Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Eisenschenk

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

251 pending office actions • 130 clients • 234 examiners • 133 art units • 0 of 251 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 402 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

SALIWANCHIK, LLOYD & EISENSCHENK works in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Its profile contains 14,381 career applications and 254 pending office actions, reflecting a substantial application history and an active current docket.

The resolved allowance rate is 82.65%, and the average is 3.72 office actions per allowance. These figures provide separate views of outcome and prosecution activity. Clients can use the allowance rate to assess resolved results and the action average to understand the recorded examination effort associated with applications that reached allowance.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=14381 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

82.6%
Allowance Rate
n=14381
+0.68σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=14381
3.7
OAs to Allowance
n=8853
+0.01σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=8853
1024 days
Time to Allowance
n=8853
+11.7pp
Interview Lift
n=14381
28.5%
RCE Rate
n=14381
0.6%
Appeal Rate
n=14381

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

78.4%
§101 Overcome
n=941
80.3%
§102 Overcome
n=4225
80.5%
§103 Overcome
n=6297
80.9%
§112 Overcome
n=4921

Specialization & Scale

A61K, A61P, C07K
Top CPC Subclasses
20%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=14381
5
Practitioners
n=14381
2876.2
Apps / Practitioner
n=14381

Portfolio Summary

251
Total Pending OAs
160
Non-Final OAs
83
Final Rejections
8
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 62 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

28
Overdue
7
Due this week
13
Due this month
7
Due in next 60 days
7
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 62 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (28)Due ≤ 7 days (7)Due ≤ 30 days (13)Due ≤ 60 days (7)Due later (7)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

146
Hard (58%)
86
Medium (34%)
15
Easy (6%)
4
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (1%)
§101 + other28 (11%)
§103 only60 (24%)
§102 only11 (4%)
§112 only14 (6%)
Double-patenting only1 (0%)
Double-patenting + other15 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)116 (46%)
No statute on record4 (2%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

149
Life Sciences
59% of docket
7
Information Tech
3% of docket
13
Communications
5% of docket
42
Semiconductors
17% of docket
33
Mechanical / Eng
13% of docket
7
Business / Other
3% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

2,510 h
Manual time on pending OAs
502 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
878 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
22.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HALIYUR, PADMA 3 86.7% +13.2%
BERHAN, AHMED A 2 87.6% +11.4%
KONVES, ADRIANNA N 2 76.3% +14.7%
HANCE, ROBERT J 2 66.4% +21.7%
WANG, CHANG YU 2 33.4% +53.7%
HUSON, MONICA ANNE 2 79.6% +13.5%
RAO, PADMAJA S 2 70.7% +36.8%
ROBINSON, HOPE A 2 67.7% +43.0%
SINGH, SATYENDRA K 2 61.5% +67.9%
DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN 2 52.9% +33.9%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19289836 CAMERA MODULE BERHAN, AHMED A —
19200215 LENS MOVING UNIT COMPRISING A SENSING MAGNET AND A CORRECTION MAGNET HALIYUR, PADMA —
19049811 CAMERA LENS BARREL, CAMERA MODULE, AND OPTICAL DEVICE BERHAN, AHMED A —

Hard Cases (146)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18315937 SYNTHESIS AND USES OF GINSENOSIDE COMPOUND K DERIVATIVES LEE, HOI YAN NMN 107d overdue
18006888 BIOMARKERS FOR DIAGNOSING AND MONITORING LUNG CANCER BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE 100d overdue
17761626 CELLULAR SUBSTITUTES AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF MARTIN, PAUL C 86d overdue
17814911 LOW-CONCENTRATION ATROPINE FOR MYOPIA PREVENTION (LAMP-2) STUDY SHOWALTER, ALEXANDER KEITH 56d overdue
18252048 MYCOBACTERIAL IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR TREATING CANCER HAUK TEODORO, PRICILA NMN 53d overdue
18901085 MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING COMPATIBLE RAPID DYNAMIC SUPPORT CONTROL SYSTEM LANGHALS, RENEE C 50d overdue
18569619 METHOD FOR NASH RISK ASSESSMENT IN PATIENTS HAVING A METABOLIC DISORDER NEWTON, CHAD A 43d overdue
18135340 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING IMPACT SEVERITY HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL 23d overdue

Interview Candidates (21)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18685422 DEVELOPMENT OF SYNTHETIC PSEUDAMINIC ACID-BASED ANTIBACTERIAL VACCINES AGAINST ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN 16d overdue
18698789 KYNURENINE AMINOTRANSFERASE AND PRODUCTS THEREOF FOR THE TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES ROBINSON, HOPE A 2d overdue
19289836 CAMERA MODULE BERHAN, AHMED A —
19282264 CAMERA MODULE HALIYUR, PADMA —
19246326 CAMERA MODULE HALIYUR, PADMA —
19200215 LENS MOVING UNIT COMPRISING A SENSING MAGNET AND A CORRECTION MAGNET HALIYUR, PADMA —
19119622 LAMINATING APPARATUS FOR LAMINATING MULTILAYER ENDLESS WEBS FOR PRODUCING ENERGY CELLS KONVES, ADRIANNA N —
19119599 LAMINATING APPARATUS FOR LAMINATING MULTILAYER CONTINUOUS WEBS FOR PRODUCING ENERGY CELLS KONVES, ADRIANNA N —

Client Portfolio (130 clients)

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Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
287211
28717
26396
16575
16455
37915
28344
16994
16544
16144

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19491287 VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING AIRCRAFT Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency GMOSER, WILLIAM L 3647 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 08, 2025
19355066 CAMERA ACTUATOR AND CAMERA MODULE COMPRISING SAME LG Innotek Co., Ltd. WHITTINGTON, KENNETH 3992 Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 10, 2025
19470392 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE ENERGY CELL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY, IN PARTICULAR THE BATTERY CELL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY, FOR WRAPPING A STACK Körber Technologies GmbH WEEKS, GLORIA R 3731 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 29, 2025
19289836 CAMERA MODULE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. BERHAN, AHMED A 2639 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 04, 2025
19282264 CAMERA MODULE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. HALIYUR, PADMA 2639 §102§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 28, 2025
19251565 CAMERA MODULE AND OPTICAL DEVICE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. GARCES-RIVERA, ANGEL L 2637 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 26, 2025
19249209 METHOD OF IDENTIFYING A BIOLOGICALLY-ACTIVE COMPOSITION FROM A BIOFILM Quorum Innovations,Inc. POHNERT, STEVEN C 1683 §102§112 Final Rejection 7d Pending Jun 25, 2025
19246326 CAMERA MODULE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. HALIYUR, PADMA 2637 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 23, 2025
19225162 THERAPEUTIC HUB Daya Medicals, Inc. HOLCOMB, MARK 3685 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 02, 2025
19200215 LENS MOVING UNIT COMPRISING A SENSING MAGNET AND A CORRECTION MAGNET LG Innotek Co., Ltd. HALIYUR, PADMA 2639 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 06, 2025
19122167 ELECTRONIC DEVICE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. KRIM, PETER 2841 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 17, 2025
19174712 OPEN-PATH OPTICAL SENSORS FOR ANALYTE MEASUREMENTS The Trustees of Princeton University FAYE, MAMADOU 2884 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 09, 2025
19119622 LAMINATING APPARATUS FOR LAMINATING MULTILAYER ENDLESS WEBS FOR PRODUCING ENERGY CELLS Körber Technologies GmbH KONVES, ADRIANNA N 1748 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 09, 2025
19119599 LAMINATING APPARATUS FOR LAMINATING MULTILAYER CONTINUOUS WEBS FOR PRODUCING ENERGY CELLS Körber Technologies GmbH KONVES, ADRIANNA N 1748 §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 09, 2025
19174303 METHOD FOR DETECTING A SABOTAGE MAGNETIC FIELD AND A CLOSING/OPENING SENSOR FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD (VARIANTS) Ajax Systems Cyprus Holdings Ltd. BLOUNT, ERIC 2685 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 09, 2025
19086509 REPLICATION-COMPETENT CONTROLLED ALPHA-HERPESVIRUS VECTORS AND USES THEREFORE Hsf Pharmaceuticals SA NGUYEN, QUANG 1631 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 21, 2025
19081496 COMPOSITE SEAL FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE Bruss Sealing Systems GmbH LEE, GILBERT Y 3675 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 17, 2025
19112451 LENS-DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DEVICE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. HANCE, ROBERT J 3992 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 17, 2025
19111604 CAMERA DEVICE AND OPTICAL DEVICE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. CHIU, WESLEY JASON 2639 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 2025
19109777 CAMERA MODULE AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SAME LG Innotek Co., Ltd. KHAN, USMAN A 2637 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 07, 2025
19072387 LINE SPECTROSCOPIC REFLECTOMETRY Seoul National University R&Db Foundation BENNETT, JENNIFER D 2878 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 06, 2025
19108347 OPTICAL SYSTEM AND CAMERA MODULE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. LEE, MATTHEW Y §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 03, 2025
19065557 PRODUCTION OF ENHANCED STEM CELL-BASED EXOSOMES AND USES IN SCAR TISSUE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT The Florida International University Board of Trustees WANG, CHANG YU 1675 Other Final Rejection — Pending Feb 27, 2025
18291945 ELECTRIC GENERATOR, COIL ELEMENT, MOTOR, AND AIRCRAFT Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A 2834 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 18, 2025
19049811 CAMERA LENS BARREL, CAMERA MODULE, AND OPTICAL DEVICE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. BERHAN, AHMED A 2639 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 10, 2025
19102726 LENS DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DEVICE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. GILES, NICHOLAS G 2639 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 10, 2025
19100002 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING FINITE MATERIAL WEBS Körber Technologies GmbH GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ 1748 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 30, 2025
18997736 CUTTING APPARATUS FOR CUTTING SEGMENTS FOR ENERGY CELLS FROM A FED CONTINUOUS WEB Körber Technologies GmbH ALIE, GHASSEM 3724 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 22, 2025
19032606 BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS SUBSP. LACTIS I797, METHOD FOR SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION THEREOF, AND USE THEREOF Junlebao Dairy Group Co., Ltd. FERNANDEZ, SUSAN EMILY 1651 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 21, 2025
19029426 LIGHT UNIT AND A LCD LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY COMPRISING THE LIGHT UNIT LG Innotek Co., Ltd. HANCE, ROBERT J 3992 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
18996725 LENS DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA DEVICE, AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LG Innotek Co., Ltd. PIERCE-WALKER, CHAZERAE AYODELE 2871 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19027924 LENS DRIVING APPARATUS LG Innotek Co., Ltd. JONES, JAMES 2872 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
18996763 PROJECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SAME LG Innotek Co., Ltd. GROSS, ALEXANDER P 2871 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
19018403 Soft Chews with Low Water Activity and Methods of Manufacturing Same Florida Research Group, LLC KASSA, TIGABU 1619 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Jan 13, 2025
18881803 SEROTONIN ANALOGUES FOR USE IN TREATING METALLOPTOSIS-ASSOCIATED DISORDERS Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE 1627 §102§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 07, 2025
19010829 REFRIGERATOR AND CRYOPUMP Ulvac Cryogenics Incorporated KING, BRIAN M 3763 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 06, 2025
19007923 VOICE COIL MOTOR LG Innotek Co., Ltd. ALEXANDER, WILLIAM R 2872 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 02, 2025
19004686 FUSIONNET AND ENSEMBLE LEARNING-BASED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE CLASSIFICATION FROM OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY THICKNESS AND DEVIATION MAPS The Chinese University of Hong Kong HSIEH, PING Y 2664 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
18879573 LIGHT GUIDE MEMBER COMPRISING DIFFRACTION PATTERN LG Innotek Co., Ltd. BOUTSIKARIS, LEONIDAS 2872 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 27, 2024
18877692 REFLECTIVE MEMBER DRIVING DEVICE, CAMERA DEVICE, AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LG Innotek Co., Ltd. SUMLAR, JOURNEY F 2872 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18987741 VACUUM TREATMENT APPARATUS AND VACUUM TREATMENT METHOD ULVAC, INC. BENNETT, CHARLEE 1718 §103§112 Final Rejection 40d Pending Dec 19, 2024
18982171 SENSING DEVICE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. DAVIS HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L 2855 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 16, 2024
18969629 Stable Soft Chews, and Methods to Produce Same Florida Research Group, LLC PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2024
18965202 DISCOVERY OF SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE RESISTANCE GENES BASED ON EPIGENETIC ANALYSIS UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN 1662 §101§102DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 02, 2024
18961565 MEMBRANE SYSTEM, MEMBRANE, AND A METERING DIAPHRAGM PUMP Prominent GmbH MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R 3746 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 27, 2024
18960568 ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS, DEVICES, AND METHODS Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 26, 2024
18958836 Compositions and Methods for Diagnosing Susceptibility to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Reducing the Likelihood of Developing ASD, and/or Treating ASD Flaask, LLC FAN, LYNN Y 1759 §112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 25, 2024
18953409 CAMERA DEVICE LG Innotek Co., Ltd. MEBRAHTU, EPHREM ZERU 2872 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 20, 2024
18865493 CIRCUIT BOARD AND SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE COMPRISING SAME LG Innotek Co., Ltd. AYCHILLHUM, ANDARGIE M 2847 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 13, 2024
18944176 CONTAINER LIFT Lift And Dump Holdings, LLC DIAZ, THOMAS C 3735 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 12, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Eisenschenk's patent allowance rate?

82.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Eisenschenk were allowed, across 14,381 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Eisenschenk average before allowance?

3.72 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Eisenschenk have?

251 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 130 clients, before 234 examiners in 133 art units.

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