Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Stoel Rives LLP - Pdx

7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=9823 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.0%
Allowance Rate
n=9823
+0.55σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=9823
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=5743
-0.24σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=5743
1075 days
Time to Allowance
n=5743
+8.0pp
Interview Lift
n=9823
25.2%
RCE Rate
n=9823
2.2%
Appeal Rate
n=9823

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

75.9%
§101 Overcome
n=718
79.8%
§102 Overcome
n=2292
80.3%
§103 Overcome
n=3702
80.5%
§112 Overcome
n=2426

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, A61F
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=9823
41
Practitioners
n=9823
239.6
Apps / Practitioner
n=9823

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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 (3)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

3
Hard (43%)
4
Medium (57%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (43%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
29% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NELSON, CHRISTINE L 1 62.9% +34.0%
YANG, CHENG FONG 1 64.2% +23.6%
GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN 1 31.6% +45.1%
SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM 1 71.6% +9.1%
SINGH, KAVEL 1 83.6% +13.9%
PAIK, SANG YEOP 1 65.3% +16.5%
ABBATINE JR., MICHAEL WILLIAM 1 16.7% -20.0%

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
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
18488033 HIGH SPEED MANIPULATION OF NON-UNIFORM OBJECTS SINGH, KAVEL 15d
18707492 VALVE FOR A UROSTOMY APPLIANCE YANG, CHENG FONG

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
18488033 HIGH SPEED MANIPULATION OF NON-UNIFORM OBJECTS SINGH, KAVEL 15d
18942362 ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCE FOR CORRECTING MISALIGNMENT OF TEETH NELSON, CHRISTINE L
18707492 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
36511
24191

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
18707492 VALVE FOR A UROSTOMY APPLIANCE Salts Healthcare Limited YANG, CHENG FONG 3781 §102§103 Non-Final OA 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
18488033 HIGH SPEED MANIPULATION OF NON-UNIFORM OBJECTS Emerging Acquisitions, LLC SINGH, KAVEL 3651 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 17, 2023
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
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

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