Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
80 pending office actions • 51 clients • 65 examiners • 54 art units • 0 of 80 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 87 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Sun IP Law focuses on Chemistry & Materials, with 739 career applications and 78 pending office actions. Its resolved allowance rate is 92.59%, indicating a substantial allowance outcome across the recorded resolved applications.
Allowed matters average 2.71 office actions, showing that favorable resolution commonly involves multiple examination exchanges. The pending docket represents active prosecution work that should be managed separately from historical outcomes. Practitioners can use the application volume to interpret the scale of the allowance rate and the office-action average to plan response resources.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 32 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. 32 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 | 3 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 13 (16%) |
| §103 only | 15 (19%) |
| §102 only | 5 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 40 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 15 | 60.1% | +25.6% |
| ABELSON, EVAN MATVEY | 2 | — | — |
| WEHOVZ, OSCAR | 1 | 64.9% | +29.2% |
| BARTLETT, WILLIAM P | 1 | 60.9% | +32.3% |
| JIMENEZ, JUSTIN ABEL | 1 | 20.0% | +88.9% |
| EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 1 | 1.9% | +1.0% |
| GRAMLING, SEAN P | 1 | 66.6% | +28.0% |
| KUO, JONATHAN T | 1 | 72.4% | +29.0% |
| KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 84.8% | +20.4% |
| DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 1 | 1.7% | +4.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16958193 | DISPLACEMENT DEVICE | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 917d overdue |
| 17630526 | Manufacturing method for electrode of electricity storage device and electrode of electricity storage device | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 514d overdue |
| 17739184 | Method and Device for Processing Programming Data | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 490d overdue |
| 17866546 | Display Support Having Freely Adjustable Height | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 478d overdue |
| 17907979 | Manual Tool Outputting Torque Bidirectionally | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 477d overdue |
| 17779152 | Heart Rate Estimation Method and Apparatus, and Electronic Device Applying Same | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 460d overdue |
| 17913847 | Method for Assessing Damage of Vehicle, Apparatus for Assessing Damage of Vehicle, and Electronic Device Using Same | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 444d overdue |
| 17790512 | Knife | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 408d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16958193 | DISPLACEMENT DEVICE | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 917d overdue |
| 17630526 | Manufacturing method for electrode of electricity storage device and electrode of electricity storage device | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 514d overdue |
| 17948212 | Front Bumper Assembly and Cleaning Robot | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 512d overdue |
| 17739184 | Method and Device for Processing Programming Data | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 490d overdue |
| 17866546 | Display Support Having Freely Adjustable Height | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 478d overdue |
| 17907979 | Manual Tool Outputting Torque Bidirectionally | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 477d overdue |
| 17798315 | Composite Brake Disc Connecting Assembly and Composite Brake Disc | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 476d overdue |
| 17779152 | Heart Rate Estimation Method and Apparatus, and Electronic Device Applying Same | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 460d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2178 | 15 |
| 1721 | 3 |
| 1723 | 3 |
| 2871 | 2 |
| 1752 | 2 |
| 3694 | 2 |
| 1759 | 2 |
| 1788 | 2 |
| 1728 | 2 |
| 1751 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19157484 | GRAPH QUERY METHOD | Alibaba Innovation Private Limited | WEHOVZ, OSCAR | 2161 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19108710 | Smart Question Answer Method, Apparatus, Device, and Storage Medium | Alibaba Innovation Private Limited | BARTLETT, WILLIAM P | 2169 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19103802 | Payment Method and Apparatus Based on Ultra-Wideband, Computer Device, and Payer Terminal | Digital Currency Institute, The People'S Bank Of China | JIMENEZ, JUSTIN ABEL | 3697 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19100572 | Settlement Method and Apparatus Based on Digital Currency Wallet System, and Wallet System | Shenzhen Financial Technology Institute (Financial Technology Institute, Pbc) | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Feb 02, 2025 |
