Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 6 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 1 | 77.2% | +25.9% |
| DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 1 | 53.4% | +37.2% |
| BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 1 | 46.2% | +20.2% |
| PENG, BO JOSEPH | 1 | 69.5% | +13.6% |
| FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 1 | 73.0% | +20.4% |
| NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 1 | 64.2% | +28.8% |
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 1 | 65.0% | +33.4% |
| LI, JOHN DENNY | 1 | 63.2% | +48.4% |
| ASGHAR, AMINAH | 1 | 61.2% | +46.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18672732 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE FROM VOLUME DATA AND DISPLAYING THE SAME | DAVIS, AMELIE R | — |
| 18584640 | ULTRASONIC PROBE | ASGHAR, AMINAH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18820515 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BODY MARKER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 46d |
| 19323553 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF VISUALIZING ULTRASOUND MERGED VOLUME | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | — |
| 19155539 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | — |
| 19020598 | ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | — |
| 18778479 | MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | — |
| 18750316 | WIRELESS ULTRASOUND PROBE, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS CONNECTED TO WIRELESS ULTRASOUND PROBE, AND OPERATING METHOD OF ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | — |
| 18672732 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE FROM VOLUME DATA AND DISPLAYING THE SAME | DAVIS, AMELIE R | — |
| 18628160 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE | LI, JOHN DENNY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 5 |
| 3797 | 3 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19323553 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF VISUALIZING ULTRASOUND MERGED VOLUME | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 19155539 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19020598 | ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18820515 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BODY MARKER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | PENG, BO JOSEPH | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18778479 | MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 3794 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18750316 | WIRELESS ULTRASOUND PROBE, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS CONNECTED TO WIRELESS ULTRASOUND PROBE, AND OPERATING METHOD OF ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18672732 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE FROM VOLUME DATA AND DISPLAYING THE SAME | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18628160 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE | LI, JOHN DENNY | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18584640 | ULTRASONIC PROBE | ASGHAR, AMINAH | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
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