Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Stupp Associates, LLC

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

11 pending office actions • 4 clients • 9 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Stupp Associates, LLC has 434 career applications, with a focus on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 89.45. This percentage indicates the frequency of allowances among all resolved cases and provides a historical benchmark for its 434 career applications.

The firm averages 2.76 office actions per allowance, showing the typical number of responses required to achieve a grant. There are 7 pending office actions currently active. These actions represent the current prosecution effort for a firm with experience in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.

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

Quality Metrics (n=434 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.4%
Allowance Rate
n=434
+0.45σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=434
2.8
OAs to Allowance
n=229
-0.43σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=229
887 days
Time to Allowance
n=229
+7.1pp
Interview Lift
n=434
27.0%
RCE Rate
n=434
5.0%
Appeal Rate
n=434

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

64.1%
§101 Overcome
n=39
75.3%
§102 Overcome
n=93
76.2%
§103 Overcome
n=172
72.7%
§112 Overcome
n=77

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G01S
Top CPC Subclasses
30%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=434
1
Practitioners
n=434
434.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=434

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
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
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

6
Hard (55%)
5
Medium (45%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (27%)
§103 only5 (45%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (27%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
18% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
9% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
45% of docket
3
Business / Other
27% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TALLMAN, BRIAN A 2 24.2% +39.0%
GREGORY, BERNARR E 2 90.5% +6.7%
AUSTIN, JAMIE H 1 24.8% +33.2%
DANG, PHONG H 1 80.9% +10.7%
VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N 1 23.9% +0.0%
LE, HAILEY R 1 81.1% +9.6%
CLEARY, THOMAS J 1 72.7% +15.7%
LAM, TUAN THIEU 1 77.7% +13.0%
RHEE, ROY B 1 69.8% +23.2%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18979452 Universal Data Bus Serializer DANG, PHONG H 19d overdue
18899991 Optical Linearization Technique GREGORY, BERNARR E —
18767787 Generating Different Data Streams Based on Temporal Relevance LE, HAILEY R —

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18953076 REAL-TIME TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC-LIGHT PATTERNS TALLMAN, BRIAN A 30d overdue
18916622 System and Method for Real-Time Traffic Management TALLMAN, BRIAN A 20d
19076884 AUTOMATED ADAPTATION OF A PLAN FOR A POWER-SYSTEM PROJECT AUSTIN, JAMIE H —
18950121 CENTRALIZED OCCUPANCY DETECTION SYSTEM GREGORY, BERNARR E —
18827571 Optical Linearization Technique VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N —
18383477 Low Latency, Broadband Power-Domain Offset-Correction Signal Level Circuit Implementation LAM, TUAN THIEU —
18126414 Condition-Based Loading of a Subset of a Collision Avoidance and Detection Data Structure RHEE, ROY B —

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18953076 REAL-TIME TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC-LIGHT PATTERNS TALLMAN, BRIAN A 30d overdue
18979452 Universal Data Bus Serializer DANG, PHONG H 19d overdue
18916622 System and Method for Real-Time Traffic Management TALLMAN, BRIAN A 20d
19076884 AUTOMATED ADAPTATION OF A PLAN FOR A POWER-SYSTEM PROJECT AUSTIN, JAMIE H —
18667337 In-Vehicle Consumer Device Charging Network CLEARY, THOMAS J —
18383477 Low Latency, Broadband Power-Domain Offset-Correction Signal Level Circuit Implementation LAM, TUAN THIEU —
18126414 Condition-Based Loading of a Subset of a Collision Avoidance and Detection Data Structure RHEE, ROY B —

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36282
36251
21841
36481
21751
28421
36641

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19076884 AUTOMATED ADAPTATION OF A PLAN FOR A POWER-SYSTEM PROJECT Bootstraplab, LLC AUSTIN, JAMIE H 3625 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 11, 2025
18979452 Universal Data Bus Serializer AyDeeKay LLC DANG, PHONG H 2184 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2024
18953076 REAL-TIME TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC-LIGHT PATTERNS Lyt, Inc. TALLMAN, BRIAN A 3628 §101§102§103DP Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Nov 20, 2024
18950121 CENTRALIZED OCCUPANCY DETECTION SYSTEM AyDeeKay LLC GREGORY, BERNARR E §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 17, 2024
18916622 System and Method for Real-Time Traffic Management Lyt, Inc. TALLMAN, BRIAN A 3628 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Oct 15, 2024
18899991 Optical Linearization Technique AyDeeKay LLC GREGORY, BERNARR E §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18827571 Optical Linearization Technique AyDeeKay LLC VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 06, 2024
18767787 Generating Different Data Streams Based on Temporal Relevance AyDeeKay LLC LE, HAILEY R 3648 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 09, 2024
18667337 In-Vehicle Consumer Device Charging Network AyDeeKay LLC CLEARY, THOMAS J 2175 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 17, 2024
18383477 Low Latency, Broadband Power-Domain Offset-Correction Signal Level Circuit Implementation AyDeeKay LLC LAM, TUAN THIEU 2842 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2023
18126414 Condition-Based Loading of a Subset of a Collision Avoidance and Detection Data Structure Sagetech Avionics, Inc. RHEE, ROY B 3664 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 25, 2023

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