Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
66 pending office actions • 20 clients • 66 examiners • 56 art units • 0 of 66 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 334 patents granted in the last 365 days
QUINN IP Law works in Chemistry & Materials and has 67 pending office actions. The firm reports 13110 career applications, a resolved allowance rate of 88.55%, and an average of 2.82 office actions per allowance.
The allowance rate shows that a substantial share of resolved applications reached allowance, while the office-action measure indicates that allowed matters typically involved multiple examination events. The pending docket is part of a large reported application portfolio, giving the active workload a broad historical context without identifying the distribution among specific clients or technologies.
Practitioners can use this record to frame expectations for chemistry and materials prosecution, particularly the relationship between persistence through office actions and eventual allowance. The aggregate figures do not replace matter-level review of claim scope, prior art, or prosecution history.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 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. 20 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 + other | 3 (5%) |
| §103 only | 26 (39%) |
| §102 only | 5 (8%) |
| §112 only | 2 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 28 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOU, SHIEN MING | 1 | 59.6% | +27.7% |
| TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | 1 | 81.4% | +19.1% |
| MILLER, PRESTON JAY | 1 | 54.2% | +24.4% |
| ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 1 | 29.7% | +57.2% |
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1 | 27.8% | +4.3% |
| NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 1 | 66.0% | +19.9% |
| HERRING, BRENT W | 1 | 69.0% | +16.5% |
| MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | 1 | 70.0% | +24.5% |
| SINGH, KAVEL | 1 | 83.7% | +14.0% |
| HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 1 | 80.7% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18946003 | Untitled | TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | — |
| 19059710 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING MOTION PROFILE DATA FOR A TRANSPORT SYSTEM | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18086158 | OBJECT DETECTION USING CONVOLUTION NEURAL NETWORKS WITH SPATIALLY INVARIANT REFLECTIVE-INTENSITY DATA | JENKINS, KIMBERLY YVETTE | 147d overdue |
| 17894687 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A LOW-RESISTANCE HIGH-LOADING LITHIUM-ION BATTERY CELL | LIN, GIGI LEE | 147d overdue |
| 18765960 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DISTRIBUTE, SYNCHRONIZE AND RESET EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS USER CREDENTIALS FOR REMOTE DEVICES | EDWARDS, LINGLAN E | 42d overdue |
| 18423540 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING IMAGES WITH ABERRATIONS BASED ON RAY TRACING | LE, JOHNNY TRAN | 7d |
| 18315201 | FLUIDIC COOLANT SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR A FUEL CELL STACK | YUSIF, HUNSUYADOR MUGEESATU | 7d |
| 19351657 | VAPORIZER DEVICE | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 14d |
| 18539141 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SCREENING ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 28d |
| 18166823 | BATTERY CELL INCLUDING A CONDUCTIVE LAYER AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | NEWELL, ANNA GOULD | 39d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18810755 | Untitled | CHOU, SHIEN MING | — |
| 18946003 | Untitled | TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | — |
| 18911432 | Untitled | MILLER, PRESTON JAY | — |
| 19377436 | SMART AUTONOMOUS TOWER SYSTEM FOR INSECT EXTERMINATION AND MONITORING | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | — |
| 19096784 | STARTING AN OBSTACLE DETECTION TECHNIQUE | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | — |
| 19077602 | SYNTHETIC ROOF TILES WITH REINFORCING RIB STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | HERRING, BRENT W | — |
| 19107339 | FLOORING TILE WITH INTERLOCKING CONNECTORS | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | — |
| 19059710 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING MOTION PROFILE DATA FOR A TRANSPORT SYSTEM | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| 2613 | 2 |
| 1784 | 2 |
| 3785 | 2 |
| 3648 | 2 |
| 2645 | 2 |
| 1789 | 2 |
| 1726 | 2 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18810755 | Untitled | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | CHOU, SHIEN MING | 3667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 18946003 | Untitled | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 18911432 | Untitled | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | MILLER, PRESTON JAY | 3661 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19377436 | SMART AUTONOMOUS TOWER SYSTEM FOR INSECT EXTERMINATION AND MONITORING | Tecsoil Automação E Sistemas S.A. | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 3643 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2025 |
| 19351657 | VAPORIZER DEVICE | Shenzhen Yibo Technology, Co., Ltd. | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19096784 | STARTING AN OBSTACLE DETECTION TECHNIQUE | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 3675 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19077602 | SYNTHETIC ROOF TILES WITH REINFORCING RIB STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | Pontiac Trail Products, LLC | HERRING, BRENT W | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 | |
| 19107339 | FLOORING TILE WITH INTERLOCKING CONNECTORS | Tarkett Gdl | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19059710 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING MOTION PROFILE DATA FOR A TRANSPORT SYSTEM | Schneider Electric Industries SAS | SINGH, KAVEL | 3651 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19042279 | ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR A FLOOR PROCESSING MACHINE | Slurrymonster, LLC | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19017381 | MOBILE MEMORY MODULE FOR ELECTRICAL TRANSFER SWITCH | Asco Power Technologies, L.P. | CHOWDHURY, ROCKSHANA D | 2836 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19015992 | DYNAMIC LIGHT SENSOR AUGMENTED IMAGE ENHANCEMENT | VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | CREARY, LATRELL ANTHONY | 2613 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19016057 | TRUE COLOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT COMPENSATION | VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | HAKALA, ALAN GREGORY | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19015987 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT FRAMEWORK | VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 2613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19011139 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURING KEYLESS ENTRY SYSTEM AGAINST RELAY ATTACK | Enterprise Electronics LLC | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18976670 | FIELD BUS SYSTEM | Schneider Electric Industries SAS | SYED, NABIL H | 2686 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18872970 | ELECTRICAL ENCLOSURE FOR JOINTS AND TERMINATIONS | Schneider Electric Industries SAS | MATEY, MICHAEL A | 2841 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18968015 | COMPOSITE SANDWICH PANEL ASSEMBLY CONTAINING FIBER OPTIC | Csp Innovations, Inc. | OMORI, MARY I | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18955180 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CALIBRATING THE DEMODULATION OF DATA MODULATED BY MODULATING THE AMPLITUDE OF A LIGHT SIGNAL EMITTED BY A LIGHT SOURCE | Schneider Electric Industries SAS | LEE, JAI M | 2634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18951770 | DISTRIBUTED INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEMS | Schneider Electric Industries SAS | ALI, MOHAMMAD | 2119 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18933124 | HIDDEN CAMERA SUBSYSTEM THAT MONITORS A DRIVER OF A VEHICLE | VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | LEE, MICHAEL | 2422 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18929066 | TONGUE STRENGTH EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | Nfant Labs, Inc. | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 | |
| 18903431 | DISTRIBUTED NETWORK WITH ROBUST FAULT INDICATION CONTAINMENT AND SOFTWARE REVISION CONTROL METHOD | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | KABIR, MOHAMMAD H | 2192 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18806806 | IN MOLD PAINTING OF LIGHTWEIGHT CORE STRUCTURE ASSEMBLY WITH VEHICLE EXTERIOR SURFACE FINISH | Csp Innovations, LLC | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18787921 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING ASSETS IN AUTOMATED AND INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS | Schneider Electric | LU, HUA | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18785504 | CLAMP MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ERROR PROOFING HOSE CLAMP INSTALLATION | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | SWARTZ, STEPHEN S | 3625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18771286 | JOINT MANIPULATION DEVICE AND METHOD | Movement Medical LLC | KHONG, BRIAN THAI-BINH | 3785 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18765960 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DISTRIBUTE, SYNCHRONIZE AND RESET EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS USER CREDENTIALS FOR REMOTE DEVICES | Schneider Electric (Australia) Pty Ltd. | EDWARDS, LINGLAN E | 2408 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18739669 | METHOD OF DESCALING TANKLESS WATER HEATERS | Rinnai America Corporation | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18736724 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18670230 | REGENERATION OF A CHEMICAL SENSOR | The Regents of the University of California | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1795 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18661012 | ROLLER OFFSET FORMING TOOL AND METHOD OF MITIGATING DISTORTION IN A METAL SHEET | Korea Advanced Institute Of Science & Technology | BROWN, JARED O | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18655817 | CABIN WARM-UP USING RESTRICTED AIRFLOW IN HEAT PUMP-BASED HEATING, VENTILATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18626421 | ABSOLUTE TIME IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM | Schneider Electric Industries SAS | ASHLEY, HUGH MARK | 2463 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18611906 | ELECTROLYTE FORMULATION FOR BATTERIES | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | NAKDALI, RENAD | 1745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18596224 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING CONDITION OF ORGAN DURING TRANSPORT, TRANSPLANT, AND ARTIFICIALLY DIVERTED RECIRCULATORY PATHWAYS | Rce Technologies, Inc. | SINGH, ANOOP KUMAR | 1632 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18423701 | PRESSURE VESSEL | Schneider Electric Industries SAS | ALONZO MILLER, RHADAMES J | 2847 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18423540 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING IMAGES WITH ABERRATIONS BASED ON RAY TRACING | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | LE, JOHNNY TRAN | 2614 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18411770 | COMMUNICATION IN MULTI-CARRIER SYSTEMS, LINEAR MOTORS, TRANSPORT DEVICES | Schneider Electric Industries SAS | AGARED, GABRIEL T | 2846 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18406469 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A VEHICLE BLIND ZONE | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18539141 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SCREENING ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS | Schneider Electric | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18533361 | TOOL TO GUIDE INSTALLERS IN SETTING UP CONNECTED DEVICES(IOT)/SYSTEMS FOR EFFICIENT AND OPTIMAL NETWORK CREATION/UTILIZATION AND PREVENTION OF NETWORK- RELATED ISSUES IN THE FUTURE | Schneider Electric Buildings Americas, Inc. | DEAN, RAYMOND S | 2645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18566208 | PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING MEMBRANE ELEMENTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18490412 | SCALABLE MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR BATTERY CELLS WITH STACKED ELECTRODES | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 4100 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18475363 | BATTERY ASSEMBLY STATE-OF-CHARGE ESTIMATION | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY | 2857 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18458314 | MAGNETIC JOINT ASSEMBLIES FOR ACTIVE-PASSIVE ROBOTIC EXOSKELETON SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | Motion Augmented LLC | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18366016 | PROTECTED MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY FOR FUEL CELL | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | JONES, OLIVIA ANN | 1789 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18354018 | BATTERY ANODE WITH ALTERNATING ACTIVE LAYERS | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | OSTWALT, ALEXIS ROSE | 1789 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18350126 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A FUEL CELL STACK | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | DOVE, TRACY MAE | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18343042 | ANODE VOID SPACE BURNOUT FOR HIGH-CONTENT SILICON CARBON ANODES FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | 1727 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 82d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial88.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Quinn Ip Law were allowed, across 13,110 applications in USPTO records.
2.82 office actions per allowed application on average.
66 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 20 clients, before 66 examiners in 56 art units.
