Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lord Corporation currently has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 5 actions are being handled by 5 distinct examiners, meaning every pending case is assigned to a different individual. Despite this examiner diversity, the cases are grouped into 4 distinct art units, suggesting a relatively tight technical focus for the current portfolio.
TAN QUANG NGUYEN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio with 1 pending office action. Since there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current prosecution. The involvement of 4 distinct art units indicates that while the examiners are different, the technical standards applied to the applications are likely to be consistent across the majority of the pending cases. This distribution requires the legal team to manage 5 different examiner relationships while adhering to the specific guidelines of 4 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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% | +7.1% |
| RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 72.7% | +11.8% |
| NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1 | 21.2% | +37.0% |
| DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L | 1 | 85.5% | +5.4% |
| LEE, MATTHEW D | 1 | 89.2% | +5.8% |
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 1 | 78.7% | +14.1% |
| DICUS, TAMRA | 1 | 30.5% | +21.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19162253 | SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR FUNCTIONAL SAFETY IN AN ACTIVE STEER-BY-WIRE SYSTEM | NGUYEN, TAN QUANG | — |
| 18275646 | ACTIVE/SEMI-ACTIVE STEER-BY-WIRE SYSTEM AND METHOD | LEE, MATTHEW D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. 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 |
| 18286899 | TORQUE MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND SYSTEM | DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L | — |
| 18029800 | DRUM TACTILE FEEDBACK DEVICE STEERING UNIT AND METHOD | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18913389 | MOLDABLE SILICONE ELASTOMERS HAVING SELECTIVE PRIMERLESS ADHESION | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 9d |
| 17781340 | UV COATING FOR DIELECTRIC INSULATION | DICUS, TAMRA | 13d |
| 19182789 | ADHESIVE FOR CASTABLE URETHANES | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | — |
| 18029800 | DRUM TACTILE FEEDBACK DEVICE STEERING UNIT AND METHOD | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 2 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3617 | 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 | — | §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 |
| 18275646 | ACTIVE/SEMI-ACTIVE STEER-BY-WIRE SYSTEM AND METHOD | LEE, MATTHEW D | 3617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18029800 | DRUM TACTILE FEEDBACK DEVICE STEERING UNIT AND METHOD | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 3616 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 17781340 | UV COATING FOR DIELECTRIC INSULATION | DICUS, TAMRA | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
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