Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
398 pending office actions • 123 clients • 370 examiners • 217 art units • 0 of 398 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP handles Chemistry & Materials matters and has 398 pending office actions. The firm reports 18164 career applications, an 88.27% resolved allowance rate, and an average of 2.7 office actions per allowance.
The pending-action figure indicates a large active prosecution workload within a broad application portfolio. The allowance rate shows that a substantial majority of resolved applications reached allowance, while the office-action average indicates that allowed matters typically required repeated examination responses.
For chemistry and materials clients, the record supports planning for both significant docket activity and continued engagement through examination. These aggregate figures provide portfolio context, but they do not establish the expected result for a particular claim set, technology, or examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 103 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. 103 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 | 9 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 36 (9%) |
| §103 only | 141 (35%) |
| §102 only | 27 (7%) |
| §112 only | 17 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 8 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 159 (40%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, PIN JAN | 4 | 65.4% | +44.0% |
| MURPHY, RYAN PATRICK | 3 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 2 | 84.3% | +21.8% |
| KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 2 | 74.4% | +57.1% |
| DAVIS, CASSANDRA HOPE | 2 | 59.3% | +25.8% |
| LEMBO, AARON LLOYD | 2 | 81.1% | +13.5% |
| CATO, MIYA J | 2 | 76.8% | +12.5% |
| ZILBERING, ASSAF | 2 | 35.3% | +27.6% |
| AHMED, SHAMIM | 2 | 78.5% | +22.1% |
| LEE, JONG SUK | 2 | 20.6% | +25.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18997265 | ASSEMBLY FOR A TURBINE ENGINE | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18284936 | POSITIVE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, ENERGY STORAGE UNIT, AND ENERGY STORAGE APPARATUS | MURPHY, RYAN PATRICK | — |
| 18547548 | BATTERY PACK | MURPHY, RYAN PATRICK | — |
| 18547547 | BATTERY PACK | MURPHY, RYAN PATRICK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18432120 | MOVING OBJECT | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 113d overdue |
| 18681906 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR SUPPORTING THE OBSERVATION OF AN ABNORMALITY IN A BODY PORTION | WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 84d overdue |
| 18877477 | CLINICAL TRIAL ASSISTANCE METHOD AND CLINICAL TRIAL ASSISTANCE SYSTEM | LAGOY, KYRA RAND | 73d overdue |
| 17552620 | DEVICE FOR SEEDING CELLS | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 58d overdue |
| 18926988 | AIR-VEHICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 50d overdue |
| 18014872 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE METABOLIC ACTIVITY OF A NON-CANCER CELL | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 42d overdue |
| 18460230 | DRIVER SUPPORT SYSTEM, DRIVER SUPPORT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DRIVER SUPPORT PROGRAM | FARINA, MICHAEL VINCENT | 31d overdue |
| 18640473 | METHOD FOR SIZING STUBS OF A BLADE DISC OF A TURBOMACHINE INTENDED FOR ORBITAL WELDING | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 25d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18087497 | FUEL CELL POWER PLANT | WANG, PIN JAN | 76d |
| 18087389 | FUEL CELL POWER PLANT | WANG, PIN JAN | 79d |
| 18087541 | FUEL CELL POWER PLANT VOLTAGE CHANNEL | WANG, PIN JAN | 83d |
| 19365439 | COOLING STRUCTURE | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 19143599 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY FILLING AND CAPPING CONTAINERS | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | — |
| 19143054 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLOSING CONTAINERS | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | — |
| 19180516 | SIGN MOUNTING SYSTEM AND ELONGATED SIGN MOUNTING MEMBER THEREFOR | DAVIS, CASSANDRA HOPE | — |
| 19073401 | EXTERIOR A-PILLAR GARNISH TUNABLE GASKET | LEMBO, AARON LLOYD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 10 |
| 1725 | 7 |
| 2859 | 7 |
| 1717 | 7 |
| 1791 | 5 |
| 1693 | 5 |
| 1752 | 5 |
| 3628 | 4 |
| 3745 | 4 |
| 3731 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19461011 | TRANSPORTATION TICKETING SYSTEM | Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. | ELCHANTI, ZEINA | 3628 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2026 |
| 19404121 | PROPELLER DEVICE | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | GREEN, RICHARD R | 3647 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2025 |
| 19381188 | Method for safely feeding loads to a robot | Inxpect S.p.A. | TRAN, DALENA | 3657 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19365439 | COOLING STRUCTURE | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2025 |
| 19474476 | APPARATUS FOR FILLING AND CLOSING CONTAINERS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD | I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19333943 | GAZE DETECTION APPARATUS, GAZE DETECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | YENKE, BRIAN P | 2422 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19166302 | WEARING ASSISTANCE TOOL AND WEARING ASSISTANCE KIT FOR ELASTIC STOCKING, AND WEARING PREPARATION METHOD AND WEARING METHOD FOR ELASTIC STOCKING | National University Corporation Hamamatsu University School Of Medicine | DURHAM, NATHAN E | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19331322 | DENTAL HANDPIECE | Nakanishi Inc. | APONTE, MIRAYDA ARLENE | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19164951 | SADDLED VEHICLE | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | GYLLSTROM, BRYON T | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2025 |
| 19303539 | DISPLAY CONTROLLER, METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY CONTROLLER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | MICHAUD, ROBERT J | 2622 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2025 |
