Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3,149 pending office actions • 503 clients • 2352 examiners • 474 art units • 108 of 3,149 (3%) have an AI response strategy ready
FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. (TC) operates at a large scale within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The firm has a career total of 115693 applications, reflecting a massive portfolio of intellectual property work. There are 2116 pending office actions currently under management, representing a high level of active engagement with the patent office.
The firm reports a resolved allowance rate of 86.16 percent. Prosecution requires an average of 3.3 office actions per allowance. These data points demonstrate the firm's ability to maintain high success rates while managing one of the largest application volumes in the industry.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 761 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. 761 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 | 86 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 398 (13%) |
| §103 only | 1,042 (33%) |
| §102 only | 168 (5%) |
| §112 only | 143 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 109 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 113 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1,062 (34%) |
| No statute on record | 28 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANYIKIRE, CHIKAODILI E | 8 | 75.0% | +11.1% |
| HOLDER, ANNER N | 6 | 79.0% | +13.4% |
| WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 6 | 82.0% | +12.9% |
| CHAO, ALLEN | 6 | 55.6% | +0.0% |
| CHIO, TAT CHI | 5 | 72.9% | +17.6% |
| KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 5 | 74.1% | +14.2% |
| ASFAW, MESFIN T | 5 | 83.1% | +13.9% |
| PERRIN, JOSEPH L | 5 | 77.2% | +21.3% |
| OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 5 | 59.5% | +31.9% |
| HALL, DEANNA K | 5 | 75.7% | +15.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895292 | DRIVE DEVICE, OPTICAL SYSTEM AND LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 5d overdue |
| 18362630 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MULTI-PART MIRROR OF A PROJECTION ILLUMINATION SYSTEM FOR MICROLITHOGRAPHY | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 29d |
| 19063773 | INDIVIDUAL MIRROR OF A PUPIL FACET MIRROR AND PUPIL FACET MIRROR FOR AN ILLUMINATION OPTICAL UNIT OF A PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS | ASFAW, MESFIN T | — |
| 18638890 | MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING PHOTOMASKS INTENDED FOR EUV MICROLITHOGRAPHY | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18485164 | MOBILE APPARATUS INCLUDING AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 286d overdue |
| 18291338 | Systems and Methods for Optimization of Disease Therapy | GEDRA, OLIVIA ROSE | 204d overdue |
| 18017559 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PAUSING RADIO LINK FAILURE DETECTION FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS | WELTE, BENJAMIN PETER | 188d overdue |
| 18836408 | CONFIGURATION INPUT APPARATUS, CONFIGURATION INPUT METHOD, AND CONFIGURATION INPUT PROGRAM | NAJI, YOUNES | 146d overdue |
| 18361608 | Generation of 3D Content Moment from Captured Gameplay Video | SONNERS, SCOTT E | 141d overdue |
| 18301133 | DETECTING VALVE LEAKAGE | MARINI, MATTHEW G | 141d overdue |
| 17987432 | Rapidly Cooling Food and Drinks | AMIN, HAMZEH HICHAM | 140d overdue |
| 18122024 | Simultaneous Estimation of Water Encroachment and Bound Fluid in the Absence of NMR in Carbonate Reservoirs | HUYNH, PHUONG | 139d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039455 | User Device, System and Method for Determining a Threshold Time for an Injection Device to Transition to an Operational Temperature | HALL, DEANNA K | 32d overdue |
| 19023065 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | HOLDER, ANNER N | 8d overdue |
| 18814006 | DOORS FOR HOME APPLIANCE AND HOME APPLIANCE INCLUDING THE SAME | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 8d overdue |
| 18895292 | DRIVE DEVICE, OPTICAL SYSTEM AND LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 5d overdue |
| 18398895 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | CHIO, TAT CHI | 9d |
| 18578095 | POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POINT CLOUD DATA RECEPTION METHOD | CHIO, TAT CHI | 12d |
| 19023103 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | HOLDER, ANNER N | 15d |
| 19023126 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED | HOLDER, ANNER N | 15d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| LG | 386 |
| Samsung | 256 |
| Huawei | 217 |
| 200 | |
| Saudi Aramco | 125 |
| Sony | 124 |
| SEL | 94 |
| Sanofi | 62 |
| NTT | 60 |
| Apple | 60 |
| Carl Zeiss | 51 |
| Mayo Clinic | 41 |
| Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | 40 |
| Hyundai Motor Group | 36 |
| THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION | 33 |
| Applied Materials | 30 |
| Atlassian | 25 |
| SAP SE | 24 |
| Ant Group | 23 |
| Incyte | 23 |
| Johns Hopkins | 23 |
| Alarm.com | 22 |
| Fresenius | 22 |
| Beijing Zitiao Network Technology | 22 |
| MAGIC LEAP, INC. | 21 |
| Quectel | 20 |
| Rohm | 18 |
| Gilead Sciences | 18 |
| 10x Genomics | 17 |
