Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Gary L Sharpe currently has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct art units and 5 distinct examiners. This means the count of pending actions is equal to both the count of art units and the count of examiners, representing a fragmented prosecution landscape for the company's current filings.
SMITH, JACOB A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Since there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, no single examiner or art unit has a concentration of the company's filings. This structure requires managing 5 separate technical and examiner relationships simultaneously. Practitioners must be prepared for 5 distinct sets of procedural and technical requirements, as each of the 5 pending office actions is being reviewed in a different art unit by a different examiner, with the busiest examiner handling only 1 case.
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.
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.
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 + other | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JACOB A | 1 | 81.9% | +17.7% |
| BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | 1 | 64.0% | +43.2% |
| LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 1 | 69.3% | +35.4% |
| POON, ROBERT | 1 | 41.9% | +27.0% |
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
| MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA | 1 | 8.8% | +22.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19282677 | BOTTLE ADAPTER PRESS AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD | SMITH, JACOB A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18408968 | CONFIGURABLE TRAY SYSTEM AND RELATED COMPONENTS AND METHODS | POON, ROBERT | 60d overdue |
| 18936120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLISTER PACKAGING | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 6d |
| 18958757 | TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICE | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | 30d |
| 17991106 | TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 78d |
| 17899153 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18408968 | CONFIGURABLE TRAY SYSTEM AND RELATED COMPONENTS AND METHODS | POON, ROBERT | 60d overdue |
| 18936120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLISTER PACKAGING | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 6d |
| 18958757 | TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICE | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | 30d |
| 17991106 | TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 78d |
| 19282677 | BOTTLE ADAPTER PRESS AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD | SMITH, JACOB A | — |
| 17899153 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19282677 | BOTTLE ADAPTER PRESS AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD | SMITH, JACOB A | 3731 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 18958757 | TEMPERATURE MONITORING DEVICE | BURGDORF, STEPHEN R | 2685 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18936120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLISTER PACKAGING | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18408968 | CONFIGURABLE TRAY SYSTEM AND RELATED COMPONENTS AND METHODS | POON, ROBERT | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 17991106 | TAMPER-EVIDENT DEVICE | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 78d | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 17899153 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MORICE DE VARGAS, SARA JESSICA | 3681 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
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