Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Stradley Ronon

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Stradley Ronon has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 1074 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 87.54%, showing that allowance was reached in most resolved matters.

The firm averages 2.96 office actions per allowance. This indicates that successful cases typically involved more than one examination interaction, while the allowance rate provides the principal historical outcome measure. The current docket is limited in size, and the career application record supplies context for assessing the firm’s prosecution experience 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=1074 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.5%
Allowance Rate
n=1074
+0.60σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1074
3.0
OAs to Allowance
n=618
-0.35σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=618
1033 days
Time to Allowance
n=618
+7.8pp
Interview Lift
n=1074
20.0%
RCE Rate
n=1074
2.5%
Appeal Rate
n=1074

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

81.7%
§101 Overcome
n=60
85.3%
§102 Overcome
n=204
84.7%
§103 Overcome
n=405
86.4%
§112 Overcome
n=287

Specialization & Scale

E04B, G06Q, Y10T
Top CPC Subclasses
10%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1074
0
Practitioners
n=1074
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=1074 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
4
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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.

1
Hard (20%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
20% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HARRIS, ZACHARY PRATT 1 — —
YOO, REGINA M 1 63.8% +5.8%
VARNDELL, ROSS E 1 84.7% +13.2%
BARLOW, ADAM G 1 70.8% +19.6%
CHOI, YUE YIN 1 60.0% +8.2%

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
18234191 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF A SURGICAL TRAY AND THE ITEMS CONTAINED THEREON VARNDELL, ROSS E 73d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18239147 UV-C BASED ANTI-MICROBIAL AIR CIRCULATION SYSTEM YOO, REGINA M 26d

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18234191 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF A SURGICAL TRAY AND THE ITEMS CONTAINED THEREON VARNDELL, ROSS E 73d overdue
18274471 SOUND WALL WITH ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT FOAMED GLASS AGGREGATES BARLOW, ADAM G 36d

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36332
17581
26741
36991

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19185394 CLEANROOM SUSPENDED CEILING MOLDING HAVING A GASKET Worthington Armstrong Venture HARRIS, ZACHARY PRATT 3633 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2025
18239147 UV-C BASED ANTI-MICROBIAL AIR CIRCULATION SYSTEM Worthington Armstrong Venture YOO, REGINA M 1758 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 26d Pending Aug 29, 2023
18234191 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF A SURGICAL TRAY AND THE ITEMS CONTAINED THEREON Ortelligence, Inc. VARNDELL, ROSS E 2674 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2023
18274471 SOUND WALL WITH ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT FOAMED GLASS AGGREGATES Aero Aggregates Of North America LLC BARLOW, ADAM G 3633 §103 Final Rejection 36d Pending Jul 27, 2023
18184953 SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING SECURE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN ENTITIES AND PROCESSING RESOURCE TRANSFERS Hashlynx Inc. CHOI, YUE YIN 3699 §103 Final Rejection 114d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Stradley Ronon's patent allowance rate?

87.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Stradley Ronon were allowed, across 1,074 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Stradley Ronon average before allowance?

2.96 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Stradley Ronon have?

5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 5 examiners in 4 art units.

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