Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

The Intellectual Property Law Firm, Pllc

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

Quality Metrics (n=612 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.7%
Allowance Rate
n=612
+0.58σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=612
2.3
OAs to Allowance
n=386
-0.66σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=386
709 days
Time to Allowance
n=386
+12.2pp
Interview Lift
n=612
15.4%
RCE Rate
n=612
0.3%
Appeal Rate
n=612

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

63.0%
§101 Overcome
n=46
72.0%
§102 Overcome
n=125
72.2%
§103 Overcome
n=230
77.3%
§112 Overcome
n=203

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, A61B
Top CPC Subclasses
10%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=612
1
Practitioners
n=612
612.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=612

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
1
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
0
Due this month
1
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 ≤ 60 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.

5
Hard (62%)
3
Medium (38%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (12%)
§103 only3 (38%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
12% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
62% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KEBEDE, GELILA SOLOMON 1 100.0% +0.0%
ZHANG, MICHAEL N 1 53.9% +23.9%
GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN 1 71.8% +11.3%
HULS, NATALIE F 1 76.8% +21.8%
BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 1 29.2% +58.3%
HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER 1 61.5% +22.1%
RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE 1 77.7% +7.3%
BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE 1 51.3% +29.9%

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
18282413 Two-stage stochastic programming based V2G scheduling model for operator revenue maximization BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 66d overdue
18533999 PORTABLE SUNBATHING ENCLOSURE HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER 50d overdue
18839339 RE-USABLE MOISTURE REMOVING PAD AND METHOD ZHANG, MICHAEL N
18679150 METHOD OF DETERMINING A USERS BLIND WEIGHT WITH A SPECIALIZED SCALE HULS, NATALIE F
17374500 TELEMETRY MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT SYSTEM OF PARAMETERS OF HUMAN VITAL FUNCTIONS AND CLINICAL SIGNS OF POSSIBLE FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS AND DETERMINATION OF METHODS OF CONTROL BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE

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
18282413 Two-stage stochastic programming based V2G scheduling model for operator revenue maximization BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 66d overdue
18533999 PORTABLE SUNBATHING ENCLOSURE HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER 50d overdue
18737723 SOLVENT EXTRACTION METHOD FOR PETROLEUM SLUDGE/OIL SAND ASSISTED BY PARTICLE DISPERSANT GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN 41d
18839339 RE-USABLE MOISTURE REMOVING PAD AND METHOD ZHANG, MICHAEL N
18679150 METHOD OF DETERMINING A USERS BLIND WEIGHT WITH A SPECIALIZED SCALE HULS, NATALIE F
17374500 TELEMETRY MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT SYSTEM OF PARAMETERS OF HUMAN VITAL FUNCTIONS AND CLINICAL SIGNS OF POSSIBLE FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS AND DETERMINATION OF METHODS OF CONTROL BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37151
17711
28551
36241
36361
36711
37971

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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
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
18679150 METHOD OF DETERMINING A USERS BLIND WEIGHT WITH A SPECIALIZED SCALE Blind Weight LLC HULS, NATALIE F 2855 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 30, 2024
18282413 Two-stage stochastic programming based V2G scheduling model for operator revenue maximization Guangzhou Institute Of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy Of Sciences BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §101 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18533999 PORTABLE SUNBATHING ENCLOSURE Sunhugg, LLC HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER 3636 §102§103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2023
18281513 BUILDING CONSTRUCTION ROBOT Qingdao University Of Technology RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE 3671 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 11, 2023
17374500 TELEMETRY MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT SYSTEM OF PARAMETERS OF HUMAN VITAL FUNCTIONS AND CLINICAL SIGNS OF POSSIBLE FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS AND DETERMINATION OF METHODS OF CONTROL Facecontrol, Inc. BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE 3797 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 13, 2021

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