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Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Da Vinci Partners LLC specializes in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, with 380 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 81.23 percent. It averages 3.83 office actions per allowance.
Currently, there are 7 pending office actions. The 81.23 percent allowance rate across 380 applications demonstrates a success rate in the medical and mechanical sectors. The 3.83 office actions per allowance metric provides a benchmark for the expected intensity of the prosecution process. This figure indicates the average number of examiner interactions required to reach an allowance.
The 7 pending office actions show the firm's current engagement with the patent office. The firm has a documented history of work in its primary technology area. These figures, including the 81.23 percent allowance rate and 3.83 office actions per allowance, offer a factual basis for evaluating the firm's prosecution performance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 1 (14%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 2 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
| MCLEAN, CHRISTIAN P | 1 | 90.0% | -0.9% |
| JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 1 | 63.8% | +30.0% |
| COLLINS, JASON M | 1 | 74.8% | +13.0% |
| SHARMA, YASHITA | 1 | 81.8% | +24.6% |
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 1 | 70.1% | +24.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35523596 | Watch casing | MCLEAN, CHRISTIAN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17915497 | Body Fluids Sampling Device and Method of using the Same | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 97d overdue |
| 18208401 | FEMORAL NECK SUPPORT STRUCTURE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF USE | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 44d overdue |
| 18022772 | CAPILLARY BLOOD SAMPLING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 48d |
| 17794334 | ANATOMIC KNEE PROSTHESIS AND DESIGNING METHOD | SHARMA, YASHITA | 61d |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17915497 | Body Fluids Sampling Device and Method of using the Same | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 97d overdue |
| 18198305 | WEARABLE LUMINOUS DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION ORIGINATING FROM A MECHANICAL SOURCE | COLLINS, JASON M | 73d overdue |
| 18208401 | FEMORAL NECK SUPPORT STRUCTURE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF USE | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 44d overdue |
| 18022772 | CAPILLARY BLOOD SAMPLING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 48d |
| 17794334 | ANATOMIC KNEE PROSTHESIS AND DESIGNING METHOD | SHARMA, YASHITA | 61d |
| 16921954 | FEMORAL NECK SUPPORT STRUCTURE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF USE | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| MJP Innovations | 2 |
| PRECI HEALTH SA | 2 |
| Kairos Technology Switzerland (Kts) SA | 1 |
| PRECIFLEX SA | 1 |
| Symbios Orthopédie S.A. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2914 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35523596 | Watch casing | Kairos Technology Switzerland (Kts) SA | MCLEAN, CHRISTIAN P | 2914 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18208401 | FEMORAL NECK SUPPORT STRUCTURE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF USE | Mjp Innovations, Inc. | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 3773 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
| 18198305 | WEARABLE LUMINOUS DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION ORIGINATING FROM A MECHANICAL SOURCE | Preciflex SA | COLLINS, JASON M | 2831 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 18022772 | CAPILLARY BLOOD SAMPLING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | Preci Health SA | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 48d | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 17915497 | Body Fluids Sampling Device and Method of using the Same | Preci Health SA | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17794334 | ANATOMIC KNEE PROSTHESIS AND DESIGNING METHOD | Symbios Orthopédie S.A. | SHARMA, YASHITA | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
| 16921954 | FEMORAL NECK SUPPORT STRUCTURE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF USE | Mjp Innovations, Inc. | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2020 |
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