Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 09, 2026

Velico Medical Inc.

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (67%)
1
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (33%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (67%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LAU, JASON 1 53.8% +15.0%
PILCHER, JONATHAN L 1 63.9% +44.9%
MARTIN, PAUL C 1 41.8% +21.7%

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18791873 Alignment of A Disposable For A Spray Drying Plasma System LAU, JASON 43d overdue
18467074 Pretreatment Of Plasma For Spray Drying And Storage PILCHER, JONATHAN L 16d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18791873 Alignment of A Disposable For A Spray Drying Plasma System LAU, JASON 43d overdue
17945126 Pretreatment Of Plasma For Spray Drying And Storage MARTIN, PAUL C 32d overdue
18467074 Pretreatment Of Plasma For Spray Drying And Storage PILCHER, JONATHAN L 16d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3762 1
1772 1
1653 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18791873 Alignment of A Disposable For A Spray Drying Plasma System LAU, JASON 3762 §102§112Other Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2024
18467074 Pretreatment Of Plasma For Spray Drying And Storage PILCHER, JONATHAN L 1772 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending Sep 14, 2023
17945126 Pretreatment Of Plasma For Spray Drying And Storage MARTIN, PAUL C 1653 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2022

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