Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thomas J. Shaw has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are handled by 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, with repeated art-unit placement but no repeated examiner assignment.
EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The available profile supports separate examiner preparation and art-unit comparison when evaluating whether similar claim or prior-art issues affect more than one matter.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH | 1 | 16.4% | +36.5% |
| BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 1 | 80.2% | +10.3% |
| FLICK, JASON E | 1 | 80.5% | +13.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738847 | Syringe with Flat Indicia Display Surface | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 71d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19271209 | System and Method to Determine Parameters for a Medical Injection | EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH | — |
| 18427266 | Universal Dosage Verification System and Method for Medical Syringe | FLICK, JASON E | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738847 | Syringe with Flat Indicia Display Surface | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 71d overdue |
| 19271209 | System and Method to Determine Parameters for a Medical Injection | EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH | — |
| 18427266 | Universal Dosage Verification System and Method for Medical Syringe | FLICK, JASON E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19271209 | System and Method to Determine Parameters for a Medical Injection | EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH | 3687 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 18738847 | Syringe with Flat Indicia Display Surface | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18427266 | Universal Dosage Verification System and Method for Medical Syringe | FLICK, JASON E | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThomas J. Shaw has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Ashley Elizabeth Evans has the most, with 1 of Thomas J. Shaw's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
