Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Usx Ip LLC

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

15 pending office actions • 9 clients • 15 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

USX IP LLC has managed 101 career applications within the Computing & Software technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 87.88 percent, indicating a high level of success in securing patent grants for its clients. This performance is achieved with an average of 2.97 office actions per allowance, suggesting a relatively efficient prosecution process despite the complexities often found in software-related filings.

Currently, the firm has 7 pending office actions. With 101 career applications on record, the 87.88 percent allowance rate reflects a consistent ability to overcome examiner rejections. The 2.97 average office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for clients to anticipate the duration and intensity of the negotiation process with the USPTO.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=106 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.2%
Allowance Rate
n=106
+0.69σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=106
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=30
-0.49σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=30
1122 days
Time to Allowance
n=30
-21.2pp
Interview Lift
n=106
73.5%
RCE Rate
n=106
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=106

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

48.7%
§101 Overcome
n=39
—
§102 Overcome
n=15 (min 20)
50.0%
§103 Overcome
n=42
50.0%
§112 Overcome
n=28

Specialization & Scale

G06F, G06N, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
59%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=106
1
Practitioners
n=106
106.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=106

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

11
Hard (73%)
2
Medium (13%)
2
Easy (13%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (27%)
§101 + other4 (27%)
§103 only2 (13%)
Double-patenting only2 (13%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
13% of docket
1
Communications
7% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
8
Business / Other
53% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TALUKDAR, ARVIND 1 80.6% +4.2%
LI, MENG 1 86.3% +20.2%
HUANG, CHENG-FENG 1 87.8% +16.1%
WEBB, JESSICA MARIE 1 33.9% +52.9%
JUSTICE, MICHAEL W 1 83.0% +16.9%
SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B 1 57.4% +42.9%
DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI 1 82.8% +21.2%
XU, PETER 1 0.0% +0.0%
BHAT, ADITYA S 1 81.1% +10.0%
JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 1 26.1% +36.7%

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
19052382 HIGH-SPEED NETWORK PACKET PAYLOAD INSPECTION SYSTEM BASED ON EBPF (EXTENDED BERKELEY PACKET FILTER)/XDP (EXPRESS DATA PATH) FOR CONTAINER ENVIRONMENT HUANG, CHENG-FENG —
19018328 COLOR-EXHIBITING STRUCTURE FOR HIDING RADAR SENSOR, AND A RADAR APPARATUS JUSTICE, MICHAEL W —

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
17710143 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF FOR EVALUATING SKILL OF USER THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL TRAINED THROUGH TRANSFERRABLE FEATURE APPLIED TO PLURAL TEST DOMAINS PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 5d overdue
17854621 METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING SOLUTION CONTENT MAXIMIZING AN EDUCATIONAL EFFECT FOR USERS BIANCAMANO, ALYSSA N 27d
18348499 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING SENSIBLE TEMPERATURE IN CONSIDERATION OF OUTDOOR GROUND HEATING AND HEATWAVE WARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON SENSIBLE TEMPERATURE IN CONSIDERATION OF OUTDOOR GROUND HEATING SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J 35d
19302320 METHOD FOR LOGICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT FOR INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF HETEROGENEOUS STORAGE IN A MACHINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM THEREFOR TALUKDAR, ARVIND —
19210538 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING TASK FOR CYBERSECURITY BASED ON DARK WEB LI, MENG —
19100724 METHOD FOR PREDICTING RISK OF BRAIN DISEASE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING RISK ANALYSIS MODEL FOR BRAIN DISEASE WEBB, JESSICA MARIE —
18987173 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM TEXT USING A MULTI-STAGE DETECTION APPROACH DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI —
18777999 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING AND CONTROLLING INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF XU, PETER —

Interview Candidates (8)

