Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
22 pending office actions • 18 clients • 22 examiners • 17 art units • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
WEAVER AUSTIN VILLENEUVE & SAMPSON LLP handles patent prosecution in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, with 6886 career applications on record. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 81.05 percent. Its prosecution history shows an average of 3.27 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 20 pending office actions.
The 6886 career applications and 81.05 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance in this sector. The 3.27 average helps practitioners understand the typical procedural requirements for reaching an allowance. With 20 pending office actions, the firm maintains its presence in Chemistry & Materials. This data set reflects the firm's documented experience and current workload within the patent office. The recorded metrics provide a baseline for procedural duration in this specific field. Practitioners can evaluate the intensity of examiner interaction and resource requirements based on these historical figures. These statistics offer a view of the firm's prosecution profile.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 (14%) |
| §103 only | 7 (32%) |
| §112 only | 2 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, JOSEPH | 1 | 89.8% | +3.9% |
| JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY | 1 | 94.3% | -0.8% |
| SHAW, PETER C | 1 | 76.3% | +35.6% |
| COTEY, PHILIP L | 1 | 83.9% | +21.3% |
| MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER | 1 | 80.3% | +16.5% |
| BARCENA, CARLOS | 1 | 80.5% | +12.3% |
| ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 1 | 64.0% | +37.3% |
| HE, QIANPING | 1 | 66.8% | +15.9% |
| IBEKWE, DARLINGTON NDUKA | 1 | 33.3% | +100.0% |
| MILLER, DANIEL R | 1 | 82.6% | +20.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18368924 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MITIGATING BATTERY DEFECTS IN BATTERY PACKS | MILLER, DANIEL R | 47d |
| 19023085 | APPARATUS TO DETECT DEFECTIVE BATTERY MODULE AND ABNORMALITY IN A SEQUENTIAL CHARGING CONTROL CHAIN | CHANG, JOSEPH | — |
| 19011579 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO OBTAIN AN EXTRA BIT OF RESOLUTION IN A SINGLE-ENDED SAR ADC | JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY | — |
| 18653612 | SOLID ELECTRODES, ASSEMBLIES AND SOLID STATE BATTERIES THEREOF | BARCENA, CARLOS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15563015 | METHODS FOR PERFORMING SPATIAL PROFILING OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES | BUNKER, AMY M | 49d overdue |
| 18557143 | COLD TRAP FOR EXTRACTING CHEMICAL SPECIES BY FREEZE DISTILLATION | HE, QIANPING | 10d overdue |
| 18556807 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INORGANIC ELECTROLYTE SYNTHESIS | IBEKWE, DARLINGTON NDUKA | 3d overdue |
| 17833697 | BIOFILMS IN BIOELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION CELLS | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1d overdue |
| 18804665 | MONITORS FOR PRESSURIZED SYSTEMS | COTEY, PHILIP L | — |
| 18670116 | DATA DISCOVERY FOR DATA PRIVACY MANAGEMENT | MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER | — |
| 18574203 | OXYGEN DELIVERY AND RECLAMATION SYSTEM | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | — |
| 18328185 | USING AN ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD FOR ANOMALY DETECTION | LEE, TSU-CHANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557143 | COLD TRAP FOR EXTRACTING CHEMICAL SPECIES BY FREEZE DISTILLATION | HE, QIANPING | 10d overdue |
| 18556807 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INORGANIC ELECTROLYTE SYNTHESIS | IBEKWE, DARLINGTON NDUKA | 3d overdue |
| 18368924 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MITIGATING BATTERY DEFECTS IN BATTERY PACKS | MILLER, DANIEL R | 47d |
| 19011248 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING, REGISTERING, AND VERIFYING DIGITALLY SEALED ASSETS | SHAW, PETER C | — |
| 18804665 | MONITORS FOR PRESSURIZED SYSTEMS | COTEY, PHILIP L | — |
| 18670116 | DATA DISCOVERY FOR DATA PRIVACY MANAGEMENT | MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER | — |
| 18653612 | SOLID ELECTRODES, ASSEMBLIES AND SOLID STATE BATTERIES THEREOF | BARCENA, CARLOS | — |
| 18574203 | OXYGEN DELIVERY AND RECLAMATION SYSTEM | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| DataShapes | 3 |
| PolyPlus Battery Company | 2 |
| Blue Current | 2 |
| Entrantech Inc. | 1 |
| Reconceive AI, Inc. | 1 |
| Auth9, Inc. | 1 |
| Everactive, Inc. | 1 |
| Datagrail, Inc. | 1 |
| Giner | 1 |
| Paragon Space Development Corporation | 1 |
| Qnovo Inc. | 1 |
| SK Group | 1 |
