Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
11 pending office actions • 10 clients • 11 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Thomas E. Lees LLC has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and a recorded career application volume of 822. The pending docket and application history together indicate an established prosecution practice with current examination activity.
Its resolved allowance rate is 89.28%, while the average is 2.56 office actions per allowance. These figures describe both the outcome record and the examination activity associated with allowed applications.
For practitioners, the combination of 822 applications and 10 pending actions provides context for assessing current workload against the firm’s recorded career activity. The allowance metric is outcome-focused, while the office-action metric helps frame the response burden before allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 3 (27%) |
| §103 only | 1 (9%) |
| §102 only | 2 (18%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | 1 | 58.5% | +20.3% |
| MERCADO, LOUIS A | 1 | 78.6% | +18.7% |
| BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 1 | 78.2% | +17.2% |
| HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 1 | 54.7% | +22.5% |
| TOTH, KAREN E | 1 | 46.4% | +25.8% |
| BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1 | 13.9% | +28.6% |
| GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | 1 | 54.5% | +50.3% |
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.2% | +36.2% |
| DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 1 | 71.4% | +30.2% |
| HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 1 | 40.6% | +50.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17313707 | PATHOGEN TESTING | ROSSI, VY BUI | 87d overdue |
| 17601104 | Identification and Quantification of A Ventilatory Disturbance Causing Incorrect Measurement Of Arterial Acid-Base Status | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 31d overdue |
| 18304664 | NIOBIUM-BASED ALLOYS WITH IMPROVED STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 12d |
| 17927076 | COMPENSATING FOR HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE DISRUPTIONS | DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 63d |
| 18411707 | WEARABLE BIOSENSOR | TOTH, KAREN E | — |
| 18539459 | SELECTIVE POLYMER METALIZATION FOR COMPOSITE MATERIALS | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18509889 | CONTROLLABLE AUDIO SYSTEM MODEL | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17601104 | Identification and Quantification of A Ventilatory Disturbance Causing Incorrect Measurement Of Arterial Acid-Base Status | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 31d overdue |
| 18304664 | NIOBIUM-BASED ALLOYS WITH IMPROVED STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 12d |
| 17927076 | COMPENSATING FOR HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE DISRUPTIONS | DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 63d |
| 19264253 | METHOD AND SENSOR SYSTEM FOR DETECTING OBJECTS | ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | — |
| 19088323 | MODULAR CLIPPING SYSTEM | MERCADO, LOUIS A | — |
| 18958434 | ULTRA-THIN LAMINATED GLASS ASSEMBLY WITH ELECTRIC CIRCUITRY | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | — |
| 18928605 | APPLYING TEXTURE TO HARD SUBSTRATE | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | — |
| 18411707 | WEARABLE BIOSENSOR | TOTH, KAREN E | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Battelle | 2 |
| Evitado Technologies GmbH | 1 |
| Bowerbags LLC | 1 |
| Fuyao Glass America Inc. | 1 |
| Hesseling & Sons, LLC | 1 |
| Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. | 1 |
| University of Dayton | 1 |
| Neural Dsp Technologies OY | 1 |
| MRL Materials Resources | 1 |
| Aalborg Universitet | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264253 | METHOD AND SENSOR SYSTEM FOR DETECTING OBJECTS | Evitado Technologies GmbH | ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | 3668 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19088323 | MODULAR CLIPPING SYSTEM | Bowerbags LLC | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 3677 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 18958434 | ULTRA-THIN LAMINATED GLASS ASSEMBLY WITH ELECTRIC CIRCUITRY | Fuyao Glass America Inc. | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 2847 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18928605 | APPLYING TEXTURE TO HARD SUBSTRATE | Hesseling & Sons, LLC | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18411707 | WEARABLE BIOSENSOR | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. | TOTH, KAREN E | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18539459 | SELECTIVE POLYMER METALIZATION FOR COMPOSITE MATERIALS | University Of Dayton Research Institute | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18509889 | CONTROLLABLE AUDIO SYSTEM MODEL | Neural Dsp Technologies OY | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | 2837 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18304664 | NIOBIUM-BASED ALLOYS WITH IMPROVED STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS | Mrl Materials Resources LLC | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 17927076 | COMPENSATING FOR HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE DISRUPTIONS | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE | DAVIS, CYNTHIA L | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
| 17601104 | Identification and Quantification of A Ventilatory Disturbance Causing Incorrect Measurement Of Arterial Acid-Base Status | Aalborg University | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 3791 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2021 |
| 17313707 | PATHOGEN TESTING | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE | ROSSI, VY BUI | 1685 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 87d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial89.3% of resolved applications prosecuted by Thomas E. Lees, LLC were allowed, across 822 applications in USPTO records.
2.56 office actions per allowed application on average.
11 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 10 clients, before 11 examiners in 10 art units.
