Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 7 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Zhu Lehnhoff LLP has handled 218 career applications, primarily within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm achieves a resolved allowance rate pct of 75.43. This percentage indicates the proportion of applications that reach allowance rather than abandonment.
The firm demonstrates prosecution efficiency with an avg office actions per allowance of 1.74. This metric shows that the firm typically resolves examination with a limited number of office actions. With 6 pending office actions, the firm maintains a small active workload relative to its total career applications of 218.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA | 1 | 28.0% | +60.3% |
| AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 1 | 16.7% | +5.7% |
| NGUYEN, NGA X | 1 | 77.4% | +5.4% |
| BYRD, BRIGID K | 1 | 71.4% | +46.4% |
| ALIE, GHASSEM | 1 | 69.3% | +32.6% |
| FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA | 1 | 84.1% | +6.4% |
| BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.3% | +41.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264429 | CHARGING CONTROL DEVICE AND CHARGING CONTROL METHOD | FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19389037 | COMBINED HABITAT PLATFORM FOR RAPIDLY CONSTRUCTING BIRD MICROHABITAT | SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA | — |
| 19152943 | AUTONOMOUS OPERATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND AUTONOMOUS OPERATION SYSTEM | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | — |
| 19126655 | BRAKE CONTROL METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS OPERATION DEVICE, AUTONOMOUS OPERATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, NGA X | — |
| 18928315 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE SUCTION SHEATH | BYRD, BRIGID K | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19389037 | COMBINED HABITAT PLATFORM FOR RAPIDLY CONSTRUCTING BIRD MICROHABITAT | SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA | — |
| 18928315 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE SUCTION SHEATH | BYRD, BRIGID K | — |
| 18855699 | GARDEN TOOL | ALIE, GHASSEM | — |
| 18334365 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SYNCHRONOUS EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE TRACE EMERGING ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN HAIRS, AND APPLICATION | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 2 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19389037 | COMBINED HABITAT PLATFORM FOR RAPIDLY CONSTRUCTING BIRD MICROHABITAT | Institute Of Zoology, Guangdong Academy Of Sciences | SCHMID, BROOK VICTORIA | 3642 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2025 |
| 19152943 | AUTONOMOUS OPERATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND AUTONOMOUS OPERATION SYSTEM | Zhejiang Sunseeker Industrial Co., Ltd. | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 3662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19126655 | BRAKE CONTROL METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS OPERATION DEVICE, AUTONOMOUS OPERATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Zhejiang Sunseeker Industrial Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, NGA X | 3662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 18928315 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE SUCTION SHEATH | Innovex Medical Co., Ltd. | BYRD, BRIGID K | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18855699 | GARDEN TOOL | Zhejiang Sunseeker Industrial Co., Ltd. | ALIE, GHASSEM | 3724 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18264429 | CHARGING CONTROL DEVICE AND CHARGING CONTROL METHOD | Shanghai Banhui New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. | FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 | |
| 18334365 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SYNCHRONOUS EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE TRACE EMERGING ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN HAIRS, AND APPLICATION | South China Inst Of Environmental Sciences Mee Ecology And Environment Emergency Inst Of Ecology | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1797 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
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