Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Wade Ip Law Pllc

9 pending office actions • 1 client • 9 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=208 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

92.4%
Allowance Rate
n=208
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=208
3.2
OAs to Allowance
n=146
-0.38σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=146
1010 days
Time to Allowance
n=146
-8.4pp
Interview Lift
n=208
39.2%
RCE Rate
n=208
5.9%
Appeal Rate
n=208

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=12 (min 20)
§102 Overcome
n=11 (min 20)
76.8%
§103 Overcome
n=112
§112 Overcome
n=7 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06N
Top CPC Subclasses
79%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=208
0
Practitioners
n=208
Apps / Practitioner
n=208 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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.

2
Hard (22%)
5
Medium (56%)
1
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (22%)
§103 only5 (56%)
§112 only1 (11%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
56% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
22% of docket
1
Business / Other
11% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WILCOX, JAMES J 1 70.1% +61.2%
WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R 1 81.8% -5.1%
CHAO, MICHAEL W 1 69.9% +40.7%
SMITH, CHENECA 1 70.0% +46.8%
LUU, CUONG V 1 71.7% +36.9%
ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A 1 65.9% +26.1%
SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 1 31.3% +25.5%
NGUYEN, CHAU T 1 67.7% +31.0%
SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD 1 9.2% +11.6%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19181259 DETECTING MALICIOUS OBFUSCATION IN A SQL STATEMENT BASED ON AN EFFECT AND/OR PROCESSED VERSION THEREOF WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R
17960618 PRIVACY-PRESERVING RULES-BASED TARGETING USING MACHINE LEARNING SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD

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
18421951 AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A WORKFLOW USING RESPONSES TO AI-GENERATED INQUIRIES AS INPUTS TO A GENERATIVE AI MODEL SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 31d overdue
18905916 Untitled WILCOX, JAMES J
19045413 ABNORMALLY PERMISSIVE ROLE DEFINITION DETECTION SYSTEMS CHAO, MICHAEL W
18657655 AI-BASED CODE GENERATION USING A DYNAMICALLY CONSTRUCTED SYMBOL GRAPH AND CODE SKELETONS SMITH, CHENECA
18608593 SOURCE CODE COLLABORATION VIA REPLICATED DATA TYPES LUU, CUONG V
18607169 REAL-TIME DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ISSUE DETECTION AND RESPONSE GENERATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A
18229485 PROVISIONAL SELECTION DRIVES EDIT SUGGESTION GENERATION NGUYEN, CHAU T
17960618 PRIVACY-PRESERVING RULES-BASED TARGETING USING MACHINE LEARNING SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Microsoft 9

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21922
24391
24431
26581
36251
21451
36211

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18905916 Untitled Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC WILCOX, JAMES J 2439 Non-Final OA Pending
19181259 DETECTING MALICIOUS OBFUSCATION IN A SQL STATEMENT BASED ON AN EFFECT AND/OR PROCESSED VERSION THEREOF Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC WILLIAMS, CLAYTON R 2443 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 16, 2025
19045413 ABNORMALLY PERMISSIVE ROLE DEFINITION DETECTION SYSTEMS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC CHAO, MICHAEL W §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 04, 2025
18657655 AI-BASED CODE GENERATION USING A DYNAMICALLY CONSTRUCTED SYMBOL GRAPH AND CODE SKELETONS Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC SMITH, CHENECA 2192 §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 07, 2024
18608593 SOURCE CODE COLLABORATION VIA REPLICATED DATA TYPES Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC LUU, CUONG V 2192 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 18, 2024
18607169 REAL-TIME DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ISSUE DETECTION AND RESPONSE GENERATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC ADESANYA, OLUJIMI A 2658 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 15, 2024
18421951 AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A WORKFLOW USING RESPONSES TO AI-GENERATED INQUIRIES AS INPUTS TO A GENERATIVE AI MODEL Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC SWARTZ, STEPHEN S 3625 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jan 24, 2024
18229485 PROVISIONAL SELECTION DRIVES EDIT SUGGESTION GENERATION Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC NGUYEN, CHAU T 2145 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 02, 2023
17960618 PRIVACY-PRESERVING RULES-BASED TARGETING USING MACHINE LEARNING Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC SYROWIK, MATHEW RICHARD 3621 §101 Final Rejection Pending Oct 05, 2022

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