Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
18 pending office actions • 12 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 59 patents granted in the last 365 days
Medline Industries L.P. is managing 17 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 17 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units. This high level of distribution shows that each pending matter is being handled by a unique examiner. This requires a highly adaptable prosecution strategy to account for the diverse preferences of 17 different examiners.
SHIRSAT, MARCELA is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Because each of the 17 pending actions is assigned to a different examiner, no single individual has a larger share of the workload. The involvement of 11 distinct art units reflects a broad range of technical classifications for the company's active applications. With 17 pending office actions and 17 distinct examiners, the company's current USPTO workload is fully decentralized, requiring broad oversight across many different technical groups within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 (6%) |
| §103 only | 8 (44%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (28%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 1 | 73.6% | +19.0% |
| BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 1 | 48.9% | +44.3% |
| MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P | 1 | 86.4% | +19.7% |
| MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE | 1 | 80.4% | +34.8% |
| KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 1 | 63.9% | +18.8% |
| POON, ROBERT | 1 | 41.9% | +27.0% |
| CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 1 | 70.6% | +12.8% |
| YANG, CHENG FONG | 1 | 62.8% | +22.5% |
| SU, SUSAN SHAN | 1 | 71.7% | +23.9% |
| RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 1 | 44.8% | +16.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989967 | Patient Repositioning Sheet, System, and Method | MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE | 19d overdue |
| 19012682 | REPAIR OR REFURBISHMENT OF LIMITED USE MEDICAL DEVICES | MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18811172 | Absorbent Repositioning Pad and Method | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3d overdue |
| 19217513 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR JOINING BONES | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — |
| 18376308 | DISINFECTING COMPOSITION, APPLICATOR, AND METHOD OF DISINFECTING | CORNET, JEAN P | — |
| 18139085 | Method and Apparatus for a Clipper | PRONE, JASON D | — |
| 18129639 | System and Method for Clinical Soil Control for a Skin Grafting System | MILLER, SERENITY A | — |
| 17944733 | MEDICAL PROCEDURE KIT AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044832 | REINFORCED WINDOW DRESSING | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 38d overdue |
| 18989967 | Patient Repositioning Sheet, System, and Method | MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE | 19d overdue |
| 18618113 | MULTILAYER BLADDER CONTROL PAD | SU, SUSAN SHAN | 10d overdue |
| 18811172 | Absorbent Repositioning Pad and Method | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3d overdue |
| 19217513 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR JOINING BONES | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — |
| 19012682 | REPAIR OR REFURBISHMENT OF LIMITED USE MEDICAL DEVICES | MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18975476 | DRYPAD WITH RAPID ABSORPTION AND LIQUID REMOVAL | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | — |
| 18920535 | Catheter Tray, Packaging System, and Associated Mehtods | POON, ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 3 |
| 3651 | 2 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3673 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 1628 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19217513 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR JOINING BONES | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19044832 | REINFORCED WINDOW DRESSING | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 19012682 | REPAIR OR REFURBISHMENT OF LIMITED USE MEDICAL DEVICES | MCFADDEN, MICHAEL P | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18989967 | Patient Repositioning Sheet, System, and Method | MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE | 3673 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18975476 | DRYPAD WITH RAPID ABSORPTION AND LIQUID REMOVAL | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18920535 | Catheter Tray, Packaging System, and Associated Mehtods | POON, ROBERT | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18811172 | Absorbent Repositioning Pad and Method | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18755035 | FEMALE EXTERNAL URINARY DEVICE AND ASSEMBLY | YANG, CHENG FONG | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18618113 | MULTILAYER BLADDER CONTROL PAD | SU, SUSAN SHAN | 3781 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18538616 | Article Advancer | RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 3651 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18376308 | DISINFECTING COMPOSITION, APPLICATOR, AND METHOD OF DISINFECTING | CORNET, JEAN P | 1628 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18229985 | BONE PLATE SYSTEM | KU, SI MING | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18139085 | Method and Apparatus for a Clipper | PRONE, JASON D | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18129639 | System and Method for Clinical Soil Control for a Skin Grafting System | MILLER, SERENITY A | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18163382 | SYSTEM FOR SERIALLY DISPENSED PRODUCTS | OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY | 3651 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2023 |
| 17944733 | MEDICAL PROCEDURE KIT AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
| 17721016 | WARMING CABINET AND METHOD OF DISINFECTING SKIN | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 1617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2022 |
| 17651622 | FLUID REMOVAL DEVICE | DAKKAK, JIHAD | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2022 |
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