Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

McDermott Will & Emery, LLP

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

133 pending office actions • 45 clients • 125 examiners • 71 art units • 2 of 133 (2%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=30813 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

86.2%
Allowance Rate
n=30813
+0.56σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=30813
3.3
OAs to Allowance
n=23367
-0.05σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=23367
1059 days
Time to Allowance
n=23367
+5.0pp
Interview Lift
n=30813
25.2%
RCE Rate
n=30813
1.5%
Appeal Rate
n=30813

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

81.0%
§101 Overcome
n=2027
85.3%
§102 Overcome
n=8848
86.3%
§103 Overcome
n=14185
87.5%
§112 Overcome
n=8061

Specialization & Scale

H01L, G06F, H10W
Top CPC Subclasses
11%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=30813
9
Practitioners
n=30813
3423.7
Apps / Practitioner
n=30813

Portfolio Summary

133
Total Pending OAs
89
Non-Final OAs
40
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 40 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

21
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
Due this month
9
Due in next 60 days
3
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 40 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (21)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (9)Due later (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

85
Hard (64%)
39
Medium (29%)
6
Easy (5%)
3
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only8 (6%)
§101 + other28 (21%)
§103 only29 (22%)
§102 only4 (3%)
§112 only3 (2%)
Double-patenting only3 (2%)
Double-patenting + other6 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)49 (37%)
No statute on record3 (2%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

25
Life Sciences
19% of docket
14
Information Tech
11% of docket
10
Communications
8% of docket
6
Semiconductors
5% of docket
36
Mechanical / Eng
27% of docket
42
Business / Other
32% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

1,330 h
Manual time on pending OAs
266 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
465 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
11.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SANDERSON, LEE E 2 45.4% +44.6%
PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 2 80.7% +17.9%
LEE, SIN J 2 68.8% +25.1%
DETWEILER, JAMES M 2 38.8% +43.5%
PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D 2 64.8% +19.0%
LOCKARD, JON MCCLELLAND 2 74.6% +27.2%
EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH 2 17.2% +39.1%
AEDER, SEAN E 2 57.0% +19.9%
LEE, MATTHEW Y 1 81.5% +18.3%
EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT 1 79.2% +19.1%

Hard Cases (85)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18568209 MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE STEP UP AND STEP DOWN OF TREATMENTS EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH 97d overdue
18552275 AUDIENCE LOCATION SCORING LONG, MEREDITH A 93d overdue
17484374 BREATH SENSING WITH REMOTE PRESSURE SENSOR PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M 89d overdue
18669376 TRAVEL PLANNING USING DIGITAL ASSISTANT VETTER, DANIEL 87d overdue
18390794 EYE STRAIN REDUCTION IN HEAD MOUNTABLE DISPLAY RICKEL, ALEX PARK 85d overdue
17997500 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY SUITABLE PATIENT SUBGROUPS FOR BIOLOGICS KANAAN, LIZA TONY 81d overdue
17773469 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ASTHMA TRIGGERING CONDITIONS BASED ON MEDICAMENT DEVICE MONITORING FOR A PATENT VANDER WOUDE, KIMBERLY ELAINE 80d overdue
17702107 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING INFLAMMATION RAMADAN, OMAR 70d overdue

Interview Candidates (18)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18568209 MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE STEP UP AND STEP DOWN OF TREATMENTS EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH 97d overdue
17781652 USE OF CELL FREE NUCLEOSOMES AS BIOMARKERS AEDER, SEAN E 25d overdue
18256191 DIAGNOSTIC METHOD FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AEDER, SEAN E 9d
18695464 TREATMENT OF PRURITIS EMPLOYING ANTI-IL13Ra1 ANTIBODY OR BINDING FRAGMENT THEREOF LOCKARD, JON MCCLELLAND 39d
18695502 METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF MODERATE TO SEVERE ATOPIC DERMATITIS LOCKARD, JON MCCLELLAND 40d
18751839 THREE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE STRUCTURES FOR IMPLANTS PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D 56d
19354707 Untitled LEE, MATTHEW Y —
19468561 MOBILITY ASSISTIVE SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT —

Client Portfolio (45 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
36214
37743
36283
36873
16783
28722
39912
21612
26692
36772

