Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Zoll Circulation Inc.

6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

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
6
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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EKRAMI, YASAMIN 2 41.8% +47.1%
VO, TU A 1 60.8% +58.0%
DEL PRIORE, ALESSANDRO R 1 60.7% +44.3%
FLICK, JASON E 1 80.3% +13.5%
LEDERER, SARAH B 1 56.0% +36.9%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17707464 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINED VESSEL OCCLUSION AND GAS ENRICHMENT THERAPY FLICK, JASON E 18d overdue

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
18305582 AUTOMATED CHEST COMPRESSION DEVICE VO, TU A 169d overdue
17802880 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUPERSATURATED OXYGEN THERAPY BASED ON PATIENT PARAMETER FEEDBACK DEL PRIORE, ALESSANDRO R 49d overdue
17707464 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINED VESSEL OCCLUSION AND GAS ENRICHMENT THERAPY FLICK, JASON E 18d overdue
16660166 ACTIVE COMPRESSION-DECOMPRESSION DEVICES AND METHODS LEDERER, SARAH B 9d
17591147 Endovascular Cooling Catheter System Which Employs Phase-Changing Heat Exchange Media EKRAMI, YASAMIN 40d
17550909 System and Method for Management of Body Temperature EKRAMI, YASAMIN 41d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3785 2
3794 2
3781 1
3783 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18305582 AUTOMATED CHEST COMPRESSION DEVICE VO, TU A 3785 Final Rejection 169d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2023
17802880 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUPERSATURATED OXYGEN THERAPY BASED ON PATIENT PARAMETER FEEDBACK DEL PRIORE, ALESSANDRO R 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Aug 26, 2022
17707464 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINED VESSEL OCCLUSION AND GAS ENRICHMENT THERAPY FLICK, JASON E 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2022
17591147 Endovascular Cooling Catheter System Which Employs Phase-Changing Heat Exchange Media EKRAMI, YASAMIN 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 40d Pending Feb 02, 2022
17550909 System and Method for Management of Body Temperature EKRAMI, YASAMIN 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Dec 14, 2021
16660166 ACTIVE COMPRESSION-DECOMPRESSION DEVICES AND METHODS LEDERER, SARAH B 3785 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Oct 22, 2019

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