Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lord Corporation has 5 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, so each matter has a separate examiner and technical examination assignment.
NGUYEN, TAN QUANG is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The distribution favors direct file-level oversight rather than reliance on recurring examiner treatment. Counsel can preserve consistency through common technical definitions and support, while reviewing the cited art and claim interpretation independently for each matter.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TAN QUANG | 1 | 90.6% | +7.0% |
| RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 72.7% | +11.8% |
| NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1 | 21.5% | +37.3% |
| DAVIS HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L | 1 | 85.6% | +5.4% |
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 1 | 78.7% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19162253 | SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR FUNCTIONAL SAFETY IN AN ACTIVE STEER-BY-WIRE SYSTEM | NGUYEN, TAN QUANG | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18913389 | MOLDABLE SILICONE ELASTOMERS HAVING SELECTIVE PRIMERLESS ADHESION | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 9d |
| 18286899 | TORQUE MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND SYSTEM | DAVIS HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18913389 | MOLDABLE SILICONE ELASTOMERS HAVING SELECTIVE PRIMERLESS ADHESION | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 9d |
| 19182789 | ADHESIVE FOR CASTABLE URETHANES | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | — |
| 18029800 | DRUM TACTILE FEEDBACK DEVICE STEERING UNIT AND METHOD | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19162253 | SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR FUNCTIONAL SAFETY IN AN ACTIVE STEER-BY-WIRE SYSTEM | NGUYEN, TAN QUANG | 3661 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
| 19182789 | ADHESIVE FOR CASTABLE URETHANES | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 1766 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 18913389 | MOLDABLE SILICONE ELASTOMERS HAVING SELECTIVE PRIMERLESS ADHESION | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18286899 | TORQUE MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND SYSTEM | DAVIS HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18029800 | DRUM TACTILE FEEDBACK DEVICE STEERING UNIT AND METHOD | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLord Corporation has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Tan Quang Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Lord Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
