Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
22 pending office actions • 10 clients • 22 examiners • 18 art units • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC has 23 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 2,875 career applications. The profile reflects an active chemistry and materials docket supported by a substantial historical record.
The resolved allowance rate is 83.45%, and the average office actions per allowance is 3.37. The allowance result indicates that most resolved matters reached allowance, while the action average shows that allowed matters commonly required multiple examination exchanges.
Practitioners should examine how composition, formulation, and materials claims were differentiated from the cited art and supported during prosecution. The current docket also warrants review for recurring issues that could affect response consistency and claim scope across related matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (5%) |
| §103 only | 10 (45%) |
| §102 only | 2 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, ANH | 1 | 79.0% | +25.0% |
| ALSOMIRI, ISAM A | 1 | 66.8% | +23.2% |
| JAVAID, JAMAL | 1 | 88.5% | +5.9% |
| EYASSU, MARRIT | 1 | 74.2% | +15.0% |
| LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 1 | 64.1% | +33.8% |
| IVANOVA, SVETLANA M | 1 | 50.9% | +51.8% |
| BASQUILL, SEAN M | 1 | 38.8% | +21.7% |
| HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1 | 50.7% | +39.2% |
| BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | 1 | 76.0% | +28.3% |
| WHITE, KIA XIONG | 1 | 67.3% | +42.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904994 | Selective Listening with Matter over Wi-Fi | JAVAID, JAMAL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099486 | SURVEYING SYSTEM, SURVEYING METHOD, AND SURVEYING PROGRAM | ALSOMIRI, ISAM A | — |
| 18853691 | Multi-Use Sensor Holder | EYASSU, MARRIT | — |
| 18903444 | VACUUM PUMP WITH INTAKE FITTING | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | — |
| 18685373 | IGZO SPUTTERING TARGET | BAND, MICHAEL A | — |
| 18415868 | Apparatus And Method For Inductive Heating Of Coated Web Substrates During Process Operations | PENCE, JETHRO M | — |
| 18521379 | Quality Indicator for High Accuracy Distance Measurements | WOLFORD, NAOMI M | — |
| 18286790 | Methods And Apparatus To Generate Macroscopic Fock And Other Sub-Poissonian States Of Radiation | HAGAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18231529 | Nonlinear Bound States in the Continuum for Intensity Squeezing and Generation of Large Photonic Fock States | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19055707 | System and Method for Seamless Integration of Mesh Networking Protocols, Sub-Gigahertz Band Communication, and BLE Location Technologies for Enhanced IoT Connectivity and Localization | NGUYEN, ANH | — |
| 19099486 | SURVEYING SYSTEM, SURVEYING METHOD, AND SURVEYING PROGRAM | ALSOMIRI, ISAM A | — |
| 18853691 | Multi-Use Sensor Holder | EYASSU, MARRIT | — |
| 18903444 | VACUUM PUMP WITH INTAKE FITTING | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | — |
| 18845717 | PEST CONTROLLING AGENT | IVANOVA, SVETLANA M | — |
| 18845312 | AGROCHEMICAL EMULSIFIABLE COMPOSITION | BASQUILL, SEAN M | — |
| 18843615 | AGRICULTURE COMPOSITION | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — |
| 18724974 | STERILE FLUIDIC CONNECTOR WITH RECONNECTABLE CONNECTORS AND METHOD OF ASEPTIC CONNECTION | BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Silicon Laboratories Inc. | 5 |
| TOPCON CORPORATION | 3 |
| NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 3 |
| MIT | 3 |
| MERCK PATENT GMBH | 2 |
| Durr | 2 |
| Uniweld Products, Inc. | 1 |
| MilliporeSigma | 1 |
| Difusion, Inc. | 1 |
| ENEOS | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 3 |
| 1627 | 2 |
| 1776 | 2 |
| 2458 | 1 |
| 2412 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19055707 | System and Method for Seamless Integration of Mesh Networking Protocols, Sub-Gigahertz Band Communication, and BLE Location Technologies for Enhanced IoT Connectivity and Localization | Silicon Laboratories Inc. | NGUYEN, ANH | 2458 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19099486 | SURVEYING SYSTEM, SURVEYING METHOD, AND SURVEYING PROGRAM | Topcon Corporation | ALSOMIRI, ISAM A | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18904994 | Selective Listening with Matter over Wi-Fi | Silicon Laboratories Inc. | JAVAID, JAMAL | 2412 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18853691 | Multi-Use Sensor Holder | Merck Patent GmbH | EYASSU, MARRIT | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18903444 | VACUUM PUMP WITH INTAKE FITTING | Uniweld Products, Inc. | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18845717 | PEST CONTROLLING AGENT | Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha | IVANOVA, SVETLANA M | 1627 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18845312 | AGROCHEMICAL EMULSIFIABLE COMPOSITION | Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha | BASQUILL, SEAN M | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18843615 | AGRICULTURE COMPOSITION | Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1627 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18724974 | STERILE FLUIDIC CONNECTOR WITH RECONNECTABLE CONNECTORS AND METHOD OF ASEPTIC CONNECTION | Emd Millipore Corporation | BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18753329 | SILICONE-BASED IMPLANTS WITH EARLY PREFERENTIAL POLARIZATION TOWARDS AN M2 PHENOTYPE POST-IMPLANTATION | Difusion, Inc. | WHITE, KIA XIONG | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18675227 | Linking RAM Code and Data with Multiple RAM Aliases | Silicon Laboratories Inc. | PINGA, JASON MICHAEL | 2137 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18685373 | IGZO SPUTTERING TARGET | JX Metals Corporation | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18415868 | Apparatus And Method For Inductive Heating Of Coated Web Substrates During Process Operations | Durr Systems, Inc. | PENCE, JETHRO M | 1717 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18521379 | Quality Indicator for High Accuracy Distance Measurements | Silicon Laboratories Inc. | WOLFORD, NAOMI M | 3648 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18286790 | Methods And Apparatus To Generate Macroscopic Fock And Other Sub-Poissonian States Of Radiation | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | HAGAN, SEAN P | 2828 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18231529 | Nonlinear Bound States in the Continuum for Intensity Squeezing and Generation of Large Photonic Fock States | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | PETKOVSEK, DANIEL | 2874 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 18038265 | Water Purification System With Inline Measurement Of Total Organic Carbon And Method Of Operating Such System | Merck Patent GmbH | KEYWORTH, PETER | 1777 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18115431 | SURVEYING INSTRUMENT | Topcon Corporation | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 17989257 | COOPERATIVE NETWORK DEVICES | Silicon Laboratories Inc. | WHITAKER, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 2415 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
| 17921214 | WESP Collection Electrode Insert Or Extension | Durr Systems, Inc. | TURNER, SONJI | 1776 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2022 |
| 17950221 | SURVEYING SYSTEM | Topcon Corporation | HAUT, EVAN HARRISON | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
| 17792827 | Control Of Cleanup Engine In A Biomass Conversion System | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial83.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC were allowed, across 2,875 applications in USPTO records.
3.37 office actions per allowed application on average.
22 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 10 clients, before 22 examiners in 18 art units.
