Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Networking & Security
284 pending office actions • 97 clients • 271 examiners • 178 art units • 0 of 284 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST & MANBECK, P.C. works in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, with 14,002 career applications and 277 pending office actions. The profile therefore reflects both a substantial historical application record and an active pending docket.
Its resolved allowance rate is 82.87%, and the average is 3.43 office actions per allowance. These figures suggest that allowance outcomes should be considered together with the amount of examination activity associated with each allowance. For applicants in this technology area, the pending-action total also provides context for assessing current prosecution demand.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 59 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. 59 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 | 2 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 40 (14%) |
| §103 only | 83 (29%) |
| §102 only | 10 (4%) |
| §112 only | 13 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 22 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 109 (38%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOROUSH, LAYLA | 3 | 40.5% | +43.4% |
| KIM, ANDREW CHANUL | 3 | 55.8% | +11.6% |
| HILAIRE, CLIFFORD | 2 | 71.8% | +14.9% |
| TORRENTE, RICHARD T | 2 | 69.9% | +13.8% |
| AGGARWAL, SAHIL CHANDER | 2 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
| AL SAMAHI, SANAA SHAKER ABED | 2 | 61.5% | +52.4% |
| MOREAU, NASHARA LOUISE | 2 | 66.7% | -80.0% |
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 2 | 45.5% | +33.7% |
| PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT | 2 | 68.1% | +36.1% |
| SCHEIBEL, ROBERT C | 2 | 80.7% | +15.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288485 | METHODS FOR INTER-NODE COORDINATION FOR RAN ENERGY SAVING | SCHEIBEL, ROBERT C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17891418 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN AND CARBON | TAI, XIUYU | 120d overdue |
| 18021762 | LONG HEAT PATH SUPPORT STRUCTURE | KING, BRIAN M | 111d overdue |
| 18033947 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SOLID INGREDIENT, SOLID INGREDIENT WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED BY IMPLEMENTING SAID PRODUCTION METHOD, AND USES OF SAID INGREDIENT | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 59d overdue |
| 17425039 | MICROCARRIER FOR CELL CULTURE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND CELL CULTURE METHOD USING THE SAME | CLARKE, TRENT R | 53d overdue |
| 17908791 | MASTER CELL GROUP (MCG) FAILURE AND RADIO LINK FAILURE (RLF) REPORTING | KIM, ANDREW CHANUL | 44d overdue |
| 18277448 | AVOIDING LOSING NETWORK ACCESS DUE TO LACK OF NAVIGATION SYSTEM COVERAGE | SHIVERS, ASHLEY L | 32d overdue |
| 18723705 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING INTRACARDIAC SIGNALS | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 31d overdue |
| 17788868 | CELL CULTURE SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | TAKENAKA, RISA | 19d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17908791 | MASTER CELL GROUP (MCG) FAILURE AND RADIO LINK FAILURE (RLF) REPORTING | KIM, ANDREW CHANUL | 44d overdue |
| 17778894 | SCHEDULING FOR MULTI-TRANSMISSION RECEPTION POINT TRANSMISSION WITH DYNAMIC ON-OFF SWITCHING | KIM, ANDREW CHANUL | 9d |
| 18552883 | EXTENDED DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION DIFFERENTIATION FOR NEW RADIO (NR) | SCHEIBEL, ROBERT C | 21d |
| 18557775 | METHOD FOR PREPARING INTERMEDIATE FOR SYNTHESIS OF XANTHINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR | PECKHAM, RICHARD GRANT | 22d |
| 18695573 | DETECTION OF POORLY DEPLOYED FWA TERMINALS | AL SAMAHI, SANAA SHAKER ABED | 46d |
| 19473702 | POSITION DEPENDENT FILTERING | HILAIRE, CLIFFORD | — |
| 19143600 | REDUCING COMPLEXITY OF VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING | HILAIRE, CLIFFORD | — |
| 19214835 | DECODING BASED ON BI-DIRECTIONAL PICTURE CONDITION | TORRENTE, RICHARD T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 6 |
| 1622 | 6 |
| 2478 | 5 |
| 1693 | 5 |
| 1623 | 5 |
| 1766 | 5 |
| 2471 | 4 |
| 1792 | 4 |
| 1626 | 3 |
| 1614 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19559185 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | LX SEMICON CO., LTD. | MANDEVILLE, JASON M | 2623 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2026 |
| 19479234 | EDGE DIMMING CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD | LX SEMICON CO., LTD. | NGUYEN, JIMMY H | 2626 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19477746 | A HARD HAT WITH AN INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC SUBSYSTEM | Xyz Reality Limited | MANGINE, HEATHER N | 3732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2025 |
| 19475801 | CREATING A LARGE SCALE HEAD-RELATED FILTER DATABASE | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 2163 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19473702 | POSITION DEPENDENT FILTERING | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | HILAIRE, CLIFFORD | 2488 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19341379 | LOW-SORBING GLYBURIDE FORMULATION AND METHODS | Remedy Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | SHIM, DAVID M. | 1626 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19331031 | GAS ENGINE | Ihi Power Systems Co., Ltd. | VILAKAZI, SIZO BINDA | 3747 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19325045 | DATA DRIVING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE OPERATING IN LOW POWER MODE | Silicon Works Co., Ltd. | LEE, NICHOLAS J | 2624 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19280853 | COMBUSTION SYSTEM USING AMMONIA AS FUEL | Ihi Corporation | MALATEK, KATHERYN A | 3741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19143600 | REDUCING COMPLEXITY OF VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | HILAIRE, CLIFFORD | 2488 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19233267 | HYBRID SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING CONTAINERS | David Melrose Design Limited | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19232338 | IMPLANT FINDER | Senseonics, Incorporated | LY, TOMMY TAI | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19232605 | CONTAINER WITH DYNAMIC BASE | Co2Pac Limited | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19226882 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROVISION OF RESOURCE REPRESENTATIONS | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | SHITAYEWOLDETSADI, BERHANU | 2455 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19214835 | DECODING BASED ON BI-DIRECTIONAL PICTURE CONDITION | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | TORRENTE, RICHARD T | 2485 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19127430 | CALL HANDLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | HUQ, FARZANA B | 2455 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19191890 | LOW-SORBING GLYBURIDE FORMULATION AND METHODS | Remedy Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | THOMAS, TIMOTHY P | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19123198 | UPDATING A MAP FOR SIMULTANEOUS LOCALISATION AND MAPPING | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 3669 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19177910 | METHODS OF AND DEVICES FOR IMPLEMENTING AND EXECUTING POLICY RULES ON A PER APPLICATION BASIS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | FANG, PAKEE | 2409 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19173881 | DECODING BASED ON BI-DIRECTIONAL PICTURE CONDITION | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | TORRENTE, RICHARD T | 2485 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19119284 | EXTENDER AND MODULAR SCREED RAIL SYSTEM | Concrete Floor Products Limited | CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T | 3633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 19171825 | ADAPTIVE COMFORT NOISE PARAMETER DETERMINATION | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | CRESPO FEBLES, HECTOR J | 2658 | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19093786 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR INTEGRATING MENSTRUAL CYCLE DATA AND PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED FEMININE WELLNESS INFORMATION | 28 Wellness, Inc. | FRISBY, KESHA | 3715 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19089233 | SUPPORT FOR GENERATION OF COMFORT NOISE, AND GENERATION OF COMFORT NOISE | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 2694 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19083019 | DATA SEQUENCE GENERATION | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | MEI, XU | 2695 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19111021 | CARBON NANOTUBE DISPERSION AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | LG Chem, Ltd. | NGUYEN, TRI V | 1764 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19111208 | MICROORGANISM SIMULTANEOUSLY PRODUCING 1,3-PROPANEDIOL AND 3-HYDROXYPROPIONIC ACID, AND USE THEREOF | LG Chem, Ltd. | GANGLE, BRIAN J | 1645 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19076845 | PROVIDING SEGMENT PRESENCE INFORMATION | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | VAZQUEZ COLON, MARIA E | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19074698 | METHODS FOR CASCADE AMPLIFICATIONS OF THERAPEUTIC PAYLOADS (CATP) & COMPOSITIONS FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPIES AND GENE THERAPY | Sunvax Mrna Therapeutics Inc. | ZARA, JANE J | 1637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19107388 | BANDGAP REFERENCE VOLTAGE GENERATION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING SAME | LX SEMICON CO., LTD. | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19043831 | COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS FOR LIPS COMPRISING COLORANTS | Amorepacific Corporation | PRAGANI, RAJAN | 1614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19043298 | ON-DEVICE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) DEVICE OF PROVIDING MULTI-WAY INTERPRETATION SERVICE AND METHOD THEREOF | LX SEMICON CO., LTD. | SHARMA, NEERAJ | 2659 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19027065 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR VECTOR SEGMENTATION FOR CODING | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | LELAND III, EDWIN S | 2654 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18996000 | POLY(LACTIC ACID-b-3-HYDROXYPROPIONIC ACID) BLOCK COPOLYMER COMPOSITION AND FILM COMPRISING THEREOF | LG Chem, Ltd. | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CALCULATING ANALYTE LEVELS | Senseonics, Incorporated | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18994220 | DISPLAY DRIVE DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | LX SEMICON CO., LTD. | EDWARDS, MARK | 2624 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18993119 | RENDERING OF OCCLUDED AUDIO ELEMENTS | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | SUTHERS, DOUGLAS JOHN | 2695 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18992781 | RENDERING OF OCCLUDED AUDIO ELEMENTS | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2692 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19007732 | SOUNDING REFERENCE TRANSMISSION | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | PUENTE, EVA YI ZHENG | 2632 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18984051 | Roflumilast Formulations with an Improved Pharmacokinetic Profile | Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 | |
| 18875398 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING DELIRIUM OCCURRENCE, AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING DELIRIUM OCCURRENCE USING SAME | Human Anti-Aging Standards Research Institute Co., Ltd. | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 3791 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18875647 | TUBERCULOSIS VACCINE COMPOSITION CONTAINING IMMUNE-ACTIVE SITE FUSION PROTEIN | Myco-Rapha Inc. | HAUK TEODORO, PRICILA NMN | 1645 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18970662 | READY-TO-USE SODIUM BICARBONATE FORMULATIONS AND PRODUCTS | Inforlife SA | BROWE, DAVID | 1617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18962371 | STABLE FORMULATIONS OF SHR0302 | Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | BRAUN, MADELINE E | 1624 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18867894 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PATH SELECTION | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | PASIA, REDENTOR M | 2413 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18867298 | RELIABILITY TESTING USING FUNCTIONAL DEVICES | Octavo Systems LLC | FORTICH, ALVARO E | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18867184 | FIRST NODE, SECOND NODE AND METHODS PERFORMED THEREBY FOR HANDLING TRANSMISSION OF A FIRST SIGNAL | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 3648 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18950331 | USING AN UPLINK GRANT AS TRIGGER OF FIRST OR SECOND TYPE OF CQI REPORT | Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ) | SMARTH, GERALD A | 2478 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18864806 | PUSHCHAIR SYSTEM CONVERTIBLE INTO A BICYCLE SEAT | Jean-Baptiste Barbaroux | ENGLISH, PETER C | 3993 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18942389 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS OF ROFLUMILAST AND SOLVENTS CAPABLE OF DISSOLVING HIGH AMOUNTS OF THE DRUG | Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | ISMAIL, REHANA | 1625 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial82.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Rothwell, Figg, Ernst and Manbeck, P.C. were allowed, across 14,002 applications in USPTO records.
3.43 office actions per allowed application on average.
284 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 97 clients, before 271 examiners in 178 art units.
