Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1,679 pending office actions • 416 clients • 1320 examiners • 403 art units • 6 of 1,679 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (WA) has 1659 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 28061 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 99.22%, with an average of 4.44 office actions per allowance.
The profile records a large current docket and an extensive career application history. The allowance rate describes resolved outcomes, while the office-action average indicates the examination activity associated with allowances across that record.
For practitioners, the data supports evaluation of substantial chemistry and materials prosecution experience, including workload, historical results, and interaction intensity. The figures are aggregate measures, so they should complement rather than replace review of individual matters and claim issues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 428 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. 428 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 | 24 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 156 (9%) |
| §103 only | 566 (34%) |
| §102 only | 100 (6%) |
| §112 only | 67 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 26 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 62 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 670 (40%) |
| No statute on record | 8 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINCLAIR, DAVID M | 15 | 68.4% | +19.7% |
| RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 11 | 84.8% | +12.3% |
| TORRES, TIMOTHY JOSEPH | 9 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| FERGUSON, DION | 9 | 86.9% | +8.4% |
| LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 9 | 70.4% | +26.0% |
| GAGNON, GRANT A | 6 | 82.9% | +7.7% |
| KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 5 | 62.1% | +27.0% |
| LIAN, ESTHER NGUN HLEI MA | 5 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SWEENEY, BRIAN P | 4 | 93.4% | +7.6% |
| TAN, OLIVER E | 4 | 72.6% | +8.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439154 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 17d overdue |
| 18372871 | MULTILAYER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | LIAN, ESTHER NGUN HLEI MA | 17d overdue |
| 18134752 | MULTILAYER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 2d overdue |
| 18538670 | MULTILAYER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 28d |
| 18422752 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 69d |
| 19349570 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SWITCHING TO MANUAL DRIVING MODE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | SWEENEY, BRIAN P | — |
| 19349586 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SWITCHING TO MANUAL DRIVING MODE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | SWEENEY, BRIAN P | — |
| 19349575 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SWITCHING TO MANUAL DRIVING MODE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | SWEENEY, BRIAN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779364 | SAMPLE COLLECTION DEVICE WITH REAGENT | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 331d overdue |
| 17128167 | ANESTHESIA MACHINE AND SYSTEM | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 247d overdue |
| 18002337 | Silk-Hyaluronic Acid Compositions For Tissue Filling, Tissue Spacing, and Tissue Bulking | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 201d overdue |
| 18021059 | MICROORGANISM FOR PRODUCING PUTRESCINE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PUTRESCINE BY USING SAME | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 162d overdue |
| 18329507 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING CLIMATE CONTROL TO REDUCE VIRUS TRANSMISSION | FURDGE, LARRY L | 156d overdue |
| 18357366 | Anti-Tumor Immunotherapy Enhancer | LU, CHENG | 140d overdue |
| 17545790 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING ORTHOPEADICS SURGERIES | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | 118d overdue |
| 18398649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING PATIENT RECRUITMENT AT CLINICAL SITES | MERCHANT, SHAHID R | 111d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873508 | STEEL SHEET HAVING GOOD PLATING QUALITY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 44d overdue |
| 18870209 | PLATED STEEL SHEET FOR HOT PRESS FORMING, HAVING EXCELLENT PLATING QUALITY, STEEL SHEET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 44d overdue |
| 18439154 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 17d overdue |
| 18134752 | MULTILAYER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 2d overdue |
| 18039175 | HIGH-STRENGTH HOT-DIP GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET WITH EXCELLENT PLATING QUALITY, STEEL SHEET FOR PLATING, AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREFOR | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 20d |
| 18538670 | MULTILAYER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 28d |
