Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
41 pending office actions • 36 clients • 41 examiners • 27 art units • 0 of 41 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1,417 patents granted in the last 365 days
Law Offices of James Zhou manages a portfolio in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems with 4291 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 96.0 percent for applications that reach a final resolution. Achieving these results involves an average of 0.87 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm has 29 pending office actions to address.
The 4291 career applications and 96.0 percent allowance rate reflect the firm's practice in its primary technology area. The 0.87 average office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for expected examiner interaction during the patent acquisition process. These figures offer a data-grounded view of the firm's historical performance and current workload for practitioners evaluating the firm's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems experience.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 | 1 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (15%) |
| §103 only | 6 (15%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 9 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 18 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, MEGAN E | 1 | 38.2% | +40.0% |
| DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 1 | 65.9% | +35.4% |
| CORMIER, DAVID G | 1 | 64.4% | +28.8% |
| CHEN, PATRICK C | 1 | 82.5% | +9.6% |
| ARIF, NOAH JACOB | 1 | — | — |
| KIM, PATRICK | 1 | 26.3% | +33.9% |
| CHERRY, EUNCHA P | 1 | 88.1% | +9.4% |
| LEE, PO HAN | 1 | 31.7% | +41.2% |
| ABRAHAM, TANIA | 1 | 72.5% | +17.0% |
| TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA | 1 | 56.5% | +41.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19008175 | AUTOMATICALLY RESETTABLE REARVIEW MIRROR CONVENIENT TO ASSEMBLE | CHERRY, EUNCHA P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18598001 | GLUE SPREADING BLOCK, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BONDING MOTOR CORE AND GLUE DOT THEREOF | BETIT, JACOB F | 51d overdue |
| 18358237 | Fashion Personality Prediction and Clothing Recommendation Method and Device Based on Social Networks | RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI | 36d overdue |
| 18525722 | KIND OF BENDING BOLT TYPE ANTI-LOOSENING NUT | PATEL, VISHAL A | 9d |
| 18644013 | Smart Mirror | VU, PHU | 15d |
| 18364722 | ELECTRONIC ATOMIZER WITH TOBACCO PIPE SHAPE | MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN | 19d |
| 18524296 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE MONITORING OF TEMPERATURE IN CURRENT TERMINAL BLOCKS BASED ON THERMAL IMAGING | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 20d |
| 18573107 | CHARGING GUN THAT CAN REALIZE CHANGEABLE COLOR ACCORDING TO TEMPERATURE CHANGE AND A PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | NGUYEN, TRUC T | 33d |
| 18331887 | INDOOR PASSIVE HUMAN BEHAVIOR RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE | BAKER, EZRA JAMES | 34d |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19320386 | A MOBILE BREATHING SOLE | LYNCH, MEGAN E | — |
| 19057154 | AUTOMATIC FIRE EXTINGUISHER SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR ELECTRIC BICYCLES | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | — |
| 19052643 | WATERWAY SYSTEM OF DISHWASHER | CORMIER, DAVID G | — |
| 19010903 | Power Grid Transmission and Distribution Cooperative Dispatching Method in Power Market Environment | KIM, PATRICK | — |
| 19006910 | Hierarchical and Graded Source-Network-Load-Storage Multi-Subject Collaborative Scheduling Method | LEE, PO HAN | — |
| 18950764 | SEAT BACK PLATE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE | ABRAHAM, TANIA | — |
| 18947527 | ANTICORROSIVE CONSTRUCTION MACHINE FOR COFFERDAM OF A SHIP | TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 3636 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19320386 | A MOBILE BREATHING SOLE | Putian Zhengtanjia Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19057154 | AUTOMATIC FIRE EXTINGUISHER SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR ELECTRIC BICYCLES | Chenzhou Lianxiang Planning Co., Ltd. | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 3752 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19052643 | WATERWAY SYSTEM OF DISHWASHER | Ningbo Dechang Electrical Machinery Made Co., Ltd. | CORMIER, DAVID G | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 | |
| 19031814 | High-power LED Circuit with Pulsed Operation for Flashlights | Shanghai Jinbei Photographic Equipments Co.,Ltd | CHEN, PATRICK C | 2842 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19011464 | LEAK-PROOF ATOMIZING ASSEMBLY AND ATOMIZING EQUIPMENT | Guangdong Baixiang Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. | ARIF, NOAH JACOB | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 | |
| 19010903 | Power Grid Transmission and Distribution Cooperative Dispatching Method in Power Market Environment | Guizhou Power Grid Co., Ltd. | KIM, PATRICK | 3628 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 19008175 | AUTOMATICALLY RESETTABLE REARVIEW MIRROR CONVENIENT TO ASSEMBLE | Wenzhou Ronghui Automobile Technology Co., Ltd. | CHERRY, EUNCHA P | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 | |
| 19006910 | Hierarchical and Graded Source-Network-Load-Storage Multi-Subject Collaborative Scheduling Method | Guizhou Power Grid Co., Ltd. | LEE, PO HAN | 3623 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18950764 | SEAT BACK PLATE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE | Young Hangzhou Industry Co., Ltd. | ABRAHAM, TANIA | 3636 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18947527 | ANTICORROSIVE CONSTRUCTION MACHINE FOR COFFERDAM OF A SHIP | Zhejiang International Maritime College | TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 | |
| 18864501 | AUTOMATIC MATERIAL TURNING CNC EQUIPMENT LOADING AND UNLOADING MACHINE | Shenzhen Fsj Intelligent Technical Co., Ltd. | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 3651 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18858575 | MEDIUM FOR WATER-FREE ROOT CANAL DISINFECTANT WITH HIGH FLUIDITY, DISINFECTANT USING SAME, AND USE THEREOF | Wenzhou Qingcheng Healthcare Tech Ltd. | PRAGANI, RAJAN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 | |
