Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Taylor Dykema Pllc

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

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

Analysis

Taylor Dykema, PLLC has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Its profile includes 350 career applications, providing context for the current unresolved matters.

The resolved allowance rate is 88.7%, and the average is 1.72 office actions per allowance. Resolved matters show a high allowance outcome and typically require fewer than two office actions before allowance. Practitioners can examine how early claim refinement and focused responses support prosecution in this technology area.

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

Quality Metrics (n=350 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.7%
Allowance Rate
n=350
+0.46σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=350
1.7
OAs to Allowance
n=267
-1.11σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=267
874 days
Time to Allowance
n=267
+7.6pp
Interview Lift
n=350
11.3%
RCE Rate
n=350
0.6%
Appeal Rate
n=350

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=17 (min 20)
68.4%
§102 Overcome
n=76
74.3%
§103 Overcome
n=109
77.0%
§112 Overcome
n=87

Specialization & Scale

A63B, G01N, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=350
0
Practitioners
n=350
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=350 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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 (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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.

4
Hard (80%)
1
Medium (20%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (20%)
§103 only1 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (60%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
80% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LO, ANDREW S 1 72.2% +27.7%
JACKSON, DANIELLE 1 65.4% +26.5%
HICKS, ANGELISA 1 63.4% +22.0%
PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 1 10.0% +15.0%
HANDY, DWAYNE K 1 62.7% +25.0%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17692151 Apparatus for holding down respective membrane elements in respective wells of a multiwell plate HANDY, DWAYNE K 26d overdue
18489742 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR STREAMLINING HEALTH INSURANCE CLAIMS ADJUDICATION IN MUSCULOSKELETAL DIAGNOSTICS AND INTERVENTIONS PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 71d
19087940 MULTI-CONFIGURATION EXERCISE DEVICE INCLUDING AN ARCUATE TRACK LO, ANDREW S —
18641277 VARIABLE TEMPORARY STRUCTURE JACKSON, DANIELLE —

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
17692151 Apparatus for holding down respective membrane elements in respective wells of a multiwell plate HANDY, DWAYNE K 26d overdue
18621002 COUPLING ASSEMBLY FOR A HVACR SYSTEM HICKS, ANGELISA 14d
18489742 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR STREAMLINING HEALTH INSURANCE CLAIMS ADJUDICATION IN MUSCULOSKELETAL DIAGNOSTICS AND INTERVENTIONS PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 71d
19087940 MULTI-CONFIGURATION EXERCISE DEVICE INCLUDING AN ARCUATE TRACK LO, ANDREW S —
18641277 VARIABLE TEMPORARY STRUCTURE JACKSON, DANIELLE —

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37841
36361
37531
36851
17981

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19087940 MULTI-CONFIGURATION EXERCISE DEVICE INCLUDING AN ARCUATE TRACK Freak Athlete Essentials LLC LO, ANDREW S 3784 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 24, 2025
18641277 VARIABLE TEMPORARY STRUCTURE Bijou Corp. JACKSON, DANIELLE 3636 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 19, 2024
18621002 COUPLING ASSEMBLY FOR A HVACR SYSTEM Craft Group HICKS, ANGELISA 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18489742 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR STREAMLINING HEALTH INSURANCE CLAIMS ADJUDICATION IN MUSCULOSKELETAL DIAGNOSTICS AND INTERVENTIONS Intelligent Health Analytics Inc. PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 3685 §101§103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Oct 18, 2023
17692151 Apparatus for holding down respective membrane elements in respective wells of a multiwell plate Euroimmun Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG HANDY, DWAYNE K 1798 §102§103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Taylor Dykema Pllc's patent allowance rate?

88.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Taylor Dykema Pllc were allowed, across 350 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Taylor Dykema Pllc average before allowance?

1.72 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Taylor Dykema Pllc have?

5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.

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