| 18102911 | COIL COMPONENT | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 33d |
| 18422752 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2847 | 63 |
| 2872 | 32 |
| 3791 | 22 |
| 1733 | 22 |
| 2837 | 19 |
| 3663 | 18 |
| 1784 | 18 |
| 3715 | 18 |
| 1725 | 18 |
| 1786 | 17 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18862325 | Untitled | Kia Corporation | KIRK, BRYAN J | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | ||
| 19644831 | MICROORGANISM HAVING FOREIGN NICOTINAMIDE NUCLEOTIDE TRANSHYDROGENASE INTRODUCED THEREINTO AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING L-AMINO ACID OR DERIVATIVE THEREOF USING SAME | Cj Cheiljedang Corporation | GRASER, JENNIFER E | 1645 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2026 |
| 19636707 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF MONOGENIC NEURODEVELOPMENT DISORDERS | Pyc Therapeutics Limited | SHIN, DANA H | 1635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2026 |
| 19629817 | Dry Powder Treprostinil for the Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension | Liquidia Technologies, Inc. | RONEY, CELESTE A | 1612 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2026 |
| 19536062 | PROCESSING INTERRUPTED TRANSACTIONS OVER NON-PERSISTENT NETWORK CONNECTIONS | Payrange LLC | KUCAB, JAMIE R | 3699 | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2026 |
| 19437036 | AQUACULTURE BASKET | Umiotoko Corporation | EVANS, EBONY E | 3647 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2025 |
| 19434865 | IMPELLER, FAN, AND AIR HANDLER | Guangdong Welling Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | BUI, ANDREW THANH | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2025 |
| 19435035 | DIAGONAL IMPELLER, FAN AND VENTILATION DEVICE | Guangdong Welling Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | BUI, ANDREW THANH | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2025 |
| 19429971 | DISPLAY APPARATUS | LG Display Co., Ltd. | CHATLY, AMIT | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2025 |
| 19425747 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NAVIGATING NODES IN CHANNEL BASED CHATBOTS USING NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING | Pypestream Inc. | LEE, PHILIP C | 2454 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 19412149 | DISPLAY DEVICE | LG Display Co., Ltd. | PHAM, LONG D | 2623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2025 |
| 19405298 | TECHNIQUES FOR CATEGORIZING AND DELIVERING QUERIES TO AN ARTIFICIALLY-INTELLIGENT AGENT ABOUT A USER GROUP USING CUSTOMIZED SEMANTIC INDEX BUNDLES | VISIER SOLUTIONS INC. | GOFMAN, ALEX N | 2163 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2025 |
| 19388953 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING WITH DYNAMIC MICROBEAMFORMERS | Exo Imaging, Inc. | IP, JASON M | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2025 |
| 19483205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF AUDIENCE PRESENCE AND PRESENCE CONTROL OF TELEVISION WITH RADAR | Telly, Inc. | HSIA, SHERRIE Y | 2422 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19482340 | CONTENT INTEREST DEGREE PROCESSING DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND PROGRAM | Coamix Inc. | CAO, VINCENT M | 3622 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2025 |
| 19481796 | REAL-TIME REMOTE GUIDANCE | Exo Imaging, Inc. | VAN DUZER, ALEXIS KIM | 3682 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19481805 | DEVICE USE-TIME ESTIMATION | Exo Imaging, Inc. | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19377588 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREVENTING FORWARD COLLISION OF VEHICLE | Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. | ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2025 |
| 19374871 | LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY APPARATUS | Snu R&Db Foundation | SHARIFI-TAFRESHI, KOOSHA | 2628 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2025 |
| 19372078 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WARP MODE SIGNALING | Tencent America LLC | BENNETT, STUART D | 2481 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2025 |
| 19479498 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING FOR EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION OF GEOMETRIC PARTITIONING INFORMATION | Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation | NOH, JAE NAM | 2481 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2025 |
| 19479220 | CULTIVATION DEVICE | Cj Cheiljedang Corporation | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 3647 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19360440 | Articulating Rotary Cutting Tool | Joint Preservation Innovations, LLC | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19476076 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM | Kia Corporation | CARTER, RICHARD BRUCE | 2485 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19475693 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM | Kia Corporation | ABDOU TCHOUSSOU, BOUBACAR | 2482 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19357430 | Systems and Methods for Online Anomaly Detection | Chewy, Inc. | SHARON, AYAL I | 3695 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2025 |
