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Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
20 pending office actions • 5 clients • 17 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
ALG Intellectual Property, LLC is a patent law firm that specializes in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, where it has managed 1970 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 91.92 percent, reflecting an ability to secure patent grants for mechanical and medical device inventions. This success rate is a performance metric for their work in these technical fields.
The firm currently has 20 pending office actions. Their prosecution history shows an average of 3.43 office actions per allowance. This metric indicates a persistent approach to examiner interaction, ensuring that the 91.92 percent allowance rate is maintained through the efforts recorded in the data. For practitioners, the 3.43 average provides an expectation for the intensity of the prosecution cycle in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
The 1970 career applications provide a data set for evaluating the firm's long-term performance. The 91.92 percent allowance rate and 3.43 office actions per allowance together characterize a firm that is both successful and dedicated. The 20 pending office actions represent an active current docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 8 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 12 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FALEY, KATHERINE A | 3 | 65.3% | +45.8% |
| BAUER, CASSEY D | 2 | 74.7% | +16.3% |
| BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1 | 13.8% | +28.4% |
| YU, NORMAN | 1 | 87.6% | +13.9% |
| SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | 1 | 75.0% | +33.3% |
| MONIKANG, GEORGE C | 1 | 75.3% | +7.1% |
| ZHU, QIN | 1 | 87.4% | +3.4% |
| RUBY, TRAVIS C | 1 | 53.9% | +27.4% |
| OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 1 | 50.0% | +57.0% |
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +18.9% |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099699 | Hearing Device, Hearing Device-Based Systems and Methods for Monitoring Glucose | MUSTANSIR, ABID A | 36d overdue |
| 18414005 | Hearing system comprising at least one hearing device | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 6d |
| 18439901 | Hearing Devices, Systems, and Methods for Measuring a Core Body Temperature of a User | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 26d |
| 18719079 | FINS AND HEAT EXCHANGER COMPRISING SAME | RUBY, TRAVIS C | 34d |
| 19071451 | DECORATIVE MATERIAL WITH 3D TEXTURE STRUCTURE, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | — |
| 19018757 | RECEIVER FOR A HEARING INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING IT | YU, NORMAN | — |
| 19003252 | MOTOR ASSEMBLY, PUMP, AND BOILER INCLUDING THE SAME | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | — |
| 18965143 | WATER HEATER | BAUER, CASSEY D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18414005 | Hearing system comprising at least one hearing device | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 6d |
| 18439901 | Hearing Devices, Systems, and Methods for Measuring a Core Body Temperature of a User | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 26d |
| 18719079 | FINS AND HEAT EXCHANGER COMPRISING SAME | RUBY, TRAVIS C | 34d |
| 18476755 | FLEXIBLE TANK | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 34d |
| 19071451 | DECORATIVE MATERIAL WITH 3D TEXTURE STRUCTURE, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | — |
| 19018757 | RECEIVER FOR A HEARING INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING IT | YU, NORMAN | — |
| 19003252 | MOTOR ASSEMBLY, PUMP, AND BOILER INCLUDING THE SAME | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | — |
| 18965143 | WATER HEATER | BAUER, CASSEY D | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SONOVA AG | 9 |
| Kyungdong Navien | 8 |
| Banfert | 1 |
| Mel-Build Corporation | 1 |
| Osaka University | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2693 | 3 |
| 3763 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19071451 | DECORATIVE MATERIAL WITH 3D TEXTURE STRUCTURE, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | BANFERT NEW MATERIALS CO., LTD. | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19018757 | RECEIVER FOR A HEARING INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING IT | Sonova AG | YU, NORMAN | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 | |
| 19003252 | MOTOR ASSEMBLY, PUMP, AND BOILER INCLUDING THE SAME | Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd. | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 | |
| 18965143 | WATER HEATER | Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd. | BAUER, CASSEY D | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 | |
| 18965117 | WATER HEATER | Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd. | BAUER, CASSEY D | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 | |
| 18932197 | Method and system for providing assistive listening | Sonova AG | MONIKANG, GEORGE C | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 | |
| 18924292 | Method and system for streaming a multichannel audio signal to a binaural hearing system | Sonova AG | ZHU, QIN | 2691 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18816907 | Hearing system comprising at least one hearing device | Sonova AG | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 2693 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18816863 | Hearing system comprising at least one hearing device | Sonova AG | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 2693 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18719079 | FINS AND HEAT EXCHANGER COMPRISING SAME | Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd. | RUBY, TRAVIS C | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18439901 | Hearing Devices, Systems, and Methods for Measuring a Core Body Temperature of a User | Sonova AG | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18414005 | Hearing system comprising at least one hearing device | Sonova AG | FALEY, KATHERINE A | 2693 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18476755 | FLEXIBLE TANK | Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd. | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18210254 | AIR HEATING APPARATUS | Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd. | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18202191 | AIR HEATING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISASSEMBLING AIR HEATING APPARATUS | Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd. | GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18136767 | HEATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUPPLY AIR TEMPERATURE THEREOF | Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd. | CONNOLLY, MARK A | 2115 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18099699 | Hearing Device, Hearing Device-Based Systems and Methods for Monitoring Glucose | Sonova AG | MUSTANSIR, ABID A | 3791 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 18097955 | Systems and Methods for Optimizing Voice Notifications Provided by Way of a Hearing Device | Sonova AG | VOGT, JACOB BUI | 2653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
| 18010119 | SPECIMEN HOLDER | Mel-Build Corporation | LOGIE, MICHAEL J | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 18008652 | MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEM ALLOY | Osaka University | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
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