Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
696 pending office actions • 265 clients • 640 examiners • 278 art units • 0 of 696 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
DINSMORE & SHOHL LLP’s profile covers Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and reports 700 pending office actions. Its career record includes 34995 applications, a resolved allowance rate of 85.36%, and an average of 3.05 office actions per allowance.
The historical rate shows that a majority of resolved matters reached allowance, while the action average indicates that allowed matters generally involved more than one examination exchange. The pending figure describes a large active workload and should be managed independently from the completed-matter statistics.
For practitioners, the scale of the record makes docket segmentation and consistent reporting especially important. Transportation and mechanical matters may require coordinated treatment of recurring prior-art, claim-construction, and technical-description issues. The historical figures can support process review, but each open action still requires a matter-specific response strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 189 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. 189 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 | 22 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 89 (13%) |
| §103 only | 225 (32%) |
| §102 only | 30 (4%) |
| §112 only | 31 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 8 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 17 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 272 (39%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAITS, ALAN B | 3 | 68.9% | +29.7% |
| CALDERON, DAVID ANDREW | 3 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LEE, HWA S | 2 | 72.3% | +3.3% |
| NGUYEN, NGA B | 2 | 53.1% | +25.1% |
| DIAZ, THOMAS C | 2 | 68.3% | +19.3% |
| SHUDY, ANGELINA M | 2 | 76.5% | +7.6% |
| ROBERT, DANIEL M | 2 | 77.8% | +9.9% |
| FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN | 2 | 61.4% | +23.4% |
| GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER | 2 | 66.1% | +22.2% |
| PHAM, CLINT V | 2 | 44.7% | +22.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18500496 | METHODS FOR MAKING ZEOLITE-Y PARTICLES | CALDERON, DAVID ANDREW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18000941 | NEW USE OF RABEXIMOD | RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B | 184d overdue |
| 17719833 | LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA CATHETER FOR LESS-INVASIVE, LOCALIZED TREATMENT OF ENDOCARDITIS AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS | DELLA, JAYMI E | 168d overdue |
| 17990137 | METHOD OF FECAL SAMPLE PREPARATION FOR AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS | LYONS, MARY M | 149d overdue |
| 17862828 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING A PARKING FACILITY | GOODMAN, MATTHEW PARKER | 140d overdue |
| 18249102 | REFLECTARRAY AND METHOD THEREFOR | NGUYEN, HOANG V | 133d overdue |
| 18498616 | Non-Invasive Hydrogen Monitoring to Assess Gut Health and Other Clinical Outcomes | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 104d overdue |
| 17784859 | NON-VIRAL VECTORS COMPRISING POLYPROPYLENEIMINE | BOATENG, AFUA BAMFOAA | 67d overdue |
| 18573528 | INTRAVASCULAR CROSSING AND ATHERECTOMY APPARATUSES AND METHODS OF USE | BYRD, BRIGID K | 66d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19270010 | AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY VALUATION SYSTEM UTILIZING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | NGUYEN, NGA B | 2d overdue |
| 18441035 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO GENERATE EXTENDED CONTEXT DERIVED FROM CONSUMER RESPONSES | NGUYEN, NGA B | 9d |
| 18989861 | CAGE FOR BALL BEARING AND BALL BEARING COMPRISING SAME | WAITS, ALAN B | 15d |
| 19267887 | PASSIVE PEDAL FORCE EMULATOR ASSEMBLIES | DIAZ, THOMAS C | — |
| 19200157 | SALT BATH COMPOSITIONS, SALT BATH SYSTEMS, AND PROCESSES FOR STRENGTHENING GLASS ARTICLES | FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN | — |
| 19184619 | VEHICLE WHEEL BEARING INCLUDING SENSOR ASSEMBLY HAVING SEALING PORTION | WAITS, ALAN B | — |
| 19184496 | VEHICLE WHEEL BEARING INCLUDING SENSOR ASSEMBLY HAVING PLURALITY OF SENSING UNITS | WAITS, ALAN B | — |
| 19181885 | TASK SELECTION FOR A HAND-HELD MANIPULATION DEVICE | GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 15 |
| 3663 | 12 |
| 2834 | 10 |
| 3761 | 9 |
| 3668 | 8 |
| 1742 | 8 |
| 3665 | 7 |
| 3661 | 7 |
| 3628 | 7 |
| 3612 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18889008 | Untitled | Saudi Arabian Oil Company | CHONG, JASON Y | 1772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 19395089 | DEHYDRATION CATALYSTS FOR ACROLEIN PRODUCTION FROM GLYCEROL AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | Trillium Renewable Chemicals | BERNS, DANIEL J | 1736 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2025 |
