Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

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

Analysis

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The profile includes 698 career applications, giving the pending workload context within the firm’s recorded prosecution activity.

The resolved allowance rate is 86.19%, and the average is 2.58 office actions per allowance. This combination indicates that resolved matters frequently reach allowance while requiring more than one office-action exchange. Practitioners can use the figures to assess both outcome patterns and the likely effort involved in advancing medical-device and mechanical claims.

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

Quality Metrics (n=698 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

86.2%
Allowance Rate
n=698
+0.32σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=698
2.6
OAs to Allowance
n=462
-0.75σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=462
968 days
Time to Allowance
n=462
+4.4pp
Interview Lift
n=698
18.7%
RCE Rate
n=698
3.5%
Appeal Rate
n=698

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

90.2%
§101 Overcome
n=51
76.5%
§102 Overcome
n=149
75.1%
§103 Overcome
n=217
82.8%
§112 Overcome
n=198

Specialization & Scale

G06F, Y10T, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
13%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=698
9
Practitioners
n=698
77.6
Apps / Practitioner
n=698

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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
0
Due later

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 (33%)
3
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (17%)
§103 only2 (33%)
§102 only1 (17%)
Double-patenting only1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BYUN, HAE RIE JESSICA 1 32.2% +57.5%
BAKER, LORI LYNN 1 78.6% +6.6%
MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 1 19.0% +23.2%
THEIS, MATTHEW T 1 42.2% +32.3%
SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA 1 50.4% +27.2%
LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN 1 61.1% +41.6%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17909794 Insole LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN 147d overdue
19084648 INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR VISUAL MEDIA MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE —

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
17909794 Insole LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN 147d overdue
19235505 FLYING INSECT TRAP WITH PHOTOLUMINESCENT GLUE BOARD BYUN, HAE RIE JESSICA 72d overdue
19084648 INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR VISUAL MEDIA MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE —
18759747 BABY CARRYING APPARATUS THEIS, MATTHEW T —
18409719 Nasal Anchor SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA —

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36431
37541
36241
37341
37951
37321

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19235505 FLYING INSECT TRAP WITH PHOTOLUMINESCENT GLUE BOARD Ap&G Co., Inc. BYUN, HAE RIE JESSICA 3643 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Jun 11, 2025
19226074 ADJUSTABLE TOILET SEAT ADAPTER The Happy Penguin LLC BAKER, LORI LYNN 3754 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 02, 2025
19084648 INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR VISUAL MEDIA ZUMEDIA INC. MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 3624 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 19, 2025
18759747 BABY CARRYING APPARATUS Heroes Technology Ltd. THEIS, MATTHEW T 3734 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 28, 2024
18409719 Nasal Anchor Sentry Laboratories LLC SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA 3795 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 10, 2024
17909794 Insole Si Shape Industries GmbH GmbH LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN 3732 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP's patent allowance rate?

86.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP were allowed, across 698 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP average before allowance?

2.58 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP have?

6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.

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