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19354707 Untitled Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC LEE, MATTHEW Y 2872 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending
19468561 MOBILITY ASSISTIVE SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS Revimo Incorporated EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT 3673 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 03, 2026
19384705 SCREW AND DRIVER FOR DENTAL IMPLANT APPLICATIONS Young Innovations, Inc. MAI, HAO D 3772 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 10, 2025
19307801 DISPOSABLE TANK ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND METHOD OF USE Orbis Ventures Limited SANDERSON, LEE E 3991 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 22, 2025
19299280 SUCCESSIVE COLOR FIELDS THAT DISPLAY A VIRTUAL OBJECT IN ARTIFICIAL REALITY Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC BLANCHA, JONATHAN M 2623 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 13, 2025
19150601 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-DRIVEN DIGITAL MEDIA CREATIVE PERSONALIZATION AND GENERATION USING NATURAL LANGUAGE MODELS Catalina Marketing Corporation REFAI, SAM M 3621 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 24, 2025
19269025 DISPOSABLE TANK ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND METHOD OF USE Cue Vapor Limited SANDERSON, LEE E 3991 §102§103§112DPOther Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 14, 2025
19260921 UNDERGARMENT FOR WOMEN WITH SLEEVES Ravden Group, LLC HALE, GLORIA M 3732 DP Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2025
19228714 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPRESSING, DECOMPRESSING, AND PROCESSING DATA FOR USE BY MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC SADLER, NATHAN 2139 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 04, 2025
19188585 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TESTING UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS DEVICES Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC PATEL, JIGAR P §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 24, 2025
19179505 PASSIVE COOLING DEVICE FOR HEAD-WEARABLE DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC BUI, HUNG S §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 15, 2025
19175615 SEARCHING ON PLATFORMS Airbnb, Inc. SYED, FARHAN M 2161 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 10, 2025
19096095 TOOL IDENTIFIER RECOGNITION AND SENSOR CALIBRATION IN A TOOL CONTROL SYSTEM Snap-On Incorporated ELLIS, SUEZU Y 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Mar 31, 2025
19072304 TECHNIQUES FOR CONCEALED OPTICAL SENSORS AND RELATED APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC HSU, AMY R §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 06, 2025
19066271 Integrating Applications with Dynamic Virtual Assistant Avatars Meta Platforms, Inc. SAMS, MICHELLE L §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 28, 2025
19067054 Light Emitting Diode Control Circuitry Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC YEAMAN, JAMES G §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 28, 2025
19060551 SWITCHABLE BATTERY CELL CONFIGURATION, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC PINKNEY, DAWAYNE §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 21, 2025
19053798 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING INDIGO AND/OR AN INDIGO DERIVATIVE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Azora Therapeutics, Inc. LEE, SIN J §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 14, 2025
19039131 WEARABLE DEVICES UTILIZING SURFACE-MOUNTED DEVICE BATTERIES Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC PINKNEY, DAWAYNE §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 28, 2025
18998825 SYSTEM TO STREAM REAL TIME EVENTS FROM A PUBLISHER WEBPAGE TO ENABLE REAL WORLD PURCHASE BASED ATTRIBUTION Catalina Marketing Corporation DETWEILER, JAMES M 3621 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 27, 2025
19013765 MIXED REALITY FACIAL INTERFACE WITH INTEGRATED BIOSENSORS Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC EARLES, BRYAN E 2625 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 08, 2025
19005148 IMAGE GENERATION USING ORGANIC PROPERTIES Shutterstock, Inc. RICHER, AARON M §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
19005067 IMAGE GENERATION WITH LEARNED SUPERVISION Shutterstock, Inc. BEKELE, MEKONEN T §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
19005209 DETECTING SECURITY THREATS ON RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED APPLIANCES Stairwell, Inc. AHMED, ARHAM NMN 2473 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 30, 2024
18976808 REMOTE REALTIME INTERACTIVE NETWORK CONFERENCING Pharmaforceiq, Inc. TRAN, QUOC DUC DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 11, 2024
18955360 SYSTEM FOR COOLING IN A HEADSET DISPLAY Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 21, 2024
18954418 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEW VR DEVICE FORM-FACTOR Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC CHOI, WILLIAM C §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 20, 2024
