Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Boston & Galway

11 pending office actions • 4 clients • 11 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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%)
11
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (91%)
§102 only1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
9% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
9% of docket
1
Semiconductors
9% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
73% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FEACHER, LORENA R 1 28.7% +32.5%
BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI 1 75.7% +28.8%
SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 1 72.8% +20.0%
CELESTINE, NYROBI I 1 81.7% +22.6%
KREMER, MATTHEW 1 43.8% +52.6%
GE, JIN 1 79.8% +17.9%
DESAI, NAISHADH N 1 81.8% +8.9%
VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S 1 47.7% +41.8%
BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH 1 40.0% +22.4%
CATTUNGAL, SANJAY 1 83.2% +11.4%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17841525 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR GUIDING A USER TO COLLECT ULTRASOUND IMAGES CATTUNGAL, SANJAY 383d overdue
18159983 ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER DEVICES DESAI, NAISHADH N 6d
18590020 ULTRASOUND APERTURE COMPOUNDING METHOD AND SYSTEM CELESTINE, NYROBI I 39d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18994202 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ENGAGEMENT VIA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENC FEACHER, LORENA R 4d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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
17985968 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING SCAN PATTERN FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S 496d overdue
17841525 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR GUIDING A USER TO COLLECT ULTRASOUND IMAGES CATTUNGAL, SANJAY 383d overdue
18908029 User Interface for Ultrasound Imaging System SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 87d overdue
18873006 POINT OF CARE ULTRASOUND INTERFACE BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI 51d overdue
18498885 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING VAGINAL LACERATIONS DURING CHILDBIRTH KREMER, MATTHEW 10d overdue
18994202 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ENGAGEMENT VIA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENC FEACHER, LORENA R 4d overdue
18137049 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TELE-MEDICINE GE, JIN 4d overdue
17968261 ELECTRICAL CIGARETTE USING MEMS PRESSURE SENSOR BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH 26d

Client Portfolio (4 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
BFLY OPERATIONS, INC. 8
Generus 1
Materna Medical, Inc. 1
Nanusens SL 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37984
37972
36251
37911
26191
28341
17551

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18994202 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ENGAGEMENT VIA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENC Generus FEACHER, LORENA R 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 14, 2025
18873006 POINT OF CARE ULTRASOUND INTERFACE BFLY Operations, Inc. BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2024
18908029 User Interface for Ultrasound Imaging System BFLY Operations, Inc. SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2024
18590020 ULTRASOUND APERTURE COMPOUNDING METHOD AND SYSTEM BFLY Operations, Inc. CELESTINE, NYROBI I 3798 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Feb 28, 2024
18498885 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING VAGINAL LACERATIONS DURING CHILDBIRTH Materna Medical, Inc. KREMER, MATTHEW 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2023
18137049 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TELE-MEDICINE BFLY Operations, Inc. GE, JIN 2619 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023
18159983 ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER DEVICES BFLY Operations, Inc. DESAI, NAISHADH N 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jan 26, 2023
17985968 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING SCAN PATTERN FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING BFLY Operations, Inc. VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 496d overdue Pending Nov 14, 2022
17968261 ELECTRICAL CIGARETTE USING MEMS PRESSURE SENSOR Nanusens Sl BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH 1755 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 18, 2022
17841525 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR GUIDING A USER TO COLLECT ULTRASOUND IMAGES BFLY Operations, Inc. CATTUNGAL, SANJAY 3798 §102 Final Rejection 383d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2022
17555351 INDEPENDENTLY OPERATED PIEZOELECTRIC ULTRASOUND ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN A CHECKERBOARD PATTERN BFLY Operations, Inc. ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Dec 17, 2021

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