| 19357199 | SYSTEM | Softbank Group Corp. | MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | 3629 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2025 |
| 19474471 | THREADED CONNECTION | Tenaris Connections B.V. | AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 3672 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19473542 | ACTION CONTROL SYSTEM | Softbank Group Corp. | JOS, BASIL T | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19352276 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME | LG Display Co., Ltd. | HONG, RICHARD J | 2623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19352177 | DISPLAY APPARATUS | LG Display Co., Ltd. | CASTIAUX, BRENT D | 2623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19473341 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOT | Bear Robotics, Inc. | RHEE, ROY B | 3664 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19350359 | AGENT FOR SELECTIVE METAL RECOVERY, METAL RECOVERY METHOD, AND METAL ELUTION METHOD | Galdieria Co., Ltd. | VAN BUREN, LAUREN K | 1638 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 19349570 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SWITCHING TO MANUAL DRIVING MODE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | Kia Corporation | SWEENEY, BRIAN P | 3668 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19349850 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARAMETERIZING ARITHMETIC CODER PROBABILITY UPDATE RATES | Tencent America LLC | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 2483 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19349586 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SWITCHING TO MANUAL DRIVING MODE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | Kia Corporation | SWEENEY, BRIAN P | 3668 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19349575 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SWITCHING TO MANUAL DRIVING MODE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | Kia Corporation | SWEENEY, BRIAN P | 3668 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19349331 | DEVICE FOR DISPENSING AND APPLYING A FLUID PRODUCT, IN PARTICULAR A FLUID COSMETIC PRODUCT | Albea Services | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19349454 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SWITCHING TO MANUAL DRIVING MODE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | Kia Corporation | SWEENEY, BRIAN P | 3668 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19348620 | GATE DRIVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | LG Display Co., Ltd. | KHAN, IBRAHIM A | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2025 |
| 19347487 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTED CLASSIFICATION OF SPECIALTY MEDICATIONS BASED ON EXTRACTED PREDICTOR VARIABLES | Uptodate, Inc. | NGUYEN, TRAN N | 3685 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2025 |
| 19470679 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM | Kia Corporation | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 2483 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19469666 | VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING INLOOP FILTERING BY USING NON-REGIONAL SAMPLE | Ewha University -Industry Collaboration Foundation | RAHAMAN, SHAHAN UR | 2426 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19168562 | LIGHTED SURGICAL STAPLER | Endolumik, Inc. | PALMER, LUCAS E A | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19339106 | LIVE-STREAMING PROCESSING METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE | Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited | FAN, HUA | 2426 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19337791 | ADAPTIVE RANGE FOR CLIPPING PROCESSES FOR VIDEO AND IMAGE COMPRESSION | Tencent America LLC | LIMA, FABIO S | 2486 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19337794 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CROSS-COMPONENT GEOMETRIC/WEDGELET PARTITION DERIVATION | Tencent America LLC | MCFALL, CHRISTIAN PAUL | 2483 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19335519 | HOUSING ASSEMBLY WITH IMPROVED OIL CHURNING FUNCTION | Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. | TRUONG, MINH D | 3654 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 19333776 | STEERING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELECTRIC POWER STEERING SYSTEM | Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. | KRAFT, LOGAN M | 3747 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19163645 | PRESSURE VESSEL FOR STORING A PRESSURISED FLUID, SUCH AS HYDROGEN | Tenaris Connections B.V. | PAL, PRINCE | 3735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial89.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP were allowed, across 11,766 applications in USPTO records.
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1,679 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 416 clients, before 1320 examiners in 403 art units.
