Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
20 pending office actions • 10 clients • 20 examiners • 19 art units • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP - Winston-Salem handles Chemistry & Materials matters and has 21 pending office actions from 60226 career applications. The application total supplies broad context for the current technology-specific docket.
The resolved allowance rate is 82.57%, with an average of 3.21 office actions per allowance. Practitioners can consider these measures when evaluating resolved outcomes and the prosecution activity connected with allowances.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 4 (20%) |
| §103 only | 8 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AZIZ, ADNAN | 1 | 77.1% | +34.3% |
| CHEN, DANIEL GUANG-DIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| CHOUDHURY, ZAHID | 1 | 85.5% | +8.7% |
| PATEL, PINALBEN V | 1 | 89.1% | +9.7% |
| DOAN, HUAN V | 1 | 80.5% | +41.9% |
| MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | 1 | 29.4% | +34.2% |
| AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | 1 | 84.3% | +14.7% |
| STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 48.7% | +33.5% |
| HOLLAND, JENEE LAUREN | 1 | 83.5% | +7.1% |
| KURIAN, ANDREW SHAJI | 1 | 78.6% | -9.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18603923 | EFFICIENT PACKET PROCESSING IN A SHARED MEMORY REGION | HOLLAND, JENEE LAUREN | 26d |
| 19050420 | OPERATION-SPECIFIC DEVICE CONFIGURATION | CHOUDHURY, ZAHID | — |
| 19029670 | VIRTUALIZING OBJECTS USING OBJECT MODELS AND OBJECT POSITION DATA | PATEL, PINALBEN V | — |
| 19025684 | BENEFIT DENIAL SYSTEM FOR UNLOCKING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | DOAN, HUAN V | — |
| 18843354 | MULTI-DOCK PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD | AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655823 | Low-Density Yarn Products and Methods of Making Same | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 2d overdue |
| 18332240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING TRANSACTION AND PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION INFORMATION | LUDWIG, PETER L | 56d |
| 18283969 | FILM AND METHOD | KHARE, ATUL P | 70d |
| 19061721 | AIR DUCTING SYSTEM | CHEN, DANIEL GUANG-DIAN | — |
| 18898121 | CAPTURING VISUAL PROPERTIES | MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | — |
| 18287491 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE APPENDECTOMY DEVICE AND METHOD | MILLER, SERENITY A | — |
| 18037708 | VECTORS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EUKARYOTIC GENE EDITING | POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | — |
| 18065263 | Cover For Sterile Field Fluid Systems | BUI, LUAN KIM | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655823 | Low-Density Yarn Products and Methods of Making Same | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 2d overdue |
| 19247211 | TOOL-AGNOSTIC DEVICE | AZIZ, ADNAN | — |
| 19025684 | BENEFIT DENIAL SYSTEM FOR UNLOCKING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | DOAN, HUAN V | — |
| 18898121 | CAPTURING VISUAL PROPERTIES | MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | — |
| 18843354 | MULTI-DOCK PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD | AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| 2175 | 1 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| 2499 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 2469 | 1 |
| 2464 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19247211 | TOOL-AGNOSTIC DEVICE | Lowe'S Companies, Inc. | AZIZ, ADNAN | 2685 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19061721 | AIR DUCTING SYSTEM | Mclaren Automotive Limited | CHEN, DANIEL GUANG-DIAN | 3612 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19050420 | OPERATION-SPECIFIC DEVICE CONFIGURATION | Lowe'S Companies, Inc. | CHOUDHURY, ZAHID | 2175 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19029670 | VIRTUALIZING OBJECTS USING OBJECT MODELS AND OBJECT POSITION DATA | Lowe'S Companies, Inc. | PATEL, PINALBEN V | 2673 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025684 | BENEFIT DENIAL SYSTEM FOR UNLOCKING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Lowe'S Companies, Inc. | DOAN, HUAN V | 2499 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18898121 | CAPTURING VISUAL PROPERTIES | Lowe'S Companies, Inc. | MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 | |
| 18843354 | MULTI-DOCK PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD | Weathered Security, LLC | AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M | 2847 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18655823 | Low-Density Yarn Products and Methods of Making Same | David Rothschild Co., Inc. | STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1789 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18603923 | EFFICIENT PACKET PROCESSING IN A SHARED MEMORY REGION | Kratos Integral Holdings LLC | HOLLAND, JENEE LAUREN | 2469 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18603929 | QUEUE MANAGEMENT FOR PACKET TRANSMISSION IN SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | Kratos Integral Holdings LLC | KURIAN, ANDREW SHAJI | 2464 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18287491 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE APPENDECTOMY DEVICE AND METHOD | Wake Forest University Health Sciences | MILLER, SERENITY A | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18283969 | FILM AND METHOD | Great Wrap Pty Ltd. | KHARE, ATUL P | 1742 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18276812 | ENGINEERED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AND THEIR USES | Wake Forest University Health Sciences | NICOL, ALEXANDER W | 1634 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18332240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING TRANSACTION AND PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION INFORMATION | Lowe'S Companies, Inc. | LUDWIG, PETER L | 3627 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18037708 | VECTORS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EUKARYOTIC GENE EDITING | Wake Forest University Health Sciences | POLIAKOVA-GEORGAN, EKATERINA | 1637 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 18065263 | Cover For Sterile Field Fluid Systems | C Change Surgical, LLC | BUI, LUAN KIM | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 18050740 | Glass Compositions, Fiberizable Glass Compositions, and Glass Fibers Made Therefrom | Electric Glass Fiber America, LLC | BROOKS, KREGG T | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
| 17946946 | MIXED REALITY PRESENTATION BASED ON A VIRTUAL LOCATION WITHIN A VIRTUAL MODEL OF A PHYSICAL SPACE | Lowe'S Companies, Inc. | GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | 3688 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17780173 | ACELLULAR PLACENTAL THERAPIES FOR NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS | Plakous Therapeutics, Inc. | FOX, ALLISON M | 1633 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
| 16079813 | NON-MIGRATING STENT DEVICES AND METHODS | Wake Forest University Health Sciences | HU, ANN M | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2018 |
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Start Free Trial82.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP - Winston-Salem were allowed, across 60,226 applications in USPTO records.
3.21 office actions per allowed application on average.
20 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 10 clients, before 20 examiners in 19 art units.
