Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

The Law Firm Of A.Q. Basit

6 pending office actions • 3 clients • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=108 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

92.8%
Allowance Rate
n=108
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=108
2.2
OAs to Allowance
n=64
-0.51σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=64
724 days
Time to Allowance
n=64
+3.1pp
Interview Lift
n=108
11.6%
RCE Rate
n=108
5.9%
Appeal Rate
n=108

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=18 (min 20)
85.7%
§102 Overcome
n=21
68.8%
§103 Overcome
n=32
73.0%
§112 Overcome
n=37

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G02F, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
20%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=108
0
Practitioners
n=108
Apps / Practitioner
n=108 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
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.

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.

4
Hard (67%)
1
Medium (17%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other4 (67%)
§103 only1 (17%)
Double-patenting only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
50% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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
SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA 1 73.1% +19.2%
RAPILLO, KRISTINE K 1 28.8% +27.4%
HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI 1 41.1% +49.6%
HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 1 90.6% +6.2%
SPIELER, WILLIAM 1 73.5% +9.8%
MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN 1 80.5% +16.7%

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
18221261 QUANTUM DATABASE INSERT OPERATIONS SYSTEM HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 18d overdue
18221284 QUANTUM DATABASE UPDATE OPERATIONS SYSTEM SPIELER, WILLIAM 16d overdue
18221271 DELETION OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM DATABASE SYSTEMS MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN 8d overdue
18972682 NON-INVASIVE HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM RAPILLO, KRISTINE K

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
18221271 DELETION OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM DATABASE SYSTEMS MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN 8d overdue
19050226 GAS CONTROL SYSTEM SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA
18972682 NON-INVASIVE HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM RAPILLO, KRISTINE K
18957699 AUDITORY AND OLFACTORY MAPPING SYSTEM HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21592
37531
36821
24331

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19050226 GAS CONTROL SYSTEM Marlin Gas Services, LLC SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA 3753 DP Non-Final OA Pending Feb 11, 2025
18972682 NON-INVASIVE HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM Abu Dhabi University RAPILLO, KRISTINE K 3682 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 06, 2024
18957699 AUDITORY AND OLFACTORY MAPPING SYSTEM Zayed University HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 23, 2024
18221261 QUANTUM DATABASE INSERT OPERATIONS SYSTEM Abu Dhabi University HOFFMAN, BRANDON S 2433 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18221284 QUANTUM DATABASE UPDATE OPERATIONS SYSTEM Abu Dhabi University SPIELER, WILLIAM 2159 §101§112 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18221271 DELETION OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM DATABASE SYSTEMS Abu Dhabi University MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN 2159 §101§112 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023

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