Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Cozen O'Connor - Dc - Gendzwill

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

8 pending office actions • 6 clients • 8 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

COZEN O'CONNOR - DC - Gendzwill handles Chemistry & Materials matters. Its profile shows 9 pending office actions and 19456 career applications, pairing a small active docket with the firm's broader historical application record.

The resolved allowance rate is 85.66%, and the average is 3.35 office actions per allowance. This indicates frequent allowance among resolved matters, with several examination exchanges commonly preceding resolution. Practitioners should apply the aggregate history as background while reviewing the specific chemical disclosure, claim construction, and cited references in each case.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=19456 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.7%
Allowance Rate
n=19456
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=19456
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=12817
-0.03σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=12817
1067 days
Time to Allowance
n=12817
+4.9pp
Interview Lift
n=19456
24.9%
RCE Rate
n=19456
2.2%
Appeal Rate
n=19456

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

77.7%
§101 Overcome
n=1370
78.5%
§102 Overcome
n=5625
80.2%
§103 Overcome
n=8950
82.4%
§112 Overcome
n=5891

Specialization & Scale

H04W, H04L, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
11%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=19456
0
Practitioners
n=19456
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=19456 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

5
Hard (62%)
3
Medium (38%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (25%)
§102 only1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (62%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

5
Life Sciences
62% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
12% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
25% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HURLEY, SHAUN R 1 77.6% +17.7%
SHAH, SAMIR 1 36.7% +35.1%
BROOKS, KREGG T 1 57.1% +1.5%
LIU, TRACY 1 54.5% +26.9%
DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC 1 81.5% +3.3%
KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN 1 76.5% +20.7%
LENIHAN, JEFFREY S 1 73.0% +17.0%
CASE, SARAH CATHERINE 1 41.1% +50.8%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18560195 WAVELENGTH CONVERSION MEMBER AND LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC —

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18358342 Methods For Heating Strip Product KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN 84d overdue
17770814 MOLYBDENUM OXYCHLORIDE WITH IMPROVED BULK DENSITY CASE, SARAH CATHERINE 3d overdue
19482522 YARN HAVING PATTERN AND METHOD OF PRODUCING HURLEY, SHAUN R —
18683818 Process for Producing a Polyolefin with Low Volatile Content BROOKS, KREGG T —
18004987 Polyolefin Composition With Improved Resistance To High Temperature LENIHAN, JEFFREY S —

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18358342 Methods For Heating Strip Product KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN 84d overdue
17770814 MOLYBDENUM OXYCHLORIDE WITH IMPROVED BULK DENSITY CASE, SARAH CATHERINE 3d overdue
18561407 IRON OXIDE PIGMENT FOR COSMETIC COMPOSITION AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION CONTAINING IRON OXIDE PIGMENT LIU, TRACY 7d
19482522 YARN HAVING PATTERN AND METHOD OF PRODUCING HURLEY, SHAUN R —
18839301 FLEXIBLE LAMINATES WITH SUPERIOR SEALING PERFORMANCE SHAH, SAMIR —
18004987 Polyolefin Composition With Improved Resistance To High Temperature LENIHAN, JEFFREY S —

Client Portfolio (6 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37321
17871
17641
16141
28181
37251
17651
17311

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19482522 YARN HAVING PATTERN AND METHOD OF PRODUCING Spinrite Inc. HURLEY, SHAUN R 3732 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 07, 2025
18839301 FLEXIBLE LAMINATES WITH SUPERIOR SEALING PERFORMANCE Abu Dhabi Polymers Co. Ltd. (Borouge) - Sole Proprietorship LLC SHAH, SAMIR 1787 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 16, 2024
18683818 Process for Producing a Polyolefin with Low Volatile Content BOREALIS AG BROOKS, KREGG T 1764 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 15, 2024
18561407 IRON OXIDE PIGMENT FOR COSMETIC COMPOSITION AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION CONTAINING IRON OXIDE PIGMENT Titan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha LIU, TRACY 1614 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18560195 WAVELENGTH CONVERSION MEMBER AND LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS Daejoo Electronic Materials Co., Ltd. DEGRASSE, IAN ISAAC 2818 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 10, 2023
18358342 Methods For Heating Strip Product Materion Corporation KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN 3725 §102§112 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18004987 Polyolefin Composition With Improved Resistance To High Temperature BOREALIS AG LENIHAN, JEFFREY S 1765 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 10, 2023
17770814 MOLYBDENUM OXYCHLORIDE WITH IMPROVED BULK DENSITY Materion Corporation CASE, SARAH CATHERINE 1731 §103§112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Cozen O'Connor - Dc - Gendzwill's patent allowance rate?

85.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Cozen O'Connor - Dc - Gendzwill were allowed, across 19,456 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Cozen O'Connor - Dc - Gendzwill average before allowance?

3.35 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Cozen O'Connor - Dc - Gendzwill have?

8 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 8 examiners in 8 art units.

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