Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
602 pending office actions • 165 clients • 524 examiners • 239 art units • 0 of 602 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
GREENBLUM & BERNSTEIN, P.L.C. has a history in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, having handled 32627 career applications. This volume of 32627 applications establishes the firm as a participant in this sector. Currently, the firm is managing a docket of 377 pending office actions, reflecting its large-scale operations.
The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 83.9 percent. This outcome is reached with an average of 3.08 office actions per allowance. This 3.08 average indicates a prosecution process that typically requires multiple rounds of interaction with the patent office to secure a grant in the Chemistry & Materials field. The 83.9 percent allowance rate across 32627 career applications provides a benchmark for their success in this technical area.
With 377 pending office actions, the firm continues to be active in patent prosecution. The 32627 career applications provide a dataset for evaluating their long-term performance. Practitioners can use the 83.9 percent resolved allowance rate and the 3.08 average office actions per allowance to evaluate the firm's typical prosecution path and success rate for chemistry and materials patents.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 142 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. 142 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 | 5 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 42 (7%) |
| §103 only | 210 (35%) |
| §102 only | 32 (5%) |
| §112 only | 15 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (0%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 10 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 285 (47%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 5 | 59.7% | +11.3% |
| GRABER, MARIA EILEEN | 3 | 62.0% | +32.5% |
| SHUKLA, KRUPA | 3 | 15.2% | +22.6% |
| DESAI, ANISH P | 3 | 45.5% | +6.1% |
| LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 3 | 47.9% | +40.6% |
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 3 | 32.1% | +41.9% |
| TRAN, TRAN M. | 3 | 75.0% | +23.1% |
| AHVAZI, BIJAN | 3 | 63.3% | +47.3% |
| NGUYEN, CHAU N | 3 | 68.0% | +14.1% |
| REDDY, KARUNA P | 3 | 42.6% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17974875 | COMPOSITE REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 182d overdue |
| 17795968 | CURING COMPOSITION AND CURED OBJECT USING SAME | REDDY, KARUNA P | 163d overdue |
| 18293391 | WIRING MEMBER-EQUIPPED ADHEREND | NGUYEN, CHAU N | 134d overdue |
| 18293922 | HEAT-SHRINKABLE FILM | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 132d overdue |
| 18283890 | ADHESIVE SHEET | DESAI, ANISH P | 124d overdue |
| 18266416 | MOUNT SECURITY DETECTION METHOD | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 117d overdue |
| 18266417 | METHOD OF SYNCRONISING DATASETS | SCHOECH, ASHLEY TIFFANY | 89d overdue |
| 18492864 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 86d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17974875 | COMPOSITE REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 182d overdue |
| 17795968 | CURING COMPOSITION AND CURED OBJECT USING SAME | REDDY, KARUNA P | 163d overdue |
| 18293391 | WIRING MEMBER-EQUIPPED ADHEREND | NGUYEN, CHAU N | 134d overdue |
| 18293922 | HEAT-SHRINKABLE FILM | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 132d overdue |
| 18239943 | COATED BODY | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 25d overdue |
| 18906600 | MULTILAYER STRUCTURE, CONTAINER, AND FOOD PACKAGING CONTAINER | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 17d overdue |
| 18284569 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR FOOD COMPOSITION | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 14d |
| 17797195 | THERMOFORMING LAMINATE AND METHOD FOR MOLDING LAMINATE | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 30d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Panasonic | 82 |
| Toyota | 38 |
| Mitsubishi Gas Chemical | 35 |
| Organo | 24 |
| Kubota | 17 |
| Hoya | 17 |
| Asahi Kasei | 16 |
| NOK | 15 |
| Tosoh | 15 |
| Sumitomo | 14 |
| NITTO DENKO CORPORATION | 14 |
| Mitsubishi Chemical | 13 |
| NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION | 13 |
| Kuraray | 12 |
| NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD. | 7 |
| Sekisui | 7 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO | 7 |
| SUMCO CORPORATION | 7 |
| ENEOS | 6 |
| Fujitsu | 6 |
| Tokai Rika Co., Ltd. | 6 |
| Tokuyama | 6 |
| NHK SPRING CO., LTD. | 6 |
| DOWA | 6 |
| Horiba | 5 |
| Orc Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 5 |
| ISHIHARA SANGYO KAISHA, LTD. | 5 |
| SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED | 5 |
| Yakult Honsha | 5 |
| Mitutoyo | 4 |
| POWERX, INC. | 4 |
| Innova Patent GmbH | 4 |
| Appy Risk Technologies | 4 |
| Lintec | 4 |
| Kawasaki Heavy Industries | 4 |
| Aero Pump | 4 |
| Gunze | 4 |
| I.T.S. GmbH | 3 |
| Shin-Etsu | 3 |
| Otsuka | 3 |
| PhotoQ3 Inc. | 3 |
| TOAGOSEI CO., LTD. | 3 |
| TOKAI MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC. | 2 |
| Nihon Tokushu Toryo Co., Ltd. | 2 |
| RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION | 2 |
| Disco | 2 |
| TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD. | 2 |
| TOYOX CO., LTD. | 2 |
| The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc. | 2 |
| JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY | 2 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 16 |
| 3795 | 14 |
| 1764 | 11 |
| 2855 | 10 |
| 1763 | 10 |
| 1767 | 9 |
| 1742 | 8 |
| 1762 | 8 |
| 1788 | 7 |
| 1781 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050887 | Untitled | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | ||
| 19384334 | MESH KNITTED FABRIC AND METHOD FOR KNITTING ONE-FEEDER MESH KNITTED FABRIC | Precision Fukuhara Works, Ltd. | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 3732 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19480761 | SPATIALLY ELASTIC COUPLING AND COUPLING ARRANGEMENT | Kwd Kupplungswerk Dresden AG | WILEY, DANIEL J | 3678 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19351852 | SEALING MEMBER AND SEALING STRUCTURE | Nok Corporation | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 3745 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 18880959 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | Dentsu Inc. | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19168616 | PATH PLANNING DEVICE, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND MOVEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM | Omron Corporation | ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 3669 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19166272 | SEALING STRUCTURE | Nok Corporation | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19324263 | SEAT BACK | Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha | WEBB, TIFFANY L | 3614 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19323420 | SEAT BACK | Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha | SLITERIS, JOSELYNN Y | 3614 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 18872115 | AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | KING, JOHN B | 2498 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19154017 | BACKUP POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BACKUP POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | ORTIZ, ELIM | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2025 |
