Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
68 pending office actions • 23 clients • 64 examiners • 49 art units • 0 of 68 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Pierce Atwood LLP has 70 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Its prosecution record covers 1402 career applications, providing a substantial base for interpreting the firm’s current workload. The resolved allowance rate is 85.61%, indicating that most resolved matters in the recorded portfolio reached allowance.
The firm averages 3.22 office actions per allowance. That combination of an 85.61% resolved allowance rate and 3.22 actions per allowance suggests that successful prosecution commonly involves continued examination activity rather than immediate resolution. For a prospective client, the profile supports evaluating both the firm’s experience with a sizeable application portfolio and its approach to managing recurring office-action responses in mechanical and related technologies.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 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. 16 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 | 4 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 11 (16%) |
| §103 only | 23 (34%) |
| §102 only | 2 (3%) |
| §112 only | 2 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 25 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASS, DIRK R | 3 | 62.4% | +22.6% |
| KENIRY, HEATHER J | 2 | 78.1% | +16.7% |
| CESE, KENNY A | 2 | 75.2% | +11.0% |
| BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.4% | +40.2% |
| BROWN, ANTHONY D | 1 | 85.5% | +15.0% |
| VU, JIMMY T | 1 | 86.3% | +7.6% |
| HALIYUR, PADMA | 1 | 86.7% | +13.2% |
| GETACHEW, WODAJO | 1 | 41.3% | +39.1% |
| TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 1 | 81.9% | +11.8% |
| GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 1 | 81.1% | +15.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19285192 | SECURITY MANAGEMENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE | BROWN, ANTHONY D | — |
| 19239104 | DETECTION AND ILLUMINATION OF DARK ZONES VIA COLLABORATIVE LIGHTING | VU, JIMMY T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18503478 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUXILIARY DISPLAY OF HEMODYNAMIC SIGNALS OR INDICATORS | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 35d overdue |
| 17778482 | DIRECTED CHANGES IN ORGANISM POPULATIONS | PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH | 17d overdue |
| 18663237 | USER-SYSTEM DIALOG EXPANSION | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 5d overdue |
| 18168691 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHONEME RECOGNITION | SERROU, ABDELALI | 4d overdue |
| 18072863 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBJECT DETECTION AND PICK ORDER DETERMINATION | KARWAN, SIHAR A | 20d |
| 19079599 | FOOTWEAR OUTSOLE | TRIEU, TIMOTHY K | 29d |
| 17793968 | METHODS OF FUNCTIONALLY SCREENING BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE FRAGMENTS | SCHULTZHAUS, JANNA NICOLE | 34d |
| 18070830 | WAKEWORD DETECTION USING A NEURAL NETWORK | AGAHI, DARIOUSH | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19396752 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 19394162 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 19390832 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 19305992 | BIODEGRADABLE ANALYTE DETECTION DEVICE | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — |
| 19285192 | SECURITY MANAGEMENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE | BROWN, ANTHONY D | — |
| 19188426 | MANAGING REMOTE ACCESS TO IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES | HALIYUR, PADMA | — |
| 19180332 | PRIVACY-PRESERVING AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | GETACHEW, WODAJO | — |
| 19114879 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ATTRIBUTES OF A SOURCE OF RADIATION | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 6 |
| 3658 | 4 |
| 1779 | 3 |
| 2659 | 3 |
| 2655 | 2 |
| 2656 | 2 |
| 3656 | 2 |
| 2663 | 2 |
| 2657 | 2 |
| 3785 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19396752 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | Woodard & Curran, Inc. | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19394162 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | Woodard & Curran, Inc. | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2025 |
| 19390832 | NANOPARTICLE-ENTRAINED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE-COATED MOBILE CARRIERS, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING SAME TO TREAT CONTAMINATED WATER | Woodard & Curran, Inc. | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2025 |
| 19305992 | BIODEGRADABLE ANALYTE DETECTION DEVICE | Hoopsy Ltd. | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1797 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19285192 | SECURITY MANAGEMENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE | Simplisafe, Inc. | BROWN, ANTHONY D | 2408 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19239104 | DETECTION AND ILLUMINATION OF DARK ZONES VIA COLLABORATIVE LIGHTING | Simplisafe, Inc. | VU, JIMMY T | 2845 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19188426 | MANAGING REMOTE ACCESS TO IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES | Simplisafe, Inc. | HALIYUR, PADMA | 2639 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19180332 | PRIVACY-PRESERVING AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM | Via Science, Inc. | GETACHEW, WODAJO | 3697 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19114879 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ATTRIBUTES OF A SOURCE OF RADIATION | UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER | TOOHEY, RICHARD ORLANDO | 2884 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19086243 | ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR WITH TACTILE SENSING | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 3657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19079599 | FOOTWEAR OUTSOLE | Amg-Asia Pte. Ltd. | TRIEU, TIMOTHY K | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19069393 | SENDING MEDIA COMMENTS USING A NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | SIDDO, IBRAHIM | 2681 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19059515 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DIGITAL ENTITIES | BLOCKCHAINS, INC. | JAMSHIDI, GHODRAT | 2431 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19040953 | DYNAMIC MASS ESTIMATION METHODS FOR AN INTEGRATED MOBILE MANIPULATOR ROBOT | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | KENIRY, HEATHER J | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19036913 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING ESCALATION FOR A MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT DEVICE | Abiomed, Inc. | TIEDEMAN, JASON S | 3683 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19033851 | TEXT SUMMARIZATION TECHNIQUES | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | CASTILLO-TORRES, KEISHA Y | 2659 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18997337 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFIABLE APPROVAL | BLOCKCHAINS, INC. | TOLENTINO, RODERICK | 2439 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19017979 | VIRTUAL CONVERSATIONAL COMPANION | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | KIM, JONATHAN C | 2655 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19007775 | CONFIGURING APPLICATIONS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19006484 | MOTOR FOR A MOBILE ROBOT | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | NGUYEN, VIET P | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18985185 | WAKEWORD DETECTION USING A SECONDARY MICROPHONE | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | SHAH, PARAS D | 2653 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18985145 | PROACTIVE SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT OUTPUT | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | ZHANG, LESHUI | 2695 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18975766 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING ROBOT ACTUATORS USING IMAGE DATA | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | KENIRY, HEATHER J | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18961655 | CONTENT MODERATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SYSTEMS | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | LEE, EUNICE SOMIN | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18938800 | NONLINEAR TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION FOR ROBOTIC DEVICES | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18895662 | BIOMETRIC DATA PROCESSING FOR A SECURITY SYSTEM | Simplisafe, Inc. | CESE, KENNY A | 2663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18894912 | BIOMETRIC DATA PROCESSING FOR A SECURITY SYSTEM | Simplisafe, Inc. | CESE, KENNY A | 2663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18887462 | VOICE CUSTOMIZATION FOR SYNTHETIC SPEECH GENERATION | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | SERRAGUARD, SEAN ERIN | 2657 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18823176 | USER-CUSTOMIZED SYNTHETIC VOICE | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | PATEL, SHREYANS A | 2659 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18813912 | AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE ORDER PICKING | Hummingbird Ip Holdco, LLC | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18812211 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING DECOUPLING DURING NON-CARDIAC MEDICAL PROCEDURES | Abiomed, Inc. | GANESAN, SUBA | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18838671 | USE OF SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE FOR THE TREATMENT AND/OR PREVENTION OF ALLERGIC ASTHMA | Isocell S.A.S. | JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE | 1656 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18805859 | FACEMASK HEADGEAR FRAMES | Sleepnet Corporation | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 3785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18832206 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | Red Sensors Limited | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18779146 | BINDER COMPOSITION AND METHOD COMPRISING MICROFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE AND RECYCLED CELLULOSIC MATERIALS | Fiberlean Technologies Limited | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 1748 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18758024 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING POSE AND SIZE OF OBJECTS USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MACHINE LEARNING | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | LE, TIEN MINH | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18754780 | MESSAGING FROM A SHARED DEVICE | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | MANOHARAN, SHASHIDHAR SHANKAR | 2655 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18679613 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OBJECT QUALITY DETECTION | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | 3665 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18663237 | USER-SYSTEM DIALOG EXPANSION | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | JACKSON, JAKIEDA R | 2657 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18643609 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED TARGETED NON-INVASIVE STIMULATION TO A BRAIN NETWORK | Sinaptica Therapeutics, Inc. | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18415096 | MODULAR POCKET SYSTEM | Future Sound And Vision Ltd. | MASSAD, ABE L | 3634 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18408191 | SYSTEM FOR THE DIRECTED EVOLUTION OF BIOMOLECULES IN MULTI-BODY COMPLEXES | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | 1684 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18401970 | VOICE TO VOICE NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING PROCESSING | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | HOQUE, NAFIZ E | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18545124 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LIDAR ALIGNMENT AND CALIBRATION | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | GO, RICKY | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18545559 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING MULTIPATH ARTIFACTS FOR A CAMERA SYSTEM OF A MOBILE ROBOT | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | RHIM, WOO CHUL | 2676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18545050 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED CEILING DETECTION | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | TANG, BRYANT | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18541021 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR A ROBOTIC DEVICE | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18541239 | ROBOTIC MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18533661 | DIAGNOSIS OF BARTONELLA USING RECOMBINANT PROTEINS | Id-Fish Technology, Inc. | NGUYEN, NAM P | 1678 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18503478 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUXILIARY DISPLAY OF HEMODYNAMIC SIGNALS OR INDICATORS | Abiomed, Inc. | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial85.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Pierce Atwood LLP were allowed, across 1,402 applications in USPTO records.
3.22 office actions per allowed application on average.
68 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 23 clients, before 64 examiners in 49 art units.
