Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 4 clients • 10 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
STOEL RIVES LLP - SEA has 12 pending office actions in Computing & Software and 9843 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 85.05%, showing that most resolved matters reached allowance in the reported record.
The firm averages 3.21 office actions per allowance. That measure indicates meaningful examination activity before successful resolution, while the allowance rate describes the resulting outcome across the career record. The pending docket provides a current workload indicator, and the application volume gives context for interpreting the firm’s experience in Computing & Software.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 6 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKHOUN, HICHAM | 3 | 77.1% | +5.5% |
| CHIANG, JASON | 1 | 83.2% | +28.4% |
| CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 1 | 77.8% | +32.4% |
| PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 1 | 77.8% | +13.5% |
| CLARK, RYAN T | 1 | 50.4% | +18.2% |
| RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 1 | 77.8% | +7.7% |
| TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA | 1 | 57.5% | +29.0% |
| SHAH, PRIYANK J | 1 | 68.0% | +17.9% |
| SHAH, VAISHALI | 1 | 57.4% | +52.9% |
| BREENE, PAUL J | 1 | 60.0% | +18.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19212458 | SELF-HEALING VIRTUALIZED FILE SERVER | CHIANG, JASON | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19071618 | FILE ANALYTICS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SKHOUN, HICHAM | 15d |
| 19071587 | FILE ANALYTICS SYSTEMS INCLUDING EXAMPLES PROVIDING METRICS ADJUSTED FOR APPLICATION OPERATION | SKHOUN, HICHAM | 76d |
| 18641059 | METHODS, SYSTEM AND APPARATUSES FOR THE INDUCTION AND REGULATION OF IMMUNOLOGICAL RESPONSES BY TISSUE ABLATION VIA PERMEABILIZATION OF CELL MEMBRANES AND ELECTROLYSIS | CLARK, RYAN T | — |
| 18693357 | FLEXIBLE BRIDGE ABUTMENT | RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | — |
| 18160264 | AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSET SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL PLANNING AND GUIDANCE | SHAH, PRIYANK J | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18069920 | ENUMERATION FOR DISTRIBUTED FILE SERVERS | SHAH, VAISHALI | 45d overdue |
| 18160280 | AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSET SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL PLANNING AND GUIDANCE FOR KNEE SURGERY | TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA | 38d overdue |
| 18930885 | PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE DEPLOYMENT INCLUDING SERVICE DOMAINS | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 14d |
| 19212458 | SELF-HEALING VIRTUALIZED FILE SERVER | CHIANG, JASON | — |
| 18929359 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR TISSUE ABLATION USING A MODULATED EXPONENTIAL DECAY PULSE | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | — |
| 18641059 | METHODS, SYSTEM AND APPARATUSES FOR THE INDUCTION AND REGULATION OF IMMUNOLOGICAL RESPONSES BY TISSUE ABLATION VIA PERMEABILIZATION OF CELL MEMBRANES AND ELECTROLYSIS | CLARK, RYAN T | — |
| 18160264 | AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSET SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL PLANNING AND GUIDANCE | SHAH, PRIYANK J | — |
| 16522567 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEPOYING A MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE AS A SERVICE AT SYSTEMS | BREENE, PAUL J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Nutanix | 7 |
| Inter Science GmbH | 2 |
| PolarisAR, Inc. | 2 |
| Laing O'Rourke PLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2164 | 3 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2444 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2626 | 1 |
| 2156 | 1 |
| 2129 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19212458 | SELF-HEALING VIRTUALIZED FILE SERVER | Nutanix, Inc. | CHIANG, JASON | 2431 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19071618 | FILE ANALYTICS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Nutanix, Inc. | SKHOUN, HICHAM | 2164 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19071587 | FILE ANALYTICS SYSTEMS INCLUDING EXAMPLES PROVIDING METRICS ADJUSTED FOR APPLICATION OPERATION | Nutanix, Inc. | SKHOUN, HICHAM | 2164 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 18930885 | PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE DEPLOYMENT INCLUDING SERVICE DOMAINS | Nutanix, Inc. | CHRISTENSEN, SCOTT B | 2444 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18929359 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR TISSUE ABLATION USING A MODULATED EXPONENTIAL DECAY PULSE | Inter Science GmbH | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18641059 | METHODS, SYSTEM AND APPARATUSES FOR THE INDUCTION AND REGULATION OF IMMUNOLOGICAL RESPONSES BY TISSUE ABLATION VIA PERMEABILIZATION OF CELL MEMBRANES AND ELECTROLYSIS | Inter Science GmbH | CLARK, RYAN T | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18693357 | FLEXIBLE BRIDGE ABUTMENT | Laing O'Rourke PLC | RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 3671 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18160280 | AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSET SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL PLANNING AND GUIDANCE FOR KNEE SURGERY | Polarisar, Inc. | TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 18160264 | AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSET SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL PLANNING AND GUIDANCE | Polarisar, Inc. | SHAH, PRIYANK J | 2626 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 18069920 | ENUMERATION FOR DISTRIBUTED FILE SERVERS | Nutanix, Inc. | SHAH, VAISHALI | 2156 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 17452144 | MALICIOUS ACTIVITY DETECTION AND REMEDIATION IN VIRTUALIZED FILE SERVERS | Nutanix, Inc. | SKHOUN, HICHAM | 2164 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2021 |
| 16522567 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DEPOYING A MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE AS A SERVICE AT SYSTEMS | Nutanix, Inc. | BREENE, PAUL J | 2129 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2019 |
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Start Free Trial85.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Stoel Rives LLP - Sea were allowed, across 9,843 applications in USPTO records.
3.21 office actions per allowed application on average.
12 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 10 examiners in 9 art units.
