Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Stoel Rives LLP - Pdx

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Networking & Security • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

8 pending office actions • 6 clients • 8 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

STOEL RIVES LLP - PDX has a career total of 9830 applications, with a primary focus on Chemistry & Materials. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 85.03. This percentage indicates the frequency of allowances among all resolved cases in the firm's history and serves as a benchmark for its 9830 career applications.

The firm averages 3.2 office actions per allowance, showing the typical level of examiner interaction required for a grant. There are 9 pending office actions currently being handled. This active docket is part of the firm's broader experience with 9830 career applications in the Chemistry & Materials sector.

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

Quality Metrics (n=9830 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.0%
Allowance Rate
n=9830
+0.55σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=9830
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=5773
-0.23σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=5773
1076 days
Time to Allowance
n=5773
+7.9pp
Interview Lift
n=9830
25.3%
RCE Rate
n=9830
2.2%
Appeal Rate
n=9830

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

76.3%
§101 Overcome
n=722
80.0%
§102 Overcome
n=2297
80.2%
§103 Overcome
n=3719
80.5%
§112 Overcome
n=2434

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, A61F
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=9830
43
Practitioners
n=9830
228.6
Apps / Practitioner
n=9830

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)

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.

2
Hard (25%)
6
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
38% of docket
2
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NELSON, CHRISTINE L 1 62.7% +33.5%
YANG, CHENG FONG 1 62.8% +22.5%
GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 1 32.3% +41.8%
SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM 1 71.6% +9.2%
PAIK, SANG YEOP 1 65.5% +16.3%
SIXTO, NANCY 1 76.9% +37.5%
ABBATINE JR., MICHAEL WILLIAM 1 16.7% -20.0%
PHAN, ANNETTE HOANG-ANH 1 71.7% +9.8%

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18687903 ADHESIVE ELEMENT GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 160d overdue
17821397 PROACTIVE GRANT ALLOCATION DURING A RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL (RRC) REESTABLISHMENT PROCEDURE ABBATINE JR., MICHAEL WILLIAM 18d overdue
17891892 REMEDIATION PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS PHAN, ANNETTE HOANG-ANH —

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18687903 ADHESIVE ELEMENT GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 160d overdue
18352925 PUCCH SSCELL SWITCHING CONFIGURATION AND ACTIVATION FOR UCI FEEDBACK SIXTO, NANCY 11d overdue
18942362 ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCE FOR CORRECTING MISALIGNMENT OF TEETH NELSON, CHRISTINE L —
18707489 VALVE FOR A UROSTOMY APPLIANCE YANG, CHENG FONG —
18551588 MONITORING OF HEAT PAD ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE IN TIRE REPAIR SYSTEM PAIK, SANG YEOP —

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17852
37721
37811
24651
24191
17361

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18942362 ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCE FOR CORRECTING MISALIGNMENT OF TEETH World Class Technology Corporation NELSON, CHRISTINE L 3772 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 08, 2024
18707489 VALVE FOR A UROSTOMY APPLIANCE Salts Healthcare Limited YANG, CHENG FONG 3781 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 03, 2024
18687903 ADHESIVE ELEMENT Hueck Folien Gesellschaft m.b.H. GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 1785 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 160d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18687494 DECORATIVE ELEMENT Hueck Folien Gesellschaft m.b.H. SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM 1785 §103 Final Rejection 126d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18551588 MONITORING OF HEAT PAD ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE IN TIRE REPAIR SYSTEM Fuller Bros. Inc. PAIK, SANG YEOP §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 20, 2023
18352925 PUCCH SSCELL SWITCHING CONFIGURATION AND ACTIVATION FOR UCI FEEDBACK Radisys Corporation SIXTO, NANCY 2465 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Jul 14, 2023
17821397 PROACTIVE GRANT ALLOCATION DURING A RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL (RRC) REESTABLISHMENT PROCEDURE Radisys Corporation ABBATINE JR., MICHAEL WILLIAM 2419 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2022
17891892 REMEDIATION PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS Asrc Energy Services, LLC PHAN, ANNETTE HOANG-ANH 1736 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 19, 2022

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