Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
13 pending office actions • 11 clients • 12 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Williams Mullen is active in Chemistry & Materials and reports 1071 career applications. The profile lists 13 pending office actions, indicating a defined current unresolved workload. Its resolved allowance rate is 82.27%, showing that allowance was recorded for a substantial share of resolved applications.
Allowances average 2.94 office actions, indicating that successful prosecution commonly involves multiple examination responses. Practitioners should distinguish the outcome measure from the process measure: the allowance rate addresses resolved results, while the action average addresses examination effort. The application base and pending docket add context for evaluating the firm’s broader activity and current prosecution workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 2 (15%) |
| §103 only | 5 (38%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | 2 | 78.4% | +28.7% |
| GARCIA, CARLOS E | 1 | 76.9% | +16.6% |
| LEE, CHUN KUAN | 1 | 68.4% | +3.9% |
| GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 59.0% | +23.2% |
| SEVERSON, JEREMY R | 1 | 87.7% | +10.7% |
| ALDARONDO, DASIA ALI | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE | 1 | 66.7% | +78.6% |
| PATEL, BRIJESH V | 1 | 64.8% | +40.3% |
| KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1 | 17.7% | +16.0% |
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1 | 37.6% | +53.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18945185 | DEVICE FOR HANDLING AND STACKING FLEXIBLE SHEETS | SEVERSON, JEREMY R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697038 | PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES AGAINST STEM RUST AND METHODS OF USE | ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE | 79d overdue |
| 18683574 | SWEETENER BLEND COMPRISING THAUMATIN AND BRAZZEIN | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 22d |
| 18016051 | PRODUCTS FOR ORAL CONSUMPTION WITH REDUCED SUGAR CONTENT | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 26d |
| 18607667 | ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY INSULATED PACKING SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING FOOD PRODUCTS | PATEL, BRIJESH V | 62d |
| 19039482 | REACH REMOTE ELEVATED ANCHOR | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18701328 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION | ALDARONDO, DASIA ALI | — |
| 17554095 | WHEAT STEM RUST RESISTANCE GENES AND METHODS OF USE | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697038 | PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES AGAINST STEM RUST AND METHODS OF USE | ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE | 79d overdue |
| 18683574 | SWEETENER BLEND COMPRISING THAUMATIN AND BRAZZEIN | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 22d |
| 18016051 | PRODUCTS FOR ORAL CONSUMPTION WITH REDUCED SUGAR CONTENT | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 26d |
| 18607667 | ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY INSULATED PACKING SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING FOOD PRODUCTS | PATEL, BRIJESH V | 62d |
| 19089323 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PHYSICAL LOCKS WITH SINGLE RESET OR OVERRIDE DEVICE | GARCIA, CARLOS E | — |
| 19069397 | Reclaimed PP-Containing OPP Films | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | — |
| 19067851 | PP-Industrial-Reclaimed-PP-Containing Transparent OPP Films | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | — |
| 19039482 | REACH REMOTE ELEVATED ANCHOR | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 2 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 2181 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1647 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19089323 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PHYSICAL LOCKS WITH SINGLE RESET OR OVERRIDE DEVICE | Davinci Lock LLC | GARCIA, CARLOS E | 2686 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19085809 | COMPUTING SYSTEM VARIABLE LENGTH BUS | Icat, LLC D/B/A Turing Micro | LEE, CHUN KUAN | 2181 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19069397 | Reclaimed PP-Containing OPP Films | Polyopt GmbH | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | 1787 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19067851 | PP-Industrial-Reclaimed-PP-Containing Transparent OPP Films | Polyopt GmbH | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | 1787 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2025 |
| 19039482 | REACH REMOTE ELEVATED ANCHOR | Safewaze LLC | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 3632 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18945185 | DEVICE FOR HANDLING AND STACKING FLEXIBLE SHEETS | Arca Technologies S.r.l. | SEVERSON, JEREMY R | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18701328 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION | Advancecor GmbH | ALDARONDO, DASIA ALI | 1647 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18697038 | PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES AGAINST STEM RUST AND METHODS OF USE | The Sainsbury Laboratory | ORDAZ, CHRISTIAN JOSE | 1663 | §101§102§112 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18607667 | ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY INSULATED PACKING SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING FOOD PRODUCTS | Seawise Innovative Packing Ltd. | PATEL, BRIJESH V | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18683574 | SWEETENER BLEND COMPRISING THAUMATIN AND BRAZZEIN | Nomad Bioscience GmbH | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18016051 | PRODUCTS FOR ORAL CONSUMPTION WITH REDUCED SUGAR CONTENT | Nomad Bioscience GmbH | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17960239 | DRY PROCESS FOR FORMING AN ELECTRODE | Livent Usa Corp. | LUSTGRAAF, BENJAMIN T | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Oct 05, 2022 |
| 17554095 | WHEAT STEM RUST RESISTANCE GENES AND METHODS OF USE | Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 1662 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial82.3% of resolved applications prosecuted by Williams Mullen were allowed, across 1,071 applications in USPTO records.
2.94 office actions per allowed application on average.
13 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 11 clients, before 12 examiners in 12 art units.
