Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 4 clients • 14 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Quicker Law, LLC has a history of 215 career applications, primarily in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm currently manages 12 pending office actions, which represents its active workload in this technical field. This level of activity indicates that the firm is actively engaged in responding to examiner concerns for its current client base in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The firm's resolved allowance rate pct stands at 59.68 for its 215 career applications. On average, the firm requires 3.51 office actions per allowance to secure a patent grant. This figure of 3.51 avg office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for the expected duration of the prosecution process. The 59.68 resolved allowance rate pct suggests a more challenging prosecution environment or a more aggressive filing strategy that results in a lower percentage of granted patents compared to other firms.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (35%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 4 (24%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 2 | 71.1% | +17.0% |
| ZHAO, AIYING | 2 | 48.4% | +42.1% |
| DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA | 2 | 74.4% | +12.4% |
| DURHAM, NATHAN E | 1 | 65.9% | +17.4% |
| GERGISO, TECHANE | 1 | 84.6% | +24.1% |
| FAN, CHIEH M | 1 | 48.5% | +13.4% |
| WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1 | 52.9% | +42.1% |
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.2% |
| PHILLIPS, SAVANNAH GRACE | 1 | — | — |
| CELSA, BENNETT M | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18998676 | Method and Device for Radio Communication of Encrypted PPM Signals | GERGISO, TECHANE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19152556 | Linking Method, Particularly for Closing an Axial End of a Tubular Manufacture | DURHAM, NATHAN E | — |
| 18704547 | Encapsulation of Flame Retardant Agents by Atomic Layer Deposition for Improved Flame Retardant Formulations | PHILLIPS, SAVANNAH GRACE | — |
| 18702830 | Continuous Methods for Forming Methylene Urea-Isobutylene Diurea Granules | CELSA, BENNETT M | — |
| 18685260 | Thermoplastic Compositions Including Low Dielectric Carbon Black as a Signal Transmission Component | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | — |
| 18576420 | Polycarbonate Compositions Having Improved Impact Properties | QIAO, HUIHONG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711303 | Fertilizer Composition Including Multi-Micronutrients | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 8d |
| 18862377 | Device and Method for Radio Transmission of Local Measurements of Physical Values, Particularly by Way of Quasi-Gaussian PPM Pulses | FAN, CHIEH M | 13d |
| 18021440 | Compositions and Articles of Wave Transmission and Improved Dimensional Radar Cover Material | DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA | 22d |
| 18869532 | Thermoplastic Compositions Having High Metal Bonding Force for NMT Applications | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 69d |
| 19152556 | Linking Method, Particularly for Closing an Axial End of a Tubular Manufacture | DURHAM, NATHAN E | — |
| 18998676 | Method and Device for Radio Communication of Encrypted PPM Signals | GERGISO, TECHANE | — |
| 18711373 | Methods of Making Urea Calcium Sulfate (UCS) Using High Shear Mixing | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
| 18570777 | Electrically Conductive Compositions Including Carbon Fiber-Filled Semi-Crystalline Polymers | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SABIC | 11 |
| Lonati | 3 |
| STE INDUSTRIES S.R.L. | 2 |
| Airway Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 3 |
| 1763 | 2 |
| 2408 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 2632 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19152556 | Linking Method, Particularly for Closing an Axial End of a Tubular Manufacture | Lonati S.p.A. | DURHAM, NATHAN E | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 18998676 | Method and Device for Radio Communication of Encrypted PPM Signals | Ste Industries S.r.l. | GERGISO, TECHANE | 2408 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18869532 | Thermoplastic Compositions Having High Metal Bonding Force for NMT Applications | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18862377 | Device and Method for Radio Transmission of Local Measurements of Physical Values, Particularly by Way of Quasi-Gaussian PPM Pulses | Ste Industries S.r.l. | FAN, CHIEH M | 2632 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18711303 | Fertilizer Composition Including Multi-Micronutrients | Sabic Agri-Nutrients Company | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1612 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18711373 | Methods of Making Urea Calcium Sulfate (UCS) Using High Shear Mixing | Sabic Agri-Nutrients Company | LANGEL, WAYNE A | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 | |
| 18704547 | Encapsulation of Flame Retardant Agents by Atomic Layer Deposition for Improved Flame Retardant Formulations | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | PHILLIPS, SAVANNAH GRACE | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 | |
| 18702830 | Continuous Methods for Forming Methylene Urea-Isobutylene Diurea Granules | Sabic Agri-Nutrients Company | CELSA, BENNETT M | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 | |
| 18685260 | Thermoplastic Compositions Including Low Dielectric Carbon Black as a Signal Transmission Component | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 | |
| 18576420 | Polycarbonate Compositions Having Improved Impact Properties | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | QIAO, HUIHONG | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 | |
| 18570777 | Electrically Conductive Compositions Including Carbon Fiber-Filled Semi-Crystalline Polymers | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 | |
| 18567549 | Sustainable Flame Retardant Glass-Filled Polyester Compositions | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | XU, JIANGTIAN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 | |
| 18565114 | Circular Knitting Machine for Hosiery or the Like and Method for Producing a Tubular Manufacture | Lonati S.p.A. | ZHAO, AIYING | 3732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18266209 | Thermoplastic Compositions With Low Dissipation Factor For Nano Molding Technology (NMT) Applications | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA | 1763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18021440 | Compositions and Articles of Wave Transmission and Improved Dimensional Radar Cover Material | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA | 1763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
| 18015665 | METHOD FOR CLOSING A KNITTED TUBULAR ARTICLE AT AN AXIAL END THEREOF | Lonati S.p.A. | ZHAO, AIYING | 3732 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2023 |
| 17920245 | Use of Surfactant Protein D to Treat Viral Infections | Airway Therapeutics, Inc. | LEE, JAE W | 1656 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2022 |
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