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
19210538 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING TASK FOR CYBERSECURITY BASED ON DARK WEB LI, MENG —
19052382 HIGH-SPEED NETWORK PACKET PAYLOAD INSPECTION SYSTEM BASED ON EBPF (EXTENDED BERKELEY PACKET FILTER)/XDP (EXPRESS DATA PATH) FOR CONTAINER ENVIRONMENT HUANG, CHENG-FENG —
19100724 METHOD FOR PREDICTING RISK OF BRAIN DISEASE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING RISK ANALYSIS MODEL FOR BRAIN DISEASE WEBB, JESSICA MARIE —
19018328 COLOR-EXHIBITING STRUCTURE FOR HIDING RADAR SENSOR, AND A RADAR APPARATUS JUSTICE, MICHAEL W —
19004883 METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE PRODUCT SHOPPING SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B —
18987173 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM TEXT USING A MULTI-STAGE DETECTION APPROACH DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI —
18778307 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING TEMPERATURE PREDICTION AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF BHAT, ADITYA S —
18631200 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISTILLING INPUT FEATURES THROUGH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY —

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21321
36831
26531
28571
37151
36291
21481

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19302320 METHOD FOR LOGICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT FOR INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF HETEROGENEOUS STORAGE IN A MACHINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM THEREFOR Vessl Al Korea Inc. TALUKDAR, ARVIND 2132 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 18, 2025
19210538 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING TASK FOR CYBERSECURITY BASED ON DARK WEB Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology LI, MENG §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 16, 2025
19052382 HIGH-SPEED NETWORK PACKET PAYLOAD INSPECTION SYSTEM BASED ON EBPF (EXTENDED BERKELEY PACKET FILTER)/XDP (EXPRESS DATA PATH) FOR CONTAINER ENVIRONMENT S2W Inc. HUANG, CHENG-FENG DP Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2025
19100724 METHOD FOR PREDICTING RISK OF BRAIN DISEASE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING RISK ANALYSIS MODEL FOR BRAIN DISEASE Near Brain Inc. WEBB, JESSICA MARIE 3683 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 03, 2025
19018328 COLOR-EXHIBITING STRUCTURE FOR HIDING RADAR SENSOR, AND A RADAR APPARATUS UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY JUSTICE, MICHAEL W §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 13, 2025
19004883 METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE PRODUCT SHOPPING Gripcompany Co., Ltd. SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
18987173 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM TEXT USING A MULTI-STAGE DETECTION APPROACH S2W Inc. DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI 2653 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 19, 2024
18777999 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING AND CONTROLLING INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Ineeji Co., Ltd. XU, PETER §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 19, 2024
18778307 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING TEMPERATURE PREDICTION AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Ineeji Co., Ltd. BHAT, ADITYA S §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 19, 2024
18631200 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISTILLING INPUT FEATURES THROUGH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL Ineeji Co., Ltd. JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 10, 2024
18413547 FERROELECTRIC ZAO(ZIRCONIUM ALUMINIUM OXIDE) COMPOUND, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, FERROELECTRIC THIN FILM TRANSISTOR INCLUDING THE SAME, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY CHU, YONG LIANG §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 16, 2024
18348499 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING SENSIBLE TEMPERATURE IN CONSIDERATION OF OUTDOOR GROUND HEATING AND HEATWAVE WARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON SENSIBLE TEMPERATURE IN CONSIDERATION OF OUTDOOR GROUND HEATING National Institute Of Meteorological Sciences SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jul 07, 2023
17854621 METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING SOLUTION CONTENT MAXIMIZING AN EDUCATIONAL EFFECT FOR USERS Socra AI Inc. BIANCAMANO, ALYSSA N 3715 §101 Final Rejection 27d Pending Jun 30, 2022
17710143 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF FOR EVALUATING SKILL OF USER THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL TRAINED THROUGH TRANSFERRABLE FEATURE APPLIED TO PLURAL TEST DOMAINS Socra AI Inc. PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 3629 §101 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022
17646928 LEARNING CONTENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING PROBABILITY OF CORRECT ANSWER OF USER USING COLLABORATIVE FILTERING BASED ON LATENT FACTOR AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF Socra AI Inc. KNIGHT, PAUL M 2148 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jan 04, 2022

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