| Arizona State University | 15 |
| Hesai | 15 |
| u-blox AG | 14 |
| LONGi | 13 |
| Motional | 13 |
| Fujifilm | 13 |
| WAYMO LLC | 12 |
| DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB | 11 |
| NIL Technology ApS | 11 |
| LX Group | 11 |
| CHUGAI SEIYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 11 |
| University of Pittsburgh | 11 |
| Moderna | 10 |
| The Heil Co. | 10 |
| Autodesk | 10 |
| air up group | 9 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | 9 |
| Asahi Kasei | 9 |
| University of California | 9 |
| NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES, INC. | 9 |
| THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. | 9 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 45 |
| 3783 | 44 |
| 3723 | 27 |
| 2857 | 25 |
| 2482 | 17 |
| 2483 | 17 |
| 1711 | 17 |
| 1682 | 17 |
| 2486 | 16 |
| 1675 | 16 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18781823 | Untitled | Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. | GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 19148483 | Untitled | Google LLC | NGUYEN, KIM T | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | ||
| 19114976 | Untitled | LG Electronics Inc. | ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL | 2486 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19286798 | Untitled | LG Display Co., Ltd. | SHAH, PRIYANK J | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 18844859 | Untitled | Google LLC | TSAI, SHENG JEN | 2139 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 18863807 | Untitled | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | ||
| 19132606 | Untitled | LG Electronics Inc. | TORRENTE, RICHARD T | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | ||
| 19656478 | TREATMENT FOR ASYMPTOMATIC STARGARDT DISEASE PATIENTS | Alkeus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | MARTIN, KEVIN STEPHEN | 1624 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2026 |
| 19563165 | Framework for Large-Scale Distributed Language Model Training | 4Mindsai Inc. | LANE, THOMAS BERNARD | 2142 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2026 |
| 19562175 | NERVE GROWTH FACTOR AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF FOR NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH NEONATAL HYPOXIC-ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY | Dompe` Farmaceutici S.p.A. | CHERNYSHEV, OLGA N | 1675 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2026 |
| 19548530 | SHOCK PAD FOR SYNTHETIC TURF AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | Columbia Insurance Company | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2026 |
| 19544165 | ANTI-INFECTIVE SHOE SOLES | Karnali Innovations LLC | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 3732 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2026 |
| 19539216 | DEVICE WITH FEATURES FOR ROTATIONAL ATHERECTOMY AND LITHOTRIPSY | Cardio Flow, Inc. | ROANE, AARON F | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2026 |
| 19539125 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NETWORK DEVICE | Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. | VANGAPATY, SRIHARSHA REDDY | 2475 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2026 |
| 19538933 | SIDELINK POSITIONING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. | MURILLO GARCIA, FABRICIO R | 2633 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2026 |
| 19529937 | MODIFIED LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS AND METHODS OF USE | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | PERSONS, JENNA L | 1637 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2026 |
| 19464797 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NETWORK DEVICE | Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. | SEYMOUR, JAMES PAUL | 2419 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2026 |
| 19463990 | GELLING SOLUTIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF COMPOUNDS TO THE INNER EAR | Spiral Therapeutics, Inc. | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2026 |
| 19459988 | GELLING SOLUTIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF COMPOUNDS TO THE INNER EAR | Spiral Therapeutics Inc. | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1615 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2026 |
| 19451814 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING 360 VIDEO, METHOD FOR RECEIVING 360 VIDEO, APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING 360 VIDEO, AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING 360 VIDEO | LG Electronics Inc. | HANCE, ROBERT J | 2487 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2026 |
| 19448885 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHOD OF TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | LG Electronics Inc. | BRANIFF, CHRISTOPHER | 2484 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2026 |
| 19444137 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, KHAI MINH | 2641 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2026 |
| 19443775 | ANCHORING AN INTRAVENOUS CANNULA | Interrad Medical, Inc. | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2026 |
