Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wong Meyer Smith & McConnell operates primarily in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm has managed 141 career applications, achieving a resolved allowance rate of 83.1 percent. This performance demonstrates the firm's ability to secure patent grants in chemical fields.
The firm currently has 7 pending office actions. On average, the firm experiences 3.15 office actions per allowance. This metric of 3.15 actions per allowance suggests a thorough examination process where multiple rounds of communication with the USPTO are common before reaching a final resolution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (86%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 2 | 32.3% | +31.4% |
| SWENSON, BRIAN L | 1 | 81.0% | +9.5% |
| CORMIER, DAVID G | 1 | 64.6% | +28.7% |
| BASICHAS, ALFRED | 1 | 72.2% | +3.9% |
| MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1 | 61.5% | +27.4% |
| REYNOLDS, FRED H | 1 | 32.9% | +39.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19081153 | Tire Barrier Device | SWENSON, BRIAN L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18191344 | Nozzle Height Adjustment Apparatus and Method for an Extruder Assembly | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 16d overdue |
| 18658216 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 26d |
| 18783800 | Deep Cleaning Alignment Equipment | CORMIER, DAVID G | 62d |
| 18516211 | Gas Heat Exchanger with Baffle for a Combination Oven | BASICHAS, ALFRED | — |
| 18141032 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | — |
| 18021593 | Effervescent Formulation Containing Apoaequorin | REYNOLDS, FRED H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18191344 | Nozzle Height Adjustment Apparatus and Method for an Extruder Assembly | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 16d overdue |
| 18658216 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 26d |
| 18783800 | Deep Cleaning Alignment Equipment | CORMIER, DAVID G | 62d |
| 18141032 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | — |
| 18021593 | Effervescent Formulation Containing Apoaequorin | REYNOLDS, FRED H | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Sargento Cheese Inc. | 2 |
| Micetight, Inc. | 1 |
| Precision Iceblast Corporation | 1 |
| Alto-Shaam | 1 |
| Sargento Foods Inc. | 1 |
| Quincy Bioscience, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 2 |
| 3613 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19081153 | Tire Barrier Device | Micetight, Inc. | SWENSON, BRIAN L | 3613 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 18783800 | Deep Cleaning Alignment Equipment | Precision Iceblast Corporation | CORMIER, DAVID G | 1711 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18658216 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | Sargento Cheese Inc. | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18516211 | Gas Heat Exchanger with Baffle for a Combination Oven | Alto-Shaam, Inc. | BASICHAS, ALFRED | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18141032 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | Sargento Cheese Inc. | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18191344 | Nozzle Height Adjustment Apparatus and Method for an Extruder Assembly | Sargento Foods Inc. | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1743 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18021593 | Effervescent Formulation Containing Apoaequorin | Quincy Bioscience, LLC | REYNOLDS, FRED H | 1658 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial83.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Wong Meyer Smith & Mcconnell were allowed, across 141 applications in USPTO records.
3.15 office actions per allowed application on average.
7 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.