18951460 AUGMENTED-REALITY HEADSET WITH AN ELECTRONICS-HOLDING FRAME PLATE AND A FRAME BACKPLATE Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC NIGAM, NATASHA §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 18, 2024
18947850 ONE DIMENSIONAL KEYBOARD Meta Platforms, Inc. BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 14, 2024
18939336 REDUCING COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING THE SAME Altered Labs LLC GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 06, 2024
18937892 SOFTWARE AND ALGORITHMS FOR USE IN REMOTE ASSESSMENT OF DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. SHIN, SOO JUNG §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 05, 2024
18935979 BALANCED GENERATIVE IMAGE MODEL TRAINING Shutterstock, Inc. ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN 2669 — Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 04, 2024
18936910 MULTI-DEVICE THERMAL AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN 2175 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 04, 2024
18936860 THERMAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS FOR A HEAD-WORN DEVICE, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 04, 2024
18924094 Generating Proactive Reminders for Assistant Systems Meta Platforms, Inc. LEE, PHILIP C 2454 §102Other Final Rejection — Pending Oct 23, 2024
18924879 OBJECT TRACKING USING A HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC CHIN, RICKY 2424 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 23, 2024
18918524 DIGRESSIVE LENS FOR VIRTUAL IMAGE Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC JUNG, JONATHAN Y 2871 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 17, 2024
18912470 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT TRANSFER ARCHITECTURES MANUFACTURED BY SELECTIVE PLATING Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC ZEC, FILIP §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 10, 2024
18901820 CONSENSUS PROTOCOL MODIFICATIONS Ava Labs, Inc. HUSSEIN, HASSAN A 2497 §103§112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Sep 30, 2024
18892786 Resolving a Co-Reference Based on a Multimodal User Input for Assistant Systems Meta Platforms, Inc. LE, HUNG D 2161 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 23, 2024
18891385 ORCHESTRATING MULTI-STEP TASKS INVOLVING LANGUAGE MODELS Airbnb, Inc. KAZIMI, HANI M §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 20, 2024
18883896 IN-CALL EXPERIENCE ENHANCEMENT FOR ASSISTANT SYSTEMS Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC EL-ZOOBI, MARIA §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 12, 2024
18846253 MERGING TEXT BLOCKS Myscript VU, KIEU D §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 12, 2024
18846081 RESCALING TEXT BLOCKS TO IMPROVE READABILITY Myscript HOPE, DARRIN §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 11, 2024
18846109 CREATING TEXT BLOCK SECTIONS Myscript TRAN, TUYETLIEN T §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 11, 2024
18828316 FEATURES FOR IMPLANTS WITH A REDUCED VOLUMETRIC DENSITY OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS Nanohive Medical LLC WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 09, 2024
18823217 HIGH RESOLUTION ENCODING AND TRANSMISSION OF TRAFFIC INFORMATION Sirius Xm Radio LLC DO, TRUC M 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Sep 03, 2024
18820636 BALANCED GENERATIVE IMAGE MODEL TRAINING Shutterstock, Inc. CONNER, SEAN M §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 30, 2024
18840456 IMPLANTABLE DEVICES FOR THE SUSTAINED DELIVERY OF AN OPIOID ANTAGONIST AND METHODS FOR TREATING INFLAMMATORY, NEUROINFLAMMATORY AND METABOLIC DISORDERS Delpor, Inc. LEE, SIN J §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 21, 2024
18809017 ADJUSTABLE STRAP SYSTEM AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC LEE, MICHAEL S 3677 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 19, 2024
18761591 MANAGING UPDATE EVENTS FOR OBJECTS AT AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. RIVERA, ANIBAL 2192 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 02, 2024
18759282 ORAL CANNABINOID PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING INFLAMMATORY GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS Curio Ip, LLC LEE, WILLIAM Y 1623 §103DP Final Rejection — Pending Jun 28, 2024
18751839 THREE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE STRUCTURES FOR IMPLANTS Nanohive Medical LLC PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jun 24, 2024
18718423 COMPOUNDS SPECIFIC TO GRANZYME B AND USES THEREOF Cytosite Biopharma Inc. LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM 1615 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 10, 2024
18715898 TOKEN-LESS AND KEY-VALUE MAPPING VIRTUAL MACHINES Ava Labs, Inc. TRAINOR, DANIEL BRENNAN §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 03, 2024
18669376 TRAVEL PLANNING USING DIGITAL ASSISTANT Priceline.Com LLC VETTER, DANIEL 3628 §101§103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending May 20, 2024
18659115 MANAGING RESOURCES OF A DOCKING STATION DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. NGUYEN, BRANDON A §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 09, 2024
