Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 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 operates in the technology area of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm has managed 690 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 86.33 percent. This percentage indicates the proportion of resolved applications that result in a patent grant. For a practitioner, this rate describes the historical likelihood of reaching an allowance for cases handled by the firm.

The firm currently has 8 pending office actions. On average, the firm receives 2.59 office actions per allowance. This 2.59 office actions per allowance metric reflects the typical amount of interaction with the USPTO required to secure a grant. The 690 career applications and 8 pending office actions provide a view of the firm's total experience and current workload. These data points characterize the firm's prosecution profile in its specified technology area.

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

Quality Metrics (n=690 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

86.3%
Allowance Rate
n=690
+0.35σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=690
2.6
OAs to Allowance
n=461
-0.74σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=461
968 days
Time to Allowance
n=461
+4.2pp
Interview Lift
n=690
18.7%
RCE Rate
n=690
3.5%
Appeal Rate
n=690

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

90.2%
§101 Overcome
n=51
75.2%
§102 Overcome
n=149
75.1%
§103 Overcome
n=217
83.3%
§112 Overcome
n=198

Specialization & Scale

G06F, Y10T, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
13%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=690
9
Practitioners
n=690
76.7
Apps / Practitioner
n=690

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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 (3)

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%)
4
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (17%)
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 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 32.7% +57.1%
MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 1 18.8% +23.0%
THEIS, MATTHEW T 1 42.1% +32.5%
LO, ANDREW S 1 72.2% +27.6%
SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA 1 50.4% +27.4%
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 (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
17909794 Insole LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN 147d overdue
19235505 FLYING INSECT TRAP WITH PHOTOLUMINESCENT GLUE BOARD BYUN, HAE RIE JESSICA 72d overdue
18440924 GRIP RESISTANCE DEVICE LO, ANDREW S 45d 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
36241
37341
37841
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
19084648 INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR VISUAL MEDIA ZUMEDIA INC. MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 3624 §101§102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 19, 2025
18759747 BABY CARRYING APPARATUS Heroes Technology Ltd. THEIS, MATTHEW T 3734 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 28, 2024
18440924 GRIP RESISTANCE DEVICE The Crab Grip LLC LO, ANDREW S 3784 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Feb 13, 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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