Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
653 pending office actions • 204 clients • 551 examiners • 275 art units • 0 of 653 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Womble Bond Dickinson US LLP has 955 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. This indicates a substantial active examination workload in a field where claim scope may depend on composition, material characteristics, and manufacturing or treatment processes.
The profile does not report career applications, a resolved allowance rate, or an average office actions per allowance. Practitioners therefore have a current workload indicator but no accompanying historical outcome or efficiency measure. Matter-level review is necessary to determine whether the pending actions reflect concentrated client activity, recurring rejection issues, or varied chemistry and materials portfolios.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 176 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. 176 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 | 18 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 67 (10%) |
| §103 only | 240 (37%) |
| §102 only | 25 (4%) |
| §112 only | 33 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 7 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 31 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 227 (35%) |
| No statute on record | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 8 | 65.2% | +20.2% |
| BUCKMAN, JEFFREY ALAN | 7 | 62.3% | +40.5% |
| SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 6 | 64.1% | +14.0% |
| MAYES, DIONNE WALLS | 6 | 64.3% | +27.0% |
| YAARY, ERIC | 5 | 73.8% | +2.5% |
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 5 | 27.8% | +4.3% |
| DELACRUZ, MADELEINE PAULINA | 5 | 63.1% | +40.7% |
| SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P | 4 | 85.5% | +6.2% |
| BELYAEV, YANA | 4 | 58.3% | +31.5% |
| DAVISON, CHARLOTTE INKERI | 4 | 46.8% | +29.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19026350 | BRAKE SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426943 | MANAGING DEVICE ONBOARDING AFTER COMPONENT REPLACEMENT | DAVIS, ZACHARY A | 169d overdue |
| 17920733 | EXCAVATOR AND CONTROL METHOD FOR EXCAVATOR | LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | 169d overdue |
| 17805396 | ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF CORONAVIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN FOR ALTERING CYTOKINE LEVELS AND PROVIDING PASSIVE IMMUNITY TO NEWBORN PIGS | BUCKMASTER, MARLENE VRENI | 147d overdue |
| 17996858 | AEROSOLISABLE FORMULATION | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 89d overdue |
| 18249154 | COMBINATION OF ADOPTIVE CELL THERAPY AND CHEMOTHERAPY FOR ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA | BUTTICE, AUDREY L | 81d overdue |
| 17170986 | ORAL PRODUCTS WITH CONTROLLED RELEASE | MAYES, DIONNE WALLS | 71d overdue |
| 18773825 | PURIFICATION OF TOBACCO-DERIVED PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 59d overdue |
| 18675606 | DYNAMIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY TO A MOVING CUSTOMER FOR A DELIVERY | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 59d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17170986 | ORAL PRODUCTS WITH CONTROLLED RELEASE | MAYES, DIONNE WALLS | 71d overdue |
| 16706974 | LIPID-CONTAINING ORAL COMPOSITION | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 56d overdue |
| 17293839 | GENERATION OF AN INHALABLE MEDIUM | BUCKMAN, JEFFREY ALAN | 52d overdue |
| 17186749 | ORAL PRODUCT | BUCKMAN, JEFFREY ALAN | 46d overdue |
| 17756515 | METHOD OF MAKING AN AMORPHOUS SOLID FOR USE WITH A NON-COMBUSTIBLE AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM | SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 30d overdue |
| 18040695 | AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM | DELACRUZ, MADELEINE PAULINA | 28d overdue |
| 18042851 | AEROSOL GENERATION | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 22d overdue |
| 17436846 | TOBACCO PROCESSING METHOD | BUCKMAN, JEFFREY ALAN | 22d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 46 |
| 1747 | 21 |
| 3616 | 20 |
| 3791 | 14 |
| 1615 | 9 |
| 3761 | 9 |
| 2199 | 8 |
| 3648 | 7 |
| 2834 | 7 |
| 3785 | 6 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18931990 | Untitled | DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. | LONG, EDWARD X | 2439 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19651550 | INHALER | Nicoventures Trading Limited | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 3785 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2026 |
| 19422354 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AI AGENT BASED ON LLM APPLYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL INCLUDING PLURALITY OF MODELS | LG Management Development Institute Co., Ltd. | COLE, BRANDON S | 2128 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2025 |
| 19489827 | SYSTEM FOR DE-ICING A SURFACE OF AN AIRCRAFT | SAFRAN | WALTER, KATHERINE JUNE | 3647 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2025 |
| 19483603 | LOCKING DEVICE FOR CONTAINER, AND CONTAINER ASSEMBLY HAVING SAME | Coledy Inc. | CHU, KING M | 3735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2025 |
| 19379630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENT RESPONSE AGENT BASED ON SOPHISTICATED REASONING AND INFERENCE FUNCTION | LG Management Development Institute Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 2156 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 19478776 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND DEVICE THEREFOR | Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. | WALSH, KATHLEEN M. | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19477675 | THRUST REVERSAL SYSTEM FOR AN AIRCRAFT, AND ASSOCIATED INSTALLATION AND AIRCRAFT | SAFRAN | WONGWIAN, PHUTTHIWAT | 3741 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2025 |
| 19362382 | FOLDABLE AND TRANSPORTABLE LANDING PADS AND METHODS OF DEPLOYMENT THEREOF | Cherokee Nation Aerospace And Defense, LLC | BONNETTE, RODNEY ANDREW | 3647 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2025 |
| 19359289 | CATHETER LINERS, ASSEMBLIES, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SAME | Zeus Company LLC | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19473933 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING CURRENT BLOCK BY USING RELATIONAL EXPRESSION BETWEEN REFERENCE BLOCK AND CURRENT BLOCK | Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. | ABDOU TCHOUSSOU, BOUBACAR | 2482 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19166417 | DEVICE FOR THE IN-FLIGHT REFUELING OF AN AIRCRAFT | SAFRAN | SINAKI, ARFAN Y | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19326300 | HIGH PERFORMANCE SEALING ASSEMBLY | Vulcan Industrial Holdings, LLC | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 3746 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19161997 | GUIDE DEVICE FOR AN AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE | SAFRAN | HASAN, SABBIR | 3745 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2025 |
