Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

West Affum Holdings Dac

14 pending office actions • 4 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (3)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
13
Medium (93%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (86%)
§102 only1 (7%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BERTRAM, ERIC D 2 81.0% +12.6%
TRAN, THIEN JASON 1 73.0% +23.1%
JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING 1 62.2% +23.9%
HOLMES, REX R 1 80.3% +18.3%
WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL 1 78.6% +20.5%
ROANE, AARON F 1 72.9% +10.0%
PORTER, JR, GARY A 1 68.9% +25.2%
EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT 1 70.4% +35.2%
KISH, JAMES M 1 62.5% +12.0%
HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA 1 57.1% +14.5%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18497246 WEARABLE MEDICAL SYSTEM RESPONSIVE TO CERTAIN ECG PATTERNS HOLMES, REX R 15d overdue
18144103 WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (WCD) SYSTEM REACTING TO HIGH-AMPLITUDE ECG NOISE BERTRAM, ERIC D 5d

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18078850 WEARABLE MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEM WITH CONDUCTIVE INK EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT 84d overdue
18497246 WEARABLE MEDICAL SYSTEM RESPONSIVE TO CERTAIN ECG PATTERNS HOLMES, REX R 15d overdue
18177736 OXIMETRY MONITORING IN A WEARABLE MEDICAL DEVICE PORTER, JR, GARY A 5d overdue
18313585 WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (WCD) WITH POWER-SAVING FUNCTION ROANE, AARON F 4d overdue
18144103 WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (WCD) SYSTEM REACTING TO HIGH-AMPLITUDE ECG NOISE BERTRAM, ERIC D 5d
18616954 WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (WCD) SYSTEM HAVING WCD MODE AND ALSO AED MODE JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING 8d
18492922 WEARABLE DEFIBRILLATOR WITH OUTPUT STAGE HAVING DIVERTING RESISTANCE BERTRAM, ERIC D 27d
18760311 WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (WCD) SYSTEM REACTING TO HIGH-FREQUENCY ECG NOISE TRAN, THIEN JASON 33d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3792 7
3796 5
3799 1
3700 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18760311 WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (WCD) SYSTEM REACTING TO HIGH-FREQUENCY ECG NOISE TRAN, THIEN JASON 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 01, 2024
18616954 WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (WCD) SYSTEM HAVING WCD MODE AND ALSO AED MODE JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Mar 26, 2024
18497246 WEARABLE MEDICAL SYSTEM RESPONSIVE TO CERTAIN ECG PATTERNS HOLMES, REX R 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2023
18492922 WEARABLE DEFIBRILLATOR WITH OUTPUT STAGE HAVING DIVERTING RESISTANCE BERTRAM, ERIC D 3796 Other Non-Final OA 27d Pending Oct 24, 2023
18458432 WEARABLE CARDIAC DEFIBRILLATOR SYSTEM AUTHENTICATING PERSON ACTUATING CANCEL SWITCH WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL 3799 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Aug 30, 2023
18313585 WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (WCD) WITH POWER-SAVING FUNCTION ROANE, AARON F 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending May 08, 2023
18144103 WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (WCD) SYSTEM REACTING TO HIGH-AMPLITUDE ECG NOISE BERTRAM, ERIC D 3796 §102 Non-Final OA 5d Pending May 05, 2023
18177736 OXIMETRY MONITORING IN A WEARABLE MEDICAL DEVICE PORTER, JR, GARY A 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 02, 2023
18078850 WEARABLE MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEM WITH CONDUCTIVE INK EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT 3792 §103 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2022
17952177 GROUPING SIMILAR EPISODES DETECTED BY A WEARABLE MEDICAL DEVICE (WMD) KISH, JAMES M 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17900772 GARMENT CHANGE AND WASH DETECTION IN A WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (WCD) HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Aug 31, 2022
17871744 WEARABLE MEDICAL DEVICES DETECTING DECLINES IN HEALTH AND PROBABILITY OF ADVERSE EVENTS TEIXEIRA MOFFAT, JONATHAN CHARLES 3700 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2022
17830998 WMS-WCD HAVING UI WITH VOICE PROMPT TO RENEW BATTERY BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Jun 02, 2022
17733763 PRE-ANALYZING AND CHARACTERIZING DATA RECORD CREATED BY WEARABLE MEDICAL SYSTEM (WMS) BEFORE REVIEW BY CLINICIAN STEINBERG, AMANDA L 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2022

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