Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Weber Rosselli & Cannon LLP

Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

17 pending office actions • 7 clients • 17 examiners • 15 art units • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Weber Rosselli & Cannon LLP handles patent prosecution in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area, with 476 career applications on record. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 86.97 percent. Its prosecution history shows an average of 3.52 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 19 pending office actions.

The 476 career applications and 86.97 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance in this sector. The 3.52 average helps practitioners understand the typical procedural requirements for reaching an allowance. With 19 pending office actions, the firm maintains its presence in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. This data set reflects the firm's documented experience and current workload within the patent office. The recorded metrics provide a baseline for procedural duration in this specific field. Practitioners can evaluate the intensity of examiner interaction and resource requirements based on these historical figures. These statistics offer a view of the firm's prosecution profile.

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

Quality Metrics (n=476 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.0%
Allowance Rate
n=476
+0.48σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=476
3.5
OAs to Allowance
n=307
+0.10σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=307
990 days
Time to Allowance
n=307
+11.6pp
Interview Lift
n=476
31.4%
RCE Rate
n=476
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=476

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

53.3%
§101 Overcome
n=30
77.5%
§102 Overcome
n=191
73.8%
§103 Overcome
n=256
77.3%
§112 Overcome
n=172

Specialization & Scale

H05K, H02J, Y02T
Top CPC Subclasses
12%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=476
4
Practitioners
n=476
119.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=476

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

8
Hard (47%)
6
Medium (35%)
3
Easy (18%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (6%)
§103 only5 (29%)
§112 only2 (12%)
Double-patenting only1 (6%)
Double-patenting + other1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (41%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
6% of docket
1
Information Tech
6% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
6
Semiconductors
35% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
47% of docket
1
Business / Other
6% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 1 55.4% +24.7%
YUN, JURIE 1 87.4% +10.2%
CRUM, JACOB R 1 74.6% +27.9%
IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW 1 80.0% -32.1%
SANKS, SCHYLER S 1 72.8% +16.0%
WONGWIAN, PHUTTHIWAT 1 84.9% +16.8%
JAGER, RYAN C 1 89.6% +2.8%
MORRIS, TAYLOR L 1 59.5% +35.5%
PARK, CHANMIN 1 45.2% +22.7%
OLSON, LARS A 1 81.9% +14.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18595165 TRANSFORMERLESS MULTI-LEVEL MEDIUM-VOLTAGE UNINTERRUPTABLE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS JAGER, RYAN C 79d overdue
18890580 CO-REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES BETWEEN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING SYSTEMS AND HISTOTRIPSY ROBOTIC SYSTEMS YUN, JURIE —
18616132 COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING SINGLE-PHASE FLUID WONGWIAN, PHUTTHIWAT —

Hard Cases (8)

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
18779868 SPACE-SAVING HIGH-DENSITY MODULAR DATA SYSTEMS AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT COOLING SYSTEMS CRUM, JACOB R 321d overdue
17797698 COMPRESSED-AIR MODULE SYSTEM FOR A UTILITY VEHICLE SAHNI, VISHAL R 79d overdue
18616139 COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING TWO CIRCUITS WITH WATER FLOW IN A COUNTER FLOW AND IN A SERIES OR PARALLEL ARRANGEMENT SANKS, SCHYLER S 45d overdue
18015047 METHOD FOR DETERMINING MECHANICAL STRESSES IN A TRACTION ENERGY STORE KOUSAR, SADIA 44d overdue
18195186 WATERBORNE DOCKING ASSEMBLY OLSON, LARS A 36d overdue
18230965 DAVIT MORRIS, TAYLOR L 27d
19313585 RECYCLABLE COSMETIC COMPACT IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN —
18288529 VEHICLE WITH A RETARDER BRAKE DEVICE, AND CORRESPONDING BRAKING METHOD IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW —

