Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 4 clients • 12 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
JUNEAU & MITCHELL-NC has 12 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials, alongside 70 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 72.0%, and the average office actions per allowance is 3.89. Together, these figures provide both a workload snapshot and a historical view of prosecution activity.
The allowance rate describes resolved matters, while the pending-action figure concerns current activity, so the two measures address different stages of prosecution. The office-action average indicates that matters reaching allowance have involved repeated examination activity. For practitioners, the profile supports planning that accounts for continued substantive engagement, particularly where chemical composition, material properties, or process limitations require careful claim support.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 7 (58%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | 1 | 79.0% | +20.7% |
| KOPEC, MARK T | 1 | 84.5% | +12.9% |
| BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 77.0% | +20.7% |
| JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 1 | 62.1% | +27.5% |
| FORD, RENE D | 1 | 79.8% | +22.9% |
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 66.7% | +68.3% |
| LIU, SHUYI S | 1 | 73.4% | +25.8% |
| QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 1 | 53.3% | +34.2% |
| HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | 1 | 52.4% | +43.3% |
| HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 1 | 79.4% | +11.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17878266 | ADAPTIVE LIGHT BARRIER PROCESSING | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 9d overdue |
| 18632589 | Pressure monitored piston pump | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 4d overdue |
| 18201557 | System for the Microfluidic Distribution of Fluids | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 53d |
| 19421760 | IMPROVED MULTI PURPOSE CONTAMINANT REMOVAL FROM FLUID STREAMS | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | — |
| 18841596 | A SLURRY, AN ELECTRODE, AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | KOPEC, MARK T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17878266 | ADAPTIVE LIGHT BARRIER PROCESSING | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 9d overdue |
| 18632589 | Pressure monitored piston pump | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 4d overdue |
| 18659257 | FILTER FOR FLUIDIC APPLICATIONS | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 30d |
| 18201557 | System for the Microfluidic Distribution of Fluids | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 53d |
| 19421760 | IMPROVED MULTI PURPOSE CONTAMINANT REMOVAL FROM FLUID STREAMS | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | — |
| 18841596 | A SLURRY, AN ELECTRODE, AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | KOPEC, MARK T | — |
| 18582134 | Blower attachment and system for atomizing and dispensing liquids | FORD, RENE D | — |
| 18144598 | CENTRIFUGE WITH SAFETY SHUTTER | LIU, SHUYI S | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Stratec | 9 |
| Standard H2, Inc. | 1 |
| Leclanché, SA | 1 |
| Mist-Pro, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 3 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19421760 | IMPROVED MULTI PURPOSE CONTAMINANT REMOVAL FROM FLUID STREAMS | Standard H2, Inc. | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | 1779 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2025 |
| 18841596 | A SLURRY, AN ELECTRODE, AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | Leclanché, SA | KOPEC, MARK T | 1762 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18659257 | FILTER FOR FLUIDIC APPLICATIONS | Stratec SE | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18632589 | Pressure monitored piston pump | Stratec SE | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18582134 | Blower attachment and system for atomizing and dispensing liquids | Mist-Pro, LLC | FORD, RENE D | 3741 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18201557 | System for the Microfluidic Distribution of Fluids | Stratec SE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18144598 | CENTRIFUGE WITH SAFETY SHUTTER | Stratec SE | LIU, SHUYI S | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18097585 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING RINSING PROCESSES | Stratec SE | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
| 17967405 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING FLUIDS IN MICROFLUIDIC PRODUCTS | Stratec SE | HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2022 |
| 17878266 | ADAPTIVE LIGHT BARRIER PROCESSING | Stratec SE | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 2877 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2022 |
| 17590865 | DEVICE FOR MOVING PROBES | Stratec SE | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
| 17587908 | STRUCTURES FOR SUPPORTING THE FILLING OF WELLS IN MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES | Stratec SE | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial72.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Juneau & Mitchell-Nc were allowed, across 70 applications in USPTO records.
3.89 office actions per allowed application on average.
12 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 12 examiners in 10 art units.