| 19367348 | MULTIFOCAL SKIN TREATMENT DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING TRANSDUCER AND THERMOELECTRIC ELEMENT | Healux Co.,Ltd. | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2025 |
| 19351794 | GLASS CONTAINERS FOR STORING PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS | Corning Incorporated | ACKUN, JACOB K | 3736 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19350571 | FUNCTIONAL WOUND HEALING DRESSINGS | Ambient Biosciences, Inc. | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 3786 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 19343845 | POROUS GLASS CONTAINERS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | Corning Incorporated | PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1712 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19334323 | SECURITY PROFILE STRIP FOR A DOOR OR WINDOW OF A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM | Hübner GmbH & Co. Kg | DUNAY, CHRISTOPHER E | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19166552 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING REAL-TIME VIDEO CONTENT | Neosapience, Inc. | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19282710 | SUPERCHARGER ROTORS FOR INCREASED ENGINE POWER OUTPUT | Brian Tooley Racing, LLC | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 3746 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19282309 | LIDAR REFLECTIVE MATERIAL AND MARKING SYSTEM | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. | MILLER, MICHAEL G | 1712 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19279406 | PARTICLE FILTERING FOR LEARNING OBJECT PHYSICS FROM ROBOT INTERACTION VIDEOS | Toyota Research Institute, Inc. | TANG, BRYANT | 3658 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19274876 | VEHICLE DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS | Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha | GENTILE, ALEXANDER VINCENT | 3664 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19271839 | PHASE DETECTION DEVICE USING PHASE SHIFTING INCLUDING GEOMETRIC PHASE OPTICAL ELEMENT | Psi System Inc. | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19148709 | METHOD FOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION OF HIGH-POWER SEMICONDUCTOR LASER CHIP, AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION | Everbright Institute Of Semiconductor Photonics Co., Ltd. | LEE, HWA S | 2877 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19270010 | AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY VALUATION SYSTEM UTILIZING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | Korea Invention Promotion Association | NGUYEN, NGA B | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19267887 | PASSIVE PEDAL FORCE EMULATOR ASSEMBLIES | Ksr Ip Holdings, LLC | DIAZ, THOMAS C | 3617 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19266307 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELATIVE POSE DETERMINATION AND FIELD ENFORCEMENT OF MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES USING ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADIO TECHNOLOGY | Crown Equipment Corporation | SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM | 3668 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19256297 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF BUILDING A POOLED MEMORY WITHOUT USING SWITCHES | Primemas Inc. | MAMO, ELIAS | 2184 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19252340 | LOCAL SERVER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROAD TRAFFIC | BITSENSING INC. | MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | 3666 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19250672 | SKIN TREATMENT DEVICE AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLED ACCORDING TO CONDITION OF SKIN, AND OPERATION METHOD FOR SKIN TREATMENT DEVICE | Healux Co., Ltd. | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19249016 | INTEGRATED TRAFFIC CONTROLLER | Yunex LLC | MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | 3665 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19123146 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM SUPPORTING ADVERTISEMENT LINKED TO METAVERSE PLATFORM | Redbrick Inc. | NGUYEN, THUY N | 3622 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19246205 | RECREATIONAL VEHICLE COMPONENT WITH IMAGE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | Thor Tech, Inc. | PAIGE, TYLER D | 3664 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19237518 | LASER SURGICAL DEVICE AND SURGICAL METHOD THEREOF | Recensmedical, Inc. | ROANE, AARON F | 3792 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19136766 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN EVALUATION MODEL FOR DETECTING A SEAT OCCUPANCY STATE OF A SEAT ARRANGEMENT | Gestigon GmbH | MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 3658 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19224002 | HITCH ANGLE CALCULATION