| 19442354 | METHOD FOR ENCODING IMAGE INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING IMAGE INFORMATION | LG Electronics Inc. | WONG, ALLEN C | 2488 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2026 |
| 19442719 | DISPLAY DEVICE | LG Display Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, KEVIN M | 2628 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2026 |
| 19440133 | METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NETWORK DEVICE | Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. | FIGUEROA, MARISOL | 2643 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19438786 | DISPLAY APPARATUS | LG Display Co., Ltd. | KOHLMAN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2628 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2026 |
| 19437818 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NETWORK DEVICE | Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, LIEM HONG | 2416 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2025 |
| 19437968 | AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM | Advanced Nova Technologies (Singapore) Holding Pte. Ltd. | REAGAN, JAMES A | 3697 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2025 |
| 19437705 | SIDELINK POSITIONING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd. | SAMS, MATTHEW C | 2646 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2025 |
| 19436349 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR PERFORMANCE AND VIABILITY PREDICTION | X Development LLC | STANDKE, ADAM C | 2129 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2025 |
| 19436695 | PLATFORMS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZATION USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | X Development LLC | STANDKE, ADAM C | 2129 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2025 |
| 19431513 | PLATFORMS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS | X Development LLC | STANDKE, ADAM C | 2129 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2025 |
| 19429949 | PLATFORMS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WITH SPECIALIZED DATA | X Development LLC | STANDKE, ADAM C | 2129 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2025 |
| 19425314 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHOD OF TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM | LG Electronics Inc. | BENNETT, STUART D | 2481 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 19423385 | INTRANASAL ADMINISTRATION OF NGF FOR THE PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF RETINOPATHIES AND OPTIC NERVE DISORDERS | Dompe` Farmaceutici S.p.A. | DEBERRY, REGINA M | 1647 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2025 |
| 19421916 | VIDEO GENERATION NEURAL NETWORKS WITH CAMERA AND SUBJECT MOTION INPUTS | Gdm Holding LLC | CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2025 |
| 19420848 | TREATMENT OF POST-BARIATRIC HYPOGLYCEMIA | Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | BOWLES, DAVID PAUL | 1654 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2025 |
| 19417711 | METHODS FOR SPATIAL ANALYSIS USING RNA-TEMPLATED LIGATION | 10X Genomics, Inc. | YOUNG, BRIAN ELLIS | 1684 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2025 |
| 19415015 | CRYSTALLINE WAVEGUIDES AND WEARABLE DEVICES CONTAINING THE SAME | Magic Leap, Inc. | EDUN, MUHAMMAD N | 2629 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2025 |
| 19410608 | Sulfur-Containing Surface Polymers | Yield Engineering Systems, Inc. | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2025 |
| 19396597 | DISPLAY DEVICE | LG Display Co., Ltd. | LEE, NICHOLAS J | 2624 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19386825 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING SAME | LG Electronics Inc. | CRAVER, CHARLES R | 3992 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2025 |
| 19387398 | REAL-TIME IMPEDANCE-BASED GUIDEWIRE NAVIGATION IN ENDOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS | Lumen Medical, Inc. | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2025 |
| 19482606 | DRILLING IN HOT ZONES ON COILED TUBING | Eavor Technologies Inc. | MICHENER, BLAKE E | 3676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 19482590 | TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT OF DOWNHOLE TOOLS | Eavor Technologies Inc. | LEE, CRYSTAL J | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 19482662 | DRILLING IN HOT ZONES WITH A MULTIPLE TUBING DRILL STRING | Eavor Technologies Inc. | MICHENER, BLAKE E | 3676 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 19481938 | PREDICTING MOTOR FUNCTION SCORES IN POMPE DISEASE TREATMENT | Genzyme Corporation | PATEL, JAY M | 3681 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19481119 | AUTONOMOUS ENERGY FIELD | Ds2.0, LLC | SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM | 3668 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2025 |
| 19479830 | BACK CONTACT CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | LONGI GREEN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial86.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Fish & Richardson P.C. were allowed, across 115,821 applications in USPTO records.
3.30 office actions per allowed application on average.
3,149 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 503 clients, before 2352 examiners in 474 art units.