Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hyperice Ip Subco LLC maintains a portfolio with 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending matter is currently being reviewed by a different person. This high number of 7 distinct examiners relative to the 7 pending office actions suggests a broad exposure to different examiner perspectives.
The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units, which is fewer than the 7 distinct examiners involved. The busiest examiner, ALBERS, KEVIN S, is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This indicates that the workload is distributed, as the busiest examiner only accounts for 1 of the 7 pending office actions. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback across the 3 distinct art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALBERS, KEVIN S | 1 | 26.6% | +49.7% |
| CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | 1 | 50.0% | +65.8% |
| HURLEY, SHAUN R | 1 | 77.5% | +17.7% |
| PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 1 | 26.9% | +45.3% |
| BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 1 | 58.6% | +58.7% |
| WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 1 | 47.1% | +34.7% |
| AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 43.7% | +16.3% |
| EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 1 | 41.6% | +46.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17384501 | SYSTEM FOR MOUNTING INELASTIC COMPONENTS TO A FLEXIBLE MATERIAL TO APPLY COMPRESSIVE AND THERMAL THERAPY | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | 72d overdue |
| 18452274 | Percussive Massage Device | HURLEY, SHAUN R | 8d overdue |
| 18932123 | VIBRATING ROLLER WITH INTEGRATED THERAPY ELEMENTS | ALBERS, KEVIN S | — |
| 18466702 | MASSAGE DEVICE HAVING VARIABLE STROKE LENGTH | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | — |
| 18300261 | WEARABLE THERAPY DEVICE FOR PROVIDING TEMPERATURE AND COMPRESSION THERAPY | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | — |
| 16525407 | WEARABLE TEMPERATURE THERAPY SYSTEM AND METHOD | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17972421 | PERCUSSIVE MASSAGE DEVICE WITH SELECTABLE STROKE LENGTH | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 105d overdue |
| 17727084 | PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 74d overdue |
| 17384501 | SYSTEM FOR MOUNTING INELASTIC COMPONENTS TO A FLEXIBLE MATERIAL TO APPLY COMPRESSIVE AND THERMAL THERAPY | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | 72d overdue |
| 18452274 | Percussive Massage Device | HURLEY, SHAUN R | 8d overdue |
| 18932123 | VIBRATING ROLLER WITH INTEGRATED THERAPY ELEMENTS | ALBERS, KEVIN S | — |
| 18466702 | MASSAGE DEVICE HAVING VARIABLE STROKE LENGTH | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | — |
| 18300261 | WEARABLE THERAPY DEVICE FOR PROVIDING TEMPERATURE AND COMPRESSION THERAPY | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | — |
| 16525407 | WEARABLE TEMPERATURE THERAPY SYSTEM AND METHOD | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 4 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18932123 | VIBRATING ROLLER WITH INTEGRATED THERAPY ELEMENTS | ALBERS, KEVIN S | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18466702 | MASSAGE DEVICE HAVING VARIABLE STROKE LENGTH | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18452274 | Percussive Massage Device | HURLEY, SHAUN R | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18300261 | WEARABLE THERAPY DEVICE FOR PROVIDING TEMPERATURE AND COMPRESSION THERAPY | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 3785 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 17972421 | PERCUSSIVE MASSAGE DEVICE WITH SELECTABLE STROKE LENGTH | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 105d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
| 17727084 | PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
| 17384501 | SYSTEM FOR MOUNTING INELASTIC COMPONENTS TO A FLEXIBLE MATERIAL TO APPLY COMPRESSIVE AND THERMAL THERAPY | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Jul 23, 2021 |
| 16525407 | WEARABLE TEMPERATURE THERAPY SYSTEM AND METHOD | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2019 |
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