| 19318345 | BRAKE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | HL Mando Corporation | PECHE, JORGE O | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2025 |
| 19295239 | THERMOSTABLE MUCOSAL VACCINE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS | Global Health Solutions, Inc. | FOLEY, SHANON A | 1671 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 19292898 | TORQUE ANGLE SENSOR AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING INCLUDING THE SAME | HL Klemove Corp. | VILAKAZI, SIZO BINDA | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2025 |
| 19277229 | FINE-GRAINED ELEVATION AND RESTRICTION OF API FUNCTION CALLS | Delinea Inc. | MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 | |
| 19274485 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. | CHENG, CHI TANG P | 2463 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2025 |
| 19267345 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUALLY TOWING AN AUTONOMOUS ELECTRIC-POWERED TRAILER | Pebble Mobility Inc. | MERLINO, DAVID P | 3665 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19265112 | SPRING CONTROLLING VALVE | Vulcan Industrial Holdings, LLC | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19251530 | ENHANCED RISK ASSESSMENT | Forescout Technologies, Inc. | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2439 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19137557 | MACHINING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPAIRING AN ANNULAR WORKPIECE | SAFRAN | HOLLY, LEE A | 3726 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19218880 | PACKING ASSEMBLY WITH THREADED SLEEVE FOR INTERACTION WITH AN INSTALLATION TOOL | Vulcan Industrial Holdings, LLC | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19207225 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS OF AUTHENTICATING SIGNED ITEMS | Genuine Inc. | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19201850 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. | KASSIM, KHALED M | 2472 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19195269 | METASURFACE APERTURE ANTENNA | Kymeta Corporation | BACK, AUSTIN M | 2845 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19123762 | METHOD FOR DERIVING BLOCK VECTOR CANDIDATES AND DEVICE FOR SAME | Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. | PRINCE, JESSICA MARIE | 2486 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19182635 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL | SK Telecom Co., Ltd. | LE, BRIAN T | 2479 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19120179 | TURBOMACHINE WITH RECOVERED-CYCLE EQUIPPED WITH A HEAT EXCHANGER | SAFRAN | LISOWSKI, JACEK | 3741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19175931 | EXHAUST PASSAGE STRUCTURE AND DIAPHRAGM PUMP | Mabuchi Motor Oken Co., Ltd. | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19098843 | Systems and Methods for Alternative Adverts | Rivit Tv, Inc. | SAINT CYR, JEAN D | 2425 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 18851629 | Disease Relevance Determination Program and Disease Relevance Determination Apparatus | Local Incorporated Administrative Agency Tokyo Metropolitan Institute Of Gerontology | BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | 2674 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19092962 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING ABSOLUTE ANGULAR POSITION FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE STEERING SYSTEM | HL Mando Corporation | ENGLISH, PETER C | 3993 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19091356 | DUAL STEERING SYSTEM AND RELATED BOAT | Scout Boats, Inc. | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 | |
| 19115075 | CRYOGENIC ABLATION DEVICE | Sedivention GmbH | DEMIE, TIGIST S | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19088576 | GENERATING BOOTABLE DISK IMAGE USING CONTAINER-BASED PARTITION TABLE | Red Hat, Inc. | JOHNSON, TERRELL S | 2176 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19113765 | IMPACT ABSORBING MEMBER, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF IMPACT ABSORBING MEMBER FOR AUTOMOBILE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SIDE SILL | G-Tekt Corporation | BEMKO, TARAS P | 3672 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19077312 | DEGRADABLE DELIVERY DEVICES TO FACILITATE DISSOLUTION OF DEGRADABLE DOWNHOLE TOOLS | National Energy Services Reunited Corporation | FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD | 3676 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18845724 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LOCALLY ESTIMATING THE SPEED OF SOUND IN A REGION OF INTEREST OF A MEDIUM | E-Scopics | ROY, BAISAKHI | 3797 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19073609 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTINUOUS, ACTIVE, AND NON-INTRUSIVE USER AUTHENTICATION | UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | CHEN, CAI Y | 2425 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19071748 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FINE DROPLETS AND LIQUID PARTICLE COUNTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | Mindseye Co., Ltd. | LEE, HWA S | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19108739 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD USING GEOMETRIC DIVISION, AND DEVICE THEREFOR | Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. | JIANG, ZAIHAN | 2488 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19108708 | DEVICE FOR GUIDING A SHAFT OF AN AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE | SAFRAN | REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19107982 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR ENCODING AN IMAGE | Newsouth Innovations Pty Ltd | SARMA, ABHISHEK | 2621 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19107501 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD AND BAKING DEVICE | Komori Corporation | MUSSER, BARBARA J | 1746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19107420 | Strap Tensioner and Tension Indicator | Care4Futures Limited | DO, ROWLAND | 3677 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19106974 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING 1-HEXENE | SABIC Global Technologies B.V. | GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19064679 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE OF HOST VEHICLE | HL Mando Corporation | BAILEY, JOHN D | 3747 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19062770 | MANAGING SYSTEM VERIFICATION USING SETS OF DYNAMIC MEASUREMENTS | DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. | CHOUDHURY, ZAHID | 2175 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
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