Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
HEAD, JOHNSON, KACHIGIAN & WILKINSON, PC operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm has a history of 1529 career applications. Currently, the firm is managing 8 pending office actions. The resolved allowance rate pct for the firm is 82.23. On average, the firm sees 2.94 office actions per allowance.
Practitioners can evaluate the firm's experience by the 1529 career applications it has handled. The 82.23 resolved allowance rate pct provides a metric for the frequency of success in prosecution. The 2.94 avg office actions per allowance suggests the typical number of interactions with the USPTO before an allowance is granted. With 8 pending office actions, the firm maintains an active volume of cases.
The prosecution history in Chemistry & Materials indicates how the firm navigates the patent office. These metrics reflect the firm's established procedures and its approach to resolving office actions. By examining the relationship between the allowance rate and the average number of office actions, clients can better understand the firm's prosecution style. This data set offers a view of the firm's work and its current obligations at the USPTO.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALKER, JARED T | 1 | 84.7% | +9.8% |
| DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1 | 78.3% | +38.0% |
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.7% |
| WEBB, MARGARET G | 1 | 80.0% | +8.0% |
| SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1 | 60.9% | +26.9% |
| VO, TU A | 1 | 61.0% | +58.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18587750 | WIRELESS POSITIONING SYSTEMS | WEBB, MARGARET G | 293d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18112360 | NASAL DELIVERY SYSTEM | VO, TU A | 69d |
| 18904147 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CAPTURING, STORING, AND DISPLAYING PHOTOGRAPHS | WALKER, JARED T | — |
| 18707654 | MILLIFLUIDIC CHROMATOGRAPHY PLATE | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18220695 | DUST AND ANTICAKING RESISTANT FERTILIZER | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 53d overdue |
| 18112360 | NASAL DELIVERY SYSTEM | VO, TU A | 69d |
| 18707654 | MILLIFLUIDIC CHROMATOGRAPHY PLATE | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18703868 | IMPROVEMENTS TO UTENSILS FOR USE IN SECURE AREAS | DONG, LIANG | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| TwinMotion, LLC | 1 |
| Vulcan Photonics Sdn. Bhd. | 1 |
| Detectamet | 1 |
| Peytec Inc. | 1 |
| Arkema | 1 |
| Suzhou Huafan Chuangshuo Medical Technology Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2426 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 2641 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18904147 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CAPTURING, STORING, AND DISPLAYING PHOTOGRAPHS | TwinMotion, LLC | WALKER, JARED T | 2426 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18707654 | MILLIFLUIDIC CHROMATOGRAPHY PLATE | Vulcan Photonics Sdn. Bhd. | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18703868 | IMPROVEMENTS TO UTENSILS FOR USE IN SECURE AREAS | Detectamet Limited | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18587750 | WIRELESS POSITIONING SYSTEMS | Peytec Inc. | WEBB, MARGARET G | 2641 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 293d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18220695 | DUST AND ANTICAKING RESISTANT FERTILIZER | ArrMaz Products Inc. | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18112360 | NASAL DELIVERY SYSTEM | Suzhou Huafan Chuangshuo Medical Technology Co., Ltd. | VO, TU A | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial82.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Head, Johnson, Kachigian & Wilkinson, Pc were allowed, across 1,529 applications in USPTO records.
2.94 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.
