Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
715 pending office actions • 118 clients • 529 examiners • 190 art units • 0 of 715 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
WHDA, LLP handles patent prosecution in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, with 34832 career applications on record. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 86.57 percent. Its prosecution history shows an average of 3.24 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 499 pending office actions.
The 34832 career applications and 86.57 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance in this sector. The 3.24 average helps practitioners understand the typical procedural requirements for reaching an allowance. With 499 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. 180 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. 180 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 | 6 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 49 (7%) |
| §103 only | 307 (43%) |
| §102 only | 39 (5%) |
| §112 only | 22 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 22 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 262 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN | 7 | 60.0% | +44.4% |
| HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 6 | 62.5% | +24.3% |
| JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | 5 | 51.9% | +76.5% |
| CHU, JOHN S Y | 5 | 76.8% | +5.4% |
| ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | 5 | 69.0% | +6.5% |
| KASS-MULLET, BENJAMIN ELI | 5 | 71.4% | +6.3% |
| WILLS, MONIQUE M | 4 | 85.8% | -30.4% |
| ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 4 | 55.9% | +23.7% |
| CHENG, VIVIAN S | 4 | — | — |
| GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 4 | 66.7% | +34.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17913818 | BATTERY MODULE | WILLS, MONIQUE M | — |
| 18254187 | SULFIDE-BASED INORGANIC SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL, SOLID ELECTROLYTE, SOLID ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, AND LITHIUM ION BATTERY | WILLS, MONIQUE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17634377 | SHOE INSOLE AND SHOE WITH INSOLE STRUCTURE | HOANG, GIAO QT | 330d overdue |
| 17795809 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND SECONDARY BATTERY | LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | 202d overdue |
| 18278301 | OPERATING CONDITION DECISION DEVICE, OPERATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND OPERATING CONDITION DECISION METHOD FOR ROTATING MACHINE | POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | 112d overdue |
| 18287123 | BLOOD SUGAR CONSTITUTION DETERMINATION DEVICE, BLOOD SUGAR CONSTITUTION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LAM, ELIZA ANNE | 111d overdue |
| 18275133 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | HENRY, MATTHEW D | 105d overdue |
| 18034176 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING PERFORMANCE OF DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | SACKALOSKY, COREY MATTHEW | 49d overdue |
| 18834376 | HEALTH ANALYSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 28d overdue |
| 18285521 | ANTI-ANXIETY COMPOSITION | CLARK, AMY LYNN | 28d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18028695 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 25d overdue |
| 17786820 | SECONDARY BATTERY AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 4d overdue |
| 18023209 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND SECONDARY BATTERY | GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN | 7d |
| 18277190 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 9d |
| 17766043 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INORGANIC MATERIAL | HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 12d |
| 17709010 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | HIGGINS, KATHERINE NICOLE | 16d |
| 18028929 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND SECONDARY BATTERY | JACOBSON, SARAH JORDAN | 34d |
| 17913761 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY | GRANNUM, VERITA EUDORA EBUN | 54d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 21 |
| 1725 | 19 |
| 1751 | 18 |
| 1727 | 16 |
| 1723 | 15 |
| 1737 | 15 |
| 1721 | 14 |
| 1791 | 13 |
| 1752 | 13 |
| 1729 | 12 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19489339 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | OKEBATO, SAHLU | 2625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2025 |
| 19480092 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, DRIVING METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | LU, WILLIAM | 2624 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2025 |
| 19480168 | ULTRASONIC WAVE GENERATING DEVICE HAVING PLURALITY OF ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS, AND ULTRASONIC TREATMENT HANDPIECE INCLUDING SAME | Classys Inc. | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2025 |
| 19480084 | SHIFT REGISTER, SCANNING DRIVER CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY PANEL | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | ZHENG, XUEMEI | 2629 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2025 |
| 19479418 | DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | KIYABU, KARIN A | 2626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2025 |
| 19477563 | DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | WATKO, JULIE ANNE | 2627 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2025 |
| 19475484 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | AU, SCOTT D | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19472237 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | Ishikawa Energy Research Co., Ltd. | SINGH, DAPINDER | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19168879 | PACKAGING APPARATUS | Takazono Corporation | AHMED, MOBEEN | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19338159 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING MOVEMENT OF PERSON, AND MEDIUM | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | NELESKI, ELIZABETH ROSE | 3658 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19338098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE BODY, AND MEDIUM | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | CULLEN, TANNER L | 3656 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19165267 | TOUCH SENSOR | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | PIZIALI, JEFFREY J | 2628 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19327264 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED WORKFLOW GENERATION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | Fujitsu Limited | HEIN, DEVIN C | 3686 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2025 |
