Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 7 clients • 8 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Definitive Patents, member Synchrony IP is a patent law firm with 178 career applications. The firm focuses on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. It has achieved a resolved allowance rate pct of 98.29. This success is coupled with an avg office actions per allowance of 2.02. Currently, the firm has 7 pending office actions.
The avg office actions per allowance of 2.02 indicates that the firm often secures allowances in several office actions. This efficiency is a characteristic of their work in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The resolved allowance rate pct of 98.29 shows that a high percentage of applications result in a grant across 178 career applications. With 7 pending office actions, the firm maintains a small active docket. For clients, these metrics suggest a prosecution style that is both efficient and successful. The firm's 178 career applications provide the basis for its record in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPEN, KELLY SCAGGS | 1 | 50.8% | +31.4% |
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 77.9% | +23.9% |
| ENGLE, PATRICIA LYNN | 1 | 62.3% | +31.2% |
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 1 | 80.9% | -0.8% |
| BERHANU, ETSUB D | 1 | 65.3% | +24.8% |
| UNDERWOOD, CYNTHIA R | 1 | 94.8% | +3.0% |
| BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 1 | 80.2% | +10.7% |
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 66.7% | +68.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29940186 | CARRIAGE NUT | UNDERWOOD, CYNTHIA R | 19d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866953 | RADIOGRAPHY-CONCURRENT DYNAMIC ELECTROPOTENTIAL NEUROACTIVITY MONITOR | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 17d overdue |
| 19121958 | EXPANDING TEMPORARY PACING LEAD | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — |
| 18982993 | RECONFIGURABLE GOLF WINDSHIELD AND MODULAR ACCESSORY MOUNTING SYSTEM | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — |
| 18426992 | Robotically Augmented Catheter Manipulation Handle | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
| 18255519 | VARIABLE POWER COLD MICROWAVE TISSUE PROCESSOR | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866953 | RADIOGRAPHY-CONCURRENT DYNAMIC ELECTROPOTENTIAL NEUROACTIVITY MONITOR | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 17d overdue |
| 19268248 | DYNAMIC CRYTOCURRENCY INERTIA SYSTEM | CAMPEN, KELLY SCAGGS | — |
| 19121958 | EXPANDING TEMPORARY PACING LEAD | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — |
| 19061449 | CONFIGURED SEAT BACK AND REAR SEATING | ENGLE, PATRICIA LYNN | — |
| 18426992 | Robotically Augmented Catheter Manipulation Handle | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
| 18255519 | VARIABLE POWER COLD MICROWAVE TISSUE PROCESSOR | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Nextern Innovation, LLC | 2 |
| Volmex Labs Corporation | 1 |
| Vexas Corp. | 1 |
| Golf Cart King, LLC | 1 |
| Asterion AI | 1 |
| EAGLE INDUSTRIAL GROUP INC. | 1 |
| Pathronix Corp. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3691 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2924 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19268248 | DYNAMIC CRYTOCURRENCY INERTIA SYSTEM | Volmex Labs Corporation | CAMPEN, KELLY SCAGGS | 3691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19121958 | EXPANDING TEMPORARY PACING LEAD | Nextern Innovation, LLC | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19061449 | CONFIGURED SEAT BACK AND REAR SEATING | Vexas Corp. | ENGLE, PATRICIA LYNN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 | |
| 18982993 | RECONFIGURABLE GOLF WINDSHIELD AND MODULAR ACCESSORY MOUNTING SYSTEM | Golf Cart King, LLC | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| 18866953 | RADIOGRAPHY-CONCURRENT DYNAMIC ELECTROPOTENTIAL NEUROACTIVITY MONITOR | Asterion AI Inc. | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 29940186 | CARRIAGE NUT | Eagle Industrial Group Inc. | UNDERWOOD, CYNTHIA R | 2924 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18426992 | Robotically Augmented Catheter Manipulation Handle | Nextern Innovation, LLC | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18255519 | VARIABLE POWER COLD MICROWAVE TISSUE PROCESSOR | Pathronix Corp. | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1758 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
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