| 19269468 | LUBRICATION MECHANISM | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | HASAN, SYED O | 3747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 18857271 | OPTIMISED AIR-OIL HEAT EXCHANGER | SAFRAN | WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 3741 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19143599 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY FILLING AND CAPPING CONTAINERS | I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19143054 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CLOSING CONTAINERS | I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19230760 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURE FILE STORAGE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | Qnap Systems, Inc. | MIRZA, ABDUL HAFEEZ | 2431 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19225464 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | THERRIEN, CARLA J | 2852 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19223713 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND TERMINAL DEVICE | Konica Minolta, Inc. | GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D | 2496 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19217867 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | Yokogawa Electric Corporation | KO, TONY | 2878 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19213286 | ACTION SUGGESTION SYSTEM AND ACTION SUGGESTION METHOD | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | HOLMAN, JOHN D | 3667 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19206907 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM EJECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | HEREDIA OCASIO, ARLENE J | 2852 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19203750 | RECORDING MEDIUM, IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE GENERATION SUPPORTING METHOD | Konica Minolta, Inc. | GALERA, PATRICK PAUL CONTRER | 2617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19180516 | SIGN MOUNTING SYSTEM AND ELONGATED SIGN MOUNTING MEMBER THEREFOR | Lind Signspring Group, LLC | DAVIS, CASSANDRA HOPE | 3631 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19180627 | RESIN-MOLDED ARTICLE | Moriroku Co., Ltd. | TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA | 2876 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19117727 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING A PERSON INCORPORATING HEART RATE VARIABILITY MONITORING SENSOR | Tectraum, Inc. | BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19092533 | DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | Asahi Golf Co., Ltd. | HELLNER, MARK | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19114587 | INJECTOR FOR DE-ICING DEVICE FOR AN AIR INTAKE OF AN AIRCRAFT TURBOJET NACELLE, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | SAFRAN | ZOHOORI, COLIN NAYSAN MISHA | 3642 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19084607 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, MOVING OBJECT, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19083053 | IMAGE MEASURING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM | Mitutoyo Corporation | SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL | 2877 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19081743 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | Yokogawa Electric Corporation | SUN, MICHAEL | 2183 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19080149 | MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | WANG, CLAIRE X | 1774 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19078672 | MEDICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MEDICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MEDICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Konica Minolta, Inc. | SIMONETTI, NICHOLAS J | 2137 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19110237 | CHARGER SEARCH DEVICE, CHARGER SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | KHUU, IRENE C | 3664 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19073401 | EXTERIOR A-PILLAR GARNISH TUNABLE GASKET | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | LEMBO, AARON LLOYD | 3672 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19072640 | MANAGEMENT SERVER, ROBOT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND ROBOT MANAGEMENT METHOD | Yokogawa Electric Corporation | NGUYEN, BAO LONG T | 3656 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19108846 | LAMP UNIT | Koito Maufacturing Co., Ltd. | CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19069969 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, VISUALIZATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | Yokogawa Electric Corporation | ROBINSON, TERRELL M | 2614 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19107847 | SUSPENSION CONTROL SYSTEM AND SUSPENSION CONTROL METHOD | Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. | GILBERTSON, SHAYNE M | 3665 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19107277 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR | Sanden Corporation | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19107280 | INVERTER-INTEGRATED ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | Sanden Corporation | COMINGS, DANIEL C | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19065696 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | Yokogawa Electric Corporation | FEACHER, LORENA R | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19065282 | QUICK-COUPLING HOOK WITH FACILITATED OPERATION | Jost-Werke Deutschland GmbH | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | 3671 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19062696 | DRIVING CONTROL APPARATUS | National Institute Of Information And Communications Technology | ALQADERI, NADA MAHYOOB | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19062853 | ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE REDUCTION DEVICE | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | MEI, XU | 2695 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19062756 | ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE REDUCTION DEVICE | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19106264 | DETECTION DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN EXPLOSIVE TARGET OBJECT IN THE GROUND | Global Clearance Solutions AG | WAHEED, NAZRA NUR | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19105850 | SAFETY LOCK SPRING CLIP, A METHOD FOR ATTACHING A LABEL TO A PRODUCT AND A USE OF A SAFETY LOCK SPRING CLIP | Sund Birsta AB | DAVIS, CASSANDRA HOPE | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 | |
| 19058242 | PROCESSING SOLUTION, METHOD FOR PROCESSING SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR | Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. | BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN | 1713 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19058433 | VEHICLE LID STRUCTURE | Moriroku Technology Company, Ltd. | DOUGLAS, STEVEN O | 3612 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19052981 | COOLING DEVICE AND FLYING OBJECT | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, VIET P | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19052918 | ENERGY ABSORBER | Moriroku Technology Company, Ltd. | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | 3676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial88.3% of resolved applications prosecuted by Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP were allowed, across 18,164 applications in USPTO records.
2.70 office actions per allowed application on average.
398 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 123 clients, before 370 examiners in 217 art units.