18658854 SENSOR-INTEGRATED MEDICAMENT DEVICE FOR DATA TRANSFER INTO A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT ResMed LETT, THOMAS J 2611 §103 Final Rejection — AI Ready May 08, 2024
18655651 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GOAL-DRIVEN CONTEXTUAL OMNICHANNEL OPTIMIZATION USING WELL-ROUNDED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pharmaforceiq, Inc. HEWITT II, CALVIN L 3600 §101§103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 06, 2024
18653848 Systems, Methods and User Interfaces for Organizing Wish Lists in Online Marketplaces Airbnb, Inc. MISIASZEK, MICHAEL 3688 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending May 02, 2024
18647302 ACCREDITATION DETERMINATION OF A REVIEW ENTITY OF A COMPUTING PRODUCT DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. KIRK, BRYAN J 3628 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 26, 2024
18641294 TECHNIQUES FOR BINOCULAR DISPARITY MEASUREMENT AND CORRECTION USING SELECTED TIMES AND POSITIONS FOR PRESENTING REALIGNMENT PATTERNS AT A HEAD-WEARABLE DEVICE Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC AMIN, JWALANT B 2612 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending Apr 19, 2024
18703208 CONJUGATE PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATION, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF Coherent Biopharma (Suzhou) Limited SABILA, MERCY HELLEN §102§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 19, 2024
18626260 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PACKAGE-TO-PACKAGE COMMUNICATION Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 03, 2024
18625596 ONLINE COLLABORATION USING GROUP MEETING PLATFORM Class Technologies Inc. SHEN, SAMUEL 2179 §103§112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2024
18695502 METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF MODERATE TO SEVERE ATOPIC DERMATITIS Vellera Therapeutics, Inc. LOCKARD, JON MCCLELLAND 1647 Other Non-Final OA 40d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18695464 TREATMENT OF PRURITIS EMPLOYING ANTI-IL13Ra1 ANTIBODY OR BINDING FRAGMENT THEREOF Vellera Therapeutics, Inc. LOCKARD, JON MCCLELLAND 1647 Other Non-Final OA 39d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18606872 VIAL ACCESS NEEDLE DEVICE Heron Therapeutics, Inc. LANGE, ERIC A §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 15, 2024
18594747 IMPLANT WITH INDEPENDENT ENDPLATES Nanohive Medical LLC PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D 3774 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2024
18594811 SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MUSICRECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COMBINING SONG AND USER INFLUENCERS WITH CHANNEL RULE CHARACTERIZATIONS Sirius Xm Radio LLC SMITH, BRIAN M §101§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2024
18591818 PARALLEL PROCESSING OF EXTRACTED ELEMENTS Myscript PARK, CHAN S 2669 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 29, 2024
18442896 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LEGACY APPLICATION MIGRATION AND DEPLOYMENT AUTOMATION Kemper Corporate Services JOHNSON, TODD JEFFREY 4100 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 15, 2024
18442605 STRAIN-LOCKING KNIT BAND STRUCTURES WITH EMBEDDED ELECTRONICS FOR WEARABLE DEVICES Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE 1789 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18390794 EYE STRAIN REDUCTION IN HEAD MOUNTABLE DISPLAY Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC RICKEL, ALEX PARK 2872 §102§103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18390987 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH DENSITY SYSTEM ON CHIP MEMORY INTEGRATION Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC TOBERGTE, NICHOLAS J 2817 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 20, 2023
18571992 SUBSTRATES MODIFIED WITH PEPTOID-LOADED MICROGELS FOR RESISTANCE TO BACTERIAL COLONIZATION Maxwell Biosciences, Inc. SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN 1615 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 55d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18571173 METHOD TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS WITH T CELL IMMUNITY TO SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS AGENTS Quidel Corporation NGUYEN, HENRY H §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 15, 2023
18570236 PROCESSING METHODS FOR NUCLEIC ACID DATA STORAGE Catalog Technologies, Inc. TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 14, 2023
18568209 MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE STEP UP AND STEP DOWN OF TREATMENTS ResMed EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH 3687 §101§103 Final Rejection 97d overdue AI Ready Dec 07, 2023
18566010 MOBILE APPLICATION FOR DETERMINING AND RECORDING MEDICATION Reciprocal Labs Corporation EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH 3687 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 30, 2023
18564665 HUMIDITY CONTROL USING WATER FLOW Vapotherm, Inc. BALLER, KELSEY E 3785 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 28, 2023