| 18981122 | Lamp Body Assembly and Lamp | Nvc Innovations Pte. Ltd. | GRAMLING, SEAN P | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18871806 | Extracorporeal Magnetically Levitated Blood Pump | Magassist Co., Ltd. | KUO, JONATHAN T | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18869216 | Locking Device and Vehicle | Sichuan Zhili Intelligent Energy Technology Co., Ltd. | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | 3613 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18869022 | System and Method for Edge-cloud Collaborative Recommendation, and Electronic Device | Alibaba Innovation Private Limited | DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 3689 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18866893 | Peripheral Device Connection Control Method, Apparatus, Electronic Device and Storage Medium | Cloud Intelligence Assets Holding (Singapore) Private Limited | HASSAN, AURANGZEB | 2184 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18865329 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Life of Battery, Electronic Device, and Storage Medium | Batterotech Corporation Limited | VELEZ, ROBERTO | 2858 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18928003 | Reticle Adjusting Device of Inner Red Dot Sight, and Sight | Nextorch Industries Co., Ltd. | GROSS, ALEXANDER P | 2871 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2024 |
| 18914222 | Storage Apparatus and Storage Device Having Storage Apparatus | Deli Group Co. Ltd. | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 3735 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Oct 13, 2024 |
| 18854056 | Terminal and Electromagnetic Coil | Zhejiang Dunan Artificial Environment Co., Ltd. | MUSLEH, MOHAMAD A | 2837 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18853108 | Method and Apparatus of Resource Configuration for Sidelink Positioning, and Device | Cict Connected And Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. | NIKMANESH, SEAHVOSH J | 2649 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18853076 | Underwater Vehicle | Westlake University | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18846195 | Conductive Contact Structure of Solar Cell, Solar Module, and Solar Cell | Solarlab Aiko Europe GmbH | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18833908 | Neural Repair Protein Composition and Preparation Method thereof and Use thereof | Beijing Darwin Biotech Co., Ltd. | CORDAS, EMILY ANN | 1632 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2024 |
| 18724522 | Yeast Protein Having Antibacterial Function and Preparation Method Therefor | Angel Yeast Co., Ltd. | ZINGARELLI, SANDRA | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18778743 | Quantum Dot and Preparation Method Therefor, Composition, and Optoelectronic Device | Najing Technology Corporation Limited | KOSLOW, CAROL M | 1734 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18729125 | Silicon-Based Anode Electrode Plate and Preparation Method thereof, and Lithium-Ion Battery | Shanghai Xuanyi New Energy Development Co., Ltd. | MCNULTY, SEAMUS PATRICK | 1752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18718003 | Communication Monitoring Method, Apparatus and System | Digital Currency Institute, The People'S Bank Of China | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2439 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18673169 | Cell, Battery and Electric Device | Jiangsu Zenergy Battery Technologies Co., Ltd. | CHENG, VIVIAN S | 1781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18671490 | Application of Exosome miRNA Biomarkers in Diagnosis and Early Warning of Fatty Liver in Periparturient Dairy Cows | Shandong Agricultural University | OYEYEMI, OLAYINKA A | 1681 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18711868 | Solar Cell, Electrode Structure, Cell Module, Power Generation System and Preparation Method | Guangdong Aiko Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd. | TRIVISONNO, ANGELO | 1722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18711544 | Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolyte and a Lithium-Ion Battery | Sinochem Lantian Co. , Ltd. | HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI | 1724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18706514 | Cutting Device of Silicon Rod Cutting System, and Silicon Rod Cutting System | Qingdao Gaoce Technology Co., Ltd. | DION, MARCEL T | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18705958 | Digital Currency Transaction Method and System, and Related Transaction Terminals | Digital Currency Institute, The People'S Bank Of China | WARDEN, MICHAEL J | 3694 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18704024 | Cathode Material for Lithium Ion Battery and Preparation Method Therefor | Hubei Wanrun