Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
O&M Halyard Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, indicating full examiner dispersion with limited art-unit overlap.
MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should manage the records individually while using consistent technical and claim review procedures across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +24.9% |
| JOYNER, KEVIN | 1 | 68.3% | +23.6% |
| MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 1 | 53.3% | +65.4% |
| MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 1 | 55.1% | +49.9% |
| EOM, ROBERT J | 1 | 57.4% | +34.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537907 | Collapsible Lateral Table Drape for Surgical Equipment | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 11d overdue |
| 18825130 | Digital Autoreader using Electronic Based Sensors for Monitoring of Sterilization Processes | JOYNER, KEVIN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537907 | Collapsible Lateral Table Drape for Surgical Equipment | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 11d overdue |
| 19073158 | Method of Using a Sterilization Wrap System | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | — |
| 18825130 | Digital Autoreader using Electronic Based Sensors for Monitoring of Sterilization Processes | JOYNER, KEVIN | — |
| 17542595 | Damp Hand Donning and Moisturizing Glove | MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | — |
| 16802043 | Defect-Indicating Gasket for Sterilization Container | EOM, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19073158 | Method of Using a Sterilization Wrap System | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 3734 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18825130 | Digital Autoreader using Electronic Based Sensors for Monitoring of Sterilization Processes | JOYNER, KEVIN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18537907 | Collapsible Lateral Table Drape for Surgical Equipment | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 3786 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 17542595 | Damp Hand Donning and Moisturizing Glove | MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2021 |
| 16802043 | Defect-Indicating Gasket for Sterilization Container | EOM, ROBERT J | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialO&M Halyard Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Elizabeth Mary Cole Imani has the most, with 1 of O&M Halyard Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
