Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 10 clients • 12 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Miller Nash LLP has 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials, supported by 4117 career applications. The application volume gives the reported prosecution measures a broad underlying record for this technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 82.98%, and the average is 3.04 office actions per allowance. The figures indicate that allowances are resolved after multiple examination events, while the allowance rate remains above the level implied by a predominantly unsuccessful record.
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 | 2 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (58%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREEMAN, JOSHUA E | 1 | 82.0% | +12.1% |
| MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 1 | 29.9% | +33.1% |
| TRIGGS, ANDREW J | 1 | 66.6% | +27.9% |
| OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 1 | 61.0% | +14.4% |
| MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1 | 67.2% | +31.9% |
| FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 1 | 78.5% | +13.0% |
| SIDDIQUEE, MUHAMMAD S | 1 | 78.2% | +19.7% |
| JEONG, YOUNGSUL | 1 | 71.6% | +21.7% |
| PAK, HANNAH J | 1 | 78.2% | +21.3% |
| ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1 | 15.4% | +37.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18743250 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COIR | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 155d overdue |
| 18637286 | COCONUT HARD SHELL GRANULAR INFILL FOR SYNTHETIC SPORT FIELDS | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 30d overdue |
| 19228474 | FLASH BANG GRENADE HOOK AND METHOD OF USE | FREEMAN, JOSHUA E | — |
| 19216004 | METAL-FLUORIDE THIN FILMS AND DEPOSITION METHODS | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | — |
| 18924903 | SECONDARY WINDOW INSERT | TRIGGS, ANDREW J | — |
| 18580879 | RECONFIGURABLE SOFT LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | SIDDIQUEE, MUHAMMAD S | — |
| 18253901 | DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR ELASTICITY IMAGING | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | — |
| 18163131 | LIDOCAINE SOLUTION AND FOOT WIPE | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18743250 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COIR | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 155d overdue |
| 18637286 | COCONUT HARD SHELL GRANULAR INFILL FOR SYNTHETIC SPORT FIELDS | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 30d overdue |
| 18402540 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION OF CANNABINOIDS | JEONG, YOUNGSUL | 8d |
| 18721067 | REFILLABLE PERSONAL HYGIENE PRODUCT DISPENSER | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 62d |
| 19228474 | FLASH BANG GRENADE HOOK AND METHOD OF USE | FREEMAN, JOSHUA E | — |
| 19216004 | METAL-FLUORIDE THIN FILMS AND DEPOSITION METHODS | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | — |
| 18924903 | SECONDARY WINDOW INSERT | TRIGGS, ANDREW J | — |
| 18580879 | RECONFIGURABLE SOFT LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | SIDDIQUEE, MUHAMMAD S | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| University of California | 2 |
| PELLI SKIN CO., LLC | 2 |
| Icarus Precision LLC | 1 |
| Lotus Applied Technology, LLC | 1 |
| R Value, Inc. | 1 |
| Batten Industries Inc. | 1 |
| GENUS INDUSTRIES, INC. | 1 |
| GENUS INDUSTRIES, LLC dba ICOIR PRODUCTS GROUP | 1 |
| Nakatomi Trading | 1 |
| Xerox | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19228474 | FLASH BANG GRENADE HOOK AND METHOD OF USE | Icarus Precision LLC | FREEMAN, JOSHUA E | 3641 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19216004 | METAL-FLUORIDE THIN FILMS AND DEPOSITION METHODS | Lotus Applied Technology, LLC | MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 18924903 | SECONDARY WINDOW INSERT | R Value, Inc. | TRIGGS, ANDREW J | 3635 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18721067 | REFILLABLE PERSONAL HYGIENE PRODUCT DISPENSER | Batten Industries Inc. | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18743250 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING COIR | Genus Industries, Inc. | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1754 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 155d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18637286 | COCONUT HARD SHELL GRANULAR INFILL FOR SYNTHETIC SPORT FIELDS | Genus Industries, LLC Dba Icoir Products Group | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 1781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18580879 | RECONFIGURABLE SOFT LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | The Regents of the University of California | SIDDIQUEE, MUHAMMAD S | 1723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18402540 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION OF CANNABINOIDS | Nakatomi Trading, LLC | JEONG, YOUNGSUL | 1772 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18522016 | FAST FABRICATION OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMERS USING SOLID EPOXY POWDER CONTAINING AN INITIATOR | Xerox Corporation | PAK, HANNAH J | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18253901 | DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR ELASTICITY IMAGING | The Regents of the University of California | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1687 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18163131 | LIDOCAINE SOLUTION AND FOOT WIPE | Pelli Skin Co., LLC | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
| 18163153 | ANTIFUNGAL SOLUTION AND FOOT WIPE | Pelli Skin Co., LLC | MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE | 1617 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial83.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Miller Nash LLP were allowed, across 4,117 applications in USPTO records.
3.04 office actions per allowed application on average.
12 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 10 clients, before 12 examiners in 12 art units.
