Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
12 pending office actions • 3 clients • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 522 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ricky Lam - Way Insight has 12 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 3466 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 99.34%, indicating an allowance outcome for almost all resolved matters in a substantial application record.
The firm averages 1.13 office actions per allowance. This shows that allowed matters generally reach resolution with limited recorded examiner interaction. The combination of extensive application experience, a very high resolved allowance rate, and a low action-per-allowance measure presents a prosecution profile centered on efficient movement toward allowance, while the pending docket confirms continuing activity in chemistry and materials.
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 | 8 (67%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, MICHAEL B | 3 | 21.5% | +37.3% |
| HON, SOW FUN | 2 | 57.6% | +64.9% |
| BETIT, JACOB F | 2 | 33.7% | +16.9% |
| CHANG, AUDREY Y | 1 | 46.6% | +20.8% |
| NGUYEN, DUNG T | 1 | 82.2% | +0.9% |
| DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | 1 | 78.9% | +17.4% |
| STRAH, ELI D | 1 | 52.0% | +41.3% |
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.2% | +2.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763839 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | NGUYEN, DUNG T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18353480 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME | HON, SOW FUN | 21d |
| 19009820 | POLARIZING PLATE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
| 18698047 | Back Plate Film | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18416627 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | STRAH, ELI D | — |
| 17283701 | SILICA GLASS FILM | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
| 17268539 | OPTICAL LAMINATE | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18115783 | TEST BOX WITH CIRCUIT BOARDS ASSEMBLED BY MEANS OF GUIDE RAILS | BETIT, JACOB F | 396d overdue |
| 18115782 | DETACHABLE MODULARIZED TEST PLATFORM | BETIT, JACOB F | 325d overdue |
| 18353480 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME | HON, SOW FUN | 21d |
| 18250732 | ADHESIVE COMPOSITION FOR POLARIZING PLATE, POLARIZING PLATE, AND OPTICAL DISPLAY DEVICE | HON, SOW FUN | 28d |
| 19009820 | POLARIZING PLATE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
| 18698047 | Back Plate Film | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18431879 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | — |
| 18416627 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | STRAH, ELI D | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Samsung | 6 |
| LG | 4 |
| SHENZHEN LONGOOD INTELLIGENT ELECTRIC CO., LTD | 2 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 3 |
| 1782 | 3 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19009820 | POLARIZING PLATE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics | CHANG, AUDREY Y | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18763839 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics | NGUYEN, DUNG T | 2871 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18698047 | Back Plate Film | LG Chem, Ltd. | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18431879 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics | DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18416627 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics | STRAH, ELI D | 1782 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18353480 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME | Samsung Electronics | HON, SOW FUN | 1782 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18250732 | ADHESIVE COMPOSITION FOR POLARIZING PLATE, POLARIZING PLATE, AND OPTICAL DISPLAY DEVICE | Samsung Electronics | HON, SOW FUN | 1782 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 18044947 | ADHESIVE COMPOSITION FOR FOLDABLE DISPLAY AND ADHESIVE FILM FOR FOLDABLE DISPLAY COMPRISING CURED PRODUCT THEREOF | LG Chem, Ltd. | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 18115782 | DETACHABLE MODULARIZED TEST PLATFORM | Shenzhen Longood Intelligent Electric Co., Ltd. | BETIT, JACOB F | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 325d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18115783 | TEST BOX WITH CIRCUIT BOARDS ASSEMBLED BY MEANS OF GUIDE RAILS | Shenzhen Longood Intelligent Electric Co., Ltd. | BETIT, JACOB F | 2841 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 396d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 17283701 | SILICA GLASS FILM | LG Chem, Ltd. | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2021 |
| 17268539 | OPTICAL LAMINATE | LG Chem, Ltd. | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial99.3% of resolved applications prosecuted by Ricky Lam - Way Insight were allowed, across 3,466 applications in USPTO records.
1.13 office actions per allowed application on average.
12 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 3 clients, before 8 examiners in 7 art units.
