Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
15 pending office actions • 11 clients • 13 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
DENTONS BINGHAM GREENEBAUM LLP is a patent law firm with a volume of 29855 career applications. The firm specializes in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. It maintains a resolved allowance rate pct of 88.66. This performance is achieved with an avg office actions per allowance of 3.32. The firm currently has 9 pending office actions.
The avg office actions per allowance of 3.32 suggests a prosecution cycle that typically requires several rounds of examiner interaction. The resolved allowance rate pct of 88.66 demonstrates consistency across a volume of 29855 career applications. With 9 pending office actions relative to their historical volume, the firm's current active docket is small. These data points highlight a firm with experience and a track record of securing allowances in a high-volume practice. The firm's 29855 career applications provide a broad data set for evaluating its performance in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 4 (27%) |
| §103 only | 2 (13%) |
| §102 only | 2 (13%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 3 | 68.3% | +43.8% |
| RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN | 1 | 55.1% | +38.4% |
| FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 1 | 77.0% | +30.5% |
| ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 1 | 65.9% | +64.5% |
| GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | 1 | 77.6% | +25.5% |
| BUI, DUNG H | 1 | 77.8% | +25.4% |
| MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 1 | 49.5% | +34.0% |
| THOMAS, SOUMYA | 1 | 60.0% | -16.7% |
| FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 1 | 19.4% | +23.4% |
| KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH | 1 | 33.3% | +38.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17792535 | SCREENING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING AND PROCESSING GENOMIC INFORMATION FOR GENERATING GENE VARIANT INTERPRETATIONS | PLAYER, ROBERT AUSTIN | 13d |
| 18447787 | BIASING DEVICE FOR SPINAL DEVICE | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 56d |
| 18179468 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS IN REAL-TIME | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 79d |
| 19391468 | ORTHOTIC BRACE AND CLIP ATTACHMENT MECHANISM | RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN | — |
| 18982703 | NOZZLE FOR FOAM WASHING OF JET ENGINE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | — |
| 18782648 | BONE ANCHORS WITH CORD RETENTION FEATURES | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | — |
| 18753219 | INLINE FLUID PURIFIER | BUI, DUNG H | — |
| 18253780 | METHODS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF PLACEMENT OF SPINAL CORD EPIDURAL STIMULATION UNIT | THOMAS, SOUMYA | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876665 | ROLLING PISTON ROTARY COMPRESSOR | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 30d |
| 18447787 | BIASING DEVICE FOR SPINAL DEVICE | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 56d |
| 18179468 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS IN REAL-TIME | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 79d |
| 19391468 | ORTHOTIC BRACE AND CLIP ATTACHMENT MECHANISM | RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN | — |
| 18982703 | NOZZLE FOR FOAM WASHING OF JET ENGINE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | — |
| 18808458 | CLEANING METHOD FOR JET ENGINE | GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | — |
| 18796724 | DUAL TETHER SUPPORT OF VERTEBRA | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | — |
| 18782648 | BONE ANCHORS WITH CORD RETENTION FEATURES | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1686 | 2 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 1658 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19391468 | ORTHOTIC BRACE AND CLIP ATTACHMENT MECHANISM | Md Orthopaedics, Inc. | RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN | 3786 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2025 |
| 18876665 | ROLLING PISTON ROTARY COMPRESSOR | Diego Willian Da Silva | FREAY, CHARLES GRANT | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18982703 | NOZZLE FOR FOAM WASHING OF JET ENGINE | Aerocore Technologies LLC | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| 18808458 | CLEANING METHOD FOR JET ENGINE | Aerocore Technologies LLC | GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18796724 | DUAL TETHER SUPPORT OF VERTEBRA | Orthopediatrics Corp. | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 | |
| 18782648 | BONE ANCHORS WITH CORD RETENTION FEATURES | Orthopediatric Corp. | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 | |
| 18753219 | INLINE FLUID PURIFIER | Trajan Scientific Americas Inc. | BUI, DUNG H | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 | |
| 18447661 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING MULTIPLE PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS USING NEUROSTIMULATION | UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 3796 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18447787 | BIASING DEVICE FOR SPINAL DEVICE | Apifix Ltd. | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 3773 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18253780 | METHODS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF PLACEMENT OF SPINAL CORD EPIDURAL STIMULATION UNIT | UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | THOMAS, SOUMYA | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2023 | |
| 18179468 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS IN REAL-TIME | Qdoc Inc. | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 3687 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 17999235 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTION OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTION | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH | 1658 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 17792535 | SCREENING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING AND PROCESSING GENOMIC INFORMATION FOR GENERATING GENE VARIANT INTERPRETATIONS | Congenica Ltd. | PLAYER, ROBERT AUSTIN | 1686 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17639825 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION AND GRADING OF DIABETIC RETINOPATHY | UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 3791 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2022 |
| 17628827 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COPY NUMBER VARIANT ERROR CORRECTION | Congenica Ltd. | DHARITHREESAN, NIDHI | 1686 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2022 |
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