Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
92 pending office actions • 13 clients • 90 examiners • 60 art units • 0 of 92 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 343 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wiersch Law Group is associated with Communications and reports 3103 career applications. Its profile lists 97 pending office actions, indicating a substantial current examination workload. The resolved allowance rate is 85.7%, showing that a substantial share of resolved applications reached allowance.
Allowances average 1.4 office actions, indicating that successful matters generally involve limited examination activity. The same application volume, allowance rate, and action average provide context for this technology area, while the pending docket reflects current workload. Practitioners should keep those measures distinct: the rate addresses resolved outcomes, and the action average addresses the prosecution path to allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 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. 20 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 | 1 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (9%) |
| §103 only | 33 (36%) |
| §102 only | 5 (5%) |
| §112 only | 9 (10%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 35 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 2 | 65.4% | +40.0% |
| BUTCHER, BRIAN M | 2 | 77.7% | +14.3% |
| FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 1 | 65.0% | +32.6% |
| SNYDER, ADAM J | 1 | 70.2% | +18.7% |
| OWENS, TSION B | 1 | 88.2% | +8.3% |
| YODICHKAS, ANEETA | 1 | 71.9% | +25.0% |
| PYO, KEVIN K | 1 | 87.0% | +9.9% |
| MATES, ROBERT E | 1 | 57.3% | +34.7% |
| LE, HUYEN D | 1 | 73.0% | +8.3% |
| MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M | 1 | 85.3% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921977 | SPEAKER BOX | MCKINNEY, ANGELICA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342699 | Chamber Sealing Process for Temperature Equalizing Plate and Temperature Equalizing Plate Manufactured by Same | HOLLY, LEE A | 105d overdue |
| 18544367 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE LENS AND NEAR-EYE DISPLAY DEVICE | HAYES, MARY A | 98d overdue |
| 18399625 | LENS DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LEE, PAUL CHANG | 73d overdue |
| 18454824 | POROUS AMMONIA SYNTHESIS CATALYST, ITS PREPARATION METHOD AND USE | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | 31d overdue |
| 18313288 | B3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GENE FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY IMPROVING LENGTH, STRENGTH AND ELONGATION OF COTTON FIBERS AND USE THEREOF | WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 4d overdue |
| 18316256 | EFFICIENT, SECURE AND LOW-COMMUNICATION VERTICAL FEDERATED LEARNING METHOD | NGUYEN, CHAU T | 15d |
| 17983420 | HUMAN T-LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA/LYMPHOMA CELL STRAIN AND USE THEREOF | ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | 34d |
| 18522166 | SPEAKER | NEECE, DYLAN MAGUIRE | 70d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18762704 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | BUTCHER, BRIAN M | 91d overdue |
| 18337407 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 23d |
| 19305708 | VIBRATION COOLING PUMP, COOLING STRUCTURE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR COOLING PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | — |
| 19242997 | TOUCH PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | SNYDER, ADAM J | — |
| 19193899 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | YODICHKAS, ANEETA | — |
| 19174898 | Linear Vibration Motor | MATES, ROBERT E | — |
| 17921977 | SPEAKER BOX | MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M | — |
| 19007595 | Microphone | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 8 |
| 2834 | 5 |
| 2694 | 5 |
| 2693 | 4 |
| 2627 | 3 |
| 2692 | 3 |
| 1726 | 3 |
| 2837 | 3 |
| 2695 | 2 |
| 2691 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19305708 | VIBRATION COOLING PUMP, COOLING STRUCTURE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR COOLING PUMP | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2025 |
| 19242997 | TOUCH PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. | SNYDER, ADAM J | 2623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2025 |
| 19194036 | REARVIEW MIRROR AND VEHICLE | Shanghai Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. | OWENS, TSION B | 2487 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19193899 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | Xiamen Tianma Display Technology Co., Ltd. | YODICHKAS, ANEETA | 2627 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19192293 | LIGHT BRIGHTNESS DETECTION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, PROCESSOR AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. | PYO, KEVIN K | 2878 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19174898 | Linear Vibration Motor | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | MATES, ROBERT E | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 17913834 | SOUND DEVICE | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | LE, HUYEN D | 2694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 17921977 | SPEAKER BOX | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | MCKINNEY, ANGELICA M | 2694 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 17921978 | SPEAKER MODULE | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | CHAN, JASON | 2619 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19066196 | LENS DRIVING DEVICE | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | BOOHER, ADAM W | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19053430 | METHOD FOR DIGITAL CURRENCY INTRA-CHAIN AND CROSS-CHAIN OFF-CHAIN PAYMENTS BASED ON TRUSTED HARDWARE | ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY | OUSSIR, EL MEHDI | 3699 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19036049 | STEP MOTOR | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | ELNAKIB, AHMED | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19036058 | Vibration Motor | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | ALMAWRI, MAGED M | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19008550 | LENS DRIVING DEVICE | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19007595 | Microphone | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 2694 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19008589 | METHOD FOR NONLINEARLY CONTROLLING AND COMPENSATING INTERMODULATION DISTORTION OF SOUNDING ELEMENT, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. | DEANE JR, WILLIAM J | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19006272 | SPEAKER | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | HOQUE, NAFIZ E | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 19006275 | SPEAKER | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | ELAHEE, MD S | 2694 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 19001633 | CAMERA MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. | HUSTOFT, JUSTIN WAYNE | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18988961 | SPEAKER AND SPEAKER BOX | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | ADDY, THJUAN KNOWLIN | 2693 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18988928 | STEPPER MOTOR | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | 2834 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18986754 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE FOR VIRTUALIZING EXTERNAL VEHICLE SOUND AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | Aac Technologies (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. | JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A | 2695 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18986572 | Smart optical device | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | BROOME, SHARRIEF I | 2872 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18984917 | Bone Conduction Package Structure | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18984858 | Speaker | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, SEAN H | 2691 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18979691 | CAMERA OPTICAL LENS | Changzhou Aac Raytech Optronics Co., Ltd. | PICHLER, MARIN | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18977850 | SMART GLASSES | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | DUONG, HENRY ABRAHAM | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18977864 | BONE-CONDUCTION MEMS CHIP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND BONE-CONDUCTION PACKAGING STRUCTURE HAVING BONE-CONDUCTION MEMS CHIP | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | SAUNDERS JR, JOSEPH | 2692 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18969208 | VEHICLE AUDIO SYSTEM BASED ON DRIVING CHANNEL MULTIPLEXING, AUDIO PLAYING METHOD, AND DEVICE | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. | SHAH, ANTIM G | 2693 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18964659 | BUTTON MOTOR | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | CHANG, MINKI | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2024 |
| 18948422 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | Xiamen Tianma Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. | BUTCHER, BRIAN M | 2627 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18939490 | TRANSMISSION MECHANISM OF MICRO CRAWLING ROBOT AND MICRO CRAWLING ROBOT | ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY | BRITTMAN-ALABI, FELICIA LUCILLE | 3611 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18890691 | MEMS MICROPHONE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING MEMS MICROPHONE | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | TRAN, CON P | 2695 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18796229 | Voice Coil Winding Real-Time Quality Control Method, System, And Corresponding Apparatus | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | VANCHY JR, MICHAEL J | 2666 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18766661 | SECONDARY BATTERY, BATTERY PACK, AND ENERGY STORAGE CONTAINER | Jinko Energy Storage Technology Co., Ltd. | SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N | 1749 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18762704 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS | Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. | BUTCHER, BRIAN M | 2627 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 91d overdue | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18757611 | ANTIBACTERIAL DRESSING FOR PROMOTING SCARLESS HEALING OF WOUND SURFACE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | Shaoxing Research Institute Of Zhejiang University | ROBERTS, LEZAH | 1612 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18743031 | RADIO FREQUENCY MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | CARLEY, JEFFREY T. | 3729 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18741809 | OPTICAL LENS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | Aac Optics (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | LAVARIAS, ARNEL C | 2872 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18740480 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY PANEL AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE | Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. | SOWARD, IDA M | 2898 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18735227 | DISPLAY PANEL, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME AND DISPLAY DEVICE | Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. | ELNAFIA, SAIFELDIN E | 2625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18733896 | ULTRATHIN DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | Aac Kaitai Technologies (Ma'Anshan) Co., Ltd. | SU, XIAOWEI | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18731377 | FIXING BRACKET AND INTEGRATED CABINET | Jinko Energy Storage Technology Co., Ltd. | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 3637 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18676514 | CHIRAL AMINE-SQUARAMIDE COMPOUND BASED ON SPIROBIINDANE SKELETON, PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY | ONDACHI, PAULINE WANJIKU MUCH | 1627 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18669571 | RUBBER VOICE DIAPHRAGM, ACOUSTIC GENERATOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF | Aac Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. | WU, ANDREA | 1763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18666821 | MACHINE HOUSING AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | MILLISER, THERON S | 2841 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18666868 | ASPHERICAL PRISM AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | Aac Optics (Chongqing) Co., Ltd. | SNELTING, ERIN LYNN | 1741 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18666867 | MOLD AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING LENS | Aac Optics (Chongqing) Co., Ltd. | HERRING, LISA L | 1741 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18633349 | VOICE WAKE-UP METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | Aac Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | PULLIAS, JESSE SCOTT | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18625261 | HUMAN OVARIAN CANCER NIRAPARIB-RESISTANT CELL STRAIN AND USE THEREOF | Women’S Hospital, Zhejiang University School Of Medicine | O'NEILL, MARISOL ANN | 1633 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial85.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Wiersch Law Group were allowed, across 3,103 applications in USPTO records.
1.40 office actions per allowed application on average.
92 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 13 clients, before 90 examiners in 60 art units.
