Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
240 pending office actions • 139 clients • 229 examiners • 145 art units • 0 of 240 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
LUCAS & MERCANTI, LLP focuses on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and has 15,038 career applications. The profile shows 234 pending office actions, indicating a substantial active workload across a large recorded portfolio.
The resolved allowance rate is 86.11%, and allowances have required an average of 3.06 office actions. The rate describes the firm’s historical outcome among resolved matters, while the action average indicates that successful prosecution commonly involves several responses. For biotechnology and pharmaceutical applicants, the data support an assessment that considers both extensive application activity and the continuing examination resources reflected by the pending docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 63 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. 63 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 (0%) |
| §101 + other | 25 (10%) |
| §103 only | 82 (34%) |
| §102 only | 7 (3%) |
| §112 only | 13 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 9 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 102 (42%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEILER, GRANT STEVEN | 3 | 54.1% | +6.9% |
| JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 3 | 34.8% | +41.2% |
| KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2 | 83.9% | +7.3% |
| SULLIVAN IV, CHARLES COLLINS | 2 | 69.3% | +12.0% |
| VAJDA, PETER L | 2 | 75.1% | +12.9% |
| FAN, LYNN Y | 2 | 47.3% | +49.8% |
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 2 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
| SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 2 | 51.0% | +19.1% |
| HUDSON, AMY ROSE | 2 | 74.8% | +11.7% |
| DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 1 | 68.3% | +40.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579703 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PATH FOLLOWING BY A SELF-DRIVING LAND VEHICLE | KHALED, ABDALLA A | 176d overdue |
| 19004803 | Illumination System | MAY, ROBERT J | 140d overdue |
| 17916068 | REDUCED CALORIC INTAKE AND IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | AEDER, SEAN E | 72d overdue |
| 18004831 | TUMOR-ASSOCIATED PEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF | JUEDES, AMY E | 60d overdue |
| 18717568 | PEPTIDES AND COMPOSITIONS FOR USE IN COSMETICS | NIEBAUER, RONALD T | 44d overdue |
| 18135668 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING BICARBONATE AND MINERALS | ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS | 35d overdue |
| 17430576 | METHOD FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING A GEARWHEEL OR A WORKPIECE WITH A GEARWHEEL-LIKE PROFILE IN A GRINDING OR POLISHING MACHINE | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 32d overdue |
| 18274802 | METHOD OF OPERATING AN ELECTROLYZER SYSTEM AND ELECTROLYZER SYSTEM | WILKINS III, HARRY D | 28d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17602035 | Pharmaceutical Composition for Treating Muscle Disease | HUDSON, AMY ROSE | 79d overdue |
| 17906444 | HETERONUCLEIC ACID CONTAINING MORPHOLINO NUCLEIC ACID | HUDSON, AMY ROSE | 43d overdue |
| 18425886 | OXYGEN SCAVENGERS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSORS | FAN, LYNN Y | 8d overdue |
| 18552520 | SYRINGE TRANSPORT TOOL SET, TRANSPORTATION METHOD OF SYRINGE, PACKAGING MEMBER, AND USE METHOD OF PACKAGING MEMBER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 40d |
| 19570635 | MULTIPHASE PUMP OF THE SCREW SPINDLE PUMP TYPE | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | — |
| 18771236 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD | SULLIVAN IV, CHARLES COLLINS | — |
| 18644520 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD | VAJDA, PETER L | — |
| 18580937 | PROCESS FOR THE CONVERSION OF KERATIN | FAN, LYNN Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1619 | 7 |
| 2884 | 5 |
| 1737 | 5 |
| 1795 | 5 |
| 2852 | 4 |
| 2853 | 4 |
| 1734 | 4 |
| 3754 | 3 |
| 3798 | 3 |
| 3763 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19570635 | MULTIPHASE PUMP OF THE SCREW SPINDLE PUMP TYPE | Leistritz Pumpen GmbH | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2026 |
| 19479081 | EXTENSION SYSTEM FOR AVIARIES | Zucami Poultry Equipment, S.L.U. | REYES, EDGAR | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19142319 | SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS DEVICE AND SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS METHOD | HoriBA, Ltd. | TRAN, MAI THI NGOC | 2878 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19241740 | PROCESS FOR ORGANIZING TOURS AND ACTIVITIES | Holiday Senses Sensations Lda. | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 3628 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19236305 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | Konica Minolta, Inc. | AYDIN, SEVAN A | 2852 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 19229619 | ENGINEERED WOOD STRUCTURAL SYSTEM | Phylem Structures, S.L. | GILBERT, WILLIAM V | 3993 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19227420 | TIP SAW | Tatsuno Sawing Dr. Company | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 | |
| 19216885 | ELECTRICALLY OPERATED VALVE | Fujikoki Corporation | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 3753 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19201329 | DEVICE FOR MOUNTING A TONE ARM, IN PARTICULAR A TONE ARM OF A RECORD PLAYER | Clearaudio Electronic GmbH | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19201465 | GIMBAL JOINT FOR HIGH-PRESSURE FLUID DUCTS | Itp Externals, S.L. | DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19191807 | MECHANISMS FOR OPTIMAL OFFSHORE MINERAL MINING | Modi Vivendi AS | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19184357 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS OF MOBILE TYPE, PROGRAM, AND MOVING IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD | Konica Minolta, Inc. | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2884 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19181049 | DOSING APPARATUS | Herbert Saier GmbH | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19089277 | SANITARY DEVICE | Duravit Aktiengesellschaft | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19088941 | MEDICAL TESTING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL TESTING METHOD | Konica Minolta, Inc. | WEBB, JESSICA MARIE | 3683 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19080377 | DYNAMIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS, DYNAMIC ANALYSIS METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | PARK, PATRICIA JOO YOUNG | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19069424 | RADIOGRAPHY DEVICE, RADIATION DEVICE, RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM, AND MOBILE RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | THOMAS, COURTNEY D | 2884 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19063567 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | Konica Minolta, Inc. | ELEY, JESSICA L | 2852 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19105230 | FLEXIBLE CONNECTOR | Medicud S.r.l. | YANG, CHENG FONG | 3781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19104541 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | Taxy.Io GmbH | LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | 2656 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19104103 | ROLL-UP MODULAR DOORMAT | Basmat Matting Systems, S.L. | RAMSEY, JEREMY C | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19102994 | ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN AGRICULTURAL PLATFORM | Gts Do Brasil Ltda. | RUNCO, MADELINE IVY | 3671 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19045266 | NEW APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SERUM-AGGLUTINATION TESTS | Diesse Diagnostica Senese S.p.A. | BOYAR, NOAH WILLIAM | 2669 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 19044147 | FOOD INSPECTION APPARATUS | Konica Minolta, Inc. | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 2668 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19099501 | HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM | Zypho, SA | NIEVES, NELSON J | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18992827 | FLOW CELL FOR OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY, AND METHOD FOR MONITORING BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES | Schott AG | DOUMBIA, MOHAMED | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18992614 | ELECTROCONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION, ELECTROCONDUCTIVE ADHESIVE, AND CURED PRODUCT | ThreeBond Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN | 1761 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18881602 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING SKIN CARE ACTIVE INGREDIENT OR CELLULOSE COMPOUND | L'Oréal | COHEN, MICHAEL P | 1612 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 19004803 | Illumination System | Schott AG | MAY, ROBERT J | 2875 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 140d overdue | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18876483 | WATER MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS | Ecova Environnement | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18873987 | SENSOR HEAD FOR FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY | Schott AG | FOX, DANIELLE A | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 | |
| 18976556 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | HEREDIA OCASIO, ARLENE J | 2852 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18975153 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A CONTAINER | G.Mondini S.p.A. | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18974988 | LIQUID FEEDING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DIAGNOSIS METHOD FOR LIQUID FEEDING APPARATUS | Konica Minolta, Inc. | LEBRON, JANNELLE M | 2853 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18975165 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING AN OUTER SKELETON OF A CONTAINER | G.Mondini S.p.A. | IMAM, TANZIM | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18873032 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A SEPARATION PRODUCT, CONTAINING CARBOXYLIC ACIDS, OF A SEPARATION PROCESS | UNIVERSITÄT DES SAARLANDES | KIEFER, DALTON EDWARD | 1652 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18970301 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18868052 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING LONGITUDINAL DISTANCE TO THE HARDENED AREA OF THE SURFACE OF A PART | Linqcase Industrial Solutions, S.L. | LIU, KENDRICK X | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18867147 | PROBE CARD FOR A TESTING APPARATUS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CORRESPONDING SPACE TRANSFORMER | Technoprobe S.p.A. | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18866506 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING MEASUREMENT DATA OF A MACHINE, AND TIRE HEATING PRESS HAVING A DEVICE FOR DETECTING MEASUREMENT DATA | Harburg-Freudenberger Maschinenbau GmbH | PATEL, DHRUVKUMAR | 2119 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18941736 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-MODAL NEUROLOGICAL AND HEALTH ASSESSMENT | Neurovision Imaging, Inc. | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 3796 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18940096 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE DETECTION OF CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY | Wildcat Partner Holdings, LP | ABDUR, RAHMAN | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18863713 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE RESIN COMPOSITION AND CURED PRODUCT THEREOF | ThreeBond Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1761 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18261206 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | Marketvision Co., Ltd. | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 3627 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18934875 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18933656 | VIBRATION DAMPING SYSTEM ON A SOLAR TRACKER | Trina Solar Spain, S.L.U. | JOHNSON, WILLIAM DONALD | 3631 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18862097 | WRITING UTENSIL COMPRISING A PLA/PBS SHAFT BASE MATERIAL | Staedtler SE | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18931240 | MULTIPORT DC CONVERTER AND INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | Rio Paraná Energia S.A. | PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C | 2116 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18860921 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE SPARSE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MICRO-DOPPLER SPECTRUM IN JOINT COMMUNICATION AND SENSING APPLICATIONS | Fundación Imdea Networks | NGUYEN, THE HY | 2478 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18858840 | ROLLING MACHINE FOR PRINTED SUBSTRATES AND RELATED CONTROL METHOD | Fotoba International S.r.l. | KIM, SANG K | 3654 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial86.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Lucas & Mercanti, LLP were allowed, across 15,038 applications in USPTO records.
3.06 office actions per allowed application on average.
240 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 139 clients, before 229 examiners in 145 art units.