| 19153745 | GASKET AND SEALING STRUCTURE | Nok Corporation | CUMAR, NATHAN | 3675 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19152475 | BALLOON AND BALLOON CATHETER | Tokai Medical Products, Inc. | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19151844 | GASKET | Nok Corporation | BYRD, EUGENE G | 3675 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 18834343 | DEVICE FOR TREATING A FRACTURE | I.T.S. GmbH | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19120016 | ROTATION TRANSFER DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Nissei Asb Machine Co., Ltd. | AMEEN, MOHAMMAD M | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19264440 | USER AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND USER AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | LANE, GREGORY A | 2438 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19249536 | PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19143066 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. | SANTOS-DIAZ, MARIA C | 3629 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19237929 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE MANUFACTURING METHOD | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19233394 | WORKING MACHINE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING WORKING MACHINE | Kubota Corporation | ALAM, NAEEM TASLIM | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19230911 | ATTACK PATH PREDICTION METHOD, ATTACK PATH PREDICTION DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | SHAW, YIN CHEN | 2431 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19136138 | ROBOT SYSTEM | Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha | MOYER, DALE S | 3656 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19135949 | PRINTING INTAGLIO PLATE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, AND PRINTING METHOD | Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 2853 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19228912 | ACCESS PERMISSION DEVICE AND ACCESS PERMISSION METHOD | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | BARAKAT, MOHAMED | 2686 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19228301 | ANOMALY DETERMINATION METHOD, ANOMALY DETERMINATION SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | CHOUDHURY, AZIZUL Q | 2447 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19228225 | PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION DEVICE | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | AMBAYE, SAMUEL | 2433 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19226696 | WORKING MACHINE | Kubota Corporation | NGUYEN, NGA X | 3662 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19221594 | SOLAR CELL MODULE | Panasonic Holdings Corporation | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1726 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19220423 | WORKING MACHINE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING WORKING MACHINE | Kubota Corporation | MEHDIZADEH, NAVID Z | 3669 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19219658 | DETECTION SYSTEM, DETECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | SKWIERAWSKI, PAUL J | 2439 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19132083 | OCCLUSION PLUG | Tokai Medical Products, Inc. | MCGRATH, ERIN E | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19211930 | ELECTRIC WORKING MACHINE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRIC WORKING MACHINE | Kubota Corporation | HERRERA, MICHAEL J | 3668 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19129093 | HYDRAULIC VALVE UNIT AND WORK MACHINE USING THE HYDRAULIC VALVE UNIT | Kubota Corporation | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19200881 | MEASURING INSTRUMENT AND POWER RECEIVING MODULE | Mitutoyo Corporation | PEREZ BORROTO, ALFONSO | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19194791 | SEAT CONTROL DEVICE AND SEAT CONTROL METHOD | Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha | BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | 3636 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19193018 | SEAT CUSHION | Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha | GRABER, MARIA EILEEN | 3644 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19124943 | CO-ROTATING SCROLL COMPRESSOR | Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19187629 | BIOMARKER-BASED TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR IL-17-DEPENDENT CONDITIONS | Moonlake Immunotherapeutics AG | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19184862 | MEMORY MULTI-LEVEL PROGRAMMING METHOD, MEMORY, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Peking University | CHOE, YONG J | 2135 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19122869 | INSPECTION DEVICE, INSPECTION METHOD, AND INSPECTION PROGRAM | HoriBA, Ltd. | NGUYEN, SANG H | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19180601 | LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | Eneos Corporation | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19120833 | PROCESSOR FOR ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE AND ELECTRONIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | Hoya Corporation | STARKEY, OLIVIA GRACE | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19119537 | ENDOSCOPE DEVICE | Hoya Corporation | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | 3795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19119632 | SEAT AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING THE SAME | Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha | GRABER, MARIA EILEEN | 3644 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19119404 | COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT, DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT CONTROL METHOD | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | LUGO, DAVID B | 2631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19171637 | VEHICLE DISPATCH DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19117151 | AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE | Fujitsu General Limited | FURDGE, LARRY L | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19115863 | ECHO CANCELLATION DEVICE AND ECHO CANCELLATION METHOD | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19115845 | FLAME BARRIER INSULATING LAMINATE AND FLAME BARRIER INSULATING STRUCTURE USING THE SAME | Imae Industries, Ltd. | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial83.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Greenblum & Bernstein, PLC were allowed, across 32,670 applications in USPTO records.
3.08 office actions per allowed application on average.
602 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 165 clients, before 524 examiners in 239 art units.