Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Haemonetics Corporation manages a company patent portfolio with 4 pending office actions. These actions are situated in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct art units. This use of 3 art units for 4 actions suggests that the company's mechanical systems technologies are concentrated within a few technical classifications.
The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners for the 4 pending office actions. TOKARCZYK, CHRISTOPHER B is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates a ratio of 1 examiner to each pending action. For practitioners, this means that each of the 4 matters will be reviewed independently by a different examiner. The diversity of 4 examiners across 3 art units for 4 actions shows a decentralized prosecution landscape. This structure ensures that each filing receives an independent review from a different official within the assigned art units.
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 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOKARCZYK, CHRISTOPHER B | 1 | 43.7% | +23.7% |
| GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 1 | 10.9% | +12.2% |
| MENSH, ANDREW J | 1 | 64.3% | +19.2% |
| PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 1 | 59.0% | +50.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19202567 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MATCHING ANONYMOUS VITALS DATA TO A BLOOD PRODUCT DONOR RECORD | TOKARCZYK, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
| 19202533 | PLASMA CENTER QUEUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18630118 | CONTAINER FOR BLOOD COMPONENT COOLING AND FREEZING | MENSH, ANDREW J | 55d |
| 17271448 | APHERESIS DEVICE CONTROLLER | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 86d |
| 19202567 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MATCHING ANONYMOUS VITALS DATA TO A BLOOD PRODUCT DONOR RECORD | TOKARCZYK, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
| 19202533 | PLASMA CENTER QUEUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 2 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19202567 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MATCHING ANONYMOUS VITALS DATA TO A BLOOD PRODUCT DONOR RECORD | TOKARCZYK, CHRISTOPHER B | 3687 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19202533 | PLASMA CENTER QUEUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 3685 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 18630118 | CONTAINER FOR BLOOD COMPONENT COOLING AND FREEZING | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 17271448 | APHERESIS DEVICE CONTROLLER | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 86d | Pending | Feb 25, 2021 |
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