Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
CROCKETT & CROCKETT, PC focuses on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 1462 career applications. The firm currently manages 5 pending office actions, reflecting their active prosecution efforts. This career total of 1462 applications establishes their experience in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The 5 pending office actions are a measure of their current workload before the patent office.
The firm's resolved allowance rate stands at 82.19 percent, a figure derived from their 1462 career applications. This 82.19 percent rate provides an indication of the firm's success in obtaining patent grants. Prosecution requires an average of 3.17 office actions per allowance. For practitioners, this 3.17 average is a useful metric for estimating the number of examiner interactions needed for an allowance. The 5 pending office actions are handled in the context of this 82.19 percent allowance rate and 3.17 office action average. These data points summarize the firm's historical performance and current activity level.
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 | 4 (57%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 1 | 70.4% | +18.8% |
| GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 1 | 68.2% | +16.2% |
| GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | 1 | 89.6% | +10.4% |
| AHMED, TASNIM M | 1 | 81.1% | +5.2% |
| HO, TAN-UYEN THI | 1 | 24.1% | +14.8% |
| PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1 | 77.1% | +5.9% |
| KOO, BENJAMIN K | 1 | 57.1% | +49.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18939328 | Image Overlay Method for Nerve Monitoring Systems | GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | — |
| 18774349 | Method of Accessing A Vascular Site With A Multi-Directional Steerable Catheter | AHMED, TASNIM M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19121078 | MOLTEN SALT NUCLEAR REACTOR AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC SHUTDOWN OF SUCH NUCLEAR REACTOR | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 145d overdue |
| 18272434 | Thrombectomy Device | HO, TAN-UYEN THI | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19121078 | MOLTEN SALT NUCLEAR REACTOR AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC SHUTDOWN OF SUCH NUCLEAR REACTOR | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 145d overdue |
| 19289561 | Cautery Tool For Intracranial Surgery | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | — |
| 18939328 | Image Overlay Method for Nerve Monitoring Systems | GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | — |
| 18272434 | Thrombectomy Device | HO, TAN-UYEN THI | — |
| 17986401 | Steerable Guidewire and Method of Use | KOO, BENJAMIN K | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| phenox GmbH | 2 |
| Rebound Therapeutics Corporation | 1 |
| Copenhagen Atomics A/S | 1 |
| Viseon, Inc. | 1 |
| Biocardia, Inc. | 1 |
| Indian Wells Medical | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19289561 | Cautery Tool For Intracranial Surgery | Rebound Therapeutics Corporation | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19121078 | MOLTEN SALT NUCLEAR REACTOR AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC SHUTDOWN OF SUCH NUCLEAR REACTOR | Copenhagen Atomics A/S | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 3646 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 145d overdue | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 18939328 | Image Overlay Method for Nerve Monitoring Systems | Viseon, Inc. | GILLIARD, DELOMIA L | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 | |
| 18774349 | Method of Accessing A Vascular Site With A Multi-Directional Steerable Catheter | Biocardia, Inc. | AHMED, TASNIM M | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 | |
| 18272434 | Thrombectomy Device | Phenox GmbH | HO, TAN-UYEN THI | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18275494 | Coated Medical Product and Method for Coating a Medical Product | Phenox GmbH | PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 17986401 | Steerable Guidewire and Method of Use | Indian Wells Medical, Inc. | KOO, BENJAMIN K | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
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