Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Trenam Law (Private Clients)

6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=3236 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.1%
Allowance Rate
n=3236
+0.76σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=3236
2.4
OAs to Allowance
n=1645
-0.66σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=1645
890 days
Time to Allowance
n=1645
+10.2pp
Interview Lift
n=3236
19.4%
RCE Rate
n=3236
1.7%
Appeal Rate
n=3236

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

82.9%
§101 Overcome
n=146
84.6%
§102 Overcome
n=421
85.0%
§103 Overcome
n=705
87.2%
§112 Overcome
n=584

Specialization & Scale

G06F, A61K, A61B
Top CPC Subclasses
13%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=3236
0
Practitioners
n=3236
Apps / Practitioner
n=3236 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
2
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%)
2
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (17%)
§102 only1 (17%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (67%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% 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
THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE 1
NGUYEN, TRI V 1 67.4% +57.7%
SOROUSH, LAYLA 1 40.6% +43.0%
MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN 1 100.0% +0.0%
CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN 1 20.0% +84.2%
LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI 1 65.1% +30.5%

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
18209197 METHOD FOR PREPARING VANADIUM BATTERY ELECTROLYTE BY DISSOLVING WASTE VANADIUM CATALYST WITH SULFURIC ACID MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN 23d overdue
17581307 MOTOR LEARNING AND VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION (VNS) PAIRED WITH MOTOR LEARNING TO TREAT DEMYELINATING DISEASES, CONDITIONS AND DISORDERS LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI 4d overdue
18495265 COMPOSITION OF AND METHOD FOR TREATING INJURY AND/OR SKIN CONDITIONS SOROUSH, LAYLA
18321149 APPENDAGE WORK SHARING APPARATUS CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN

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
17581307 MOTOR LEARNING AND VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION (VNS) PAIRED WITH MOTOR LEARNING TO TREAT DEMYELINATING DISEASES, CONDITIONS AND DISORDERS LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI 4d overdue
18647305 ZWITTERION-PROMOTED HYBRID 2D SILICATE-BASED MEMBRANES FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS NGUYEN, TRI V 2d overdue
18495265 COMPOSITION OF AND METHOD FOR TREATING INJURY AND/OR SKIN CONDITIONS SOROUSH, LAYLA
18321149 APPENDAGE WORK SHARING APPARATUS CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17641
16221
17381
37851
37961

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18765795 INTACT PILL DELIVERY SYSTEM The Regents of the University of Colorado THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 08, 2024
18647305 ZWITTERION-PROMOTED HYBRID 2D SILICATE-BASED MEMBRANES FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. NGUYEN, TRI V 1764 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2024
18495265 COMPOSITION OF AND METHOD FOR TREATING INJURY AND/OR SKIN CONDITIONS Omeza Holdings, Inc. SOROUSH, LAYLA 1622 §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Oct 26, 2023
18209197 METHOD FOR PREPARING VANADIUM BATTERY ELECTROLYTE BY DISSOLVING WASTE VANADIUM CATALYST WITH SULFURIC ACID Hunan Shanfeng Vanadium Industry Co., Ltd. MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN 1738 §103§112 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2023
18321149 APPENDAGE WORK SHARING APPARATUS UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN 3785 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2023
17581307 MOTOR LEARNING AND VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION (VNS) PAIRED WITH MOTOR LEARNING TO TREAT DEMYELINATING DISEASES, CONDITIONS AND DISORDERS The Regents of the University of Colorado LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI 3796 §103§112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 21, 2022

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