Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
666 pending office actions • 188 clients • 561 examiners • 240 art units • 0 of 666 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Womble Bond Dickinson US LLP currently manages 618 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This volume of active matters indicates a large and active prosecution workload for the firm in this specific technical sector. For practitioners, these 618 pending actions represent a significant level of ongoing communication and negotiation with patent examiners.
The concentration of activity in Chemistry & Materials highlights the firm's substantial technical engagement and administrative focus at this time. The presence of 618 pending office actions provides a clear indication of the firm's immediate workload within the chemistry and materials fields.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 194 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. 194 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 | 15 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 77 (12%) |
| §103 only | 241 (36%) |
| §102 only | 21 (3%) |
| §112 only | 31 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 12 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 32 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 234 (35%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (0%) |
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 | 7 | 65.4% | +19.9% |
| SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 6 | 55.3% | +25.6% |
| BELYAEV, YANA | 5 | 58.5% | +31.6% |
| YAARY, ERIC | 5 | 73.8% | +2.6% |
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 5 | 28.3% | +6.1% |
| DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 5 | 26.7% | +50.0% |
| DELACRUZ, MADELEINE PAULINA | 5 | 64.1% | +39.6% |
| SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P | 4 | 85.4% | +6.2% |
| SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 4 | 63.9% | +14.4% |
| MARTIN, JOHN MITCHELL | 4 | 23.3% | +10.0% |
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 |
| 17987283 | PRODUCTS WITH ENHANCED SENSORY CHARACTERISTICS | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 92d 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 |
| 18798839 | PATH FINDING METHOD, PATH FINDING APPARATUS, AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM | LEE, BRANDON SUNG EUN | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17756512 | METHOD OF MAKING AN AMORPHOUS SOLID FOR USE WITHIN A NON-COMBUSTIBLE AEROSOL PROVISION SYSTEM | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 103d overdue |
| 17987283 | PRODUCTS WITH ENHANCED SENSORY CHARACTERISTICS | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 92d overdue |
| 16706974 | LIPID-CONTAINING ORAL COMPOSITION | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 56d 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 |
| 18322259 | AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE AND RELATED METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING AN AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE BASED ON INPUT CHARACTERISTICS | DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 10d overdue |
| 18043935 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 10d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 41 |
| 1747 | 17 |
| 3616 | 13 |
| 3791 | 11 |
| 3761 | 9 |
| 3745 | 6 |
| 1662 | 6 |
| 3746 | 5 |
| 2834 | 5 |
| 1655 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19431111 | Method and Apparatus for Automatic Arming of Perforating Gun | Dynaenergetics Europe GmbH | DAVID, MICHAEL D | 3641 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2025 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 19318345 | BRAKE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | HL Mando Corporation | PECHE, JORGE O | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2025 |
| 19161997 | GUIDE DEVICE FOR AN AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE | SAFRAN | HASAN, SABBIR | 3745 | §112 | 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 |
| 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 | §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 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 | |
| 19251530 | ENHANCED RISK ASSESSMENT | Forescout Technologies, Inc. | BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2431 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19141892 | PERFORATING GUN STRING WITH REPEATER COMMUNICATION | Dynaenergetics Europe GmbH | AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 3672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 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 |
| 19200660 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. | JENSEN, NICHOLAS A | 2472 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 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 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 | |
| 19182635 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL | SK Telecom Co., Ltd. | LE, BRIAN T | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 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 |
| 19094902 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. | NGUYEN, CHUONG M | 2411 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 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 |
| 19115075 | CRYOGENIC ABLATION DEVICE | Sedivention GmbH | DEMIE, TIGIST S | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19085107 | DETONATOR WITH FUSED HEAD RETENTION FEATURES | Dynaenergetics Europe GmbH | DAVID, MICHAEL D | 3641 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 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 | §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 | §102§103§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 |
| 19107501 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD AND BAKING DEVICE | Komori Corporation | MUSSER, BARBARA J | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| 19107420 | Strap Tensioner and Tension Indicator | Care4Futures Limited | DO, ROWLAND | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| 19106974 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING 1-HEXENE | SABIC Global Technologies B.V. | GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 | |
| 19062730 | MANAGING STORES OF TRUSTED CERTIFICATES FOR DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS | DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. | BAYOU, YONAS A | 2499 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19056267 | QUASI-RESONANT FLYBACK CONVERTER FOR AN INDUCTION-BASED AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE | Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc. | BAKER, LORI LYNN | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 | |
| 19104191 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | Wilus Institute Of Standards And Technology Inc. | HABIB, IRFAN | 2485 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19045930 | HIGH-THROUGHPUT MULTIPLEXING ELECTROPHORETIC GEL APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | Blotting Innovations, Inc. | BALL, JOHN C | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 | |
| 19043698 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ISSUES IMPACTING OPERATION OF DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS | DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. | MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT | 3628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19100562 | ICE-MAKING CONTROL METHOD | Won Bong Co., Ltd. | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2025 | |
| 19042357 | EXPANDABLE AND COLLAPSIBLE BUILDING UNIT | Venhub Ip, LLC | AGUDELO, PAOLA | 3633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19035081 | EDGE-BASED SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT DURING CONTEXT DATA RETRIEVAL | DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. | MORRISON, JAY A | 2151 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19034993 | EDGE AUGMENTED GENERATION FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS | DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. | MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO | 2159 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19035550 | MOBILE PERFORATING BANK UNIT AND MODULAR STORAGE CONTAINER | Dynaenergetics Europe GmbH | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 3736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19034323 | GUARDIAN CONTAINER LAYERS FOR SECURE CONTAINER LAYER IMPORTING | Red Hat, Inc. | LE, THANH T | 2495 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18997477 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR IONOCALORIC HEATING AND COOLING | The Regents of the University of California | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 | |
| 19027016 | MANAGING STARTUP OF A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM USING A LIST OF HARDWARE COMPONENTS | DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. | NGUYEN, PHIL K | 2176 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18995393 | Created Cavity Biometric Sensor | Incora Health, Inc. | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
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