Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
1,758 pending office actions • 435 clients • 1375 examiners • 360 art units • 5 of 1,758 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (WA) manages a portfolio of 27998 career applications in the Chemistry and Materials technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 99.2 percent. This success is achieved with an average of 4.46 office actions per allowance.
The firm currently has 1293 pending office actions. The 27998 career applications represent the total volume of cases handled by this profile in the chemistry sector. The 99.2 percent allowance rate and 4.46 average office actions provide the primary metrics for evaluating historical prosecution performance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 479 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. 479 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 | 28 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 165 (9%) |
| §103 only | 598 (34%) |
| §102 only | 101 (6%) |
| §112 only | 79 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 29 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 75 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 676 (38%) |
| No statute on record | 7 (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 | 11 | 68.4% | +19.6% |
| RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 9 | 84.8% | +12.3% |
| TORRES, TIMOTHY JOSEPH | 9 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| FERGUSON, DION | 9 | 87.0% | +8.2% |
| LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 9 | 70.3% | +25.6% |
| GAGNON, GRANT A | 6 | 82.8% | +7.8% |
| VARGHESE, ROSHN K | 5 | 67.5% | +20.6% |
| KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 5 | 62.1% | +27.0% |
| LIAN, ESTHER NGUN HLEI MA | 5 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P | 4 | 86.4% | +19.7% |
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 |
| 18644372 | MULTILAYER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P | 33d |
| 18422752 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 69d |
| 19078538 | MULTILAYER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | — |
| 18973471 | MULTILAYER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | TORRES, TIMOTHY JOSEPH | — |
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 |
| 17995700 | TREATMENT FOR SEPSIS-INDUCED ORGAN DYSFUNCTION | VALLE, ERNESTO | 169d 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 |
| 18316719 | ASSAYS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING A TREATMENT REGIMEN FOR A SUBJECT WITH LEUKEMIA | JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | 134d 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 |
| 18133628 | COIL COMPONENT | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 32d overdue |
| 18439154 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 17d overdue |
| 18134752 | MULTILAYER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT | RAMASWAMY, ARUN | 2d overdue |
| 18099751 | COIL COMPONENT | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 6d |
| 18435160 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD | VARGHESE, ROSHN K | 9d |
| 18039175 | HIGH-STRENGTH HOT-DIP GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET WITH EXCELLENT PLATING QUALITY, STEEL SHEET FOR PLATING, AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREFOR | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 20d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Hyundai Motor Group | 232 |
| LG | 152 |
| Samsung | 144 |
| Tencent | 85 |
| POSCO | 83 |
| CJ Group | 76 |
| ZTE | 41 |
| Zenni Optical Inc. | 40 |
| Asahi Kasei | 36 |
| Mitsubishi Chemical | 32 |
| Tempus | 22 |
| Olympus | 20 |
| Acclarent | 19 |
| POSTECH | 16 |
| Daicel | 16 |
| ALBEA SERVICES | 14 |
| Arkray | 13 |
| Kuraray | 12 |
| Mindray | 10 |
| Dürr Group | 10 |
| Intel | 8 |
| Salesforce | 8 |
| Roborock | 8 |
| SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED | 8 |
| SK Group | 7 |
| Hyundai | 7 |
| EVOLVED BY NATURE, INC. | 7 |
| INSIGHTEC LTD. | 7 |
| Orionis Biosciences BV | 7 |
| SHANGHAI HENGRUI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. | 7 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | 7 |
| Chewy | 6 |
| Shin-Etsu | 6 |
| Takeda | 6 |
| Midea | 6 |
| TAISHO SKY BUILDING, INC. | 6 |
| PAYRANGE LLC | 5 |
| Exo | 5 |
| TENARIS CONNECTIONS B.V. | 5 |
| Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University | 5 |
| ROEN SURGICAL, INC. | 5 |
| WONKWANG UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR INDUSTRY-ACADEMY COOPERATION | 5 |
| Nipomo Native Seeds, LLC | 5 |
| KOREA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION | 5 |
| ROHTO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. | 5 |
| Gentex | 4 |
| Toray | 4 |
| O2 Partners, LLC | 4 |
| Omron | 4 |
| Kewpie | 4 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 28 |
| 2847 | 24 |
| 3791 | 19 |
| 1784 | 18 |
| 3663 | 16 |
| 1733 | 16 |
| 3797 | 15 |
| 2848 | 14 |
| 1725 | 14 |
| 1787 | 13 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19283908 | Untitled | LG Display Co., Ltd. | MERCEDES, DISMERY E | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | ||
| 19056321 | Untitled | Kia Corporation | SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | 3663 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 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 |
