Ltd. PARSA, JAFAR F 1692 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 05, 2024
18444441 VASCULAR INTERVENTIONAL SURGERY DEVICE, AND DRUM ASSEMBLY FOR VASCULAR INTERVENTIONAL SURGERY DEVICE Perazah Inc. KISH, JAMES M 3791 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 16, 2024
18683997 METHOD FOR LASER-CUTTING AND POST-TREATING UTG HAVING PARTIAL COATING FILM FORMED THEREON Dowooinsys Co.,Ltd. GAUTHIER, NICHOLAS FREDRICK 3761 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 15, 2024
18566034 HYDROGEN OXIDATION CATALYST AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME Hydrochem, Inc. DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1732 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 30, 2023
18509094 AXIAL MOTOR Eflow Co., Ltd. PHAM, LEDA T 2834 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 14, 2023
18289872 COMPOUND COMPRISING PYRROLIDINE AS LINKER, AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING SAME Sogang University R&Db Foundation BRAUN, MADELINE E 1624 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 07, 2023
18289740 PARALLEL MULTIPLE DISPLACEMENT AMPLIFICATION METHOD Seoul National University R&Db Foundation BUNKER, AMY M 1684 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 06, 2023
18289365 NOVEL ORGANIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE COMPRISING SAME Sfc Co., Ltd. WATSON, BRAELYN 1786 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 02, 2023
18496292 CELL CULTURE DEVICE FOR CULTURING 3D CELL AGGREGATION AND CELL CULTURE METHOD USING SAME Celloid Co., Ltd. LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE 1631 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 27, 2023
18284486 METHOD FOR PRODUCING TEREPHTHALATE DERIVATIVE BY TRANSESTERIFICATION OF DIMETHYL TEREPHTHALATE Korea Research Institute Of Chemical Technology MURESAN, ANA Z 1692 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2023
18279348 PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE HAVING PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORY ACTIVITY, AND THERAPEUTIC PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING SAME Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University HAVLIN, ROBERT H 1626 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 29, 2023
18447675 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING MULTI-TASK LEARNING MODEL Korea University Of Technology And Education Industry-University Cooperation Foundation AHMED, SYED RAYHAN 2126 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 10, 2023
18271640 NANOWIRE-BASED IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE KIT FOR DETECTING SARS CORONAVIRUS 2 ANTIBODY, AND USE THEREOF Korea Research Institute Of Chemical Technology GRIZER, CASSANDRA SENN 1672 §103§112 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jul 10, 2023
18270659 METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY DIAGNOSING ERWINIA CAROTOVORA AND PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS IN SOIL BY USING SEMI-QUANTITATIVE LATERAL FLOW IMMUNODIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE Abc Circle Co., Ltd. OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1645 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 30, 2023
18268294 NOVEL ORGANIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE COMPRISING SAME Sfc Co., Ltd. DEGUIRE, SEAN M 1786 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 19, 2023
18037745 NOVEL ORGANIC COMPOUND, AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE COMPRISING SAME Sfc Co., Ltd. NGUYEN, VU ANH 1762 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending May 18, 2023
18037720 ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE COMPRISING NOVEL ORGANIC COMPOUND IN EMISSION LAYER Sfc Co., Ltd. BOHATY, ANDREW K 1759 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 18, 2023
18296763 ADM2 GENE MARKER FOR DIAGNOSIS OR PROGNOSIS PREDICTION OF THYROID CANCER AND USES THEREOF The Industry & Academic Cooperation in Chungnam National University (IAC) BORGEEST, CHRISTINA M 1675 §103§112 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Apr 06, 2023
18024874 SHOCK ABSORPTION NET FOR GOLF PRACTICE X-Golf Co., Ltd. BALDORI, JOSEPH B 3711 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 06, 2023
18011733 EFFICIENT DEPOLYMERIZATION METHOD OF POLYMERS COMPRISING ESTER FUNCTIONAL GROUP, AND PURIFICATION METHOD THEREOF Korea Research Institute Of Chemical Technology DOLETSKI, BLAINE G 1692 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2022
17915405 CELL CAPSULATING LAYER, CAPSULATED CELLS, CELL CAPSULATING COMPOSITION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR Seoul National University R&Db Foundation EIX, EMILY FAY 1653 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2022
17845406 NOVEL ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE INCLUDING SAME Sfc Co., Ltd. SIMBANA, RACHEL A 1786 §102§103 Final Rejection 77d Pending Jun 21, 2022
17762701 SUSTAINED-RELEASE MICROPARTICLES FOR SUSTAINED RELEASE OF DRUG Inventage Lab Inc. ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER 1612 §103Other Non-Final OA 6d Pending Mar 22, 2022
17626100 LIVER ORGANOID AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR T&R Biofab Co., Ltd. EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL 1632 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 10, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Stip Law Group, LLC's patent allowance rate?

81.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Stip Law Group, LLC were allowed, across 1,237 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Stip Law Group, LLC average before allowance?

3.16 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Stip Law Group, LLC have?

42 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 31 clients, before 42 examiners in 37 art units.

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