Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Torrey Pines Law Group, Pc

16 pending office actions • 12 clients • 16 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=695 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

86.6%
Allowance Rate
n=695
+0.72σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=695
3.0
OAs to Allowance
n=323
-0.42σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=323
963 days
Time to Allowance
n=323
+13.1pp
Interview Lift
n=695
23.3%
RCE Rate
n=695
2.0%
Appeal Rate
n=695

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

73.6%
§101 Overcome
n=91
65.2%
§102 Overcome
n=115
74.5%
§103 Overcome
n=235
73.1%
§112 Overcome
n=175

Specialization & Scale

A61B, G06F, A61N
Top CPC Subclasses
21%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=695
1
Practitioners
n=695
695.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=695

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 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.

11
Hard (69%)
5
Medium (31%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other3 (19%)
§103 only3 (19%)
§102 only1 (6%)
Double-patenting + other1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)8 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
44% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
38% of docket
2
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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM 1 48.3% +33.2%
SON, TAEYOUNG 1 41.9% +38.1%
BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S 1 42.1% +54.7%
MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L 1 80.8% -0.8%
BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID 1 26.2% +31.9%
PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E 1 55.2% +35.8%
MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS 1 30.6% +66.7%
ANSARI, TAHMINA N 1 85.4% +18.5%
USYATINSKY, ALEXANDER 1 82.9% +19.2%
MAI, HAO D 1 48.9% +39.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18579312 Universal Photonics Tomography MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L
18037289 Direct Regeneration of Spent Graphite Anode of Lithium-ion Battery USYATINSKY, ALEXANDER

Hard Cases (11)

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
18554505 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING A CONDITION BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID 49d overdue
17784907 STABLE MONOMERIC INSULIN FORMULATIONS ENABLED BY SUPRAMOLECULAR PEGYLATION OF INSULIN ANALOGUES MARTINEZ, TARA L 31d overdue
18039951 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION AND MONITORING OF IMPACT ANSARI, TAHMINA N 23d overdue
18185914 DYNAMICALLY DETERMINED SEQUENCE OF DENTAL-PROCEDURE OPERATIONS MAI, HAO D 19d overdue
16577031 FLUID-TIGHT FLOW SYSTEM TO ISOLATE BIOMARKERS FROM A LIQUID SAMPLE KWAK, DEAN P 7d
18336987 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING OXIMETER MEASUREMENTS WITH BLOOD PRESSURE MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS 71d
18964380 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENTS TO DIAGNOSE AND TREAT HEALTH FUNCTIONS COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM
18843668 CLOUD-BASED REMOTE VIDEO PRODUCTION PLATFORM BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S

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
18554505 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING A CONDITION BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID 49d overdue
18039951 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION AND MONITORING OF IMPACT ANSARI, TAHMINA N 23d overdue
18185914 DYNAMICALLY DETERMINED SEQUENCE OF DENTAL-PROCEDURE OPERATIONS MAI, HAO D 19d overdue
18336987 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING OXIMETER MEASUREMENTS WITH BLOOD PRESSURE MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS 71d
18964380 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENTS TO DIAGNOSE AND TREAT HEALTH FUNCTIONS COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM
18827422 Direct Upcycling of Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes to Single-Crystal Nickel-rich NCMs SON, TAEYOUNG
18843668 CLOUD-BASED REMOTE VIDEO PRODUCTION PLATFORM BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S
18281273 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYING STENTS PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E

Client Portfolio (12 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17512
16542
36231
37961
37991
37911
26741
37721
17271
37851

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18964380 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENTS TO DIAGNOSE AND TREAT HEALTH FUNCTIONS Guy P. Curtis COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 30, 2024
18827422 Direct Upcycling of Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes to Single-Crystal Nickel-rich NCMs The Regents of the University of California SON, TAEYOUNG 1751 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 06, 2024
18843668 CLOUD-BASED REMOTE VIDEO PRODUCTION PLATFORM Advanced Image Robotics, Inc. BROCKINGTON III, WILLIAM S 3623 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 03, 2024
18579312 Universal Photonics Tomography The Regents of the University of California MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 12, 2024
18554505 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING A CONDITION Lindsay Lifescience LLC BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID 3796 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Oct 09, 2023
18281273 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYING STENTS Skw Cardiovascular Technologies, Inc. PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E 3799 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 08, 2023
18336987 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING OXIMETER MEASUREMENTS WITH BLOOD PRESSURE Guy P. Curtis And Frances L. Curtis Trust MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS 3791 §103§112 Final Rejection 71d Pending Jun 17, 2023
18039951 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION AND MONITORING OF IMPACT Alpha Fiber, Inc. ANSARI, TAHMINA N 2674 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jun 01, 2023
18037289 Direct Regeneration of Spent Graphite Anode of Lithium-ion Battery The Regents of the University of California USYATINSKY, ALEXANDER 1751 §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 16, 2023
18185914 DYNAMICALLY DETERMINED SEQUENCE OF DENTAL-PROCEDURE OPERATIONS Barndt Consulting MAI, HAO D 3772 §102§103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18022971 SILICON COMPOSITE ANODE MATERIALS FOR Li-ION BATTERIES The Regents of the University of California WEI, ZHONGQING 1727 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 23, 2023
17916817 INHALER SYSTEMS Purcell Global Ltd. BALLER, KELSEY E 3785 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 04, 2022
17784907 STABLE MONOMERIC INSULIN FORMULATIONS ENABLED BY SUPRAMOLECULAR PEGYLATION OF INSULIN ANALOGUES The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University MARTINEZ, TARA L 1654 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2022
17743407 PROTEINASE K FREE NUCLEIC ACID EXTRACTION BUFFER SYSTEM Reditus Laboratories, LLC WANG, RUIXUE 1672 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending May 12, 2022
17430664 CO-FORMULATIONS OF AMYLIN ANALOGUES WITH INSULIN ANALOGUES FOR TREATMENT OF DIABETES The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University SABILA, MERCY HELLEN 1654 §112DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 12, 2021
16577031 FLUID-TIGHT FLOW SYSTEM TO ISOLATE BIOMARKERS FROM A LIQUID SAMPLE Biofluidica, Inc. KWAK, DEAN P 1798 §103§112 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Sep 20, 2019

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