Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Stupp Associates, LLC

9 pending office actions • 6 clients • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=431 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

89.0%
Allowance Rate
n=431
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=431
2.8
OAs to Allowance
n=227
-0.44σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=227
887 days
Time to Allowance
n=227
+7.5pp
Interview Lift
n=431
26.7%
RCE Rate
n=431
5.0%
Appeal Rate
n=431

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

61.5%
§101 Overcome
n=39
77.2%
§102 Overcome
n=92
77.6%
§103 Overcome
n=170
73.7%
§112 Overcome
n=76

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G01S
Top CPC Subclasses
30%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=431
1
Practitioners
n=431
431.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=431

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
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 (67%)
3
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (33%)
§103 only3 (33%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
44% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
44% of docket
1
Business / Other
11% 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
TALLMAN, BRIAN A 2 24.4% +39.5%
AUSTIN, JAMIE H 1 24.7% +32.6%
DANG, PHONG H 1 80.8% +10.6%
HATHI, NIMISH PRADUMNA 1
CLEARY, THOMAS J 1 72.9% +15.9%
BENOURAIDA, AMINA MORENO 1 0.0% +0.0%
RHEE, ROY B 1 68.7% +24.0%
PAULA, CESAR B 1 33.5% +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
18979452 Universal Data Bus Serializer DANG, PHONG H 19d overdue

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
18667337 In-Vehicle Consumer Device Charging Network CLEARY, THOMAS J
18135657 AUGMENTATION AND SUPPRESSION USING INTENTIONALLY ADDED PREDEFINED BIAS BENOURAIDA, AMINA MORENO
18126414 Condition-Based Loading of a Subset of a Collision Avoidance and Detection Data Structure RHEE, ROY B
17689940 As-Light-As-Possible Autoencoder Neural Network PAULA, CESAR B

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 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
18126414 Condition-Based Loading of a Subset of a Collision Avoidance and Detection Data Structure RHEE, ROY B

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36282
36251
21841
21751
21291
36641
21451

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
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 HATHI, NIMISH PRADUMNA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18667337 In-Vehicle Consumer Device Charging Network AyDeeKay LLC CLEARY, THOMAS J 2175 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 2024
18135657 AUGMENTATION AND SUPPRESSION USING INTENTIONALLY ADDED PREDEFINED BIAS Egx Acquisition Corp., Dba Edgeworx BENOURAIDA, AMINA MORENO 2129 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 17, 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
17689940 As-Light-As-Possible Autoencoder Neural Network Artificial Intelligence Foundation, Inc. PAULA, CESAR B 2145 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 08, 2022

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