Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 8 clients • 10 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BUTLER SNOW LLP handles patent prosecution in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, with 11 pending office actions and 553 career applications in the reported record. The resolved allowance rate is 81.75%, indicating that a substantial share of resolved matters reached allowance.
The average of 3.66 office actions per allowance provides a prosecution-effort measure alongside that allowance rate. For practitioners, the combination of a moderate pending workload and these historical resolution metrics can inform expectations about examination activity and the effort associated with pursuing allowance in this technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (18%) |
| §103 only | 1 (9%) |
| §102 only | 2 (18%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | 2 | 57.3% | +53.0% |
| ZAMAN, SADARUZ | 1 | 46.0% | +33.5% |
| SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 1 | 26.2% | +13.8% |
| XU, JUSTIN | 1 | 60.7% | +35.8% |
| PRIEST, AARON A | 1 | 61.4% | +25.6% |
| LIM, SENG HENG | 1 | 65.6% | +29.5% |
| MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | 1 | 91.2% | -12.5% |
| BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1 | 43.9% | +45.8% |
| CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 1 | 69.3% | +15.0% |
| NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 1 | 71.7% | +30.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947992 | SMART PROXY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOKENIZATION AND POINT-TO-POINT ENCRYPTION SERVICES | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 147d overdue |
| 17697855 | Modular Electric Hair-Cutting Devices and Methods | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 113d overdue |
| 17373374 | THERMOMETER DEVICE | NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 53d overdue |
| 18820712 | Method and Apparatus for Connecting and Reinforcing Pre-Manufactured Parts | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18796526 | Method and Apparatus for Connecting and Reinforcing Pre-Manufactured Parts | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18736143 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING DISEASES | XU, JUSTIN | — |
| 18112446 | FUNCTIONAL CARBON MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947992 | SMART PROXY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOKENIZATION AND POINT-TO-POINT ENCRYPTION SERVICES | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 147d overdue |
| 17697855 | Modular Electric Hair-Cutting Devices and Methods | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 113d overdue |
| 17848342 | FUNCTIONAL CARBON MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 77d overdue |
| 17373374 | THERMOMETER DEVICE | NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 53d overdue |
| 18984290 | BALL FEEDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ZAMAN, SADARUZ | — |
| 18820712 | Method and Apparatus for Connecting and Reinforcing Pre-Manufactured Parts | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18796526 | Method and Apparatus for Connecting and Reinforcing Pre-Manufactured Parts | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18736143 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING DISEASES | XU, JUSTIN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Pillar Vision, Inc. | 2 |
| Adelie Blue Technologies, LLC | 2 |
| University of Southern Mississippi | 2 |
| Bluefin Payment Systems, LLC | 1 |
| Volatile Analysis Corporation | 1 |
| iRepertoire, Inc. | 1 |
| Duett, LLC | 1 |
| Jackson State University | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 3678 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18984290 | BALL FEEDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Pillar Vision, Inc. | ZAMAN, SADARUZ | 3715 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18947992 | SMART PROXY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOKENIZATION AND POINT-TO-POINT ENCRYPTION SERVICES | Bluefin Payment Systems, LLC | SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 3697 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 147d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18820712 | Method and Apparatus for Connecting and Reinforcing Pre-Manufactured Parts | Adelie Blue Technologies, LLC | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | 3678 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18796526 | Method and Apparatus for Connecting and Reinforcing Pre-Manufactured Parts | Adelie Blue Technologies, LLC | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | 3678 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18736143 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING DISEASES | Volatile Analysis Corporation | XU, JUSTIN | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18583640 | AMPLICON RESCUE MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION FOR AMPLIFICATION OF MULTIPLE TARGETS | Irepertoire, Inc. | PRIEST, AARON A | 1681 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18411574 | PLAYER MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENTLY PROCESSING SENSOR DATA | Pillar Vision, Inc. | LIM, SENG HENG | 3715 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18112446 | FUNCTIONAL CARBON MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | The University of Southern California | MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | 1736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 17848342 | FUNCTIONAL CARBON MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | The University of Southern California | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
| 17697855 | Modular Electric Hair-Cutting Devices and Methods | Duett, LLC | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 113d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2022 |
| 17373374 | THERMOMETER DEVICE | Jackson State University | NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial81.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Butler Snow LLP were allowed, across 553 applications in USPTO records.
3.66 office actions per allowed application on average.
11 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 8 clients, before 10 examiners in 8 art units.
