Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Networking & Security
389 pending office actions • 47 clients • 313 examiners • 152 art units • 0 of 389 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP (DC) has 386 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 18094 career applications. The pending figure signals a large active examination workload, while the application figure shows an extensive prosecution record in the same technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 92.87%, and the average is 3.34 office actions per allowance. Resolved applications reach allowance at the listed rate, but the average indicates that multiple office actions commonly precede allowance. Practitioners can apply these measures to docket planning, response staffing, and review of chemistry and materials cases that require continued prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 74 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 74 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 19 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 25 (6%) |
| §103 only | 164 (42%) |
| §102 only | 24 (6%) |
| §112 only | 12 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 15 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 13 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 114 (29%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARRETT, DAWN L | 6 | 72.7% | +10.2% |
| WATSON, BRAELYN | 5 | 45.5% | +35.9% |
| DEGUIRE, SEAN M | 5 | 61.2% | +27.7% |
| YANG, JAY LEE | 5 | 73.8% | +2.2% |
| MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C | 4 | 46.4% | +76.5% |
| VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 3 | 73.4% | +13.8% |
| VISCONTI, GERALDINA | 3 | 86.5% | +1.6% |
| DOUYETTE, KENNETH J | 3 | 81.9% | +14.3% |
| HA, STEVEN S | 3 | 70.4% | +29.6% |
| KEKIA, OMAR M | 3 | 67.5% | +22.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18030758 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | DOUYETTE, KENNETH J | 6d |
| 18835673 | NOVEL COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME | VISCONTI, GERALDINA | — |
| 18567343 | COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME | VISCONTI, GERALDINA | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18779320 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMPLIFYING FRAUD DETECTION IN PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS FROM TRUSTED ACCOUNTS | CHOI, YUE YIN | 35d overdue |
| 18591921 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND ISOLATING HUMAN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS | BUNKER, AMY M | 35d overdue |
| 18958901 | DYNAMIC DRIVING COMPARISON GROUPS FOR ASSESSING DRIVING SAFETY | KLEINMAN, LAIL A | 17d overdue |
| 18282501 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING STATE OF HEALTH OF LITHIUM-SULFUR BATTERY | PARK, HYUN D | 9d overdue |
| 18026510 | BATTERY MODULE AND BATTERY PACK INCLUDING THE SAME | BERRESFORD, JORDAN ELIZABETH | 5d overdue |
| 18379992 | System and Method for Indicating Whether a Vehicle Crash Has Occurred | GREGG, MARY M | 4d overdue |
| 18265906 | METHOD OF RECYCLING POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND RECYCLED POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL PREPARED BY THE SAME | MCCONNELL, WYATT P | 3d overdue |
| 18037532 | CYLINDRICAL SECONDARY BATTERY HAVING HIGH STRUCTURAL SAFETY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SON, TAEYOUNG | 2d overdue |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17610394 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | GARRETT, DAWN L | 19d overdue |
| 18030758 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | DOUYETTE, KENNETH J | 6d |
| 17776816 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE | DEGUIRE, SEAN M | 22d |
| 17611452 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE | GARRETT, DAWN L | 30d |
| 18030958 | SLURRY COMPOSITION, AND POSITIVE ELECTRODE AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY COMPRISING SAME | MARROQUIN, DOUGLAS C | 34d |
| 19316868 | ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING PICTURE OUTPUT TIMING INFORMATION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | — |
| 19065011 | INTER-PREDICTION-BASED IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | — |
| 18881201 | ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION-BASED IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1786 | 26 |
| 1725 | 16 |
| 1728 | 10 |
| 1723 | 10 |
| 1727 | 9 |
| 2482 | 8 |
| 1729 | 8 |
| 1751 | 8 |
| 1766 | 8 |
| 1752 | 8 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19448797 | System for Facilitating Vehicle Diagnostics, Scheduling, & Part Sourcing and Related Methods | Genuine Parts Company | BROWN, LUIS A | 3626 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2026 |
| 19448688 | System for Facilitating Vehicle Diagnostics, Scheduling, & Part Sourcing and Related Methods | Genuine Parts Company | NOVAK, REBECCA R | 3629 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2026 |
| 19365024 | SEPARATOR, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | LG Energy Solution, Ltd. | FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 1728 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19164126 | SECONDARY BATTERY PACKAGING INTERLEAF AND SECONDARY BATTERY PACKAGING BOX | LG Energy Solution, Ltd. | BUI, LUAN KIM | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19320863 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING POINT CLOUD DATA | LG Electronics Inc. | CHIO, TAT CHI | 2486 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19316868 | ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING PICTURE OUTPUT TIMING INFORMATION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | LG Electronics Inc. | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 2482 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2025 |
| 19301401 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING DIVISION MODE ON BASIS OF COLOR FORMAT, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM | LG Electronics Inc. | BRANIFF, CHRISTOPHER | 2484 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19300023 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIGNALING CHROMA COMPONENT PREDICTION INFORMATION ACCORDING TO WHETHER PALETTE MODE IS APPLICABLE, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM | LG Electronics Inc. | OWENS, TSION B | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 | |
| 19296687 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING A MEDICAL EVENT | Quanata, LLC | BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O | 2685 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19293905 | BDPCM-BASED IMAGE DECODING METHOD FOR LUMA COMPONENT AND CHROMA COMPONENT, AND DEVICE FOR SAME | LG Electronics Inc. | KIR, ALBERT | 2485 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19288434 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LINKING A DIGITAL WALLET WITHIN A SEPARATE PAYMENT SERVICE | Early Warning Services, LLC | GAW, MARK H | 3693 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19285757 | LOCATION-BASED AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION USING A VIRTUAL WORLD SYSTEM | Tmrw Group Ip | CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | 3663 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19276717 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE USING WEIGHTED PREDICTION, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM | LG Electronics Inc. | BECK, LERON | 2487 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19276823 | TRANSFORM-BASED VIDEO CODING METHOD, AND DEVICE THEREFOR | LG Electronics Inc. | CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | 2485 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19268596 | SOFTWARE ENGINE VIRTUALIZATION AND DYNAMIC RESOURCE