| 19283594 | PARKING LOCK CLUTCH | Tsubakimoto Chain Co. | OLSZEWSKI, JOHN | 3617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 19277975 | MEASURE EVALUATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MEASURE EVALUATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE | Fujitsu Limited | HUSSEIN, ALAA WADIE | 3626 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19150042 | CONVEYER APPARATUS FOR COMPOUND SHEET | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | GONZALEZ, LUIS A | 3653 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19250219 | DISPLAY PANEL | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | REED, STEPHEN T | 2627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19247703 | SAFETY SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | Thinkware Corporation | FOXX, CHICO A | 2685 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19247203 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATEDLY MANAGING VEHICLE OPERATION STATE | Thinkware Corporation | PAIGE, TYLER D | 3661 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19142439 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | Sony Honda Mobility Inc. | SMALL, NAOMI J | 2685 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19140596 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | PERVIN, FARHANA | 3655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19137499 | DISCHARGE STATE INSPECTION METHOD, DISCHARGE STATE INSPECTION DEVICE, AND DROPLET INSPECTION SYSTEM | Musashi Engineering, Inc. | PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19128257 | THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND GENERATION DEVICE, AND HANDPIECE FOR ULTRASOUND TREATMENT INCLUDING SAME | Classys Inc. | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19127503 | FILTER GROUP AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MODULE | Fujikura Ltd. | YALDO, ABIGAIL AMIR | 2843 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19123935 | STATE DETECTION APPARATUS AND STATE DETECTION SYSTEM | Yokogawa Electric Corporation | ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19122826 | BIOSIGNAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE | Suntory Holdings Limited | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19173322 | HEIGHT-ADJUSTABLE SPINAL FUSION CAGE | Gook Jin Kang | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 | |
| 19171427 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. | NGUYEN, NGA X | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 | |
| 19117730 | BEVERAGE SERVER | Suntory Holdings Limited | CARROLL, JEREMY W | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19091111 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING GRAPHENE MEMBRANE | Airmembrane Corporation | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19085413 | PNEUMATIC TIRE | Toyo Tire Corporation | DYE, ROBERT C | 3619 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19081062 | GUSSETED POUCH | Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd. | BATTISTI, DEREK J | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 | |
| 19079668 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | Yokogawa Electric Corporation | YENINAS, STEVEN LEE | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 | |
| 19078520 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | Yokogawa Electric Corporation | MAUPIN, HUGH H | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 | |
| 19111405 | POLYGONAL WASHER AND FASTENING STRUCTURE | Nippon Plarad Co. | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 | |
| 19108965 | STEERING DEVICE | Thk Co., Ltd. | VERLEY, NICOLE T | 3614 | §102 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19069657 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAFFIC SIMULATION | Fujitsu Limited | LANG, MICHAEL DEAN | 3667 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19069391 | VOLTAGE GENERATION CIRCUIT, IMAGE SENSOR, SCOPE, AND VOLTAGE GENERATION METHOD | Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | BHATIA, AMIT R | 2842 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19070239 | RESIST COMPOSITION AND PATTERN FORMING PROCESS | Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. | EOFF, ANCA | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 | |
| 19064072 | PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND IMAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD | Keyence Corporation | CUTLER, ALBERT H | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 | |
| 19057245 | OPTICAL FIBER CHARACTERISTIC MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND OPTICAL FIBER CHARACTERISTIC MEASUREMENT METHOD | Yokogawa Electric Corporation | AYUB, HINA F | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 | |
| 19057253 | OPTICAL PULSE TESTER AND MEASUREMENT METHOD | Yokogawa Test & Measurement Corporation | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 | |
| 19104484 | OIL-LIQUEFACTION APPARATUS, AND OlL-LIQUEFACTION METHOD USING SAME | Kitahama Chemistry Co., Ltd. | MILLER, JONATHAN | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 | |
| 19051647 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE | Anotherball Pte. Ltd. | SAJOUS, WESNER | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 | |
| 19100259 | THREAD MILL | Osg Corporation | VITALE, MICHAEL J | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 | |
| 19100243 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Suntory Holdings Limited | TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE | 3625 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19039918 | VISUAL FIELD MEASUREMENT METHOD AND MOVING BODY | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | WILKES, ZACHARY W | 3657 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18998348 | INSULATING SHEET | Nitto Shinko Corporation | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19035087 | RESIST COMPOSITION AND PATTERNING PROCESS | Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. | EOFF, ANCA | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 | |
| 18996641 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, PIXEL DRIVING METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | ADAMS, CARL | 2627 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial86.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Whda, LLP were allowed, across 34,877 applications in USPTO records.
3.24 office actions per allowed application on average.
715 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 118 clients, before 529 examiners in 190 art units.