Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 6 clients • 8 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BUTLER SNOW LLP has handled 550 career applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 81.75 percent. This statistic indicates a solid track record of securing patent grants for their clients.
The firm currently has 8 pending office actions. Their average of 3.66 office actions per allowance suggests a more involved prosecution process. This figure indicates that applications may require multiple rounds of negotiation with patent examiners to reach a final allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| §102 only | 2 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAMAN, SADARUZ | 1 | 45.6% | +33.7% |
| SHERR, MARIA CRISTI OWEN | 1 | 26.3% | +14.2% |
| XU, JUSTIN | 1 | 60.2% | +36.7% |
| PRIEST, AARON A | 1 | 61.3% | +25.7% |
| LIM, SENG HENG | 1 | 65.8% | +29.5% |
| MCCLAIN, STARFARI TESHAWN | 1 | 90.6% | -12.6% |
| BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1 | 44.4% | +52.7% |
| CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 1 | 69.0% | +15.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 17848342 | FUNCTIONAL CARBON MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 77d overdue |
| 18984290 | BALL FEEDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ZAMAN, SADARUZ | — |
| 18736143 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING DISEASES | XU, JUSTIN | — |
| 18583640 | AMPLICON RESCUE MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION FOR AMPLIFICATION OF MULTIPLE TARGETS | PRIEST, AARON A | — |
| 18411574 | PLAYER MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENTLY PROCESSING SENSOR DATA | LIM, SENG HENG | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Pillar Vision, Inc. | 2 |
| University of Southern Mississippi | 2 |
| Bluefin Payment Systems, LLC | 1 |
| Volatile Analysis Corporation | 1 |
| iRepertoire, Inc. | 1 |
| Duett, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| 3791 | 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 |
| 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 | §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 |
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