Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

9 pending office actions • 7 clients • 9 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

STOEL RIVES LLP - SLC has 11 pending office actions in Computing & Software and 9843 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 85.05%, indicating that allowance was reached in most resolved matters.

An average of 3.21 office actions per allowance points to continued prosecution activity in successful cases. The current docket is distinct from the historical application base, so practitioners can use it to consider present response demands while relying on the allowance rate and action average to evaluate past outcomes and examination intensity in the reported technology area.

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

Quality Metrics (n=9843 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.0%
Allowance Rate
n=9843
+0.55σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=9843
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=5798
-0.23σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=5798
1076 days
Time to Allowance
n=5798
+8.0pp
Interview Lift
n=9843
25.3%
RCE Rate
n=9843
2.2%
Appeal Rate
n=9843

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

76.3%
§101 Overcome
n=727
79.9%
§102 Overcome
n=2304
80.3%
§103 Overcome
n=3735
80.7%
§112 Overcome
n=2441

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, A61F
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=9843
43
Practitioners
n=9843
228.9
Apps / Practitioner
n=9843

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due later (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.

6
Hard (67%)
2
Medium (22%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§101 + other2 (22%)
§103 only2 (22%)
§112 only1 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
22% of docket
2
Information Tech
22% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
3
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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DOUMBIA, MOHAMED 1 73.6% +28.6%
ALLEN, JEFFREY R 1 48.2% +26.8%
DICKERSON, CHAD S 1 62.8% +23.1%
RIEGLER, PATRICK F 1 55.3% +30.9%
AZPURU, CARLOS A 1 83.8% +10.8%
BAYS, PAMELA M 1 71.8% +37.4%
LE, HUNG D 1 90.1% +6.4%
SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 1 26.4% +37.5%
SON, TAEYOUNG 1 45.7% +34.0%

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
18424641 BIOERODIBLE POLYESTER POLYMER AXITINIB OCULAR IMPLANTS AND RELATED METHODS OF USE AZPURU, CARLOS A —

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18860577 COLLAPSIBLE INTERMODAL CONTAINER ALLEN, JEFFREY R 38d overdue
18469456 NEURAL STIMULATION AND SENSING SYSTEM FOR AUDITORY AND NON-AUDITORY ACTIVATION BAYS, PAMELA M 16d overdue
17930875 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND A NON-CAPITAL EXPENDITURE SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 62d
19133632 OPTICAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE DOUMBIA, MOHAMED —
18792468 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING PRINTING USAGE STATISTICS DICKERSON, CHAD S —
18176726 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENSOR MONITORING AND SENSOR-RELATED CALCULATIONS LE, HUNG D —

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18860577 COLLAPSIBLE INTERMODAL CONTAINER ALLEN, JEFFREY R 38d overdue
18469456 NEURAL STIMULATION AND SENSING SYSTEM FOR AUDITORY AND NON-AUDITORY ACTIVATION BAYS, PAMELA M 16d overdue
17930875 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND A NON-CAPITAL EXPENDITURE SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 62d
19133632 OPTICAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE DOUMBIA, MOHAMED —
18792468 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING PRINTING USAGE STATISTICS DICKERSON, CHAD S —
18670319 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORM GENERATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED DATA CONFIGURATION MIGRATION RIEGLER, PATRICK F —
18424641 BIOERODIBLE POLYESTER POLYMER AXITINIB OCULAR IMPLANTS AND RELATED METHODS OF USE AZPURU, CARLOS A —
17757638 METHOD FOR PREPARING LITHIUM IRON MANGANESE PHOSPHATE PRECURSOR AND METHOD FOR PREPARING LITHIUM IRON MANGANESE PHOSPHATE SON, TAEYOUNG —

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28771
37331
26831
21711
16171
37961
21611
36251
17511

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19133632 OPTICAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE Lmi Technologies Inc. DOUMBIA, MOHAMED 2877 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 28, 2025
18860577 COLLAPSIBLE INTERMODAL CONTAINER Spectainer Pty Ltd. ALLEN, JEFFREY R 3733 §103§112 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2024
18792468 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING PRINTING USAGE STATISTICS Cdk Global, LLC DICKERSON, CHAD S 2683 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 01, 2024
18670319 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORM GENERATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED DATA CONFIGURATION MIGRATION Cdk Global, LLC RIEGLER, PATRICK F 2171 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 21, 2024
18424641 BIOERODIBLE POLYESTER POLYMER AXITINIB OCULAR IMPLANTS AND RELATED METHODS OF USE Dose Medical Corporation AZPURU, CARLOS A 1617 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 26, 2024
18469456 NEURAL STIMULATION AND SENSING SYSTEM FOR AUDITORY AND NON-AUDITORY ACTIVATION Feinstein Institutes For Medical Research BAYS, PAMELA M 3796 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Sep 18, 2023
18176726 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENSOR MONITORING AND SENSOR-RELATED CALCULATIONS Lizard Monitoring LLC LE, HUNG D 2161 §101§102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 01, 2023
17930875 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND A NON-CAPITAL EXPENDITURE Cdk Global, LLC SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z 3625 §101 Final Rejection 62d Pending Sep 09, 2022
17757638 METHOD FOR PREPARING LITHIUM IRON MANGANESE PHOSPHATE PRECURSOR AND METHOD FOR PREPARING LITHIUM IRON MANGANESE PHOSPHATE Jiangsu Lithitech Co., Ltd. SON, TAEYOUNG 1751 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 17, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Stoel Rives LLP - Slc's patent allowance rate?

85.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Stoel Rives LLP - Slc were allowed, across 9,843 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Stoel Rives LLP - Slc average before allowance?

3.21 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Stoel Rives LLP - Slc have?

9 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 7 clients, before 9 examiners in 9 art units.

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