DEVICE, HITCH ANGLE CALCULATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | DENSO CORPORATION | KAN, YURI | 3662 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19222212 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORIENTING A MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE | Crown Equipment Corporation | SHUDY, ANGELINA M | 3661 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19221986 | MATERIALS HANDLING FIELD CREATION USING LOCATION DATA | Crown Equipment Corporation | ANWARI, MACEEH | 3663 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19219418 | APPLYING ENTRY EDGES IN A COVERED ENVIRONMENT | Crown Equipment Corporation | ROBERT, DANIEL M | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19217094 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SENSOR FUSION IN DETERMINING THE POSITION OF MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES | Crown Equipment Corporation | NING, PETER Y | 3661 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19208894 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTIMIZING SHIP NAVIGATION | Hd Hyundai Samho Co., Ltd. | HUTCHINSON, ALAN D | 3669 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19209212 | NANOPLATFORM FOR TARGETING INFLAMMATORY MACROPHAGES, AND COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING INFLAMMATORY DISEASES | Clichembio, Inc. | JONES, DAMERON LEVEST | 1618 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19207782 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AND PROVIDING LIGHTING EFFECT | Fanlight Co., Ltd. | KAISER, SYED M | 2831 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19206460 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING HIERARCHICAL IMITATION LEARNING TO TRAIN A ROBOT TO PERFORM A TASK | The Regents of the University of California | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19206619 | INTELLIGENT VEHICLE NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES | Allstate Insurance Company | RUSHING, MARK S | 2689 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19206740 | SOLAR CELL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME | Csi Cells (Yangzhou) Co., Ltd. | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19206613 | HAPTIC KNOB SYSTEM AND HAPTIC HINGE SYSTEM | Ck Materials Lab Co., Ltd. | LA, ANH V | 2685 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19204718 | VEHICLE CONTROLLER, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR VEHICLE CONTROL | Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha | TAN, OLIVER E | 3669 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19203037 | Apparatuses, Methods and Systems for Automated Online Data Submission | Mcb Bermuda Ltd. | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 3629 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19200157 | SALT BATH COMPOSITIONS, SALT BATH SYSTEMS, AND PROCESSES FOR STRENGTHENING GLASS ARTICLES | Corning Incorporated | FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 18838493 | DEVICE FOR REDUCING OIL VISCOSITY AND DISSOLVING INCRUSTATIONS IN PIPELINES | Abdias Magalhães Gomes | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1799 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19191204 | SYSTEM FOR DUAL-BAND PLASTIC WAVEGUIDE TRANSMISSION | Point2 Technology, Inc. | WONG, ALAN | 2843 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19188378 | BIOFILM THICKNESS MEASURING DEVICE | The Wave Talk, Inc. | AMARA, MOHAMED K | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19186841 | MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A SPRINKLER PUMP TEST RUN | Mecon GmbH | BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19185486 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha | SHARMA, SHIVAM | 3665 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19185789 | INSULATED CONTAINER | Igloo Products Corp. | BUI, LUAN KIM | 3736 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19184619 | VEHICLE WHEEL BEARING INCLUDING SENSOR ASSEMBLY HAVING SEALING PORTION | ILJIN Global Co., Ltd. | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19184122 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HAPTIC CONTROL SIGNAL | Ck Materials Lab Co., Ltd. | TUN, NAY L | 2688 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19184496 | VEHICLE WHEEL BEARING INCLUDING SENSOR ASSEMBLY HAVING PLURALITY OF SENSING UNITS | ILJIN Global Co., Ltd. | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19184571 | STEERING CONTROL DEVICE | Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha | RICH, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH | 3666 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial85.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Dinsmore & Shohl LLP were allowed, across 34,995 applications in USPTO records.
3.05 office actions per allowed application on average.
696 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 265 clients, before 640 examiners in 278 art units.
