Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bigfoot Biomedical Inc. has 11 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The record identifies 11 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. SMALLEY, JAMES N is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The portfolio has broad examiner dispersion and spans multiple art-unit settings. That distribution creates a substantial coordination requirement because similar device concepts may receive different claim constructions, prior-art analyses, or amendment expectations across the pending matters.
No examiner is identified with more than the stated 1 pending matter. A practitioner should maintain a central claim and disclosure map, but use matter-specific response plans. Consistent terminology can reduce needless divergence, while technical distinctions and amendment choices should remain responsive to each examiner’s reasoning and art-unit context.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 3 (27%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (18%) |
| §103 only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.8% |
| SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 1 | 65.6% | +38.4% |
| CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 1 | 54.2% | +53.0% |
| MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 1 | 68.6% | +35.2% |
| VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN | 1 | 66.8% | +25.2% |
| GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 1 | 10.9% | +12.2% |
| ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 1 | 86.7% | +18.2% |
| ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 1 | 33.1% | +41.9% |
| COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 1 | 21.5% | +28.1% |
| CHOI, PETER H | 1 | 26.3% | +18.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17660244 | INSULIN DELIVERY AND DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS, INSULIN THERAPY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND RELATED METHODS | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17596402 | MISSED-BOLUS DOSE DETECTION AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 32d overdue |
| 17646568 | VISUALIZING OUTCOMES OF APPLYING RECOMMENDED INSULIN THERAPY SETTINGS, AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND DEVICES | ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 28d |
| 18798485 | ADAPTABLE REUSEABLE ACCESSORY, DETECTING REVERSIBLE ATTACHMENT OF MEDICATION DELIVERY DEVICE THEREIN, AND KIT THEREOF | SMALLEY, JAMES N | — |
| 18398051 | CAP FOR USE WITH VARIETY OF INJECTION PENS AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | — |
| 18509123 | PNEUMATIC INJECTOR FOR MEDICINE DELIVERY | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | — |
| 17756586 | DETERMINING WHETHER ADJUSTMENTS OF INSULIN THERAPY RECOMMENDATIONS ARE BEING TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | — |
| 16442252 | RECEIVING INSULIN THERAPY INFORMATION RELATED TO INSULIN-BASED MANAGEMENT OF A PERSON WITH DIABETES (PWD) | CHOI, PETER H | — |
| 16442238 | AUTOMATED PROVISIONING OF CLINICAL ADVICE ASSOCIATED WITH A PATIENT WITH DIABETES (PWD) AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | STONE, RACHAEL SOJIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17596402 | MISSED-BOLUS DOSE DETECTION AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 32d overdue |
| 17646568 | VISUALIZING OUTCOMES OF APPLYING RECOMMENDED INSULIN THERAPY SETTINGS, AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND DEVICES | ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 28d |
| 18398051 | CAP FOR USE WITH VARIETY OF INJECTION PENS AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | — |
| 18509123 | PNEUMATIC INJECTOR FOR MEDICINE DELIVERY | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | — |
| 17822236 | TIME MANAGEMENT FOR TIME-DEPENDENT THERAPY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | — |
| 17810701 | SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING INSULIN ON BOARD AND RECOMMENDING INSULIN THERAPY, AND RELATED METHODS | VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN | — |
| 17756586 | DETERMINING WHETHER ADJUSTMENTS OF INSULIN THERAPY RECOMMENDATIONS ARE BEING TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | — |
| 17660244 | INSULIN DELIVERY AND DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS, INSULIN THERAPY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND RELATED METHODS | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 4 |
| 3681 | 2 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18798485 | ADAPTABLE REUSEABLE ACCESSORY, DETECTING REVERSIBLE ATTACHMENT OF MEDICATION DELIVERY DEVICE THEREIN, AND KIT THEREOF | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18398051 | CAP FOR USE WITH VARIETY OF INJECTION PENS AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18509123 | PNEUMATIC INJECTOR FOR MEDICINE DELIVERY | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 17822236 | TIME MANAGEMENT FOR TIME-DEPENDENT THERAPY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 3783 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2022 |
| 17810701 | SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING INSULIN ON BOARD AND RECOMMENDING INSULIN THERAPY, AND RELATED METHODS | VANNI, GEORGE STEVEN | 1686 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2022 |
| 17756586 | DETERMINING WHETHER ADJUSTMENTS OF INSULIN THERAPY RECOMMENDATIONS ARE BEING TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 3685 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
| 17660244 | INSULIN DELIVERY AND DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS, INSULIN THERAPY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND RELATED METHODS | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
| 17646568 | VISUALIZING OUTCOMES OF APPLYING RECOMMENDED INSULIN THERAPY SETTINGS, AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND DEVICES | ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 3682 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 30, 2021 |
| 17596402 | MISSED-BOLUS DOSE DETECTION AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 3686 | §101 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Dec 09, 2021 |
| 16442252 | RECEIVING INSULIN THERAPY INFORMATION RELATED TO INSULIN-BASED MANAGEMENT OF A PERSON WITH DIABETES (PWD) | CHOI, PETER H | 3681 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2019 |
| 16442238 | AUTOMATED PROVISIONING OF CLINICAL ADVICE ASSOCIATED WITH A PATIENT WITH DIABETES (PWD) AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | STONE, RACHAEL SOJIN | 3681 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialBigfoot Biomedical Inc. has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 11 examiners.
James N Smalley has the most, with 1 of Bigfoot Biomedical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
