Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Welch Allyn Inc.

17 pending office actions • 13 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

1
Hard (6%)
16
Medium (94%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (6%)
§103 only14 (82%)
§102 only2 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
18% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
82% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TC 3600, DOCKET 1 4.2% -1.8%
VO, TUNG T 1 71.0% +15.5%
SOREY, ROBERT A 1 48.8% +45.7%
TAPIA, ANDREW KYLE 1 6.3% +18.7%
ULRICH, NICHOLAS S 1 69.4% +7.5%
DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T 1 79.2% +5.1%
GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ 1 76.3% +19.3%
HOLCOMB, MARK 1 34.2% +40.7%
MANOS, SEFRA DESPINA 1 41.2% +39.4%
LANE, GREGORY A 1 74.5% -0.2%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18525595 KIDNEY HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM HOLCOMB, MARK 127d overdue
18608028 AUGMENTED REALITY IN HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS TAPIA, ANDREW KYLE 60d overdue
19053662 MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE TC 3600, DOCKET 39d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18525595 KIDNEY HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM HOLCOMB, MARK 127d overdue
18608028 AUGMENTED REALITY IN HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS TAPIA, ANDREW KYLE 60d overdue
18391367 DEPTH RENDERING SCOPE GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ 44d overdue
18953876 AUTOMATED DISEASE DETECTION USING RETINAL IMAGES SOREY, ROBERT A 15d overdue
19039959 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTAMINATION MONITORING AND CONTROL VO, TUNG T 2d overdue
18374662 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING PACE PULSES MANOS, SEFRA DESPINA 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3685 2
3682 2
3792 2
3686 2
2425 1
3687 1
2179 1
3679 1
3795 1
2438 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19053662 MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE TC 3600, DOCKET 3685 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Feb 14, 2025
19039959 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTAMINATION MONITORING AND CONTROL VO, TUNG T 2425 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jan 29, 2025
18953876 AUTOMATED DISEASE DETECTION USING RETINAL IMAGES SOREY, ROBERT A 3682 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Nov 20, 2024
18608028 AUGMENTED REALITY IN HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS TAPIA, ANDREW KYLE 3687 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2024
18435409 CONFIGURATOR FOR REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL DEVICES ULRICH, NICHOLAS S 2179 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18394072 CONNECTORS FOR MEDICAL EQUIPMENT DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T 3679 §102 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18391367 DEPTH RENDERING SCOPE GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ 3795 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18525595 KIDNEY HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM HOLCOMB, MARK 3685 §101 Final Rejection 127d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2023
18374662 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING PACE PULSES MANOS, SEFRA DESPINA 3792 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18341005 EMBEDDED SERVICING AND AUTHENTICATION FOR MEDICAL DEVICE LANE, GREGORY A 2438 §103 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2023
18185454 VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY FOR TELEHEALTH ERICKSON, BENNETT S 3683 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18178815 TELEHEALTH IMAGING AND ROBOTICS REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 3686 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2023
18067303 ENHANCED INFORMATION DURING PATIENT MONITORING WASEEM, HUMA 3686 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2022
17943036 INJECTION DEPTH INDICATION VIA INJECTION NEEDLE ILLUMINATION SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE 3783 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2022
17874131 REGULARIZED MULTIPLE-INPUT PAIN ASSESSMENT AND TREND FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jul 26, 2022
17693146 ENHANCED REPORTING AND CHARTING OF VITAL SIGNS AND OTHER PATIENT PARAMETERS RAPILLO, KRISTINE K 3682 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2022
17188527 BIOMEDICAL ELECTRODE ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL 3794 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Mar 01, 2021

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