Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
WEISS & WEISS handles patent prosecution in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, with 126 career applications on record. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 60.71 percent. Its prosecution history shows an average of 8.51 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 3 pending office actions.
The 126 career applications and 60.71 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance in this sector. The 8.51 average helps practitioners understand the typical procedural requirements for reaching an allowance. With 3 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. 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 2 | 74.5% | +7.3% |
| MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1 | 67.1% | +31.9% |
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.4% | +20.3% |
| THEIS, MATTHEW T | 1 | 42.1% | +32.5% |
| LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1 | 71.5% | +26.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18380181 | FILTER MOUNT | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 27d |
| 19035588 | PROTEIN FORMING MACHINE | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13374441 | System and method for creating a venturi effect within an orifice | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 49d overdue |
| 17151460 | BAG FOR TRANSPORTING LARGE OBJECTS | THEIS, MATTHEW T | 26d |
| 18380181 | FILTER MOUNT | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 27d |
| 19035588 | PROTEIN FORMING MACHINE | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| BROADWAY HOLDINGS I, LLC | 2 |
| Tomahawk Holdings, LLC | 1 |
| INV HOLDINGS, INC. | 1 |
| Broadway Holdings | 1 |
| Spherical Ip, Llc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 2 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19035588 | PROTEIN FORMING MACHINE | Tomahawk Holdings, LLC | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 | |
| 18380181 | FILTER MOUNT | Inv Holdings, Inc. | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1776 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Oct 15, 2023 |
| 17359577 | STRETCH WRAP HAND DISPENSER PRODUCED FROM NON-TRADITIONAL POLYMERS OR NATURAL MATERIALS | Broadway Holdings I, LLC | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 3654 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jun 27, 2021 |
| 17151460 | BAG FOR TRANSPORTING LARGE OBJECTS | Broadway Holdings Iv, LLC | THEIS, MATTHEW T | 3734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jan 18, 2021 |
| 16439641 | STRETCH WRAP HAND DISPENSER PRODUCED FROM NON-TRADITIONAL POLYMERS OR NATURAL MATERIALS | Broadway Holdings I, LLC | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 3654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2019 |
| 13374441 | System and method for creating a venturi effect within an orifice | Spherical Ip, Llc. | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2011 |
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