Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Listed by the USPTO as WOODALL, NICHOLAS W
Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 3733 3774 3775
This examiner grants 82% of resolved cases
Examiner Nicholas W. Woodall is a high-volume examiner in Art Unit 3733 within Tech Center 3700. With 1179 resolved cases, the examiner has an allowance rate of 82.0%. This rate reflects the proportion of applications reaching a final disposition that result in a patent grant. The median days to allowance is 1200, which is the recorded timeframe for the prosecution history. Practitioners can note this 1200 figure when setting expectations for the duration of the process. The 1179 resolved cases provide the data for these observations.
The interview lift for this examiner is 13.3%. This figure indicates the change in the probability of allowance when an interview is conducted. With the 13.3% lift and the 82.0% allowance rate, practitioners can evaluate the impact of direct communication on their strategy. These metrics are the available data for this docket in Art Unit 3733. The recorded data points provide the basis for understanding the prosecution environment under this examiner. This analysis relies on the specific figures provided for this profile.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780977 | Substantially Rigid and Stable Endoluminal Surgical Suite for Treating a Gastrointestinal Lesion | Non-Final OA | Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. |
| 18760493 | System for a Minimally-Invasive, Operative Gastrointestinal Treatment | Non-Final OA | Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. |
| 19020260 | IMPLANT PACKAGING CARTRIDGE AND INSERTION TOOL | Final Rejection | GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC. |
| 18772647 | MASTOID BONE START DRILL BIT | Final Rejection | Cochlear Limited |
| 18439454 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR LAPIDUS CORRECTION | Non-Final OA | Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. |
| 18811993 | SURGICAL SYSTEMS FOR PERCUTANEOUSLY INSERTING SURGICAL DEVICES | Final Rejection | ARTHREX, INC. |
| 17749102 | ROBOTIC KNEE REPLACEMENT PROCEDURE AND INSTRUMENTS | Non-Final OA | Zimmer, Inc. |
| 18640604 | OFF-AXIS ROTARY TOOL | Final Rejection | Fidelis Partners, LLC |
| 18689178 | RIGID, CURVED LARYNGOSCOPE | Final Rejection | UNIVERSITÄT ULM |
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Build Your Strategy82.0% of resolved applications examined by Nicholas W Woodall were allowed (1,180 resolved cases), compared with 47.3% across Art Unit 3733 over the last five years.
This examiner's interview lift is +13.3 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.
Applications allowed by Nicholas W Woodall took 1,199 days on average from filing to allowance.
Nicholas W Woodall examines applications in Art Unit 3733 in Tech Center 3700 (Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering).