Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
15 pending office actions • 9 clients • 15 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shackelford, McKinley & Norton, LLP has 15 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 1108 career applications. The profile shows current prosecution activity alongside a substantial recorded application base.
The resolved allowance rate is 84.59%, and the average office actions per allowance is 3.04. The allowance rate describes resolved outcomes, while the action average indicates the examination activity associated with allowed cases. These figures provide separate perspectives on historical results and prosecution effort.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 + other | 2 (13%) |
| §103 only | 3 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, SANG H | 1 | 88.7% | +11.6% |
| MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 1 | 82.3% | +17.3% |
| LAZO, THOMAS E | 1 | 86.8% | +8.9% |
| SHAH, UTPAL D | 1 | 87.8% | +11.4% |
| CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 1 | 86.8% | +8.7% |
| JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER A | 1 | 84.5% | +8.2% |
| BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 52.5% | +45.8% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.8% | +17.0% |
| DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 1 | 7.9% | +50.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19104955 | A HAND-HELD PROBE FOR A RAMEN SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM AND A RAMEN SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM | NGUYEN, SANG H | — |
| 19032386 | GENERATING SAFEST ROUTE BASED ON ROAD NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATIONAL MEASURES | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696620 | TOOL AND PROCESSES FOR PICK-AND-PLACE ASSEMBLY | KOCH, GEORGE R | 126d overdue |
| 18010456 | PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS FOR CATALYST INFLUENCED CHEMICAL ETCHING | PETERSON, ERIK T | 84d overdue |
| 17925490 | HIGH PRECISION NANOSCALE THIN FILM FABRICATION PROCESSES | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 72d overdue |
| 17965436 | MODULATING STRESS RESPONSES BY A NOVEL CHROMATIN-ASSOCIATED GUIDE RNA DERIVED FROM TRANSFER RNA | KINGDON, CATHY | 24d overdue |
| 18018546 | NANOFABRICATION OF DETERMINISTIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICES | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 27d |
| 18865042 | RECONFIGURABLE WORKSPACE SOFT GRIPPER | LAZO, THOMAS E | — |
| 18911537 | EMOTION PORTRAYAL DATABASE | SHAH, UTPAL D | — |
| 18729159 | SCRAP DATA ANALYSIS | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696620 | TOOL AND PROCESSES FOR PICK-AND-PLACE ASSEMBLY | KOCH, GEORGE R | 126d overdue |
| 19104955 | A HAND-HELD PROBE FOR A RAMEN SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM AND A RAMEN SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM | NGUYEN, SANG H | — |
| 19032386 | GENERATING SAFEST ROUTE BASED ON ROAD NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATIONAL MEASURES | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | — |
| 18911537 | EMOTION PORTRAYAL DATABASE | SHAH, UTPAL D | — |
| 18708316 | POLYMERIC FLAME RETARDANT SYNERGIST AND THE METHOD OF PRODUCING IT AND ITS FORMULATION FOR POLYAMIDES | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
| 18557115 | A MUSCLE SPASTICITY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND SENSOR | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19104955 | A HAND-HELD PROBE FOR A RAMEN SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM AND A RAMEN SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM | Agency for Science, Technology and Research | NGUYEN, SANG H | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19032386 | GENERATING SAFEST ROUTE BASED ON ROAD NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATIONAL MEASURES | Texas State University | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2025 |
| 18865042 | RECONFIGURABLE WORKSPACE SOFT GRIPPER | Singapore University Of Technology And Design | LAZO, THOMAS E | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18911537 | EMOTION PORTRAYAL DATABASE | Texas State University | SHAH, UTPAL D | 2668 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18729159 | SCRAP DATA ANALYSIS | Sortera Technologies Inc. | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 3651 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18728885 | HIGH-PRECISION HETEROGENEOUS INTEGRATION | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER A | 2899 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2024 |
| 18708316 | POLYMERIC FLAME RETARDANT SYNERGIST AND THE METHOD OF PRODUCING IT AND ITS FORMULATION FOR POLYAMIDES | Agency for Science, Technology and Research | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 1765 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18696620 | TOOL AND PROCESSES FOR PICK-AND-PLACE ASSEMBLY | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 126d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18557090 | MENTAL AROUSAL LEVEL REGULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | National University Of Singapore | DECASTRO, ARIANA JOY LACAY | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18557115 | A MUSCLE SPASTICITY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND SENSOR | Nanyang Technological University | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18018546 | NANOFABRICATION OF DETERMINISTIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICES | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1758 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 18010456 | PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS FOR CATALYST INFLUENCED CHEMICAL ETCHING | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | PETERSON, ERIK T | 2898 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 84d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
| 17925490 | HIGH PRECISION NANOSCALE THIN FILM FABRICATION PROCESSES | Sds Nano, Inc. | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1759 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
| 17965436 | MODULATING STRESS RESPONSES BY A NOVEL CHROMATIN-ASSOCIATED GUIDE RNA DERIVED FROM TRANSFER RNA | Texas State University | KINGDON, CATHY | 1663 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 17789166 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | AMS-OSRAM AG | JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY | 2872 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial84.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Shackelford, Mckinley & Norton, LLP were allowed, across 1,108 applications in USPTO records.
3.04 office actions per allowed application on average.
15 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 9 clients, before 15 examiners in 13 art units.
