Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

The Morales Law Firm, LLC

11 pending office actions • 7 clients • 10 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=340 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

71.0%
Allowance Rate
n=340
+0.32σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=340
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=169
-0.24σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=169
997 days
Time to Allowance
n=169
+30.5pp
Interview Lift
n=340
32.4%
RCE Rate
n=340
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=340

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

60.0%
§101 Overcome
n=20
64.7%
§102 Overcome
n=85
63.5%
§103 Overcome
n=178
66.9%
§112 Overcome
n=166

Specialization & Scale

B32B, A61K, B60J
Top CPC Subclasses
17%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=340
1
Practitioners
n=340
340.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=340

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

8
Hard (73%)
3
Medium (27%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (9%)
§103 only3 (27%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (64%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
45% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
55% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TORRES, ALICIA M 2 73.7% +17.5%
WHIPKEY, TARA NOELLE 1
TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 1 77.9% +16.3%
COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON 1 69.9% +16.4%
AHMED, SHEEBA 1 80.8% +14.3%
KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN 1 76.7% +21.6%
ANDREI, RADU 1 36.8% +20.3%
KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 1 31.7% +31.1%
WAITS, ALAN B 1 68.9% +29.6%
SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL 1 80.6% +0.0%

Hard Cases (8)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18759953 WIRE DRAWING MONITORING SYSTEM TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 104d overdue
17773906 LIGNOCELLULOSIC COMPOSITE FORMED BY A FIRST SOURCE FROM MAIZE PLANT WASTE WITH CELLULOSE FIBRES FROM A SECOND SOURCE AND PRODUCTION METHOD SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL 38d overdue
18146413 INTEGRAL HAMMER FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF SOWING DISCS OF A SEEDING MACHINE WAITS, ALAN B 28d overdue
18041055 ADDITIVE FOR ANIMALS THAT CONTAIN SAPONINS, PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND P-CIMENOL, AND PROCEDURE FOR ITS OBTENTION KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 19d overdue
18548567 METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA OVER A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK FOR DIGITAL TRANSACTIONS ANDREI, RADU 14d
18488973 JOINT SYSTEM FOR ASSEMBLY OF THE SOWING BODIES IN AN AGRICULTURAL SEEDING MACHINE TORRES, ALICIA M 28d
18718032 AUTOMOTIVE LAMINATE GLAZING WITH IMPROVED OPTICAL QUALITY AHMED, SHEEBA
18605218 TWIN SCREW PRESS FOR PALM OILS AND SIMILAR KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18759953 WIRE DRAWING MONITORING SYSTEM TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 104d overdue
18146413 INTEGRAL HAMMER FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF SOWING DISCS OF A SEEDING MACHINE WAITS, ALAN B 28d overdue
18041055 ADDITIVE FOR ANIMALS THAT CONTAIN SAPONINS, PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND P-CIMENOL, AND PROCEDURE FOR ITS OBTENTION KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 19d overdue
18548567 METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA OVER A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK FOR DIGITAL TRANSACTIONS ANDREI, RADU 14d
18488973 JOINT SYSTEM FOR ASSEMBLY OF THE SOWING BODIES IN AN AGRICULTURAL SEEDING MACHINE TORRES, ALICIA M 28d
18607719 ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN AND CONTROLLED DRIVE BOX FOR CORN HEADERS TORRES, ALICIA M 62d
18725541 SOLAR COATED LAMINATE WITH COMPLEX SHAPE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON
18718032 AUTOMOTIVE LAMINATE GLAZING WITH IMPROVED OPTICAL QUALITY AHMED, SHEEBA

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37252
17872
36712
17891
36971
17911
36171
17361

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18861553 LAMINATE WITH EDGE SEAL AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR SYSTEM Agp Worldwide Operations GmbH WHIPKEY, TARA NOELLE 1789 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 29, 2024
18759953 WIRE DRAWING MONITORING SYSTEM Paramount Die Company, Inc. TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS 3725 §102§103 Final Rejection 104d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2024
18725541 SOLAR COATED LAMINATE WITH COMPLEX SHAPE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE Agp Worldwide Operations GmbH COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON 1787 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2024
18718032 AUTOMOTIVE LAMINATE GLAZING WITH IMPROVED OPTICAL QUALITY Agp Worldwide Operations GmbH AHMED, SHEEBA 1787 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 08, 2024
18607719 ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN AND CONTROLLED DRIVE BOX FOR CORN HEADERS BPB Mediterranea S.A. TORRES, ALICIA M 3671 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Mar 18, 2024
18605218 TWIN SCREW PRESS FOR PALM OILS AND SIMILAR C.I. Tequendama S.A.S. KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN 3725 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 14, 2024
18488973 JOINT SYSTEM FOR ASSEMBLY OF THE SOWING BODIES IN AN AGRICULTURAL SEEDING MACHINE BPB Mediterranea S.A. TORRES, ALICIA M 3671 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18548567 METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA OVER A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK FOR DIGITAL TRANSACTIONS BANCO DAVIVIENDA S.A. ANDREI, RADU 3697 §103§112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Aug 31, 2023
18041055 ADDITIVE FOR ANIMALS THAT CONTAIN SAPONINS, PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND P-CIMENOL, AND PROCEDURE FOR ITS OBTENTION BIOVET S.A. KOHLER, STEPHANIE A 1791 §101§103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2023
18146413 INTEGRAL HAMMER FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF SOWING DISCS OF A SEEDING MACHINE BPB Mediterranea S.A. WAITS, ALAN B 3617 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Dec 26, 2022
17773906 LIGNOCELLULOSIC COMPOSITE FORMED BY A FIRST SOURCE FROM MAIZE PLANT WASTE WITH CELLULOSE FIBRES FROM A SECOND SOURCE AND PRODUCTION METHOD Growpack Bio LLC SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL 1736 §103§112 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending May 03, 2022

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