Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Wood Ip LLC

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

10 pending office actions • 8 clients • 10 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Wood IP LLC has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 426 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 90.79%, and allowed matters average 3.84 office actions per allowance.

The reported allowance rate supplies a historical outcome measure for the chemistry and materials practice, while the office-action average indicates that allowed matters typically require several examination exchanges. The pending docket identifies current workload within that technical focus. Practitioners can use the profile to plan responses involving compositions, materials, or processes, while recognizing that aggregate results do not resolve the issues in any individual application.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=426 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

90.8%
Allowance Rate
n=426
+0.54σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=426
3.8
OAs to Allowance
n=276
+0.25σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=276
1030 days
Time to Allowance
n=276
+5.4pp
Interview Lift
n=426
33.9%
RCE Rate
n=426
0.4%
Appeal Rate
n=426

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

65.4%
§101 Overcome
n=26
81.5%
§102 Overcome
n=157
81.6%
§103 Overcome
n=228
76.1%
§112 Overcome
n=163

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H02M, H02K
Top CPC Subclasses
30%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=426
2
Practitioners
n=426
213.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=426

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

8
Hard (80%)
1
Medium (10%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§101 + other1 (10%)
§103 only1 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (60%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
30% of docket
3
Information Tech
30% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
30% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 1 83.5% +3.4%
PHAM, LY D 1 94.0% +3.4%
MILLER, JONATHAN 1 79.7% +18.3%
WOOLWINE, SHANE D 1 86.5% +20.5%
WEINER, ARIELLE E 1 43.4% +53.6%
WESTBROOK, MICHAEL L 1 74.7% +6.4%
LEFF, STEVEN N 1 41.4% +8.4%
MILEF, ELDA G 1 41.1% +8.2%
SPICER, JENINE MARIE 1 51.0% +19.1%
MERRIAM, ANDREW E 1 28.3% +33.9%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18780055 INFINITE RESERVOIR TRANSFORMER WOOLWINE, SHANE D —

Hard Cases (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18780139 RETAILER LINKED DIALOGUES: CHATTING, CARTING, AND CARING WEINER, ARIELLE E 140d overdue
18224716 REUSABLE POD FOR STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND MIXING OF POWDERS SPICER, JENINE MARIE 51d overdue
17622354 Product Containing Cocoa and One or More Sweetening Agents, Method For The Production of Such Products, in Particular Chocolate Products or Chocolate-Like Products, Use of Products of Said Type, For Example To Make Chocolate Products or Chocolate Like Products MERRIAM, ANDREW E 5d overdue
18754923 MAINTAINING INTEGRITY OF A MEMORY COMPONENT WESTBROOK, MICHAEL L 15d
19040659 SECURE DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BARRY, LANCE LEONARD —
18976962 ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATOR MILLER, JONATHAN —
18419252 METHOD FOR THE COMBINED CONTINUOUS MIXING AND METERING OF DOUGHS OR PASTES ENRICHED WITH GAS UNDER STATIC PRESSURE, CONTROL AND/OR REGULATING DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SUCH A METHOD, DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD AND PRODUCTS OBTAINED BY THIS METHOD, AND USE OF SUCH PRODUCTS LEFF, STEVEN N —
18480411 VIRTUAL SOCIAL BANKING NETWORKS BY PLATFORM UTILIZING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY MILEF, ELDA G —

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18780139 RETAILER LINKED DIALOGUES: CHATTING, CARTING, AND CARING WEINER, ARIELLE E 140d overdue
18224716 REUSABLE POD FOR STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND MIXING OF POWDERS SPICER, JENINE MARIE 51d overdue
17622354 Product Containing Cocoa and One or More Sweetening Agents, Method For The Production of Such Products, in Particular Chocolate Products or Chocolate-Like Products, Use of Products of Said Type, For Example To Make Chocolate Products or Chocolate Like Products MERRIAM, ANDREW E 5d overdue
18976962 ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATOR MILLER, JONATHAN —
18780055 INFINITE RESERVOIR TRANSFORMER WOOLWINE, SHANE D —

Client Portfolio (8 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24571
28271
17721
21241
36891
21391
17921
36941
37361
17911

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19040659 SECURE DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Kingdom Partners LLC BARRY, LANCE LEONARD 2457 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 29, 2025
19012470 FINITE TIME COUNTING PERIOD COUNTING OF INFINITE DATA STREAMS Micron Technology, Inc. PHAM, LY D 2827 Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 07, 2025
18976962 ATMOSPHERIC WATER GENERATOR Hydronomy, Inc. MILLER, JONATHAN 1772 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 11, 2024
18780055 INFINITE RESERVOIR TRANSFORMER Ye Ventures, LLC WOOLWINE, SHANE D 2124 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 22, 2024
18780139 RETAILER LINKED DIALOGUES: CHATTING, CARTING, AND CARING Ye Ventures, LLC WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 140d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18754923 MAINTAINING INTEGRITY OF A MEMORY COMPONENT Micron Technology, Inc. WESTBROOK, MICHAEL L 2139 §103§112 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jun 26, 2024
18419252 METHOD FOR THE COMBINED CONTINUOUS MIXING AND METERING OF DOUGHS OR PASTES ENRICHED WITH GAS UNDER STATIC PRESSURE, CONTROL AND/OR REGULATING DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SUCH A METHOD, DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD AND PRODUCTS OBTAINED BY THIS METHOD, AND USE OF SUCH PRODUCTS Erich Windhab LEFF, STEVEN N 1792 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 22, 2024
18480411 VIRTUAL SOCIAL BANKING NETWORKS BY PLATFORM UTILIZING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY Wellthi Technologies, Inc. MILEF, ELDA G 3694 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 03, 2023
18224716 REUSABLE POD FOR STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND MIXING OF POWDERS Stone Wolf, LLC SPICER, JENINE MARIE 3736 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Jul 21, 2023
17622354 Product Containing Cocoa and One or More Sweetening Agents, Method For The Production of Such Products, in Particular Chocolate Products or Chocolate-Like Products, Use of Products of Said Type, For Example To Make Chocolate Products or Chocolate Like Products ETH ZÜRICH MERRIAM, ANDREW E 1791 §103§112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2021

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Wood Ip LLC's patent allowance rate?

90.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Wood Ip LLC were allowed, across 426 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Wood Ip LLC average before allowance?

3.84 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Wood Ip LLC have?

10 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 8 clients, before 10 examiners in 10 art units.

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