Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
15 pending office actions • 3 clients • 12 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 534 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ricky Lam - Way Insight has a resolved allowance rate of 99.33 percent across 3436 career applications. The firm's primary technology area is Chemistry & Materials. It averages 1.13 office actions per allowance, suggesting an extremely efficient prosecution process with very few office actions before allowance.
Currently, there are 13 pending office actions. The 99.33 percent allowance rate is exceptionally high for a portfolio of 3436 applications. The 1.13 average office actions per allowance indicates a highly effective strategy for reaching an allowance quickly. This performance is a key feature of the firm's profile in the chemistry sector.
With 3436 career applications, the firm has demonstrated a remarkably consistent success rate. The 13 pending office actions represent the current active cases. The 99.33 percent allowance rate and 1.13 average office actions per allowance are critical metrics for practitioners assessing the firm's prosecution efficiency and success.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 10 (67%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HON, SOW FUN | 3 | 57.7% | +64.8% |
| BETIT, JACOB F | 2 | 33.9% | +17.0% |
| CHANG, AUDREY Y | 1 | 46.5% | +20.4% |
| SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 1 | 77.3% | +19.4% |
| NGUYEN, DUNG T | 1 | 82.2% | +0.9% |
| NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1 | 21.2% | +37.0% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
| DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | 1 | 79.1% | +17.0% |
| STRAH, ELI D | 1 | 51.7% | +41.5% |
| DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 1 | 62.5% | +23.2% |
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 4 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 | — |
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 |
| 17295702 | POLARIZING PLATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | HON, SOW FUN | 41d |
| 19009820 | POLARIZING PLATE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS | CHANG, AUDREY Y | — |
| 18821874 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | — |
| 18698047 | Back Plate Film | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Samsung | 10 |
| LG | 3 |
| SHENZHEN LONGOOD INTELLIGENT ELECTRIC CO., LTD | 2 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 3 |
| 2871 | 2 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| 1787 | 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 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 | |
| 18821874 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 | |
| 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 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 | |
| 18589019 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 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 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 | |
| 18414083 | POLARIZING PLATE AND OPTICAL DISPLAY APPARATUS | Samsung Electronics | DABBI, JYOTSNA V | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 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 |
| 18258667 | PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION | LG Chem, Ltd. | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 17295702 | POLARIZING PLATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | Samsung Electronics | HON, SOW FUN | 1782 | — | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | May 20, 2021 |
| 17270191 | ANTI-REFLECTIVE FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | LG Chem, Ltd. | DICUS, TAMRA | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Feb 22, 2021 |
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