Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Seattle

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

53 pending office actions • 34 clients • 50 examiners • 47 art units • 0 of 53 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 93 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Seattle has 55 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 3538 career applications. The profile shows a substantial active docket alongside a broad historical application record.

The resolved allowance rate is 82.12%, and successful matters average 3.12 office actions per allowance. Most resolved cases reach allowance, while the action average indicates that prosecution often requires repeated examination responses.

For practitioners, the data points to significant experience coupled with a need for disciplined docket management. The allowance rate provides outcome context, while the action average helps set expectations for claim amendments, examiner engagement, and the resources needed to move matters toward resolution.

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

Quality Metrics (n=3538 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

82.1%
Allowance Rate
n=3538
+0.53σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=3538
3.1
OAs to Allowance
n=2034
-0.35σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=2034
1078 days
Time to Allowance
n=2034
+10.5pp
Interview Lift
n=3538
26.0%
RCE Rate
n=3538
0.8%
Appeal Rate
n=3538

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

78.8%
§101 Overcome
n=391
77.7%
§102 Overcome
n=802
77.8%
§103 Overcome
n=1304
81.8%
§112 Overcome
n=883

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
22%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=3538
0
Practitioners
n=3538
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=3538 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

53
Total Pending OAs
34
Non-Final OAs
13
Final Rejections
6
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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.

31
Hard (58%)
19
Medium (36%)
3
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (4%)
§101 + other10 (19%)
§103 only16 (30%)
§102 only2 (4%)
§112 only3 (6%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)19 (36%)

Industry Mix

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

19
Life Sciences
36% of docket
7
Information Tech
13% of docket
1
Communications
2% of docket
5
Semiconductors
9% of docket
21
Mechanical / Eng
40% 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.

530 h
Manual time on pending OAs
106 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
186 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 3 62.7% +21.6%
MEILLER, SEAN V 2 74.1% +38.3%
CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN 1 46.1% +38.4%
ORTIZ, ADAM C 1 65.8% +34.7%
MOORE, REVA R 1 52.9% +50.0%
KABIR, JAHANGIR 1 80.9% +34.9%
HASSAN, AURANGZEB 1 80.4% +17.0%
THOMAS, KYLE ROBERT 1 72.7% +28.1%
TECHANE, MUNA A 1 93.6% +6.5%
PATEL, VISHAL I 1 78.5% +9.8%

Quick Wins (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19190477 ACCESS CONTROL MANAGEMENT KABIR, JAHANGIR —
19177425 SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ONE OR MORE TARGET DEVICES VIA INTEGRATED VIDEO AND PERIPHERAL CONTROLS HASSAN, AURANGZEB —
18984894 CAPACITIVE SYNAPTIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME TECHANE, MUNA A —

Hard Cases (31)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18288551 PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUSTOMIZING HOME APPLIANCE SET, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN 134d overdue
18885289 MARITIME APPLICATIONS FOR A MOBILE ROBOT JEN, MINGJEN 66d overdue
18653885 QUESTION MINING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSIROTY STORAGE MEDIA BLACK, LINH 26d overdue
18225642 BORIC ACID DERIVATIVE MODIFIED BINDER AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY INCLUDING SAME YUEN, JACKY 23d
18203930 Modular Warming System for Dialysis Fluid CHOU, JIMMY 46d
18225633 SECONDARY BATTERY LI, AIQUN 63d
19641989 MALE INCONTINENCE CLAMP SYSTEM AND METHOD CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN —
19561040 INDUCTIVE COOKING APPLIANCE WITH BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE —

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19641989 MALE INCONTINENCE CLAMP SYSTEM AND METHOD CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN —
19561040 INDUCTIVE COOKING APPLIANCE WITH BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE —
19346951 INDUCTION STOVE WITH BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE —
19306505 BED RAIL LOCKING SYSTEM AND METHOD ORTIZ, ADAM C —
19268987 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DELIVER GOODS WITH PRECISE HANDLING REQUIREMENTS MOORE, REVA R —
19190477 ACCESS CONTROL MANAGEMENT KABIR, JAHANGIR —
19177425 SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ONE OR MORE TARGET DEVICES VIA INTEGRATED VIDEO AND PERIPHERAL CONTROLS HASSAN, AURANGZEB —
18876156 FLOATING POWER GENERATION SYSTEM MEILLER, SEAN V —

