Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cotman IP Law Group, APLC has a history in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 461 career applications. The firm has achieved a resolved allowance rate of 91.03 percent, indicating the success rate in securing patent grants for its clients. This percentage serves as a performance indicator for the firm's results in this technical domain.
The firm currently manages 3 pending office actions, reflecting its ongoing prosecution work. On average, the firm receives 3.46 office actions per allowance. This average of 3.46 provides an expectation for the duration and intensity of the examination process. With 461 career applications and a 91.03 percent allowance rate, the firm demonstrates performance in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. These figures provide a look at the firm's capacity and its track record in mechanical patent law. The 3 pending office actions represent the firm's current workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUGUSTIN, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 78.1% | +14.1% |
| CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR | 1 | 80.9% | +7.2% |
| MARCETICH, ADAM M | 1 | 72.7% | +18.9% |
| CONNELL, JENNIFER PETSCHE | 1 | 28.6% | +41.5% |
| MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 1 | 64.6% | +31.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17520641 | DENTAL LASING DEVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD | CONNELL, JENNIFER PETSCHE | 77d overdue |
| 19220903 | MODULAR COMPUTING-DEVICE ACCESSORIES | AUGUSTIN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 18438397 | EFFICIENT LOW-PRESSURE DROP SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING CARBON | CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR | — |
| 15296044 | REUSABLE SAFETY FITTING AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17520641 | DENTAL LASING DEVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD | CONNELL, JENNIFER PETSCHE | 77d overdue |
| 18117389 | NONINVASIVE UNISEX EXTERNAL CATHETER | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 56d |
| 19220903 | MODULAR COMPUTING-DEVICE ACCESSORIES | AUGUSTIN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 15296044 | REUSABLE SAFETY FITTING AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Mobile Pixels Inc. | 1 |
| Harrison Rice | 1 |
| Drysense | 1 |
| Millennium Healthcare | 1 |
| Robert Kegley | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19220903 | MODULAR COMPUTING-DEVICE ACCESSORIES | Mobile Pixels Inc. | AUGUSTIN, CHRISTOPHER L | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 | |
| 18438397 | EFFICIENT LOW-PRESSURE DROP SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING CARBON | Harrison Rice | CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 | |
| 18117389 | NONINVASIVE UNISEX EXTERNAL CATHETER | Drysense | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 17520641 | DENTAL LASING DEVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD | Millennium Healthcare Technologies, Inc. | CONNELL, JENNIFER PETSCHE | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2021 |
| 15296044 | REUSABLE SAFETY FITTING AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | Robert Kegley | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2016 |
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Start Free Trial91.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Cotman Ip Law Group, Aplc were allowed, across 461 applications in USPTO records.
3.46 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 5 examiners in 3 art units.