Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 11 clients • 15 examiners • 10 art units • 1 of 17 (6%) have an AI response strategy ready
BOTOS CHURCHILL IP LAW LLP specializes in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm has a substantial career history with 2377 applications. There are 11 pending office actions currently in progress, indicating a focused active docket.
The firm achieves a high resolved allowance rate of 95.85 percent. However, this success comes with an average of 4.12 office actions per allowance. This indicates a prosecution strategy that involves extensive negotiation and multiple responses to the USPTO. The 95.85 percent allowance rate is a significant indicator of the firm's persistence and effectiveness in obtaining patent grants. With 11 pending actions, the firm continues to apply this high-allowance approach to its current docket. Practitioners can use the 4.12 average office actions per allowance and the 2377 career applications to understand the firm's long-term commitment to securing patent rights in the medical and mechanical engineering sectors.
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 only | 2 (12%) |
| §103 only | 2 (12%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (65%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUSE, MARK KENNETH | 2 | 77.5% | +9.0% |
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 2 | 34.5% | +39.7% |
| NIGAM, NATASHA | 1 | 58.1% | +31.8% |
| HYLINSKI, STEVEN J | 1 | 75.3% | +17.4% |
| EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1 | 60.2% | +5.8% |
| MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1 | 78.3% | +19.9% |
| PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 1 | 53.5% | +31.1% |
| PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | 1 | 67.4% | +30.7% |
| SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | 1 | 28.9% | +46.7% |
| MACASIANO, MARILYN G | 1 | 57.5% | +17.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17521410 | IDENTIFICATION OF MICROORGANISMS USING MALDI-TOF-MS ON-PLATE EXTRACTION | TICHY, JENNIFER M.H. | 197d overdue |
| 17908087 | BREATH DETECTION WITH MOVEMENT COMPENSATION | LUARCA, MARGARET M | 154d overdue |
| 17711660 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AN OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT, OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND PROTECTIVE LAYER | SEHAR, FAKEHA | 104d overdue |
| 18390738 | PERSONALIZATION FROM SEQUENCES AND REPRESENTATIONS IN ADS | MACASIANO, MARILYN G | 73d overdue |
| 18685557 | BLOOD COLLECTION SYSTEM | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 42d overdue |
| 19211404 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING LUBRICANT | BUSE, MARK KENNETH | — |
| 18853557 | IMAGING SYSTEM | NIGAM, NATASHA | — |
| 18730824 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING INSTRUMENTS THAT MEASURE TEMPERATURE AND MICROBIAL GROWTH IN BLOOD CULTURE BOTTLES | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18390738 | PERSONALIZATION FROM SEQUENCES AND REPRESENTATIONS IN ADS | MACASIANO, MARILYN G | 73d overdue |
| 18685557 | BLOOD COLLECTION SYSTEM | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 42d overdue |
| 17537576 | DEVICE FOR TRAPPING AN INITIAL FLOW OF BLOOD | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 33d |
| 18853557 | IMAGING SYSTEM | NIGAM, NATASHA | — |
| 18846699 | PROGRAM, VIRTUAL SPACE PROVIDING METHOD, AND VIRTUAL SPACE PROVIDING SYSTEM | HYLINSKI, STEVEN J | — |
| 18688421 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INVENTORY HANDLING IN AN AUTOMATED DIAGNOSTIC ANALYZER | MUI, CHRISTINE T | — |
| 18683413 | FACE MASK | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | — |
| 18293849 | TUBE ADAPTERS FOR SAMPLE RACKS | SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Becton Dickinson | 5 |
| Gb Ip Holdings Pty Ltd. | 2 |
| BD KIESTRA B.V. | 2 |
| NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE | 1 |
| Cover Corp. | 1 |
| Western Health | 1 |
| ETSY, Inc. | 1 |
| Spangler Scientific LLC | 1 |
| Rexadvance Technology Pte. Ltd. | 1 |
| ResMed | 1 |
| PICTIVA DISPLAYS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3654 | 2 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19211404 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING LUBRICANT | Gb Ip Holdings Pty Ltd. | BUSE, MARK KENNETH | 3654 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 18853557 | IMAGING SYSTEM | National University Of Singapore | NIGAM, NATASHA | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 | |
| 18846699 | PROGRAM, VIRTUAL SPACE PROVIDING METHOD, AND VIRTUAL SPACE PROVIDING SYSTEM | Cover Corp. | HYLINSKI, STEVEN J | 3715 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18730824 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING INSTRUMENTS THAT MEASURE TEMPERATURE AND MICROBIAL GROWTH IN BLOOD CULTURE BOTTLES | BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18723419 | A DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING LUBRICANT | Gb Ip Holdings Pty Ltd. | BUSE, MARK KENNETH | 3654 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2024 |
| 18688421 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INVENTORY HANDLING IN AN AUTOMATED DIAGNOSTIC ANALYZER | BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY | MUI, CHRISTINE T | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 | |
| 18685557 | BLOOD COLLECTION SYSTEM | BD KIESTRA B.V. | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18683413 | FACE MASK | Western Health | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 | |
| 18293849 | TUBE ADAPTERS FOR SAMPLE RACKS | BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY | SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 | |
| 18390738 | PERSONALIZATION FROM SEQUENCES AND REPRESENTATIONS IN ADS | Etsy, Inc. | MACASIANO, MARILYN G | 3622 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18521410 | NON-INVASIVE PREDICTION OF RISK FOR SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH | Spangler Scientific LLC | GEDEON, BRIAN T | 3796 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18289923 | CELL-CULTURE PLATFORM AND A MAGNETIC MATERIAL FOR SUCH A PLATFORM | Rexadvance Technology Pte. Ltd. | BEISNER, WILLIAM H | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 17908087 | BREATH DETECTION WITH MOVEMENT COMPENSATION | ResMed | LUARCA, MARGARET M | 3785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 154d overdue | AI Ready | Aug 30, 2022 |
| 17711660 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AN OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT, OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND PROTECTIVE LAYER | Pictiva Displays International Limited | SEHAR, FAKEHA | 2893 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 104d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
| 17632381 | DISPOSABLE BLOOD METERING DEVICE | BD KIESTRA B.V. | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
| 17537576 | DEVICE FOR TRAPPING AN INITIAL FLOW OF BLOOD | BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
| 17521410 | IDENTIFICATION OF MICROORGANISMS USING MALDI-TOF-MS ON-PLATE EXTRACTION | BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY | TICHY, JENNIFER M.H. | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 197d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2021 |
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