New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. | GODO, OLATUNJI A | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18703301 | Method and Device of Verifying Anomalous Digital Currency Transaction | Digital Currency Institute, The People'S Bank Of China | MILLER, JAMES H | 3694 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 68d | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18701202 | Sterilization and Disinfection Lamp, Combined Lamp and Lamp | Eti Solid State Lighting Inc. | LEE, AHAM NMN | 1758 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18696067 | Reversing Valve | Zhejiang Dunan Artificial Environment Co., Ltd. | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18693036 | Anti-hypoxic/anoxic injury use of a magnolol and/or honokiol aromatic ring amino-substituted derivative, and a pharmaceutical composition | Beijing Honghui Meditech Co., Ltd. | SANCHEZ, JUSTIN CHRISTOPHER | 1622 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18607468 | Calibration Method for Splicing Light Source Modules, Projection Method, and 3D Printing Method | Guangzhou Heygears Imc. Inc. | KASENGE, CHARLES R | 2116 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2024 |
| 18691665 | Ablation Catheter | Apt Medical Inc. | OUYANG, BO | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18691029 | Composite Electrode Terminal, Top Cover and Battery | Jiangsu Zenergy Battery Technologies Co., Ltd. | ROSA BERRIOS, NICOLAS JENNIEL | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18686393 | Epitope Modification | Yichen Therapeutics Limited | HOLTZMAN, KATHERINE ANN | 1646 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18584972 | PREPARATION METHOD OF CAROTENOID AGENT | Zhejiang Medicine Co., Ltd. Xinchangpharmaceutical Factory | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1692 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18582689 | Wet-Resistant Fluoride Red Phosphor and Preparation and Application thereof, and White Light LED Device | Hefei University Of Technology | GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | 1759 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18433434 | A Porous Silicon-Carbon Anode Electrode Material, a Preparation Method and an Application | Jiangsu Zenergy Battery Technologies Co., Ltd. | LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | 1727 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18293276 | Secondary Battery, Battery Module and Electrical Device | Jiangsu Zenergy Battery Technologies Co., Ltd. | ORDUNA, TAMARA | 1776 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18569601 | An Electrode Assembly and A Secondary Battery | Jiangsu Zenergy Battery Technologies Co., Ltd. | BARCENA, CARLOS | 1723 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18389548 | Method And Device For Grouping Layout Layer, And Electronic Device And Non-transitory Storage Medium | Cellixsoft Corporation | DINH, PAUL | 2851 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18388752 | Electrode plate, a cell, and a lithium battery | Jiangsu Zenergy Battery Technologies Co., Ltd. | ORJI, CALEB UCHECHUKWU | 1713 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18289369 | Glass Fiber Composition with Low Dielectric Loss | China National Building Material Group Co., Ltd. | PATEL, RONAK C | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18386596 | NASICON-TYPE FLUOROPHOSPHATE, CATHODE electrode plate AND sodium-ion BATTERY | Jiangsu Zenergy Battery Technologies Co., Ltd. | FORREST, MICHAEL | 1738 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18288810 | Method and Apparatus for Classifying Blockchain Address | Digital Currency Institute, The People'S Bank Of China | NGUYEN, LOAN T | 2165 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Oct 28, 2023 |
| 18287178 | Digital Currency Payment Method, Apparatus, and System | Digital Currency Institute, The People'S Bank Of China | HYDER, MD SAKIB | 3698 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 171d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18287027 | Method, Terminal and System for Splitting and Managing Digital Currency in Transaction | Digital Currency Institute, The People'S Bank Of China | PRESTON, JOHN O | 3693 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18485794 | Programmable Structured Light Generator, Photoelectric Device Having Same, And Manufacturing Method | Shenzhen Berxel Photonics Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18282779 | Lithium Supplementing Slurry, Positive Electrode Plate, and Lithium Ion Battery | Jiangsu Zenergy Battery Technologies Co., Ltd. | TAKEUCHI, YOSHITOSHI | 1723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial92.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by The Sun Ip Law were allowed, across 739 applications in USPTO records.
2.71 office actions per allowed application on average.
80 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 51 clients, before 65 examiners in 54 art units.
