Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
13 pending office actions • 6 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 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. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 10 (77%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (15%) |
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, PETER DANIEL | 2 | 49.2% | +50.0% |
| GEHMAN, BRYON P | 1 | 73.6% | +30.7% |
| WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 1 | 71.1% | +11.9% |
| STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 1 | 43.3% | +37.2% |
| BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 1 | 53.7% | +30.6% |
| CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 1 | 60.3% | +41.2% |
| WORSHAM, JESSICA N | 1 | 56.6% | +57.0% |
| TOWNSEND, GUY K | 1 | 74.1% | +25.5% |
| YANG, CHENG FONG | 1 | 64.1% | +22.6% |
| NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1 | 65.1% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18378720 | BUFFERED ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR SKIN-ADHERING MEDICAL PRODUCTS | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 29d overdue |
| 17771701 | URINARY CATHETERS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING BACTERIAL INFECTIONS | YANG, CHENG FONG | 8d overdue |
| 17761970 | REUSABLE URINARY CATHETER PRODUCTS | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 8d overdue |
| 18698535 | ASYMMETRIC ADHESIVE PACKAGING ENCLOSURE FOR EASE OF MATERIAL REMOVAL | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 3d overdue |
| 17768033 | ANTI-STAINING HYDRATION MEDIUM AND MEDICAL PRODUCTS CONTAINING THE SAME | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 5d |
| 18015244 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OSTOMY INFORMATION COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS | TOWNSEND, GUY K | 7d |
| 18005240 | MEDICAL DEVICES HAVING ANTI-MICROBIAL PROPERTIES AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | WORSHAM, JESSICA N | 20d |
| 19071069 | Catheter Assemblies with Interfacial pH Controller | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 8 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19071069 | Catheter Assemblies with Interfacial pH Controller | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | Other | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19036287 | Urinary Catheters with Improved Shape Recovery and Ease of Use | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18698535 | ASYMMETRIC ADHESIVE PACKAGING ENCLOSURE FOR EASE OF MATERIAL REMOVAL | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18681850 | HYGIENIC DISPOSAL CATHETER PRODUCT | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18378720 | BUFFERED ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR SKIN-ADHERING MEDICAL PRODUCTS | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 1613 | Other | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18005240 | MEDICAL DEVICES HAVING ANTI-MICROBIAL PROPERTIES AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | WORSHAM, JESSICA N | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 18015244 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OSTOMY INFORMATION COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS | TOWNSEND, GUY K | 3781 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
| 17771701 | URINARY CATHETERS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING BACTERIAL INFECTIONS | YANG, CHENG FONG | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2022 |
| 17768033 | ANTI-STAINING HYDRATION MEDIUM AND MEDICAL PRODUCTS CONTAINING THE SAME | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Apr 11, 2022 |
| 17761970 | REUSABLE URINARY CATHETER PRODUCTS | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
| 17617814 | URINARY CATHETER DRAINAGE MEMBERS THAT RESTRICT FLUID DRAINAGE | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Dec 09, 2021 |
| 17608786 | OSTOMY POUCH WITH FILTER PATH AND FILTER | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 88d overdue | Pending | Nov 04, 2021 |
| 17458977 | Telescopic Urinary Catheter Assemblies | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 27, 2021 |
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