Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
15 pending office actions • 1 client • 15 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wolter VanDyke Davis, PLLC Mail Stop AG has 16 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 3433 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 85.28%, and allowed matters average 3.29 office actions per allowance.
The reported historical measures provide context for an active chemistry and materials docket. The allowance rate describes resolved prosecution outcomes, while the office-action average indicates that allowed matters generally require multiple exchanges. Practitioners can use this profile when planning examination responses involving chemical composition, material properties, or process limitations. The available data does not identify the specific technologies, rejection grounds, or amendment paths behind the firm’s results.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 (13%) |
| §103 only | 7 (47%) |
| §112 only | 2 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (27%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1 | 77.0% | +26.9% |
| ROBERTS, HERBERT K | 1 | 68.4% | +12.6% |
| SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 1 | 46.0% | +48.0% |
| ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 1 | 40.8% | +15.5% |
| NGUYEN, TAN D | 1 | 24.3% | +19.1% |
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1 | 61.4% | +17.2% |
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 1 | 61.8% | +19.7% |
| WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 1 | 42.9% | +40.4% |
| JANSSEN, REBECCA | 1 | 60.7% | +27.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274998 | CONTINUOUS FLOW ENGINE SKID COMPONENT SYSTEM | FIGG, TRAVIS M | 26d overdue |
| 18854525 | CONTINUOUS FLOW ENGINE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND PROGNOSIS SYSTEM | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 2d overdue |
| 17787127 | SCANNING STRATEGY FOR VOLUME SUPPORT IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | MILLS JR., JOE E | 54d |
| 18269552 | SUPPORT STRATEGY FOR THIN-WALLED ADDITIVE STRUCTURE | HEVEY, JOHN A | 60d |
| 18720648 | SELF-CALIBRATION METHOD AND SELF-CALIBRATION OF MEASURING DEVICES | NGUYEN, TAN D | — |
| 18559044 | ALLOY, POWDER, METHOD AND COMPONENT | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — |
| 18266980 | IRRADIATION STRATEGY IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WITH PULSED IRRADIATION | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | — |
| 18032996 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING LOW-CYCLE FATIGUE OF MECHANICAL COMPONENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KIM, EUNHEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274998 | CONTINUOUS FLOW ENGINE SKID COMPONENT SYSTEM | FIGG, TRAVIS M | 26d overdue |
| 18266595 | ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED POROUS COMPONENT STRUCTURE AND MEANS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | JANSSEN, REBECCA | 26d overdue |
| 18854525 | CONTINUOUS FLOW ENGINE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND PROGNOSIS SYSTEM | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 2d overdue |
| 18269552 | SUPPORT STRATEGY FOR THIN-WALLED ADDITIVE STRUCTURE | HEVEY, JOHN A | 60d |
| 19010337 | CERAMIC MATERIAL, POWDER, AND LAYER SYSTEM COMPRISING THE CERAMIC MATERIAL | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 18854664 | METHOD FOR MONITORING THE STATE OF HEAT EXCHANGER PIPELINES OF A WASTE HEAT STEAM GENERATOR, AND WASTE HEAT STEAM GENERATOR | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — |
| 18729575 | 3D SCREEN PRINTING PRINTER AND 3D SCREEN PRINTING METHOD | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | — |
| 18720648 | SELF-CALIBRATION METHOD AND SELF-CALIBRATION OF MEASURING DEVICES | NGUYEN, TAN D | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Siemens Energy | 15 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 3 |
| 1735 | 2 |
| 3761 | 2 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19010337 | CERAMIC MATERIAL, POWDER, AND LAYER SYSTEM COMPRISING THE CERAMIC MATERIAL | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1781 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18854664 | METHOD FOR MONITORING THE STATE OF HEAT EXCHANGER PIPELINES OF A WASTE HEAT STEAM GENERATOR, AND WASTE HEAT STEAM GENERATOR | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18854525 | CONTINUOUS FLOW ENGINE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND PROGNOSIS SYSTEM | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | SHEIKH, ASFAND M | 3626 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2024 |
| 18729575 | 3D SCREEN PRINTING PRINTER AND 3D SCREEN PRINTING METHOD | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18720648 | SELF-CALIBRATION METHOD AND SELF-CALIBRATION OF MEASURING DEVICES | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | NGUYEN, TAN D | 3629 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2024 |
| 18559044 | ALLOY, POWDER, METHOD AND COMPONENT | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2023 |
| 18274998 | CONTINUOUS FLOW ENGINE SKID COMPONENT SYSTEM | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jul 29, 2023 |
| 18269552 | SUPPORT STRATEGY FOR THIN-WALLED ADDITIVE STRUCTURE | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | HEVEY, JOHN A | 1735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | Jun 24, 2023 |
| 18266980 | IRRADIATION STRATEGY IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WITH PULSED IRRADIATION | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18266595 | ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED POROUS COMPONENT STRUCTURE AND MEANS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | JANSSEN, REBECCA | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
| 18039053 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DEFECTS IN A 3D PRINTER USING IMAGE SPATIAL RESOLUTION | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | LEE, HWA S | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18032996 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING LOW-CYCLE FATIGUE OF MECHANICAL COMPONENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | KIM, EUNHEE | 2188 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 17923589 | METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING BY MEANS OF DUAL SELECTIVE IRRADIATION OF A POWDER BED AND PREHEATING | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2022 |
| 17640683 | NICKEL-BASED ALLOY FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, METHOD AND PRODUCT | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2022 |
| 17787127 | SCANNING STRATEGY FOR VOLUME SUPPORT IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. Kg | MILLS JR., JOE E | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial85.3% of resolved applications prosecuted by Wolter Vandyke Davis, Pllc Mail Stop AG were allowed, across 3,433 applications in USPTO records.
3.29 office actions per allowed application on average.
15 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 15 examiners in 11 art units.
