Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, LLP

5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=84404 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

81.5%
Allowance Rate
n=84404
+0.57σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=84404
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=47239
-0.11σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=47239
1078 days
Time to Allowance
n=47239
+9.4pp
Interview Lift
n=84404
26.8%
RCE Rate
n=84404
1.3%
Appeal Rate
n=84404

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

79.3%
§101 Overcome
n=1354
83.2%
§102 Overcome
n=6760
80.2%
§103 Overcome
n=27294
87.9%
§112 Overcome
n=5734

Specialization & Scale

A61K, G06F, A61P
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=84404
59
Practitioners
n=84404
1430.6
Apps / Practitioner
n=84404

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (60%)
1
Easy (20%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only1 (20%)
§112 only1 (20%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
STEIN, MICHELLE 1 44.2% +34.5%
STANLEY, JANE L 1 58.5% +29.9%
FIGUEROA, JOHN J 1 83.2% +8.6%
KING, BRIAN M 1 70.1% +23.9%
USELDING, JOHN E 1 53.4% +17.7%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18036775 A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A HYDROGEN-COMPRISING PRODUCT GAS FROM A HYDROCARBON FIGUEROA, JOHN J

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
17726372 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOWERING WATER CONCENTRATION IN POLYACRYLAMIDE-BASED EMULSIONS USELDING, JOHN E 245d overdue
18200373 POST-TREATED TITANIUM DIOXIDE PIGMENT WITH AT LEAST ONE SECURITY FEATURE STANLEY, JANE L 3d overdue
18599792 SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR FLUIDIZED CATALYTIC CRACKING (FCC) STEIN, MICHELLE 46d
18036155 METHOD FOR EXTRACTING ETHANE FROM AN INITIAL NATURAL GAS STREAM AND CORRESPONDING PLANT KING, BRIAN M

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17711
17671
17321
37631
17631

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18599792 SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR FLUIDIZED CATALYTIC CRACKING (FCC) T.En Process Technology, Inc. STEIN, MICHELLE 1771 §103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Mar 08, 2024
18200373 POST-TREATED TITANIUM DIOXIDE PIGMENT WITH AT LEAST ONE SECURITY FEATURE Kronos International, Inc. STANLEY, JANE L 1767 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 22, 2023
18036775 A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A HYDROGEN-COMPRISING PRODUCT GAS FROM A HYDROCARBON Technip Energies France FIGUEROA, JOHN J 1732 §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 12, 2023
18036155 METHOD FOR EXTRACTING ETHANE FROM AN INITIAL NATURAL GAS STREAM AND CORRESPONDING PLANT Technip France KING, BRIAN M 3763 §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 09, 2023
17726372 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOWERING WATER CONCENTRATION IN POLYACRYLAMIDE-BASED EMULSIONS Ace Fluid Solutions USELDING, JOHN E 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 245d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2022

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