Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Seattle

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

54 pending office actions • 36 clients • 51 examiners • 32 art units • 0 of 54 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 91 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Seattle is a patent law firm with 3534 career applications. The firm focuses on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. It has achieved a resolved allowance rate pct of 82.08. This success is achieved with an avg office actions per allowance of 3.13. Currently, the firm has 37 pending office actions.

The avg office actions per allowance of 3.13 indicates a prosecution timeline, usually requiring several office actions to reach an allowance. This level of examiner interaction is consistent with the firm's resolved allowance rate pct of 82.08. Across 3534 career applications, these metrics show a firm with experience in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. The 37 pending office actions represent an active workload. For practitioners, these data points reflect a firm that is capable of navigating the USPTO process to secure grants. The firm's 3534 career applications provide a record of its work in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems.

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

Quality Metrics (n=3534 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

82.1%
Allowance Rate
n=3534
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=3534
3.1
OAs to Allowance
n=2025
-0.35σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=2025
1077 days
Time to Allowance
n=2025
+10.5pp
Interview Lift
n=3534
26.0%
RCE Rate
n=3534
0.8%
Appeal Rate
n=3534

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

79.2%
§101 Overcome
n=389
77.1%
§102 Overcome
n=802
77.8%
§103 Overcome
n=1300
81.4%
§112 Overcome
n=881

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
22%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=3534
0
Practitioners
n=3534
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=3534 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

54
Total Pending OAs
36
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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.

29
Hard (54%)
21
Medium (39%)
4
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (4%)
§101 + other9 (17%)
§103 only18 (33%)
§102 only2 (4%)
§112 only4 (7%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)18 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
20% of docket
7
Information Tech
13% of docket
1
Communications
2% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
16
Mechanical / Eng
30% of docket
18
Business / Other
33% 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.

540 h
Manual time on pending OAs
108 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
189 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 3 64.1% +19.5%
MEILLER, SEAN V 2 73.9% +38.1%
GEDEON, DEBORAH TALITHA 1 56.4% +59.5%
ORTIZ, ADAM C 1 65.9% +34.6%
MOORE, REVA R 1 52.8% +50.0%
NGUYEN, SON T 1 28.9% +16.3%
COLAN, GIOVANNA B 1 72.5% +29.1%
KABIR, JAHANGIR 1 80.8% +35.5%
HASSAN, AURANGZEB 1 80.3% +17.0%
TECHANE, MUNA A 1 93.5% +6.6%

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 (30)

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
19322460 PRESSURE PAD COUPLING SYSTEM AND METHOD GEDEON, DEBORAH TALITHA —
19306505 BED RAIL LOCKING SYSTEM AND METHOD ORTIZ, ADAM C —

Interview Candidates (12)

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
19247219 GENERATING INSIGHTS FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS COLAN, GIOVANNA B 26d
19561040 INDUCTIVE COOKING APPLIANCE WITH BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE —
19346951 INDUCTION STOVE WITH BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE —
19322460 PRESSURE PAD COUPLING SYSTEM AND METHOD GEDEON, DEBORAH TALITHA —
19306505 BED RAIL LOCKING SYSTEM AND METHOD ORTIZ, ADAM C —
19268987 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DELIVER GOODS WITH PRECISE HANDLING REQUIREMENTS MOORE, REVA R —
19261285 ANIMAL HARNESS WITH SIDE-CONNECT LOOP SYSTEM AND METHOD NGUYEN, SON T —
19190477 ACCESS CONTROL MANAGEMENT KABIR, JAHANGIR —

Client Portfolio (36 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37613
37412
17952
36731
36431
21651
24391
21841
28341
17461

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19561040 INDUCTIVE COOKING APPLIANCE WITH BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD Channing Street Copper Company EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE 3761 §103 Final Rejection — 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
19322460 PRESSURE PAD COUPLING SYSTEM AND METHOD Cross Innovations LLC GEDEON, DEBORAH TALITHA 3673 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 08, 2025
19306505 BED RAIL LOCKING SYSTEM AND METHOD Cross Innovations LLC ORTIZ, ADAM C §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 21, 2025
19268987 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DELIVER GOODS WITH PRECISE HANDLING REQUIREMENTS Covalency, Inc. MOORE, REVA R §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 14, 2025
19261285 ANIMAL HARNESS WITH SIDE-CONNECT LOOP SYSTEM AND METHOD Canada Pooch Ltd. NGUYEN, SON T 3643 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 07, 2025
19247219 GENERATING INSIGHTS FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS Citibank, N.A. COLAN, GIOVANNA B 2165 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jun 24, 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
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 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 17, 2024
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
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
18726369 SURFACE SAMPLING DEVICE AND METHODS Institute For Environmental Health, Inc. FAYYAZ, NASHMIYA SAQIB §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 02, 2024
18674013 METAL MODIFIED ZSM-5 MOLECULAR SIEVE CATALYST, PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF Petrochina Company Limited KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH §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 §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
18292873 MULTIVALENT PAN-INFLUENZA VACCINE Najít Technologies, Inc. ZOU, NIANXIANG 1671 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 26, 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
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 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 29, 2023
18400812 BATTERY ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. ZENG, LINGWEN R §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 29, 2023
18399235 ELECTRODE SHEET AND ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. SCHULER, JACOB JEROME §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 28, 2023
18397963 OUTER SHELL STRUCTURE AND BATTERY ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. CHANDLER, KAITY V §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 §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 §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 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 05, 2023
18526366 STOVE WITH INTERNAL BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD Channing Street Copper Company EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 01, 2023
18525569 BATTERY Zhuhai Cosmx Power Supply Co., Ltd. BROWN, MADISON ELIZABETH §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 30, 2023
18525630 BATTERY CELL ASSEMBLY AND BATTERY PACK Zhuhai Cosmx Power Supply Co., Ltd. WANG, EUGENIA §102§103§112 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 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 29, 2023
18520506 MICROBE MODULATED VERMICULTURE Soldier Sailor Agriculture, LLC TURNER, FELICIA C 1793 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 27, 2023
18516823 SEMANTICS DATA PROCESSING Bluebird Labs, Inc. CHEN, ALAN S §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
18225633 SECONDARY BATTERY ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. LI, AIQUN 1766 §102§103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jul 24, 2023
18225642 BORIC ACID DERIVATIVE MODIFIED BINDER AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY INCLUDING SAME ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. YUEN, JACKY 1735 §102§103 Final Rejection 23d 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
17608973 EPITAXIAL WAFER AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME, AND ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR South China Normal University QIAN, SHIZHI 1795 §112 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2021
17332203 CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MOBILE ROBOT Roam Robotics Inc. BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN 3700 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 27, 2021
16838347 LEG EXOSKELETON SYSTEM AND METHOD Roam Robotics Inc. WILLSE, DAVID H 3774 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 02, 2020

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