Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
13 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 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. 13 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 | 9 (69%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENSH, ANDREW J | 3 | 63.8% | +19.5% |
| LEWIS, KIM M | 2 | 73.6% | +13.0% |
| ARBLE, JESSICA R | 2 | 65.6% | +26.3% |
| SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 2 | 49.2% | +50.0% |
| TRAN, NHU | 1 | 68.8% | +26.7% |
| KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 1 | 60.3% | +28.6% |
| YANG, CHENG FONG | 1 | 64.1% | +22.6% |
| BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 1 | 21.6% | +30.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17293442 | HEALTH CARE PROVIDER AUTHORIZATION OF DATA ACQUISITION BY SENSOR ENABLED WOUND DRESSINGS AND DEVICES | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18081063 | BIOCOMPATIBLE ENCAPSULATION AND COMPONENT STRESS RELIEF FOR SENSOR ENABLED NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY DRESSINGS | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 79d overdue |
| 18922098 | WOUND PACKING | LEWIS, KIM M | 71d overdue |
| 18214397 | SENSOR ENABLED WOUND MONITORING AND THERAPY APPARATUS | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 49d overdue |
| 17676040 | WOUND THERAPY SYSTEM AND DRESSING FOR DELIVERING OXYGEN TO A WOUND | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 46d overdue |
| 17956008 | WOUND DRESSING | YANG, CHENG FONG | 6d |
| 18373875 | BESPOKE WOUND TREATMENT APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR USE IN NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 7d |
| 18125057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A REDUCED PRESSURE THERAPY SYSTEM | MENSH, ANDREW J | 7d |
| 19336208 | WOUND DRESSING AND METHOD OF USE | MENSH, ANDREW J | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 10 |
| 3786 | 2 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19336208 | WOUND DRESSING AND METHOD OF USE | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 18922098 | WOUND PACKING | LEWIS, KIM M | 3786 | Other | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18788905 | WOUND CARE MATERIALS, DEVICES AND USES | LEWIS, KIM M | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18634756 | SENSOR POSITIONING AND OPTICAL SENSING FOR SENSOR ENABLED WOUND THERAPY DRESSINGS AND SYSTEMS | TRAN, NHU | 3781 | Other | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18601263 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION FOR SENSORS IN WOUND THERAPY | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | Other | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18385291 | WOUND DRESSING AND METHOD OF TREATMENT | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18373875 | BESPOKE WOUND TREATMENT APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR USE IN NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 3781 | Other | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18214397 | SENSOR ENABLED WOUND MONITORING AND THERAPY APPARATUS | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18125057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A REDUCED PRESSURE THERAPY SYSTEM | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Mar 22, 2023 |
| 18081063 | BIOCOMPATIBLE ENCAPSULATION AND COMPONENT STRESS RELIEF FOR SENSOR ENABLED NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY DRESSINGS | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 79d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 17956008 | WOUND DRESSING | YANG, CHENG FONG | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17676040 | WOUND THERAPY SYSTEM AND DRESSING FOR DELIVERING OXYGEN TO A WOUND | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Feb 18, 2022 |
| 17293442 | HEALTH CARE PROVIDER AUTHORIZATION OF DATA ACQUISITION BY SENSOR ENABLED WOUND DRESSINGS AND DEVICES | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | May 12, 2021 |
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