Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
12 pending office actions • 1 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 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. 12 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 | 4 (33%) |
| §102 only | 5 (42%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TU, AURELIE H | 5 | 56.0% | +61.0% |
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 48.7% | +71.9% |
| PATEL, OM | 1 | 58.3% | +53.2% |
| FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 1 | 59.9% | +32.2% |
| MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 1 | 26.9% | +73.3% |
| KREMER, MATTHEW | 1 | 43.8% | +52.6% |
| CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI | 1 | 23.8% | +22.1% |
| ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 1 | 23.3% | +29.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17193930 | UNIVERSAL TRANSFER ADAPTERS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 140d overdue |
| 17559081 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SYRINGE-BASED FLUID TRANSFER FOR BODILY-FLUID SAMPLING | CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI | 46d overdue |
| 17902207 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY OCCLUDING THE LUMEN OF A NEEDLE | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17193930 | UNIVERSAL TRANSFER ADAPTERS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 140d overdue |
| 18680331 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 93d overdue |
| 18680348 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 93d overdue |
| 18680439 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 92d overdue |
| 18680377 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 92d overdue |
| 19175765 | BODILY-FLUID TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR BODILY FLUID SAMPLING | PATEL, OM | 91d overdue |
| 18407010 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 85d overdue |
| 18209327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARENTERALLY PROCURING BODILY-FLUID SAMPLES WITH REDUCED CONTAMINATION | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 73d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 12 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19353350 | FLUID DIVERSION MECHANISM FOR BODILY-FLUID SAMPLING | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 3791 | Other | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19175765 | BODILY-FLUID TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR BODILY FLUID SAMPLING | PATEL, OM | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 91d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18680439 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 92d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18680377 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 92d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18680331 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 93d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18680348 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 93d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18407010 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | Other | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18209327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARENTERALLY PROCURING BODILY-FLUID SAMPLES WITH REDUCED CONTAMINATION | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 17902207 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY OCCLUDING THE LUMEN OF A NEEDLE | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17591239 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | KREMER, MATTHEW | 3791 | §112 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
| 17559081 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SYRINGE-BASED FLUID TRANSFER FOR BODILY-FLUID SAMPLING | CRUICKSHANK, DESTINY JOI | 3791 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
| 17193930 | UNIVERSAL TRANSFER ADAPTERS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 140d overdue | Pending | Mar 05, 2021 |
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