Client Portfolio (34 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37614
37412
17212
37852
37861
36731
36271
24391
21841
28341

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19641989 MALE INCONTINENCE CLAMP SYSTEM AND METHOD Cross Innovations LLC CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN 3786 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 08, 2026
19561040 INDUCTIVE COOKING APPLIANCE WITH BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD Channing Street Copper Company EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 3761 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 09, 2026
19346951 INDUCTION STOVE WITH BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD Channing Street Copper Company EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 3761 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 01, 2025
19306505 BED RAIL LOCKING SYSTEM AND METHOD Cross Innovations LLC ORTIZ, ADAM C 3673 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 21, 2025
19268987 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DELIVER GOODS WITH PRECISE HANDLING REQUIREMENTS Covalency, Inc. MOORE, REVA R 3627 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 14, 2025
19190477 ACCESS CONTROL MANAGEMENT Citigroup Inc. KABIR, JAHANGIR 2439 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 25, 2025
19177425 SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ONE OR MORE TARGET DEVICES VIA INTEGRATED VIDEO AND PERIPHERAL CONTROLS Cytrence Technologies, Inc. HASSAN, AURANGZEB 2184 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 11, 2025
18876156 FLOATING POWER GENERATION SYSTEM Twenty20 Energy Systems Pte. Ltd. MEILLER, SEAN V 2834 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 17, 2024
18876165 POWER GENERATION SYSTEM Twenty20 Energy Systems Pte. Ltd. THOMAS, KYLE ROBERT 3741 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 17, 2024
18876161 POWER GENERATION SYSTEM Twenty20 Energy Systems Pte. Ltd. MEILLER, SEAN V 3741 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 17, 2024
18984894 CAPACITIVE SYNAPTIC COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME Semron GmbH TECHANE, MUNA A 2827 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 17, 2024
18939412 HIGH PERFORMANCE INJECTION CONNECTOR FOR FLOW-RESTRICTED CABLE Southwire Company, LLC PATEL, VISHAL I 1746 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 06, 2024
18919278 AGGREGATED AUTHORIZATION TOKEN Citibank, N.A. CHIANG, JASON 2431 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Oct 17, 2024
18912513 SINGLE IDENTIFIER BENEFITS DISTRIBUTION Prescryptive Health, Inc. BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD 3621 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 10, 2024
18907028 CALIBRATION-ADJUSTED, EFFORT-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCORING IN COMPETITIVE FITNESS SYSTEMS Ergatta, Inc. KOBYLARZ, ANDREW M 3784 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 04, 2024
18897849 MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. LELAND III, EDWIN S 2654 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 26, 2024
18885289 MARITIME APPLICATIONS FOR A MOBILE ROBOT Roam Robotics Inc. JEN, MINGJEN 3657 §103§112Other Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2024
18816617 SPAD ARRAY WITH AMBIENT LIGHT SUPPRESSION FOR SOLID-STATE LIDAR Liturex (Guangzhou) Co. Ltd. HULKA, JAMES R 3645 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 27, 2024
18726369 SURFACE SAMPLING DEVICE AND METHODS Institute For Environmental Health, Inc. FAYYAZ, NASHMIYA SAQIB 2855 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 02, 2024
18720574 METHANE REFORMING REACTION SYSTEM Institute Of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences LEE, CRYSTAL J 1738 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 14, 2024
18674013 METAL MODIFIED ZSM-5 MOLECULAR SIEVE CATALYST, PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF Petrochina Company Limited KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH 1742 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 24, 2024
18656583 MOBILE TEACHING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD Teach By Tech EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD 3715 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 06, 2024
18653885 QUESTION MINING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSIROTY STORAGE MEDIA Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. BLACK, LINH 2163 §101§103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending May 02, 2024
18627956 CONDITIONAL TEMPORAL DIFFUSION MODEL-BASED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TIME SERIES OF INDUSTRIAL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM BEIHANG UNIVERSITY LE, JOHN H 2857 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 05, 2024
18625046 COGNITIVE FRAMEWORK AND IMPLEMENTATION METHODS FOR BUSINESS OPERATIONS INTELLIGENCE Netenrich, Inc. GYORFI, THOMAS A 2435 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 02, 2024
18586170 CONTROL METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE FOR HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd. NORTON, JENNIFER L 2117 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 23, 2024
