Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
851 pending office actions • 254 clients • 716 examiners • 241 art units • 0 of 851 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
WENDEROTH, LIND & PONACK, L.L.P. handles patent prosecution in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, with 45376 career applications on record. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 83.07 percent. Its prosecution history shows an average of 3.07 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 596 pending office actions.
The 45376 career applications and 83.07 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance in this sector. The 3.07 average helps practitioners understand the typical procedural requirements for reaching an allowance. With 596 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. 226 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. 226 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 | 15 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 85 (10%) |
| §103 only | 298 (35%) |
| §102 only | 34 (4%) |
| §112 only | 36 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 17 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 35 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 328 (39%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 6 | 53.9% | +43.5% |
| VO, HAI | 4 | 57.1% | +72.4% |
| HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | 4 | 54.2% | +25.6% |
| BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 4 | 80.5% | +27.9% |
| DICUS, TAMRA | 4 | 30.5% | +21.4% |
| HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 3 | 70.5% | +21.9% |
| PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3 | 70.2% | +35.7% |
| SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 3 | 65.6% | +27.7% |
| ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 3 | 63.3% | +24.5% |
| WAITS, ALAN B | 3 | 68.8% | +29.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17554786 | FLUOROETHYLENE COMPOSITION | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 15d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17805456 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | CHAD, ANISS | 338d overdue |
| 17674498 | SPACER DEVICE FOR A GRINDING ROLLER | SHUM, KENT N | 142d overdue |
| 17785642 | A METHOD FOR IMPROVING DURABILITY AND WEATHERABILITY OF TIMBER BY ENGINEERING LAYERS | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 119d overdue |
| 17418419 | METHOD FOR ASSESSING DEPENDENCE OF LASER MACHINING ON LASER LIGHT INTENSITY, AND LASER MACHINING DEVICE | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 100d overdue |
| 18273353 | SUBSTRATE, SELECTIVE FILM DEPOSITION METHOD, DEPOSITION FILM OF ORGANIC MATTER, AND ORGANIC MATTER | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 97d overdue |
| 16963009 | SURFACE, MATERIAL AND PERSONAL CLEANING FORMULATION COMPRISING NANOSTRUCTURED PARTICLES | PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE | 97d overdue |
| 17260418 | LIPID PARTICLE CONTAINING A-TYPE CpG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE | NGUYEN, QUANG | 88d overdue |
| 17520767 | ARC WELDING METHOD AND ARC WELDING DEVICE | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 87d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749021 | DOUBLE-WALLED DRAWER FRAME | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 117d overdue |
| 18280326 | ANTICORROSION ADHESIVE TAPE | DICUS, TAMRA | 53d overdue |
| 18032894 | ADHESIVE TAPE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PRODUCTION | DICUS, TAMRA | 46d overdue |
| 18565267 | RESIN FILM, LAMINATED GLASS AND SCREEN | DICUS, TAMRA | 26d overdue |
| 18118922 | FLUORINATED CARBOXYLIC ACID SALT COMPOUND | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 23d overdue |
| 17551822 | REFRIGERANT-CONTAINING COMPOSITION, USE THEREOF, REFRIGERATOR USING SAME, AND OPERATION METHOD FOR SAID REFRIGERATOR | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 23d overdue |
| 17554786 | FLUOROETHYLENE COMPOSITION | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 15d overdue |
| 17471891 | COMPOSITION CONTAINING 1,1,2-TRIFLUOROETHANE | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 13 |
| 1787 | 12 |
| 1731 | 11 |
| 3761 | 10 |
| 3745 | 9 |
| 3741 | 9 |
| 1761 | 9 |
| 3617 | 8 |
| 1784 | 8 |
| 1791 | 8 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19357791 | Untitled | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | QAYYUM, ZESHAN | 3697 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 19444659 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD, INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE, INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | SHAH, PRIYANK J | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2026 |
| 19435086 | DENTAL COMPOSITE MATERIAL HAVING STABLE PASTY PROPERTY | Shofu Inc. | DIAMOND, ALAN D | 3991 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2025 |
| 19384036 | SOUNDPROOF DEVICE FOR DUCT AND INTAKE DUCT FOR COMPRESSOR OF GAS TURBINE | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. | ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19369883 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 3628 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19168032 | CLARIFYING DEVICE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING GLASS ARTICLE, AND TUBULAR MEMBER | Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 1741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19333957 | DENTAL PORCELAIN COMPOSITION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Shofu Inc. | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19333794 | ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America | NAWAZ, TALHA M | 2483 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19334058 | USE OF MULTIPLE PROMOTERS EFFICIENTLY TARGETED ON ON-BIPOLAR CELLS IN GENE THERAPY TECHNOLOGY | Zhongmou Therapeutics Co., Ltd. | MCLEOD, AFRICA MHAIRIE | 1635 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 19323313 | NOVEL LIGHT-ACTIVATED CHANNEL PROTEIN VR3.0 AND USES THEREOF | Zhongmou Therapeutics Co., Ltd. | MIKNIS, ZACHARY J | 1658 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 19163178 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CYTOPLASMIC MALE STERILE LINE AND MAINTAINER LINE | Tohoku University | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 1662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19310525 | NOVEL LIGHT-SENSITIVE CHANNEL PROTEIN VR2.0 AND USES THEREOF | Zhongmou Therapeutics Co., Ltd. | SABILA, MERCY HELLEN | 1654 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19301313 | CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 | |