| 19535848 | METHOD OF ASSESSING ANTI-PRURITIC ACTIVITY OF A CANINE ANTI-IL-31 ANTIBODY CANDIDATE | Zoetis Services LLC | HOLTZMAN, KATHERINE ANN | 1646 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 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 |
| 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 |
| 19424754 | DISPLAY APPARATUS | LG Display Co., Ltd. | AU, SCOTT D | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 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 |
| 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 |
| 19382113 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ENERGY INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | LG Uplus Corp. | MIAH, LITON | 2642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19481796 | REAL-TIME REMOTE GUIDANCE | Exo Imaging, Inc. | VAN DUZER, ALEXIS KIM | 3682 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19371516 | DISPLAY APPARATUS | LG Display Co., Ltd. | PATEL, PREMAL R | 2624 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 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 |
| 19371544 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING SAME | LG Display Co., Ltd. | GUPTA, PARUL H | 2627 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 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 |
| 19358410 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME | LG Display Co., Ltd. | XIE, KWIN | 2626 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2025 |
| 19357430 | Systems and Methods for Online Anomaly Detection | Chewy, Inc. | SHARON, AYAL I | 3695 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2025 |
| 19474471 | THREADED CONNECTION | Tenaris Connections B.V. | AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 3672 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Oct 10, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 19349793 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GRAPHENE THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE AND GRAPHENE THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE MANUFACTURED THEREBY | Postech Research And Business Development Foundation | MERSHON, JAYNE L | 1721 | §102§103 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 19333776 | STEERING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ELECTRIC POWER STEERING SYSTEM | Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. | PICON-FELICIANO, RUBEN | 3747 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19323553 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF VISUALIZING ULTRASOUND MERGED VOLUME | Samsung Electronics | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 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 |
| 19321145 | DECODER-SIDE INTRA MODE DERIVATION GUIDED BY BLOCK VECTOR WITH ADAPTIVE HISTOGRAM | Tencent America LLC | CHIO, TAT CHI | 2486 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19321146 | SUBBLOCK TRANSFORM FOR INTRA PREDICTION CODING BLOCK | Tencent America LLC | CZEKAJ, DAVID J | 2488 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19319585 | DRIVING OPERATION APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | Ls Automotive Technologies Co., Ltd. | MIRZA, ADNAN M | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
| 19160688 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM | Kia Corporation | VO, TUNG T | 2425 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19313006 | VEHICLE HEIGHT CONTROL METHOD | Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. | VERLEY, NICOLE T | 3614 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19311491 | HYBRID ELECTRO-MECHANICAL BRAKE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. | VILAKAZI, SIZO BINDA | 3747 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 19310821 | SKIP MODE SIGNALING FOR VIDEO CODING | Tencent America LLC | BECKER, JOSEPH W | 2483 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19310801 | Systems And Methods For Tool Activation And Display Cabinet Locking | Payrange LLC | PATEL, NEHA | 3699 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19309453 | VIDEO DECODING METHOD, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE | Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited | WALKER, JARED T | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2025 | |
| 19307470 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND POWER MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | LG Display Co., Ltd. | SHEN, PEIJIE | 2622 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19306166 | CARGO FALLING PREVENTION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD | Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd. | KECK, DANIEL M | 3614 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19306912 | CRISPR/CAS EFFECTOR PROTEIN AND SYSTEM | China Argricultural University | HUDSON, AMY ROSE | 1636 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial89.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP were allowed, across 11,749 applications in USPTO records.
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1,758 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 435 clients, before 1375 examiners in 360 art units.