18424401 LASER SCANNING IMAGING METHOD AND SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Suzhou Microview Medical Technologies Co., Ltd. ZHANG, LEI 3798 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18292873 MULTIVALENT PAN-INFLUENZA VACCINE Najít Technologies, Inc. ZOU, NIANXIANG 1671 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 26, 2024
18414396 AUTOMATED MICROBIOLOGICAL LABORATORY FOR QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE MICROBIOLOGY Institute For Environmental Health, Inc. SABOUR, GHAZAL 1686 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 16, 2024
18410913 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR APPLIANCES WITH INTEGRATED ENERGY STORAGE Channing Street Copper Company KHATIB, RAMI 3669 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 11, 2024
18576727 NON-DAIRY MILK Atomo Coffee, Inc. ZILBERING, ASSAF 1792 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 05, 2024
18400357 ROLLED CORE AND BATTERY ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. MCCONNELL, WYATT P 1727 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 29, 2023
18397963 OUTER SHELL STRUCTURE AND BATTERY ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. CHANDLER, KAITY V 1725 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 27, 2023
18391374 SHARED ENERGY STORAGE SCHEDULING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON ENERGY FREQUENCY REGULATION AND LOAD DEMAND Tsinghua University DIAO, M BAYE 2859 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2023
18531596 BATTERY ELECTRODE SHEET, BATTERY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BATTERY ELECTRODE SHEET ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. RUSERE, LINAH NATSAI 1712 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 06, 2023
18530104 ELECTRODE PIECE, BATTERY CELL AND BATTERY ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. MARTIN, TRAVIS LYNDEN 1721 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 05, 2023
18527158 BATTERY ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. ORDUNA, TAMARA 1776 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 01, 2023
18526366 STOVE WITH INTERNAL BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD Channing Street Copper Company EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 3761 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 01, 2023
18525569 BATTERY Zhuhai Cosmx Power Supply Co., Ltd. BROWN, MADISON ELIZABETH 1787 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 30, 2023
18523828 BATTERY, SEPARATOR FOR A BATTERY AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SEPARATOR Senior Material (Europe) AB MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 1726 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 29, 2023
18516823 SEMANTICS DATA PROCESSING Bluebird Labs, Inc. CHEN, ALAN S 2125 §101§102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 21, 2023
18288551 PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUSTOMIZING HOME APPLIANCE SET, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Cosmo Iot Technology Co., Ltd. DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN 3689 §101§103 Non-Final OA 134d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2023
18235490 LIDAR DEVICE USING CHANNEL GROUPING TO INCREASE ANGULAR RESOLUTION AND DETECTION RANGE Liturex (Guangzhou) Co. Ltd. SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB 3648 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 18, 2023
18225862 BINDER AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY COMPRISING SAME ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. WHITE, SADIE 1721 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 25, 2023
18225642 BORIC ACID DERIVATIVE MODIFIED BINDER AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY INCLUDING SAME ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. YUEN, JACKY 1735 §102§103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Jul 24, 2023
18225633 SECONDARY BATTERY ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. LI, AIQUN 1766 §102§103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jul 24, 2023
18203930 Modular Warming System for Dialysis Fluid Pedigo Products, Inc. CHOU, JIMMY 3761 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 46d Pending May 31, 2023
18196978 SILANE FUNCTIONAL STABILIZERS FOR EXTENDING LONG-TERM ELECTRICAL POWER CABLE PERFORMANCE Novinium, LLC MOORE, MARGARET G 1765 §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending May 12, 2023
18195244 FAN-OUT PACKAGE STRUCTURE AND FAN-OUT PACKAGING METHOD Forehope Electronic (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. BODNAR, JOHN A 1795 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending May 09, 2023
18143007 GRAVITY FLOW WINEMAKING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING BRIDGE CRANES Amaterra, LLC DUBOIS, PHILIP A 1791 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 03, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Seattle's patent allowance rate?

82.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Seattle were allowed, across 3,538 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Seattle average before allowance?

3.12 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Seattle have?

53 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 34 clients, before 50 examiners in 47 art units.

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