18506005 INHALER ADHERENCE MONITOR WITH MODULAR ATTACHMENTS Reciprocal Labs Corporation VO, TU A 3783 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 09, 2023
18497420 SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR IMPEDANCE MATCHING ACROSS SUBASSEMBLIES DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. TRINH, MINH N §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 30, 2023
18486980 POSE ESTIMATION FOR A HANDHELD DEVICE Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC DAVIS, DAVID DONALD 2627 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18378810 FLEXIBLE ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR FLEXIBLE WEARABLE DEVICES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC DINH, TUAN T 2847 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending Oct 11, 2023
18479768 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR CONFIGURING ONE OR MORE MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF A METAL MATERIAL UTILIZED IN A DEFORMABLE CIRCUIT Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC KIM, PAUL D §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 02, 2023
18552275 AUDIENCE LOCATION SCORING Catalina Marketing Corporation LONG, MEREDITH A 3622 §101 Final Rejection 93d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2023
18282825 FIXED POINT NUMBER REPRESENTATION AND COMPUTATION CIRCUITS Catalog Technologies, Inc. WOITACH, JOSEPH T 1684 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 19, 2023
18467201 CONDUCTIVE ELASTOMERIC FOAM MATERIALS AND METHODS OF USE Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC LEE, RIP A 1762 §102§103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18278350 MODIFYING DIGITAL CONTENT INCLUDING TYPED AND HANDWRITTEN TEXT Myscript MCCOY, AIDAN WILLIAM 2611 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2023
18454014 SPHERICALLY-SHAPED MECHANICAL INTERFACE USED IN A HEAD-WEARABLE DEVICE TO ACCOMODATE A VARIETY OF WEARERS, AND HEAD-WEARABLE DEVICES USING THE SPHERICALLY-SHAPED MECHANICAL INTERFACE Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC MORGAN, EMILY M 3677 §103§112 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2023
18354936 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A REMOTE ACCESS CONTROLLER DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. GUTMAN, JENNIFER MARIE 2194 §103§112Other Final Rejection — Pending Jul 19, 2023
18260011 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITE ANALYSIS OF NUCLEOSOME DEPLETED CIRCULATING CELL FREE CHROMATIN FRAGMENTS Belgian Volition Srl (Be/Be) SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH 1682 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 29, 2023
18260018 CIRCULATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ANALYSIS Belgian Volition Srl (Be/Be) NGUYEN, NAM P 1678 §101§102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 29, 2023
18333192 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALIGNMENT OF OPTICAL COMPONENTS Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC RIVERA, JOSHEL 1746 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 12, 2023
18207106 DETECTING POSITIONS OF MAGNETIC FLUX SENSORS HAVING PARTICULAR LOCATIONS ON A DEVICE RELATIVE TO A MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATOR LOCATED AT A PREDETERMINED POSITION ON THE DEVICE Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC SAADAT, CAMERON 3992 §112DP Final Rejection 63d Pending Jun 07, 2023
18256191 DIAGNOSTIC METHOD FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Belgian Volition Srl (Be/Be) AEDER, SEAN E 1642 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 06, 2023
18324408 USER-CONTRIBUTOR RANKING AND MATCHING IN A CONTENT MARKETPLACE Shutterstock, Inc. GUILIANO, CHARLES A 3623 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 26, 2023
18314981 SYSTEM FOR EXTRAPOLATING USER BEHAVIOR SIGNALS IN A DIGITAL ASSET MARKETPLACE USING DENSE VECTORS Shutterstock, Inc. MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL 3682 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 10, 2023
18307749 EXTRACTION REAGENT FOR USE IN AN ASSAY FOR DETECTION OF GROUP A STREPTOCOCCUS Quidel Corporation DEVI, SARVAMANGALA 1645 §103§112 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2023
18305567 SYSTEM TO ENABLE SPONSORED AD MONETIZATION AND DYNAMIC CONTENT INSERTION AT RUNTIME Catalina Marketing Corporation DETWEILER, JAMES M 3621 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 24, 2023
18185840 Intelligent Prediction of An Expected Value of User Conversion Airbnb, Inc. PADUA, NICO LAUREN 3626 §101§103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18024909 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WRITING BY SEQUENCING OF NUCLEIC ACIDS Catalog Technologies, Inc. ASIAMAH, ABENA ASANTEWAA §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 06, 2023
18167577 WEB, MOBILE AND BROWSER EXTENSION Ava Labs, Inc. RAK, TAYLOR SIMON DUANE 3697 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 10, 2023
18005317 UNIVERSAL SENSOR ALLOWING CONFIGURATION OF INPUTS FOR GATHERING PATIENT FEEDBACK Reciprocal Labs Corporation MUNION, JAMES E 1685 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 12, 2023
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