| 18853057 | CLOCK TIMING METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE | Shenzhen Xingtong Technology Co., Ltd. | HWANG, MATTHEW DANIEL | 2831 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18885485 | RESIN-BASED COMPOSITE NUCLEAR SHIELDING MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | Huaneng Nuclear Energy Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN | 1761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18807817 | LIGHT-ABSORBING HEAT-STORAGE COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | Shanxi Sanshui Energy Co., Ltd. | BATES, ZAKIYA W | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 | |
| 18802426 | Incomplete Dimensionality Augmentation-Based Optimization Method for Data-Driven Power System, and Application Thereof | Yunnan Power Grid Co., Ltd. Electric Power Research Institute | CAO, CHUN | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 | |
| 18766178 | A 3D printing consumables drying machine | Shenzhen Eibos Chuanggou Tech Co., Ltd. | JANGBAHADUR, ANEISA SAVEENI | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 | |
| 18675032 | METHOD FOR IMAGE MOTION DEBLURRING, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUM THEREFOR | Nanjing University Of Posts And Telecommunications | KUDO, KEN | 2671 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | May 27, 2024 |
| 18660588 | MULTI-WHEEL SERVING MACHINE | Dongguan Chundeng Sports Equipment Co., Ltd. | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18659350 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING ENGINEERING CHANGE ORDER POINT BASED ON COMPARISON OF DESIGN FILES | Easy-Logic Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | LEE, ERIC D | 2851 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18644013 | Smart Mirror | Shenzhen Wivitouch Technology Co., Ltd. | VU, PHU | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18639574 | BICYCLE REAR-WHEEL DRIVE MECHANISM | Xi'An Xiongfeng Energy Saving Technology Co., Ltd. | OLSZEWSKI, JOHN | 3617 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18619222 | NEW TYPE OF WATER PIPE | Yangjiang New Sports Technology Products Co., Ltd. | DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 | |
| 18598001 | GLUE SPREADING BLOCK, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BONDING MOTOR CORE AND GLUE DOT THEREOF | Wuxi Vision Tool & Die Co., Ltd. | BETIT, JACOB F | 1746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18431929 | DEVICE FOR REPLACING THE ORAL TRACHEAL INTUBATION WITH NASAL TRACHEAL INTUBATION | First Affiliated Hospital Of Kunming Medical University | BISHOP, JAMIE HAEBIN | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2024 | |
| 18420246 | DISINFECTANT AND DISINFECTION METHOD FOR EFFECTIVELY KILLING ENDOSPORES | Kunming Qingcheng Healthcare Tech Ltd. | OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 | |
| 18420703 | ELECTRONIC ATOMIZER THAT CAN AUTOMATICALLY EMIT SMOKE | Shenzhen Impetus Technology Co., Ltd. | GHEBRESELASSIE, HELEN G | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18410453 | KEY STRUCTURE AND AN ELECTRONIC ATOMIZER HOST | Shenzhen Impetus Technology Co., Ltd. | CEFARATTI, JOSEPH ARTHUR | 1749 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18576581 | A massager with a retractable massage head | Shenzhen Forrest Health Technology Co., Ltd. | RESTAINO, DANIELLE BERNADETTE | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 | |
| 18573107 | CHARGING GUN THAT CAN REALIZE CHANGEABLE COLOR ACCORDING TO TEMPERATURE CHANGE AND A PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | Suzhou Yihang Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, TRUC T | 2834 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18533019 | High-Elastic Degradable Pickleball | Memeda LLC | USELDING, JOHN E | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 | |
| 18525722 | KIND OF BENDING BOLT TYPE ANTI-LOOSENING NUT | Xi'An Xiongfeng Energy Saving Technology Co., Ltd. | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18524296 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE MONITORING OF TEMPERATURE IN CURRENT TERMINAL BLOCKS BASED ON THERMAL IMAGING | Yunnan Power Grid Co., Ltd. | BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER | 2858 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18500079 | RING CUTTING TOOL FOR LARGE CABLES | North Weijiamao Power And Coal Co., Ltd. | LANDRUM, EDWARD F | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18469076 | AUTOMATIC PAINT SPRAYING DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILE PAINTING | Zhejiang Yueteng Information Technology Co., Ltd. | TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | 1717 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18364722 | ELECTRONIC ATOMIZER WITH TOBACCO PIPE SHAPE | Shenzhen Impetus Technology Co., Ltd. | MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN | 1747 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18358237 | Fashion Personality Prediction and Clothing Recommendation Method and Device Based on Social Networks | Soochow University | RAMPHAL, LATASHA DEVI | 3688 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18331887 | INDOOR PASSIVE HUMAN BEHAVIOR RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE | Nanjing University Of Posts And Telecommunications | BAKER, EZRA JAMES | 2126 | §101 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18300113 | ASSEMBLABLE MODULAR AND DISC CORELESS PERMANENT MAGNET SUPERCONDUCTING ULTRA-EFFICIENT MOTOR | Beijing Yewei Technology Co., Ltd. | SATHIRAJU, SRINIVAS | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 | |
| 18119851 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SIZE OF MOLTEN POOL IN WIRE AND ARC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS | BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY | CORDAY, CAMERON A | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 18172516 | Antibody composition for immunotyping of myeloid tumor and use thereof | Peking University People'S Hospital | GAO, ASHLEY HARTMAN | 1678 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
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