Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 6 clients • 11 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tracnik Law, PLLC demonstrates efficiency in the Communications technology area, supported by a career total of 348 applications. The firm has achieved a resolved allowance rate of 91.79 percent, which indicates the success rate in securing patent grants for its clients. This performance is further evidenced by an average of 2.17 office actions per allowance, suggesting a prosecution process with these rounds of rejection before approval.
Currently, the firm is managing 8 pending office actions, a figure that represents a portion of its 348 career applications. The 91.79 percent resolved allowance rate serves as a benchmark for the firm's historical effectiveness in the Communications sector. Practitioners can view the 2.17 average office actions per allowance as a sign of examiner negotiation. With 8 pending office actions, the firm continues to apply its established prosecution strategies to its current docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (9%) |
| §103 only | 2 (18%) |
| §112 only | 2 (18%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEBNATH, NUPUR | 1 | 64.4% | +36.8% |
| SULTANA, NAHIDA | 1 | 78.2% | +8.7% |
| ZHAO, AIYING | 1 | 48.4% | +42.1% |
| DIAS, RAVEEN J | 1 | 80.7% | +17.3% |
| LE, LINH GIANG | 1 | 66.2% | -4.6% |
| RILEY, JONATHAN G | 1 | 52.2% | +30.3% |
| CHU, DAVID H | 1 | 78.3% | +3.0% |
| MILLER, BRANDON J | 1 | 87.5% | +8.8% |
| KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1 | 61.7% | +20.5% |
| NGUYEN, THANH H | 1 | 18.5% | +34.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19048909 | APPARATUS WITH ZONE COATED TRANSFER TAPE FOR SEPARATING AND SPOOLING A PAPER WEB | DIAS, RAVEEN J | — |
| 18812846 | APPARATUS WITH DIGITAL CONTENT LINKED TO A PHYSICAL LOCATION | MILLER, BRANDON J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19074245 | SEPARABLE GARMENT FOR MAINTAINING SECURE DUTY BELTS WITH INTEGRATED STRETCHABLE STRAPS FOR CONTROLLED RETRACTION | ZHAO, AIYING | 30d overdue |
| 18814511 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DIGITAL CONTENT BASED UPON A GEOSPATIAL LOCATION | CHU, DAVID H | 54d |
| 18949428 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AIDED IDENTIFICATION OF PARTICIPANTS FOR CLINICAL TRIALS AND PRECISION MEDICINE | LE, LINH GIANG | — |
| 18892478 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTABLE FEEDING SYSTEMS WITH GRADUATED CONNECTORS ACCOMMODATING VARYING SIZES OF FOOD CONTAINERS | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
| 18204803 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SANITARY AND CONVENIENT FEEDING | NGUYEN, THANH H | — |
| 18111546 | DISPENSABLE BIBS AND METHODS OF FORMING SAME | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19074245 | SEPARABLE GARMENT FOR MAINTAINING SECURE DUTY BELTS WITH INTEGRATED STRETCHABLE STRAPS FOR CONTROLLED RETRACTION | ZHAO, AIYING | 30d overdue |
| 19288212 | AI-ASSISTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND EXECUTING CHANGE ORDERS IN BUILDING DESIGN PLANS | DEBNATH, NUPUR | — |
| 19048909 | APPARATUS WITH ZONE COATED TRANSFER TAPE FOR SEPARATING AND SPOOLING A PAPER WEB | DIAS, RAVEEN J | — |
| 18892478 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTABLE FEEDING SYSTEMS WITH GRADUATED CONNECTORS ACCOMMODATING VARYING SIZES OF FOOD CONTAINERS | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
| 18424797 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A TURN-UP PROCEDURE USING AN ADHESIVE COMPOSITE SHEET | KHAN, TAHSEEN | — |
| 18204803 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SANITARY AND CONVENIENT FEEDING | NGUYEN, THANH H | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Papeltec Overseas, Inc. | 5 |
| Middle Chart, LLC | 2 |
| Togal.Ai Inc. | 1 |
| Atheneum Optical Sciences, LLC | 1 |
| Cohen | 1 |
| Medzown, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19288212 | AI-ASSISTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND EXECUTING CHANGE ORDERS IN BUILDING DESIGN PLANS | Togal.Ai Inc. | DEBNATH, NUPUR | 2186 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19188356 | METHODS OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF AN OPHTHALMIC LENS ON AN ARCUATE SURFACE | Atheneum Optical Sciences, LLC | SULTANA, NAHIDA | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 | |
| 19074245 | SEPARABLE GARMENT FOR MAINTAINING SECURE DUTY BELTS WITH INTEGRATED STRETCHABLE STRAPS FOR CONTROLLED RETRACTION | Cohen | ZHAO, AIYING | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19048909 | APPARATUS WITH ZONE COATED TRANSFER TAPE FOR SEPARATING AND SPOOLING A PAPER WEB | Papeltec Overseas, Inc. | DIAS, RAVEEN J | 3654 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2025 |
| 18949428 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AIDED IDENTIFICATION OF PARTICIPANTS FOR CLINICAL TRIALS AND PRECISION MEDICINE | Medzown, Inc. | LE, LINH GIANG | 3686 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18892478 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTABLE FEEDING SYSTEMS WITH GRADUATED CONNECTORS ACCOMMODATING VARYING SIZES OF FOOD CONTAINERS | Papeltec Overseas, Inc. | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2024 |
| 18814511 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DIGITAL CONTENT BASED UPON A GEOSPATIAL LOCATION | Middle Chart, LLC | CHU, DAVID H | 2616 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Aug 24, 2024 |
| 18812846 | APPARATUS WITH DIGITAL CONTENT LINKED TO A PHYSICAL LOCATION | Middle Chart, LLC | MILLER, BRANDON J | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 | |
| 18424797 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A TURN-UP PROCEDURE USING AN ADHESIVE COMPOSITE SHEET | Papeltec Overseas, Inc. | KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2024 |
| 18204803 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SANITARY AND CONVENIENT FEEDING | Papeltec Overseas, Inc. | NGUYEN, THANH H | 1792 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18111546 | DISPENSABLE BIBS AND METHODS OF FORMING SAME | Papeltec Overseas, Inc. | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2023 |
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