Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

The Intellectual Property Law Firm, Pllc

Technology area: Networking & Security

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

Analysis

The Intellectual Property Law Firm, PLLC focuses on Networking & Security. The firm has 617 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 87.05 percent. This rate represents the percentage of resolved applications that result in an issued patent. For a client, this metric provides an expectation of success based on the firm's past performance.

The firm currently has 6 pending office actions. The average number of office actions per allowance is 2.32. This 2.32 office actions per allowance metric indicates the typical length of the prosecution process. The 617 career applications and 6 pending office actions characterize the firm's total and active portfolio size. These data points define the firm's experience in its specific technology sector.

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

Quality Metrics (n=617 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.0%
Allowance Rate
n=617
+0.58σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=617
2.3
OAs to Allowance
n=390
-0.67σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=390
714 days
Time to Allowance
n=390
+12.6pp
Interview Lift
n=617
15.4%
RCE Rate
n=617
0.3%
Appeal Rate
n=617

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

61.7%
§101 Overcome
n=47
69.8%
§102 Overcome
n=129
72.2%
§103 Overcome
n=234
76.0%
§112 Overcome
n=208

Specialization & Scale

H04L, G06F, A63B
Top CPC Subclasses
11%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=617
1
Practitioners
n=617
617.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=617

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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.

5
Hard (56%)
3
Medium (33%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§101 + other1 (11%)
§103 only3 (33%)
Double-patenting only1 (11%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
11% of docket
2
Information Tech
22% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
22% of docket
3
Business / Other
33% 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
MAHMUD, FARHAN 1 56.2% +9.8%
JACKSON, DANIELLE 1 65.3% +26.6%
KEBEDE, GELILA SOLOMON 1 100.0% +0.0%
ZOUBAIR, NOURA 1 72.8% +62.3%
SHIAO, REI TSANG 1 79.8% -33.6%
ZHANG, MICHAEL N 1 54.2% +23.3%
GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN 1 71.7% +11.5%
BOLDUC, DAVID J 1 84.5% +6.8%
RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE 1 77.7% +7.3%

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
18862386 RACING AND FLIGHT SIMULATION SEAT ASSEMBLY WITH DETACHABLE SEAT ELEMENT KEBEDE, GELILA SOLOMON —

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19034188 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE FOR TRAFFIC MONITORING AND MONITORING METHOD THEREFOR MAHMUD, FARHAN —
18852303 HARDWARE-BASED METHOD FOR ENHANCING RESISTANCE AGAINST SIDE-CHANNEL ATTACKS IN A CRYPOSYSTEM ZOUBAIR, NOURA —
18846573 METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING NUCIFERINE OR DERIVATIVE THEREOF, DERIVATIVE OF NUCIFERINE AND USE THEREOF SHIAO, REI TSANG —
18839339 RE-USABLE MOISTURE REMOVING PAD AND METHOD ZHANG, MICHAEL N —
18566501 IDENTIFICATION METHOD OF MATURITY OF ACACIA HONEY BOLDUC, DAVID J —

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18737723 SOLVENT EXTRACTION METHOD FOR PETROLEUM SLUDGE/OIL SAND ASSISTED BY PARTICLE DISPERSANT GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN 41d
19020913 PORTABLE AND INFLATABLE SHADE ASSEMBLY JACKSON, DANIELLE —
18852303 HARDWARE-BASED METHOD FOR ENHANCING RESISTANCE AGAINST SIDE-CHANNEL ATTACKS IN A CRYPOSYSTEM ZOUBAIR, NOURA —
18839339 RE-USABLE MOISTURE REMOVING PAD AND METHOD ZHANG, MICHAEL N —

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24831
37151
24341
17711
28521
36711

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19034188 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE FOR TRAFFIC MONITORING AND MONITORING METHOD THEREFOR Hangzhou City University Binjiang Innovation Center MAHMUD, FARHAN 2483 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2025
19020913 PORTABLE AND INFLATABLE SHADE ASSEMBLY Flight Dive, LLC JACKSON, DANIELLE DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 14, 2025
18862386 RACING AND FLIGHT SIMULATION SEAT ASSEMBLY WITH DETACHABLE SEAT ELEMENT Home Racer LLC KEBEDE, GELILA SOLOMON 3715 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 01, 2024
18852303 HARDWARE-BASED METHOD FOR ENHANCING RESISTANCE AGAINST SIDE-CHANNEL ATTACKS IN A CRYPOSYSTEM Pqsecure Technologies, LLC ZOUBAIR, NOURA 2434 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18846573 METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING NUCIFERINE OR DERIVATIVE THEREOF, DERIVATIVE OF NUCIFERINE AND USE THEREOF Bayecao Health Industry Research Institute (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. SHIAO, REI TSANG §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 12, 2024
18839339 RE-USABLE MOISTURE REMOVING PAD AND METHOD Absorbits, Inc. ZHANG, MICHAEL N §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 16, 2024
18737723 SOLVENT EXTRACTION METHOD FOR PETROLEUM SLUDGE/OIL SAND ASSISTED BY PARTICLE DISPERSANT Shandong University GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jun 07, 2024
18566501 IDENTIFICATION METHOD OF MATURITY OF ACACIA HONEY Institute Of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy Of Agricultural Sciences BOLDUC, DAVID J 2852 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 01, 2023
18281513 BUILDING CONSTRUCTION ROBOT Qingdao University Of Technology RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE 3671 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 11, 2023

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