Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 1 client • 10 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Clark+Elbing LLP - 10X Genomics, Inc. is associated with Chemistry & Materials and has 9 pending office actions. The profile also records 9010 career applications, providing a broader prosecution context for the named client matter grouping.
The resolved allowance rate is 67.77%, and the average office actions per allowance is 3.89. These measures indicate the recorded historical outcome and the examination activity associated with allowance for the profile. Practitioners should use them as portfolio context while grounding decisions in the specific claims, references, and examiner positions for the matter at issue.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (70%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, RYAN | 1 | 53.1% | +31.1% |
| BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.4% | +40.2% |
| SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | 1 | 27.7% | +47.5% |
| MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1 | 78.4% | +19.8% |
| IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 1 | 55.6% | +24.6% |
| NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1 | 63.5% | +36.7% |
| CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1 | 43.3% | +26.1% |
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.8% | +36.3% |
| TURK, NEIL N | 1 | 51.0% | +44.2% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 31.1% | +64.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18132115 | SYSTEMS WITH A GASKET AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING SAMPLES | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 118d overdue |
| 18131223 | BLISTER PACKS AND USES THEREOF | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 112d overdue |
| 18177562 | FLOW FOCUSING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT DROPLET FORMATION | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 19d overdue |
| 18175885 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FLOW CELL ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 26d |
| 18606845 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING FLOW AND MAGNETIC MODULES | HUANG, RYAN | — |
| 18237268 | METHOD FOR CONCENTRATING DROPLETS IN AN EMULSION | SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | — |
| 18154516 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DIRECTING FLUID FLOW | TURK, NEIL N | — |
| 18070887 | FLOW CELLS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18132115 | SYSTEMS WITH A GASKET AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING SAMPLES | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 118d overdue |
| 18131223 | BLISTER PACKS AND USES THEREOF | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 112d overdue |
| 18177562 | FLOW FOCUSING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT DROPLET FORMATION | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 19d overdue |
| 18177504 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT DROPLET FORMATION | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 4d overdue |
| 18175885 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FLOW CELL ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 26d |
| 18427317 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND RECOVERING DROPLETS | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 29d |
| 18606845 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING FLOW AND MAGNETIC MODULES | HUANG, RYAN | — |
| 18237268 | METHOD FOR CONCENTRATING DROPLETS IN AN EMULSION | SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| 10x Genomics | 10 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 3 |
| 1797 | 2 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18606845 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING FLOW AND MAGNETIC MODULES | 10X Genomics, Inc. | HUANG, RYAN | 1777 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18427317 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND RECOVERING DROPLETS | 10X Genomics, Inc. | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1797 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18237268 | METHOD FOR CONCENTRATING DROPLETS IN AN EMULSION | 10X Genomics, Inc. | SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18132115 | SYSTEMS WITH A GASKET AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING SAMPLES | 10X Genomics, Inc. | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 118d overdue | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 18131223 | BLISTER PACKS AND USES THEREOF | 10X Genomics, Inc. | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 3799 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 112d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 18177504 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT DROPLET FORMATION | 10X Genomics, Inc. | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 18177562 | FLOW FOCUSING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT DROPLET FORMATION | 10X Genomics, Inc. | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1758 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 18175885 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FLOW CELL ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY | 10X Genomics, Inc. | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 18154516 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DIRECTING FLUID FLOW | 10X Genomics, Inc. | TURK, NEIL N | 1798 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 18070887 | FLOW CELLS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | 10X Genomics, Inc. | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1682 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial67.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Clark+Elbing LLP - 10X Genomics, Inc. were allowed, across 9,010 applications in USPTO records.
3.89 office actions per allowed application on average.
10 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 10 examiners in 7 art units.