| BEIJING YIMIAOYILIAO CO., LTD | 1 |
| NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE | 1 |
| Bugsy Solar | 1 |
| Sauce Labs Inc. | 1 |
| GuRu, Inc. | 1 |
| CENTRILLION TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS CORPORATION | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1723 | 2 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2499 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2132 | 1 |
| 2127 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| 2123 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19023085 | APPARATUS TO DETECT DEFECTIVE BATTERY MODULE AND ABNORMALITY IN A SEQUENTIAL CHARGING CONTROL CHAIN | Entrantech Inc. | CHANG, JOSEPH | 2849 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19011579 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO OBTAIN AN EXTRA BIT OF RESOLUTION IN A SINGLE-ENDED SAR ADC | Reconceive AI, Inc. | JEAN PIERRE, PEGUY | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 | |
| 19011248 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING, REGISTERING, AND VERIFYING DIGITALLY SEALED ASSETS | Auth9, Inc. | SHAW, PETER C | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 | |
| 18804665 | MONITORS FOR PRESSURIZED SYSTEMS | Everactive, Inc. | COTEY, PHILIP L | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 | |
| 18670116 | DATA DISCOVERY FOR DATA PRIVACY MANAGEMENT | Datagrail, Inc. | MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER | 2499 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18653612 | SOLID ELECTRODES, ASSEMBLIES AND SOLID STATE BATTERIES THEREOF | Polyplus Battery Company | BARCENA, CARLOS | 1723 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18574203 | OXYGEN DELIVERY AND RECLAMATION SYSTEM | Giner, Inc. | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 | |
| 18557143 | COLD TRAP FOR EXTRACTING CHEMICAL SPECIES BY FREEZE DISTILLATION | Paragon Space Development Corporation | HE, QIANPING | 1776 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18556807 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INORGANIC ELECTROLYTE SYNTHESIS | Blue Current, Inc. | IBEKWE, DARLINGTON NDUKA | 3725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18368924 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MITIGATING BATTERY DEFECTS IN BATTERY PACKS | Qnovo Inc. | MILLER, DANIEL R | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 47d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18359700 | MEMORY MODULE | SK Hynix Inc. | DARE, RYAN A | 2132 | §103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18328185 | USING AN ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD FOR ANOMALY DETECTION | Datashapes, Inc. | LEE, TSU-CHANG | 2127 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18039472 | STABLE LENTIVIRUS PACKAGING CELL LINE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | BEIJING YIMIAOYILIAO CO., LTD. | LY, KRISTINA ELISABETH | 1671 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18193618 | GLASSY SOLID-STATE ELECTRODES AND METHODS OF MAKING GLASSY SOLID-STATE ELECTRODES AND BATTERY CELLS THEREOF | Polyplus Battery Company | WEINER, LAURA S | 1723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18147262 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CLASSIFICATION PROBABILITY | Datashapes, Inc. | RIFKIN, BEN M | 2123 | §101§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 18147265 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING MULTISTAGE CLASSIFICATION TO REDUCE COMPUTATION COMPLEXITY | Datashapes, Inc. | COLEMAN, PAUL | 2126 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 17914304 | A SEMI-PERMEABLE MEMBRANE | National University Of Singapore | CHIU, TAK LIANG | 1777 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
| 17833697 | BIOFILMS IN BIOELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION CELLS | Bugsy Solar LLC | WEST, ROBERT GENE | 1721 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2022 |
| 17644498 | MANAGING A GLOBAL NETWORK OF VIRTUAL TESTERS | Sauce Labs Inc. | AGUILERA, TODD | 2192 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2021 |
| 17301457 | BYPRODUCT FREE METHODS FOR SOLID HYBRID ELECTROLYTE | Blue Current, Inc. | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2021 |
| 16844871 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEGMENTED MOTION SENSING | Guru, Inc. | LI, YONGHONG | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 09, 2020 |
| 15563015 | METHODS FOR PERFORMING SPATIAL PROFILING OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES | Centrillion Technology Holdings Corporation | BUNKER, AMY M | 1684 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2017 |
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