Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
82 pending office actions • 34 clients • 78 examiners • 60 art units • 1 of 82 (1%) have an AI response strategy ready
IP GROUP OF DLA PIPER LLP (US) practices in Chemistry & Materials and has 21,180 career applications recorded. Its resolved allowance rate is 84.39%, reflecting allowance in a substantial share of resolved matters but not in all such matters.
The profile lists 79 pending office actions, indicating an active docket with ongoing examination demands. The average of 3.7 office actions per allowance shows that allowed matters typically required several responses before allowance. For prosecution planning, the data points to significant filing scale alongside a response process that may require sustained examiner engagement.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 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. 25 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 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 11 (13%) |
| §103 only | 23 (28%) |
| §102 only | 4 (5%) |
| §112 only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 33 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 3 | 47.5% | +21.5% |
| ALI, WAQAAS A | 2 | 81.1% | +17.8% |
| NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 2 | 56.6% | +28.9% |
| EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 1 | 1.9% | +1.0% |
| BEJCEK II, ROBERT H | 1 | 62.8% | +22.5% |
| NGUYEN, MERILYN P | 1 | 87.2% | +5.1% |
| HLAING, SOE MIN | 1 | 82.7% | +15.9% |
| GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | 1 | 14.9% | +17.3% |
| HENRY, MATTHEW D | 1 | 29.7% | +19.7% |
| MORALES, OMAR | 1 | 59.9% | +16.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285500 | BLOOD TREATMENT MATERIAL | ALI, WAQAAS A | 52d overdue |
| 19268185 | INTELLIGENT DATA INTEGRATION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, MERILYN P | — |
| 19244512 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REGISTERING A DIGITAL COMMAND IN A MULTI-APPLICATION NETWORK | HLAING, SOE MIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12586913 | System and method for managing and trading auction limit orders in a hybrid auction market | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 120d overdue |
| 17624060 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING LIQUID SILICON | VAN, LUAN V | 81d overdue |
| 18267798 | CONJUGATE FIBER AND MULTIFILAMENT | CHOI, PETER Y | 79d overdue |
| 18640507 | LOOP GAIN DETECTION AND APPLICATION TO BREATH TRAINING | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 11d overdue |
| 18592845 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN INITIAL MARGIN | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 3d overdue |
| 19295827 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRADES PRICED RELATIVE TO A REFERENCE BENCHMARK VALUE ASSOCIATED WITH AN UNDERLYING INDEX FUTURE | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 13d |
| 18832700 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURING AN OBJECT | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 15d |
| 18289376 | FINISHING METHOD AND FINISHING MACHINE FOR MEASUREMENT-ASSISTED FINISHING OF BORES | KIM, SANG K | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12586913 | System and method for managing and trading auction limit orders in a hybrid auction market | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 120d overdue |
| 18285500 | BLOOD TREATMENT MATERIAL | ALI, WAQAAS A | 52d overdue |
| 18592845 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN INITIAL MARGIN | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 3d overdue |
| 19269118 | PROJECTING DATA TRENDS USING CUSTOMIZED MODELING | BEJCEK II, ROBERT H | — |
| 19244512 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REGISTERING A DIGITAL COMMAND IN A MULTI-APPLICATION NETWORK | HLAING, SOE MIN | — |
| 19242072 | FOOD PRODUCT RISK EVALUATION DEVICE, FOOD PRODUCT RISK EVALUATION METHOD, AND FOOD PRODUCT RISK EVALUATION PROGRAM | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | — |
| 19222833 | System for Engineering Proposal Generation | HENRY, MATTHEW D | — |
| 19115174 | RAIL-GUIDED CARRIER SYSTEM | MORALES, OMAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 4 |
| 1763 | 4 |
| 1767 | 3 |
| 3692 | 3 |
| 1723 | 3 |
| 1794 | 3 |
| 1789 | 3 |
| 3715 | 2 |
| 1781 | 2 |
| 3653 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19295827 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRADES PRICED RELATIVE TO A REFERENCE BENCHMARK VALUE ASSOCIATED WITH AN UNDERLYING INDEX FUTURE | Nyse American LLC | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19269118 | PROJECTING DATA TRENDS USING CUSTOMIZED MODELING | Ice Benchmark Administration Limited | BEJCEK II, ROBERT H | 2148 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19268185 | INTELLIGENT DATA INTEGRATION SYSTEM | Provenir Group Holdings, LLC | NGUYEN, MERILYN P | 2153 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19244512 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REGISTERING A DIGITAL COMMAND IN A MULTI-APPLICATION NETWORK | Black Knight Ip Holding Company, LLC | HLAING, SOE MIN | 2447 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19242072 | FOOD PRODUCT RISK EVALUATION DEVICE, FOOD PRODUCT RISK EVALUATION METHOD, AND FOOD PRODUCT RISK EVALUATION PROGRAM | Zensho Holdings Co., Ltd. | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19222833 | System for Engineering Proposal Generation | Spatial Business Systems, LLC | HENRY, MATTHEW D | 3625 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19115174 | RAIL-GUIDED CARRIER SYSTEM | Murata Machinery, Ltd. | MORALES, OMAR | 3747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19079943 | NEEDLE-PEENING METHOD | JFE Steel Corporation | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19066660 | INTELLIGENT FEEDBACK SYSTEM | Profit Pro Inc. | GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | 3688 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19036672 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING AERIAL DATA FOR DETECTING FRACKING ACTIVITY | Enverus, Inc. | LIU, XIAO | 2664 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19029482 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Snk Corporation | ANGELES, JOSE | 3715 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18721634 | BALLOON CATHETER AND BALLOON CATHETER SYSTEM | Toray Industries, Inc. | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18868933 | MEMBER FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE HOUSING | Toray Industries, Inc. | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | 1781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18865833 | PICKING DEVICE | Murata Machinery, Ltd. | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 3653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18937905 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GEO MAPPING | Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. | BUI, TOAN D. | 3693 | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18849341 | LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYESTER RESIN, LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION, AND MOLDED ARTICLE FORMED THEREFROM | Toray Industries, Inc. | VISCONTI, GERALDINA | 1737 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 49d | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18848308 | PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER AND MEDICAL SENSOR DEVICE | Toray Industries, Inc. | TRAN, HOANG Q | 2874 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18883596 | JOINT IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, JOINT IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND JOINT IMAGE GENERATING PROGRAM | Pixiv Inc. | MINKO, DENIS VASILIY | 2612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18839231 | CONVEYANCE SYSTEM | Murata Machinery, Ltd. | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18837409 | BONDED ARTICLE | Toray Industries, Inc. | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18833309 | MANUFACTURING DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING OBJECTS IN LAYERS | Technische Universität München | WRIGHT, ALEXANDER SCOTT | 1745 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18832700 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURING AN OBJECT | Technische Universität München | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18717694 | BALLOON CATHETER | Toray Industries, Inc. | TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18710805 | SOLUTION TREATMENT METHOD AND SOLUTION TREATMENT UNIT | Toray Industries, Inc. | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1773 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18708134 | OVERHEAD CONVEYING VEHICLE | Murata Machinery, Ltd. | DEVINE, MOLLY K | 3653 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18705214 | FEEDING SYSTEM | Wafios Aktiengesellschaft | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18703747 | COMPOSITION AND COATING MATERIAL | Toray Industries, Inc. | SALAMON, PETER A | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18703022 | POLYMER ION CONDUCTIVE MEMBRANE, POLYMER ION CONDUCTIVE MEMBRANE FOR SECONDARY BATTERIES, COMPOSITE ION PERMEABLE MEMBRANE, ELECTRODE COMPLEX, AND SECONDARY BATTERY | Toray Industries, Inc. | GREENE, PATRICK MARSHALL | 1724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18640507 | LOOP GAIN DETECTION AND APPLICATION TO BREATH TRAINING | Halare, Inc. | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 3715 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18702360 | FIBER-REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE | Toray Industries, Inc. | GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F | 1767 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18701346 | METHOD OF COLLECTING e-CAPROLACTAM AND POLYAMIDE 6 OLIGOMER, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYAMIDE 6 | Toray Industries, Inc. | GULAKOWSKI, RANDY P | 1766 | §101§102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18699619 | RESIN COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT THEREOF, LAMINATE USING SAME, ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK, AND PLASMA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT | Toray Industries, Inc. | WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA | 1765 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18699346 | HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE, HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE MODULE AND VESICLE-CONTAINING SOLUTION | Toray Industries, Inc. | PATEL, PRANAV N | 1779 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18698335 | FIBER-REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION | Toray Industries, Inc. | LING, DORIS | 1764 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18693743 | POLYARYLENE SULFIDE RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED ARTICLE | Toray Industries, Inc. | WU, ANDREA | 1763 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18691307 | SILOXANE RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FORMING CURED FILM, CURED FILM, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYSILOXANE | Toray Industries, Inc. | CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 | |
| 18592845 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN INITIAL MARGIN | Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 3692 | §101 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18435412 | METHOD AND WIRE PROCESSING MACHINE THAT PRODUCES SHAPED PARTS FROM INSULATED FLAT MATERIAL | Wafios Aktiengesellschaft | YOO, JUN S | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18291535 | BLOOD COMPONENT ADSORBENT MATERIAL | Toray Industries, Inc. | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18580051 | INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE PASS/FAIL DETERMINATION SYSTEM | Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd. | MOTT, ADAM R | 3657 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18409121 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN INITIAL MARGIN | Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 3692 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18575283 | OVERHEAD CONVEYING VEHICLE | Murata Machinery, Ltd. | GLENN III, FRANK T | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18573090 | TRANSPORT VEHICLE SYSTEM | Murata Machinery, Ltd. | MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR | 3652 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18569255 | METHOD OF PRODUCING SILICONE POLYMER | Toray Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. | ZIMMER, MARC S | 1765 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18289376 | FINISHING METHOD AND FINISHING MACHINE FOR MEASUREMENT-ASSISTED FINISHING OF BORES | Kadia Produktion GmbH + Co. | KIM, SANG K | 3745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18486846 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPIRATORY RATE MONITORING | Actigraph LLC | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 3791 | §101 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18285500 | BLOOD TREATMENT MATERIAL | Toray Industries, Inc. | ALI, WAQAAS A | 1777 | §103 | Final Rejection | 52d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18283672 | POLYPHENYLENE SULFIDE RESIN COMPOSITION AND MOLDED PRODUCT FORMED FROM SAME | Toray Industries, Inc. | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18282917 | FILTER, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, FILTER DEVICE, METHOD OF SEPARATING OR FRACTIONATING RARE CELLS, AND METHOD OF ANALYZING RARE CELLS IN CELL SUSPENSION | Public University Corporation Nara Medical University | ALI, WAQAAS A | 1798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18282128 | POLYPHENYLENE SULFIDE RESIN COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME | Toray Industries, Inc. | QIAO, HUIHONG | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial84.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Ip Group Of Dla Piper LLP were allowed, across 21,180 applications in USPTO records.
3.70 office actions per allowed application on average.
82 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 34 clients, before 78 examiners in 60 art units.