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
18779868 SPACE-SAVING HIGH-DENSITY MODULAR DATA SYSTEMS AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT COOLING SYSTEMS CRUM, JACOB R 321d overdue
18268968 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SAFELY PARKING A VEHICLE PARK, CHANMIN 154d overdue
18616139 COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING TWO CIRCUITS WITH WATER FLOW IN A COUNTER FLOW AND IN A SERIES OR PARALLEL ARRANGEMENT SANKS, SCHYLER S 45d overdue
18195186 WATERBORNE DOCKING ASSEMBLY OLSON, LARS A 36d overdue
18230965 DAVIT MORRIS, TAYLOR L 27d
19313585 RECYCLABLE COSMETIC COMPACT IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN —
18890580 CO-REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES BETWEEN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING SYSTEMS AND HISTOTRIPSY ROBOTIC SYSTEMS YUN, JURIE —
18616132 COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING SINGLE-PHASE FLUID WONGWIAN, PHUTTHIWAT —

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
28352
37991
28841
21291
37411
28421
36311
36611
36151
28591

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19313585 RECYCLABLE COSMETIC COMPACT Derik Industrial Usa, Inc. IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN 3799 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 28, 2025
18890580 CO-REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES BETWEEN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING SYSTEMS AND HISTOTRIPSY ROBOTIC SYSTEMS Histosonics, Inc. YUN, JURIE 2884 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 19, 2024
18779868 SPACE-SAVING HIGH-DENSITY MODULAR DATA SYSTEMS AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT COOLING SYSTEMS Inertech Ip LLC CRUM, JACOB R 2835 §102§103 Final Rejection 321d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18288529 VEHICLE WITH A RETARDER BRAKE DEVICE, AND CORRESPONDING BRAKING METHOD MAN Truck & Bus SE IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 16, 2024
18616139 COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING TWO CIRCUITS WITH WATER FLOW IN A COUNTER FLOW AND IN A SERIES OR PARALLEL ARRANGEMENT Inertech Ip LLC SANKS, SCHYLER S 2129 §103§112 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2024
18616132 COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING SINGLE-PHASE FLUID Inertech Ip LLC WONGWIAN, PHUTTHIWAT 3741 DP Final Rejection — Pending Mar 25, 2024
18595165 TRANSFORMERLESS MULTI-LEVEL MEDIUM-VOLTAGE UNINTERRUPTABLE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS AND METHODS Inertech Ip LLC JAGER, RYAN C 2842 §103DP Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2024
18230965 DAVIT Safetylink Pty Ltd. MORRIS, TAYLOR L 3631 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 07, 2023
18268968 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SAFELY PARKING A VEHICLE MAN Truck & Bus SE PARK, CHANMIN 3661 §103 Non-Final OA 154d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2023
18195186 WATERBORNE DOCKING ASSEMBLY Solar Sailor Pty Ltd. OLSON, LARS A 3615 §103§112 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending May 09, 2023
18118357 SYSTEMS AND ASSEMBLIES FOR COOLING SERVER RACKS Inertech Ip LLC GANDHI, JAYPRAKASH N 2835 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 07, 2023
18015047 METHOD FOR DETERMINING MECHANICAL STRESSES IN A TRACTION ENERGY STORE MAN Truck & Bus SE KOUSAR, SADIA 2859 §101§103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Jan 06, 2023
17642659 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF AN ENERGY STORE FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE MAN Truck & Bus SE LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE 1727 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 06, 2022
17797698 COMPRESSED-AIR MODULE SYSTEM FOR A UTILITY VEHICLE MAN Truck & Bus SE SAHNI, VISHAL R 3616 §102§103 Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2022
17182035 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING HARMONICS IN ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS BY USING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUES Inertech Ip LLC TRAN, THAI H 2836 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Feb 22, 2021
17121647 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE ACCESS TO PROPERTY OR INFORMATION USING BLOCKCHAIN Silakab Corp. SCHNEIDER, JOSHUA D 3626 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Dec 14, 2020
16505539 COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCORPORATING A PLURAL IN-SERIES PUMPED LIQUID REFRIGERANT TRIM EVAPORATOR CYCLE Inertech Ip LLC VAZQUEZ, ANA M 3763 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 08, 2019

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