| 19156961 | ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION SYSTEM | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. | BURKE, THOMAS P | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19155451 | CYLINDER FOR COMBUSTOR, COMBUSTOR, AND GAS TURBINE | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. | WONG, ELTON K | 3745 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19293440 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America | MAHMUD, FARHAN | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 | |
| 19287125 | COMBUSTOR AND GAS TURBINE PROVIDED WITH SAME | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. | BURKE, THOMAS P | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 | |
| 19284013 | PHOSPHOR WHEEL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | Panasonic Holdings Corporation | TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA | 2876 | §102 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 19277726 | IMAGING SYSTEM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | HSU, AMY R | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 | |
| 19276640 | ROBOT AND ROBOT CONTROL METHOD | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | WEBER, TAMARA L | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 | |
| 19269481 | FITTING FOR MOVABLY SUPPORTING A PIVOTING ELEMENT | Julius Blum GmbH | O BRIEN, JEFFREY D | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 | |
| 19266693 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | CHAMPAGNE, LUNA | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 | |
| 19259231 | ROTOR BLADE DETACHMENT DEVICE AND ROTOR BLADE DETACHMENT METHOD | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. | REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19145124 | PLANT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING PLANT | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. | KIM, CRAIG SANG | 3741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19252752 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE STATES IN VIVO AND IN VITRO BY ANALYZING THE BLOOD PARAMETERS MEASURED IN A HEMATOLOGICAL ANALYSIS DEVICE | Robotdreams GmbH | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 | |
| 19144183 | TUBULAR BODY FOR COMBUSTOR, COMBUSTOR, AND GAS TURBINE | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. | KANG, EDWIN G | 3741 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19142839 | HARD CAPSULE COMPRISING SHELL CONTAINING LIGHT-SHIELDING AGENT, HARD CAPSULE PREPARATION SOLUTION, AND HARD CAPSULE PREPARATION METHOD | Qualicaps Co., Ltd. | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1742 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19246001 | DECODING METHOD, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING DEVICE, AND ENCODING DEVICE | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America | MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 | |
| 19236078 | DECODING METHOD, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING DEVICE, AND ENCODING DEVICE | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America | RIDER, JUSTIN W | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 19234938 | METHOD OF SIGNAL GENERATION AND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE | Sun Patent Trust | TSE, YOUNG TOI | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 | |
| 19135235 | GAS TURBINE START CONTROL DEVICE | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. | MALATEK, KATHERYN A | 3741 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19225601 | PULL-OUT GUIDE | Julius Blim GmbH | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 | |
| 19223418 | DECODING DEVICE, ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD, AND ENCODING METHOD | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America | BOYLAN, JAMES T | 2486 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19223964 | PULL-OUT GUIDE | Julius Blum GmbH | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 | |
| 19217442 | GUIDE SYSTEM FOR GUIDING AT LEAST ONE MOVABLY MOUNTED DOOR LEAF | Julius Blum GmbH | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 | |
| 19215767 | ARRANGEMENT FOR MOVING AT LEAST ONE COVERING ELEMENT | Julius Blum GmbH | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 | |
| 19210061 | CONTROL METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND ANOMALOUS DATA SENSING SYSTEM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation | ALMAGHAYREH, KHALID M | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 | |
| 19209251 | TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROMOTER AND USES THEREOF | UNIVERSITY OF SEOUL INDUSTRY COOPERATION FOUNDATION | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 1662 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19128683 | OPERATION METHOD FOR GAS TURBINE | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. | KANG, EDWIN G | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19200859 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | GUILIANO, CHARLES A | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 | |
| 19199809 | ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America | SALTARELLI, DOMINIC D | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 | |
| 19198659 | ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMER | National Institute Of Information And Communications Technology | AHVAZI, BIJAN | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 | |
| 19192730 | CONTROL METHOD, ROBOT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | DYER, ANDREW R | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 | |
| 19191151 | METHOD OF PROCESSING SUBSTRATE USING JET SOLDERING APPARATUS | Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19191493 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 3626 | §101 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19189643 | INJECTION MOLDING MOLD | Kabushikigaisha Katazen | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 | |
| 19186938 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL GENERATION METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL GENERATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL GENERATION PROGRAM | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | DEMETER, HILINA K | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 | |
| 19185888 | METHOD, SERVER, AND CAPTURING DEVICE | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America | SUN, HAI TAO | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 | |
| 19180530 | ACOUSTIC PROCESSING DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC PROCESSING METHOD | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America | ELAHEE, MD S | §101§102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 | |
| 19120356 | FORMING PUNCHING APPARATUS | Salvagnini Italia S.p.A. | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial83.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P. were allowed, across 45,409 applications in USPTO records.
3.07 office actions per allowed application on average.
851 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 254 clients, before 716 examiners in 241 art units.