Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
27 pending office actions • 14 art units • 27 examiners • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Welch Allyn Inc. currently has 27 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 27 pending office actions are handled by 27 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a single case. The portfolio is distributed across 14 distinct art units, suggesting a wide range of technical focuses. WRIGHT, KRYSTEN NIKOLE is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The 27 distinct examiners involved provide a broad base of individual perspectives for the 27 pending office actions. This distribution across 14 distinct art units requires the company to adapt to many different examination styles within Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. WRIGHT, KRYSTEN NIKOLE, with 1 pending office action, holds the same workload as every other examiner in this portfolio. Practitioners should monitor the 27 pending office actions for consistency across the 14 distinct art units.
The 14 distinct art units represent a significant variety of technical examination standards that the company must meet. With 27 pending office actions and 27 distinct examiners, the prosecution is highly decentralized. WRIGHT, KRYSTEN NIKOLE is identified as the busiest examiner despite only having 1 pending office action, reflecting the perfectly even distribution of work across the 27 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 10 (37%) |
| §103 only | 11 (41%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (15%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG, FONYA M | 1 | 3.4% | +0.8% |
| DUNWOODY, AARON M | 1 | 75.2% | +11.4% |
| MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 1 | 49.0% | +49.0% |
| MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 1 | 46.9% | +24.3% |
| TEHRANI, DANIEL | 1 | 59.7% | +42.9% |
| VO, TUNG T | 1 | 71.0% | +14.9% |
| GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE | 1 | 52.2% | +33.5% |
| SOREY, ROBERT A | 1 | 49.3% | +45.2% |
| JONES, ANDREW B | 1 | 73.3% | +21.8% |
| OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 1 | 55.2% | +52.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608028 | AUGMENTED REALITY IN HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS | TAPIA, ANDREW KYLE | 60d overdue |
| 18067303 | ENHANCED INFORMATION DURING PATIENT MONITORING | WASEEM, HUMA | 58d overdue |
| 18953876 | AUTOMATED DISEASE DETECTION USING RETINAL IMAGES | SOREY, ROBERT A | 15d overdue |
| 17874131 | REGULARIZED MULTIPLE-INPUT PAIN ASSESSMENT AND TREND | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 20d |
| 19339598 | MEDICAL DEVICE CONFIGURATION | LONG, FONYA M | — |
| 19092236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UNKNOWN OBJECTS PROXIMATE A PATIENT | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | — |
| 19086588 | VIDEO ANALYTICS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE IMPROVEMENTS | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | — |
| 19083634 | COMPUTERIZED ECG INTERPRETATION VISUALIZATION | TEHRANI, DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 19230182 | CONNECTOR FOR MEDICAL EQUIPMENT | DUNWOODY, AARON M | — |
| 19092236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UNKNOWN OBJECTS PROXIMATE A PATIENT | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | — |
| 19086588 | VIDEO ANALYTICS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE IMPROVEMENTS | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | — |
| 19083634 | COMPUTERIZED ECG INTERPRETATION VISUALIZATION | TEHRANI, DANIEL | — |
| 19038915 | AUTOMATED RISK ASSESSMENT FOR DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS AND PULMONARY EMBOLISM USING RETINAL IMAGES | GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE | — |
| 18951999 | WORKFLOWS AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR OPTICAL VIEWING DEVICES | JONES, ANDREW B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3682 | 4 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3685 | 2 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 2425 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 2438 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19339598 | MEDICAL DEVICE CONFIGURATION | LONG, FONYA M | 3682 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19230182 | CONNECTOR FOR MEDICAL EQUIPMENT | DUNWOODY, AARON M | 3679 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19092236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UNKNOWN OBJECTS PROXIMATE A PATIENT | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 3682 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19086588 | VIDEO ANALYTICS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE IMPROVEMENTS | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 3682 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19083634 | COMPUTERIZED ECG INTERPRETATION VISUALIZATION | TEHRANI, DANIEL | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19039959 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTAMINATION MONITORING AND CONTROL | VO, TUNG T | 2425 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 19038915 | AUTOMATED RISK ASSESSMENT FOR DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS AND PULMONARY EMBOLISM USING RETINAL IMAGES | GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18953876 | AUTOMATED DISEASE DETECTION USING RETINAL IMAGES | SOREY, ROBERT A | 3682 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18951999 | WORKFLOWS AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR OPTICAL VIEWING DEVICES | JONES, ANDREW B | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18935155 | MEDICAL DEVICE APPLICATION MANAGEMENT | OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18932277 | REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18930109 | AMBIENT ABILITY ASSESSMENT AND CARE MANAGEMENT | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18816462 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBJECT DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18787376 | INFUSION PUMP MONITORING | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18656842 | SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18616007 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING PATIENTS AND ENVIRONMENTS | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 3685 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18608028 | AUGMENTED REALITY IN HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS | TAPIA, ANDREW KYLE | 3687 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18588540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING FLUID INFILTRATION | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18525595 | KIDNEY HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM | HOLCOMB, MARK | 3685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 127d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18341005 | EMBEDDED SERVICING AND AUTHENTICATION FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | LANE, GREGORY A | 2438 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 98d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18185454 | VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY FOR TELEHEALTH | ERICKSON, BENNETT S | 3683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 18067303 | ENHANCED INFORMATION DURING PATIENT MONITORING | WASEEM, HUMA | 3686 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 18065428 | CATARACT DETECTION AND ASSESSMENT | DULANEY, BENJAMIN O | 2683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 18079581 | MEASUREMENTS OF KERATOMETRY AND AXIAL LENGTH | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 17943036 | INJECTION DEPTH INDICATION VIA INJECTION NEEDLE ILLUMINATION | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17886920 | DETERMINING COLOR VISION ABILITY USING A VISION SCREENING DEVICE | GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
| 17874131 | REGULARIZED MULTIPLE-INPUT PAIN ASSESSMENT AND TREND | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 3792 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jul 26, 2022 |
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