Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 19, 2026

Bigfoot Biomedical Inc.

12 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

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

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.

9
Hard (75%)
2
Medium (17%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (42%)
§101 + other4 (33%)
§103 only2 (17%)
§112 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
10
Mechanical / Eng
83% of docket
2
Business / Other
17% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PORTILLO, JAIRO H 2 53.4% +30.6%
SMALLEY, JAMES N 1 70.6% -10.0%
SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS 1 65.7% +38.3%
KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE 1 26.5% +31.0%
GARTLAND, SCOTT D 1 11.1% +12.6%
ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 1 33.5% +40.8%
COVINGTON, AMANDA R 1 21.2% +29.8%
CHOI, PETER H 1 26.1% +18.5%
RAPILLO, KRISTINE K 1 28.8% +27.4%
ABDULLAH, AAISHA 1 24.5% +40.7%

Hard Cases (9)

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
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
18821533 COMPUTER-BASED DIABETES MANAGEMENT PORTILLO, JAIRO H
17756585 DETERMINING TOTAL DAILY BASAL DOSE MISMATCH KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE
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
16442271 PRESENTING INSULIN THERAPY INSIGHTS THAT INCLUDE PRE-GENERATED CONTENT AT AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RELATED SYSTEMS, AND METHODS RAPILLO, KRISTINE K
16442281 PRESENTING INSULIN THERAPY SETTING RECOMMENDATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A THERAPY INSIGHT FOR A PERSON WITH DIABETES (PWD) AND RELATED METHODS ABDULLAH, AAISHA

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue 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
18821533 COMPUTER-BASED DIABETES MANAGEMENT PORTILLO, JAIRO H
18398051 CAP FOR USE WITH VARIETY OF INJECTION PENS AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS
17756585 DETERMINING TOTAL DAILY BASAL DOSE MISMATCH KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE
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
16442271 PRESENTING INSULIN THERAPY INSIGHTS THAT INCLUDE PRE-GENERATED CONTENT AT AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RELATED SYSTEMS, AND METHODS RAPILLO, KRISTINE K

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3681 3
3682 2
3783 1
3687 1
3685 1
3686 1
3791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18821533 COMPUTER-BASED DIABETES MANAGEMENT PORTILLO, JAIRO H §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 30, 2024
18798485 ADAPTABLE REUSEABLE ACCESSORY, DETECTING REVERSIBLE ATTACHMENT OF MEDICATION DELIVERY DEVICE THEREIN, AND KIT THEREOF SMALLEY, JAMES N §103 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 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2023
17756585 DETERMINING TOTAL DAILY BASAL DOSE MISMATCH KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE 3687 §101 Non-Final OA Pending May 27, 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
17646568 VISUALIZING OUTCOMES OF APPLYING RECOMMENDED INSULIN THERAPY SETTINGS, AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND DEVICES ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 3682 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 30, 2021
17596402 MISSED-BOLUS DOSE DETECTION AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES COVINGTON, AMANDA R 3686 §101§112 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
16442271 PRESENTING INSULIN THERAPY INSIGHTS THAT INCLUDE PRE-GENERATED CONTENT AT AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RELATED SYSTEMS, AND METHODS RAPILLO, KRISTINE K 3682 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 14, 2019
16442281 PRESENTING INSULIN THERAPY SETTING RECOMMENDATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A THERAPY INSIGHT FOR A PERSON WITH DIABETES (PWD) AND RELATED METHODS ABDULLAH, AAISHA 3681 §101§103 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 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 14, 2019
15809816 COMPUTER-BASED DIABETES MANAGEMENT PORTILLO, JAIRO H 3791 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 10, 2017

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