Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
210 pending office actions • 109 clients • 193 examiners • 137 art units • 0 of 210 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
SMART & BIGGAR LP has 211 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Its record includes 13155 career applications, an 80.99% resolved allowance rate, and an average of 3.23 office actions per allowance. These measures describe a substantial prosecution record alongside a significant current docket.
The resolved allowance rate provides the historical outcome context, and the office-action average indicates that allowance generally follows multiple examination exchanges. For portfolio management, the pending-action figure supports workload prioritization, while the historical measures can inform expectations without replacing matter-specific review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 75 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. 75 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 | 13 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 27 (13%) |
| §103 only | 60 (29%) |
| §102 only | 2 (1%) |
| §112 only | 11 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 10 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 83 (40%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULLER, BRYAN R | 5 | 43.7% | +31.0% |
| FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | 4 | 69.8% | +67.2% |
| SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 2 | 89.8% | +7.8% |
| SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 2 | 53.4% | +25.5% |
| DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 2 | 37.7% | +30.1% |
| ADDIE, RAYMOND W | 2 | 81.1% | +8.6% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 2 | 63.7% | +11.8% |
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 2 | 58.7% | +59.3% |
| SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 2 | 23.6% | +37.0% |
| MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 2 | 44.0% | +33.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18235499 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING OUTPUT DEVICES IN A VEHICLE BASED ON PROXEMIC RISK | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 7d |
| 18872586 | PAVING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD | ADDIE, RAYMOND W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18088465 | HEIGHT POSITIONING AND ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM FOR AN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT | COY, NICOLE A | 196d overdue |
| 18683559 | FLUORINE-FREE SUPERHYDROPHOBIC SURFACES, METHODS OF MAKING AND USES THEREOF | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 162d overdue |
| 17923118 | MOLECULAR TRANSPORT FOR VIRAL AGENTS | KINSEY WHITE, NICOLE ERIN | 100d overdue |
| 18103863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING POTENTIAL CAREERS OR CAREER PATHS | NOVAK, REBECCA R | 78d overdue |
| 18070263 | SKATE OR OTHER FOOTWEAR | MALIK, VIPUL | 78d overdue |
| 17203234 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING EXTENSIBLE ELECTRONIC LEARNING SYSTEMS | O'SHEA, BRENDAN S | 66d overdue |
| 18954417 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A HERD OF LIVESTOCK | NAJARIAN, LENA | 56d overdue |
| 18213568 | RESPIRATOR | STUART, COLIN W | 49d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026043 | ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSOR FOR TARGET ANALYTE DETECTION | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 150d overdue |
| 19317706 | HAND VACUUM CLEANER | MULLER, BRYAN R | 52d overdue |
| 18983253 | RING CUTTER FOR SAFELY TRANSECTING A RING TRAPPED ON AN APPENDAGE | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 30d overdue |
| 18537423 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS | MULLER, BRYAN R | 34d |
| 18555332 | MEDIA AND METHODS FOR GROWING MAMMARY ORGANOIDS | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 40d |
| 18012743 | SELF-ASSEMBLED CELL SHEET CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 56d |
| 19265232 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | — |
| 19201705 | HAND VACUUM CLEANER | FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 25 |
| 3724 | 4 |
| 1675 | 4 |
| 1632 | 3 |
| 3629 | 3 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3661 | 2 |
| 2161 | 2 |
| 3636 | 2 |
| 3624 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19317706 | HAND VACUUM CLEANER | Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. | MULLER, BRYAN R | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | Sep 03, 2025 |
| 19314394 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR VESSEL RENDEZVOUS DETECTION AND PREDICTION | Global Spatial Technology Solutions Inc. | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 3661 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19309199 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING VEHICLES FOR A PURCHASER FROM VEHICLE INVENTORIES | Mobials Inc. | DAVISON, KATHLEEN GAGE | 3688 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2025 |
| 19301494 | WASHABLE INCONTINENCE UNDERGARMENT | Sleaks Ip Corporation | WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19298731 | INHIBITION OF PLANT PROTEASE AED3-1 FOR IMPROVED HETEROLOGOUS PROTEIN PRODUCTION | Plantform Corporation | SHEN, YANXIN NMN | 1663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19290961 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR OPERATING A PERSONA-DRIVEN INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM | Accessfuel, Inc. | VU, BAI DUC | 2163 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19275123 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EXPLAINABLE TEMPLATE RETRIEVAL FOR OPTIMIZATION MODELING | Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. | GANGER, LAUREN ZANNAH | 2156 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19265232 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS | Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19260909 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF ANOMALOUS MOTION IN A VIDEO STREAM AND FOR CREATING A VIDEO SUMMARY | Genetec Inc. | TEKLE, DANIEL T | 2481 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19259145 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FINANCIAL RISK ASSESSMENT AND DIGITAL SECURITY ENHANCEMENT | Closerly Inc. | GREGG, MARY M | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19220274 | LIGHT SOURCE | Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. | KRYUKOVA, ERIN | 2875 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19205331 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR MANAGING AN EXTRACT, TRANSFORM, AND LOAD PROCESS | Nom Nom AI Inc. | LE, HUNG D | 2161 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19201705 | HAND VACUUM CLEANER | Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. | FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | 3723 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19194293 | IMAGE GENERATION BASED ON TRACKED 3D SCANNING | Shopify Inc. | RICHER, AARON M | 2617 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19174609 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MODEL GENERATION AND INSTANTIATION OF OPTIMIZATION MODELS FROM MARKUP DOCUMENTS | Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. | RILEY, MARCUS T | 2654 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19173265 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND MEDIA FOR MANAGING A VIRTUAL WORKSPACE | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | SCHNIREL, ANDREW B | 2625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 19083573 | DISPOSABLE BAGS WITH INTEGRAL TIE STRIPS | Galactica Technologies Ltd. | BATTISTI, DEREK J | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 | |
| 19075055 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A MEDICAL TESTING RECOMMENDATION | Spectrum Medical Diagnostics, Inc. | LI, SUN M | 3685 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19072435 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING USING A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SENSOR | Huron Technologies International Inc. | GE, JIN | 2619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19063518 | WALL RACK WITH PREFABRICATED BRACKETS AND SUPPORT FRAME | 2840629 Ontario Inc. | KRYCINSKI, STANTON L | 3631 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19064139 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING A SERIAL DIGITAL INTERFACE (SDI) SIGNAL | Evertz Microsystems Ltd. | CADORNA, CHRISTOPHER PALACA | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 | |
| 19049655 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GAZE TRACKING USING ONE CORNEAL REFLECTION | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | SAINI, AMANDEEP SINGH | 2662 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19035163 | KNOCK-DOWN FURNITURE | Sofaweb.Com Inc. | BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | 3636 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19032526 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR THE AUTOMATED CULTURE OF CELLS | STEMCELL Technologies Canada Inc. | NASHER, AHMED ABDULLALIM-M | 2675 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19028962 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLANNING WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | Musyfy Inc. | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19024200 | PALLET AND PALLET FORMING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Afa Systems Ltd. | AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | 3637 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18994279 | PHARMACY-TRANSACTION APPARATUSES AND RELATED METHODS | Mega Pharm Limited | ST CYR, DANIEL | 2876 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19013901 | ARMREST WITH INTEGRATED EFFECT DELIVERY SYSTEM | Simex Entertainment Inc. | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | 3636 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 19000861 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS | Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18877804 | INTERACTIVE VIDEO BROCHURE SYSTEM AND METHOD | Imaging Excellence 2.0 Inc. | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | 3622 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18982594 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Recommendation for a Product Design Within a Collaborative System | Colab AI Inc. | CRANDALL, RICHARD W. | 3619 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18983198 | RING CUTTER FOR SAFELY TRANSECTING A RING TRAPPED ON AN APPENDAGE | Ring Rescue Inc. | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 3724 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18983253 | RING CUTTER FOR SAFELY TRANSECTING A RING TRAPPED ON AN APPENDAGE | Ring Rescue Inc. | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18872586 | PAVING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD | Europa Landscaping Limited | ADDIE, RAYMOND W | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 | |
| 18971878 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING CHARGING OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE | Solv4X Inc. | POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | 2115 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18954677 | SURFCE CLEANING APPARATUS | Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. | MULLER, BRYAN R | 3723 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18955460 | SHELF ANGLE SUPPORT ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | Fero Corporation | BARLOW, ADAM G | 3633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18954417 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A HERD OF LIVESTOCK | Cattleytics Inc. | NAJARIAN, LENA | 3687 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18942934 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR QUERY SPLITTING BASED ON DEVICE DISPLAY DIMENSIONS | Shopify Inc. | ZHAO, YU | 2169 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18939625 | BLADE ASSEMBLY FOR CUTTING FOOD | Mccain Foods Limited | ALIE, GHASSEM | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18935755 | TRAWL NET SYSTEM AND SEGMENT | Katchi Technologies Incorporated | BYUN, HAE RIE JESSICA | 3643 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18933449 | TIMELINE USER INTERFACE | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | SHIBEROU, MAHELET | 2171 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18926877 | IN-LINE TRAFFIC SANITIZATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING SAME | Genetec Inc. | SALL, EL HADJI MALICK | 2457 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18926472 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK CODING-BASED HARQ IN MULTIPLE MIMO LAYERS | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | HARLEY, JASON A | 2468 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18924564 | SCALABLE FABRICATION OF A SELF-ASSEMBLED CELL SHEET AND USES THEREOF | Mcmaster University | REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA | 1632 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18858510 | VETERINARY VACCINES AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA INFECTIONS IN FOOD PRODUCTION ANIMALS | Engineered Antigens Inc. | OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | 1645 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18921709 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING FILAMENT ARRAY | Bc Machining Technologies Inc. | SOTO, HENRIX | 3654 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18906629 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE POINT-OF-SALE TRANSACTIONS | Shopify Inc. | WILDER, ANDREW H | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18904153 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF CUSTOMIZED WEARABLE EQUIPMENT | BAUER HOCKEY LLC | ANYA, CHARLES E | 2194 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18901943 | HYALURONIC ACID HYDROGELS AND METHODS THEREOF | The Governing Council of the University of Toronto | KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | 1615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial81.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Smart & Biggar LP were allowed, across 13,155 applications in USPTO records.
3.23 office actions per allowed application on average.
210 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 109 clients, before 193 examiners in 137 art units.
