Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Networking & Security • Communications
5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 1 of 5 (20%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sherman IP LLP focuses on the Chemistry & Materials technology area, having filed 1073 career applications. The firm has achieved a resolved allowance rate pct of 94.48. Currently, there are 4 pending office actions in its docket. The 1073 career applications show the firm's experience in the chemistry sector.
The average office actions per allowance for this profile is 4.9. This metric indicates that applications in the Chemistry & Materials field often require multiple rounds of prosecution to reach an allowance. The 94.48 resolved allowance rate pct is a benchmark for success for the 1073 career applications managed. With only 4 pending office actions, the firm's current active workload is focused. These data points provide a clear view of the firm's performance and its specialized focus on chemistry and materials technology.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | 1 | 89.9% | +8.6% |
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.3% |
| TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 1 | 52.8% | +25.8% |
| CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 69.8% | +34.6% |
| ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | 1 | 76.4% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18921616 | COLLABORATION PLATFORM SYSTEM AND METHOD | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651397 | INDIRECTIVE TEMPORAL FILTERING FOR ADAPTIVE JOINED PARAMETER SMOOTHING | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | 2d overdue |
| 18959213 | VERIFYING, MONITORING, AND TOKENIZING DIGITAL ASSETS AS PROOF OF OWNERSHIP AND VALUATION OF THE DIGITAL ASSETS | MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | 34d |
| 18890397 | SOLAR REFLECTOR FOR BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR PANELS | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 54d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651397 | INDIRECTIVE TEMPORAL FILTERING FOR ADAPTIVE JOINED PARAMETER SMOOTHING | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | 2d overdue |
| 18890397 | SOLAR REFLECTOR FOR BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR PANELS | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 54d |
| 18304651 | STANDARD DYNAMIC RANGE (SDR) TO HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR)INVERSE TONE MAPPING USING MACHINE LEARNING | ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Samsung | 2 |
| TULIP DIGITAL ASSET EXCHANGE, INC. | 1 |
| Xliv Collective Inc. | 1 |
| SUN AND STEEL SOLAR LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2432 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 2669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18959213 | VERIFYING, MONITORING, AND TOKENIZING DIGITAL ASSETS AS PROOF OF OWNERSHIP AND VALUATION OF THE DIGITAL ASSETS | Tulip Digital Asset Exchange, Inc. | MCNALLY, MICHAEL S | 2432 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18921616 | COLLABORATION PLATFORM SYSTEM AND METHOD | Xliv Collective Inc. | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 2694 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18890397 | SOLAR REFLECTOR FOR BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR PANELS | Sun And Steel Solar LLC | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 1722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18651397 | INDIRECTIVE TEMPORAL FILTERING FOR ADAPTIVE JOINED PARAMETER SMOOTHING | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | 2667 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | AI Ready | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18304651 | STANDARD DYNAMIC RANGE (SDR) TO HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR)INVERSE TONE MAPPING USING MACHINE LEARNING | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | 2669 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial94.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Sherman Ip LLP were allowed, across 1,074 applications in USPTO records.
4.93 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.