Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Willow Laboratories Inc. has 12 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 12 distinct examiners across 6 distinct art units. The matching action and examiner figures indicate that each matter has a distinct examiner in the available data, while the smaller art-unit figure indicates technical grouping across the docket.
BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Examiner-level coordination is consequently limited. Counsel may instead benefit from organizing responses by the 6 art units and identifying common device or mechanical issues within those technical assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (18%) |
| §103 only | 2 (18%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 1 | 48.3% | +31.5% |
| SHAH, JAY B | 1 | 58.4% | +6.0% |
| DUNHAM, JASON B | 1 | 26.8% | +27.3% |
| LIU, CHU CHUAN | 1 | 71.3% | +14.9% |
| TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 1 | 50.5% | +31.7% |
| MUSTANSIR, ABID A | 1 | 78.3% | +10.7% |
| OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 1 | 50.0% | +58.4% |
| WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| FARDANESH, MARJAN | 1 | 72.6% | +19.0% |
| PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 1 | 58.1% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605630 | MODULAR DISEASE MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND AUTOMATED NEEDLE AND CANNULA INSERTION DEVICE | WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18907326 | NUTRITIVE RECIPE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHODS | DUNHAM, JASON B | 37d overdue |
| 19249750 | MEDICAL DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | — |
| 18840459 | Analyte Sensor Applicator | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18756330 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURING A TISSUE SITE TO A SENSOR | MUSTANSIR, ABID A | — |
| 18431389 | ALLERGEN REACTION BIOFEEDBACK SYSTEMS AND METHODS | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | — |
| 17528630 | GLUCOSE SENSORS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18907326 | NUTRITIVE RECIPE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHODS | DUNHAM, JASON B | 37d overdue |
| 18609978 | ASSEMBLY FOR MEDICAL MONITORING DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSORS | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 26d |
| 19249750 | MEDICAL DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | — |
| 18894772 | PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC WAVELENGTH ADJUSTMENT | LIU, CHU CHUAN | — |
| 18840459 | Analyte Sensor Applicator | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18756330 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURING A TISSUE SITE TO A SENSOR | MUSTANSIR, ABID A | — |
| 18598360 | INDICATOR COMPOUNDS, DEVICES COMPRISING INDICATOR COMPOUNDS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | FARDANESH, MARJAN | — |
| 18431389 | ALLERGEN REACTION BIOFEEDBACK SYSTEMS AND METHODS | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 7 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19249750 | MEDICAL DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 3684 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 18917231 | NON-INVASIVE OPTICAL PHYSIOLOGICAL DIFFERENTIAL PATHLENGTH SENSOR | SHAH, JAY B | 3791 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18907326 | NUTRITIVE RECIPE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHODS | DUNHAM, JASON B | 3686 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18894772 | PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC WAVELENGTH ADJUSTMENT | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 3791 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18840459 | Analyte Sensor Applicator | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18756330 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURING A TISSUE SITE TO A SENSOR | MUSTANSIR, ABID A | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18609978 | ASSEMBLY FOR MEDICAL MONITORING DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSORS | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18605630 | MODULAR DISEASE MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND AUTOMATED NEEDLE AND CANNULA INSERTION DEVICE | WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18598360 | INDICATOR COMPOUNDS, DEVICES COMPRISING INDICATOR COMPOUNDS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | FARDANESH, MARJAN | 3791 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18431389 | ALLERGEN REACTION BIOFEEDBACK SYSTEMS AND METHODS | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 4100 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 17528630 | GLUCOSE SENSORS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialWillow Laboratories Inc. has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 11 examiners.
Joshua B Blanchette has the most, with 1 of Willow Laboratories Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
