Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
24 pending office actions • 9 clients • 21 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Boston & Galway focuses on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm has handled 118 career applications. There are currently 16 pending office actions, representing the firm's active docket before the USPTO.
The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 85.0 percent. On average, it takes 2.86 office actions to reach an allowance. This average is relatively low, suggesting an efficient prosecution path for its applications. The 85.0 percent allowance rate indicates a strong success rate in securing patents in the medical and mechanical sectors. For a firm with 16 pending office actions, these metrics offer a snapshot of its current efficiency and historical performance. Practitioners can view the 2.86 average office actions as a sign of effective communication with examiners. The 118 career applications provide a foundation for the firm's 85.0 percent allowance rate in its primary technology area.
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.
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.
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 (8%) |
| §103 only | 7 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (38%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (4%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 2 | 81.4% | +23.1% |
| ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 2 | 69.2% | +28.8% |
| ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 2 | 55.1% | +3.6% |
| ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 48.3% | +58.1% |
| FEACHER, LORENA R | 1 | 28.5% | +32.1% |
| BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 1 | 63.2% | -18.9% |
| BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 1 | 46.2% | +20.2% |
| FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 1 | 58.0% | +37.9% |
| ABDELAZIEZ, YASSER A | 1 | 86.3% | +3.0% |
| WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C | 1 | 61.0% | +20.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18590020 | ULTRASOUND APERTURE COMPOUNDING METHOD AND SYSTEM | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 39d |
| 19075381 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MONITORING FETAL HEARTBEAT AND UTERINE CONTRACTION SIGNALS | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
| 18813377 | ADAPTIVE CAVITY THICKNESS CONTROL FOR MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER DEVICES | ABDELAZIEZ, YASSER A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17985968 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING SCAN PATTERN FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING | VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | 496d overdue |
| 18994202 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ENGAGEMENT VIA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENC | FEACHER, LORENA R | 4d overdue |
| 17968261 | ELECTRICAL CIGARETTE USING MEMS PRESSURE SENSOR | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 26d |
| 17555351 | INDEPENDENTLY OPERATED PIEZOELECTRIC ULTRASOUND ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN A CHECKERBOARD PATTERN | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 69d |
| 18878645 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI ASSISTED ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY | BUI PHO, PASCAL M | — |
| 18682257 | Endograft Device For Treating Ruptures In A Blood Vessel | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | — |
| 18429704 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING VAGINAL LACERATIONS DURING CHILDBIRTH | LONG, SARAH A | — |
| 18394218 | THERAPEUTIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR REDUCING INJURY DURING ARISING FROM LABOR AND DELIVERY | GEIGER, RACHAEL L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994202 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ENGAGEMENT VIA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENC | FEACHER, LORENA R | 4d overdue |
| 18891881 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTION OF ULTRASOUND DATA | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 2d overdue |
| 18590020 | ULTRASOUND APERTURE COMPOUNDING METHOD AND SYSTEM | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 39d |
| 17555351 | INDEPENDENTLY OPERATED PIEZOELECTRIC ULTRASOUND ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN A CHECKERBOARD PATTERN | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 69d |
| 19310020 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MEASUREMENTS ON AN ULTRASOUND IMAGE | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 19075381 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MONITORING FETAL HEARTBEAT AND UTERINE CONTRACTION SIGNALS | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
| 18909514 | Ultrasound Imaging System with Enhanced User Interface | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | — |
| 18806916 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING DEVICES SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| BFLY OPERATIONS, INC. | 16 |
| Generus | 1 |
| Echoiq Limited | 1 |
| Victory Genomics, Inc. | 1 |
| Heidelberg University | 1 |
| Materna Medical | 1 |
| Materna Medical, Inc. | 1 |
| BYONYKS MEDICAL DEVICES, INC. | 1 |
| Nanusens SL | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 7 |
| 3797 | 4 |
| 3645 | 2 |
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 2899 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1755 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19310020 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MEASUREMENTS ON AN ULTRASOUND IMAGE | BFLY Operations, Inc. | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 | |
| 19075381 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MONITORING FETAL HEARTBEAT AND UTERINE CONTRACTION SIGNALS | BFLY Operations, Inc. | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 18994202 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ENGAGEMENT VIA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENC | Generus | FEACHER, LORENA R | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18878645 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI ASSISTED ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY | Echoiq Limited | BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 3798 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18909514 | Ultrasound Imaging System with Enhanced User Interface | BFLY Operations, Inc. | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18891881 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTION OF ULTRASOUND DATA | BFLY Operations, Inc. | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 3798 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18813377 | ADAPTIVE CAVITY THICKNESS CONTROL FOR MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER DEVICES | BFLY Operations, Inc. | ABDELAZIEZ, YASSER A | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 | |
| 18806916 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING DEVICES SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BFLY Operations, Inc. | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 3797 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18793062 | PRESSURE PORT FOR ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER ON CMOS SENSOR | BFLY Operations, Inc. | ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 3645 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18635256 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING ANIMAL ANCESTERY AND FOR CONSERVATION THEREOF | Victory Genomics, Inc. | WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 | |
| 18590020 | ULTRASOUND APERTURE COMPOUNDING METHOD AND SYSTEM | BFLY Operations, Inc. | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18682257 | Endograft Device For Treating Ruptures In A Blood Vessel | UNIVERSITAT HEIDELBERG | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18429704 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING VAGINAL LACERATIONS DURING CHILDBIRTH | Materna Medical | LONG, SARAH A | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18394218 | THERAPEUTIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR REDUCING INJURY DURING ARISING FROM LABOR AND DELIVERY | Materna Medical, Inc. | GEIGER, RACHAEL L | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18504320 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSLATING ULTRASOUND IMAGES | BFLY Operations, Inc. | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 3797 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18382368 | MICROFABRICATED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS AND RELATED APPARATUS AND METHODS | BFLY Operations, Inc. | KIM, SU C | 2899 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18220530 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRED AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION USING ULTRASOUND DEVICES | BFLY Operations, Inc. | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18336827 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ULTRASOUND OPERATIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING AND/OR NON-GUI INTERACTIONS | BFLY Operations, Inc. | TRUONG, MILTON LARSON | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18043504 | TRANSFER SETS WITH FILTERS, INCLUDING TRANSFER SETS FOR PERITONEAL DIALYSIS SYSTEMS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | Byonyks Medical Devices, Inc. | KIM, SUN U | 1777 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 17985968 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING SCAN PATTERN FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING | BFLY Operations, Inc. | VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 496d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
| 17968261 | ELECTRICAL CIGARETTE USING MEMS PRESSURE SENSOR | Nanusens Sl | BIEGER, VIRGINIA RUTH | 1755 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
| 17845940 | ULTRASOUND APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING ULTRASOUND DEVICES | BFLY Operations, Inc. | ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
| 17555351 | INDEPENDENTLY OPERATED PIEZOELECTRIC ULTRASOUND ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN A CHECKERBOARD PATTERN | BFLY Operations, Inc. | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
| 16553693 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR COLLECTION OF ULTRASOUND DATA | BFLY Operations, Inc. | YIP, JACK | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2019 |
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