Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Stratum Law LLC

8 pending office actions • 8 clients • 8 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=709 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

96.1%
Allowance Rate
n=709
+0.32σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=709
1.3
OAs to Allowance
n=643
-1.33σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=643
760 days
Time to Allowance
n=643
+0.5pp
Interview Lift
n=709
1.5%
RCE Rate
n=709
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=709

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=8 (min 20)
90.4%
§102 Overcome
n=73
75.0%
§103 Overcome
n=120
91.4%
§112 Overcome
n=278

Specialization & Scale

A47J, B65D, F21Y
Top CPC Subclasses
7%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=709
1
Practitioners
n=709
709.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=709

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
2
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.

2
Hard (25%)
5
Medium (62%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§112 only1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
62% of docket
2
Business / Other
25% 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
FERGUSON, MICHAEL P 1 63.4% +73.0%
DINH, PHUONG K 1 87.3% +8.9%
KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE 1 18.2% +90.0%
JACKSON, DANIELLE 1 65.3% +26.7%
BROOKS, KREGG T 1 57.1% +1.4%
WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE 1 34.6% +77.3%
CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P 1 63.0% +21.2%
LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN 1 58.3% +2.9%

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
18614347 TRACK MAGNETIC ATTRACTION POWER CONNECTION STRUCTURE DINH, PHUONG K

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
18435885 FIXED BLADE STRUCTURE KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE 42d overdue
18525863 DOUBLE-LAYER CLOTH STRUCTURE OF SUN UMBRELLA JACKSON, DANIELLE 36d overdue
17920393 MULTIFUNCTIONAL FIBER WITH FULL-SPECTRUM INFRARED RADIATION, FLAME RETARDANT AND ANTIBACTERIAL FUNCTIONS AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF BROOKS, KREGG T

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
18435885 FIXED BLADE STRUCTURE KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE 42d overdue
18525863 DOUBLE-LAYER CLOTH STRUCTURE OF SUN UMBRELLA JACKSON, DANIELLE 36d overdue
18237498 CUTTER HEAD ASSEMBLY WITH GUIDE STRUCTURE AND WRENCH ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE 85d
18648319 CONNECTING MEMBER FOR CONNECTING MULTIFUNCTIONAL HIGH-STRENGTH PIPE WITH OTHER COMPONENTS FERGUSON, MICHAEL P
18033413 CONVENIENT-TO-ASSEMBLE ESOPHAGUS MEDICINE APPLYING DEVICE FOR THE GASTROENTEROLOGY DEPARTMENT CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37242
36191
36361
37811
21871

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18648319 CONNECTING MEMBER FOR CONNECTING MULTIFUNCTIONAL HIGH-STRENGTH PIPE WITH OTHER COMPONENTS Ningbo Hyderon Hardware Co., Ltd. FERGUSON, MICHAEL P 3619 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 26, 2024
18614347 TRACK MAGNETIC ATTRACTION POWER CONNECTION STRUCTURE E-Lite Lighting Co., Ltd. DINH, PHUONG K §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 22, 2024
18435885 FIXED BLADE STRUCTURE Ningbo Iclipper Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2024
18525863 DOUBLE-LAYER CLOTH STRUCTURE OF SUN UMBRELLA Zhejiang Qirong Leisure Products Co. Ltd. JACKSON, DANIELLE 3636 §103§112 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2023
17920393 MULTIFUNCTIONAL FIBER WITH FULL-SPECTRUM INFRARED RADIATION, FLAME RETARDANT AND ANTIBACTERIAL FUNCTIONS AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF Zhejiang Tongkun New Materials Research Institute Co., Ltd. BROOKS, KREGG T §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 17, 2023
18237498 CUTTER HEAD ASSEMBLY WITH GUIDE STRUCTURE AND WRENCH ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER Ningbo Iclipper Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE 3724 §103 Final Rejection 85d Pending Aug 24, 2023
18033413 CONVENIENT-TO-ASSEMBLE ESOPHAGUS MEDICINE APPLYING DEVICE FOR THE GASTROENTEROLOGY DEPARTMENT Guangdong Guoshijian Technology Development Co., Ltd. CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P 3781 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 24, 2023
17802715 PARALLEL-IN-TIME DISTURBANCE REGION UPDATE METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FLIGHT VEHICLES BEIHANG UNIVERSITY LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN 2187 §112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 26, 2022

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