AND TASK DISTRIBUTION ACROSS EDGE AND CLOUD | The Calany Holding S. À R.L. | SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU | 2455 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19249780 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE | LG Electronics Inc. | XU, XIAOLAN | 2482 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 18726397 | DIMD MODE-BASED INTRA PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE | LG Electronics Inc. | AYNALEM, NATHNAEL B | 2488 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19248397 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION METHOD, WIRELESS POWER RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND WIRELESS POWER RECEPTION METHOD | LG Electronics Inc. | CHANG, JOSEPH | 2836 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19245210 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF BASED ON A QUANTIZATION PARAMETER DERIVATION | LG Electronics Inc. | RIDER, JUSTIN W | 2482 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19237890 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER MANAGEMENT MODEL EVALUATION BASED ON TELEMATICS INFERENCES VIA A TELEMATICS MARKETPLACE | Quanata, LLC | KASSIM, HAFIZ A | 3623 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19234216 | REFRIGERATING SYSTEM USING NON-AZEOTROPIC MIXED REFRIGERANT | LG Electronics Inc. | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | 3763 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19224581 | GESTURE-ENABLED INTERFACES, SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS FOR CUSTOM DESIGNING NON-LEVEL LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS POLICIES AND SUPPORTING CUSTOMIZED PRICING | AmerUs Group Inc. | NEWLON, WILLIAM D | 3696 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19221017 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CABAC-BASED ENTROPY CODING | LG Electronics Inc. | BRANIFF, CHRISTOPHER | 2484 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19211573 | THERMOELECTRIC MODULE AND REFRIGERATOR COMPRISING SAME | LG Electronics Inc. | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 18849365 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD FOR GEOMETRIC PARTITIONED BLOCK, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | LG Electronics Inc. | LI, TRACY Y | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19198011 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING DATA REGARDING A VEHICLE CRASH | State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company | NGUYEN, TAI T | 2685 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2025 |
| 19181731 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SMART MATCHING SYSTEM BY USING ONLINE LEARNING | Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. | RICHARDSON, JAMES E | 2169 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19176514 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING ROLL MAP AND MANUFACTURING BATTERY USING ROLL MAP | LG Energy Solution, Ltd. | CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | 1729 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19088375 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR RENDERING IMAGES ALONG A ROUTE OF A VEHICULAR TRIP | Quanata, LLC | PATEL, SHIVANG I | 2615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19081929 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING INSURANCE POLICIES WITH PREDESIGNATED POLICY LEVELS AND REIMBURSEMENT CONTROLS | Quanata, LLC | RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 3694 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19072587 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | LG Electronics Inc. | WONG, ALLEN C | 2488 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19065011 | INTER-PREDICTION-BASED IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | LG Electronics Inc. | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19065287 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DIGITAL WALLET | Quanata, LLC | SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL | 3695 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18695622 | WINDOW COVER FOR LASER RADAR AND LASER RADAR | Hangzhou Ole-Systems Co., Ltd. | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19060347 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CAPACITY OF BATTERY | LG Energy Solution, Ltd. | RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J | 2858 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19057037 | TRANSFORM-BASED IMAGE CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SAME | LG Electronics Inc. | HESS, MICHAEL J | 2481 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19056578 | METHOD FOR ENCODING IMAGE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A BITSTREAM GENERATED BY A METHOD | LG Electronics Inc. | LOTFI, KYLE M | 2425 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18724595 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | LG Electronics Inc. | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 2422 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19052112 | VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND DEVICE USING SAME | LG Electronics Inc. | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19036832 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING BATTERY | LG Energy Solution, Ltd. | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19034158 | PLASMONIC FIELD-ENHANCED PHOTODETECTOR AND IMAGE SENSOR | Tmrw Electronics, Sarl | WILLIAMS, DON J | 2878 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19034252 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING AND APPLYING VIRTUAL OCCURRENCES TO A VIRTUAL CHARACTER USING TELEMATICS DATA OF ONE OR MORE REAL TRIPS IN REAL-TIME | Quanata, LLC | SHAH, MILAP | 3715 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18996753 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | LG Electronics Inc. | SULLIVAN, TYLER | 2487 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18995131 | SYSTEM FOR CUTTING LITHIUM METAL FOR NEGATIVE ELECTRODES | LG Energy Solution, Ltd. | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18994894 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RELATED TO SL POSITIONING | LG Electronics Inc. | KAMAL, FATIHA | 2647 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19016961 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION OF TELEMATICS DATA | Quanata, LLC | POE, KEVIN T | 3692 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18719789 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR POINT CLOUD DATA AND METHOD PERFORMED BY TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND RECEPTION DEVICE FOR POINT CLOUD DATA AND METHOD PERFORMED BY RECEPTION DEVICE | LG Electronics Inc. | HSIEH, PING Y | 2664 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18881153 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD BASED ON AMVP-MERGE MODE, DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM | LG Electronics Inc. | BRUMFIELD, SHANIKA M | 2487 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18881201 | ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION-BASED IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | LG Electronics Inc. | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 2482 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19006839 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING MOBILE DEVICE USAGE BY A DRIVER OF A VEHICLE | Quanata, Llc. | DETWEILER, JAMES M | 3622 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial92.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP were allowed, across 18,094 applications in USPTO records.
3.34 office actions per allowed application on average.
389 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 47 clients, before 313 examiners in 152 art units.
