Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
79 pending office actions • 51 clients • 75 examiners • 47 art units • 0 of 79 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
DeWitt LLP (Madison) has a significant presence in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, with 6252 career applications in its history. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 82.15 percent, demonstrating a strong capability for securing patent rights. This success is achieved with an average of 2.92 office actions per allowance, indicating an efficient prosecution process.
The firm currently manages 58 pending office actions, showing its active involvement in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. The 82.15 percent allowance rate is a critical indicator of the firm's effectiveness in overcoming examiner rejections. With 6252 career applications, the firm demonstrates extensive experience in handling complex technical subject matter.
Practitioners can look to the 2.92 average office actions per allowance as a metric for planning prosecution strategy and budgeting. The 58 pending office actions indicate a steady flow of work within the firm's specialized area. These figures provide a clear overview of DeWitt LLP (Madison)'s performance and its established position in the patent landscape.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 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. 14 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 | 8 (10%) |
| §103 only | 18 (23%) |
| §102 only | 2 (3%) |
| §112 only | 6 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 7 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 38 (48%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 3 | 30.0% | +53.1% |
| HUTSON, RICHARD G | 2 | 65.1% | +52.9% |
| SMALE, AVERY E | 2 | 73.8% | +19.8% |
| CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 1 | 74.8% | +16.2% |
| HIBSHMAN, SARAH GRACE | 1 | 38.9% | +40.0% |
| COOK, JONATHON | 1 | 81.6% | +17.1% |
| JOHNSON, TERRELL S | 1 | 86.8% | +10.4% |
| BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 1 | 50.0% | +54.6% |
| DIETRICH, JOSEPH M | 1 | 81.1% | +8.8% |
| HILTUNEN, THOMAS J | 1 | 81.5% | +6.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842106 | CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION AS A CLEAN FEEDSTOCK | WONG, EDNA | 85d overdue |
| 17912770 | ATP-DEPENDENT DNA LIGASE | HUTSON, RICHARD G | 80d overdue |
| 18533548 | IMAGING SENSOR ASSEMBLY | PHAM, QUAN L | 8d overdue |
| 18696845 | MEASURING APPARATUS AND MEASURING METHOD FOR PREPARING LASER TREATMENT, AND LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 5d overdue |
| 18637243 | COMPOSITIONS TO CONTROL THE RELEASE RATES OF CHEMICAL PESTICIDES | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1d overdue |
| 18573804 | FOOD IN CONTROLLED DYNAMIC FERMENTATION FOR BACTERIOSTASIS OF BENEFICIAL MICROORGANISMS, KEEPING THEM ALIVE AND METABOLICALLY ACTIVE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION | MORENO, LARK JULIA | 8d |
| 18579119 | CLOSURE CAP AND CLOSURE SYSTEM FOR A SYRINGE THAT IS PREFILLED WITH A MEDICAMENT OR MEDICAL ACTIVE SUBSTANCE | BURKE, THOMAS P | 23d |
| 17190514 | INTRAOCULAR IMPLANT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN INTRAOCULAR IMPLANT | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17912770 | ATP-DEPENDENT DNA LIGASE | HUTSON, RICHARD G | 80d overdue |
| 18257613 | PULSATILE FLUSHING OF MEDICAL DEVICES | SMALE, AVERY E | 46d overdue |
| 19237691 | FLAVONOID-CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS AND TREATMENT OF VIRAL DISEASES WITH SAME | HIBSHMAN, SARAH GRACE | 43d overdue |
| 18637243 | COMPOSITIONS TO CONTROL THE RELEASE RATES OF CHEMICAL PESTICIDES | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1d overdue |
| 18470587 | ADMINISTRATION REGIMENS FOR MICRONEEDLE PATCH DEVICES FOR DELIVERY OF IMMUNOGENIC COMPOSITIONS | SMALE, AVERY E | 42d |
| 19142798 | ELECTRON TUBE | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
| 19197529 | METHOD FOR COMPENSATING THE ARTIFACTS GENERATED BY MOVING MEASUREMENT OBJECTS IN MEASUREMENT SIGNALS OF SWEPT-SOURCE OCT SYSTEMS | COOK, JONATHON | — |
| 19088105 | CIRCUITRY AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING PROCESSING EVENTS | JOHNSON, TERRELL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 3 |
| 3792 | 3 |
| 1623 | 2 |
| 2176 | 2 |
| 1654 | 2 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 3783 | 2 |
| 1641 | 2 |
| 3774 | 2 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19142798 | ELECTRON TUBE | Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2845 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19237691 | FLAVONOID-CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS AND TREATMENT OF VIRAL DISEASES WITH SAME | Amh Biotech LLC | HIBSHMAN, SARAH GRACE | 1623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19197529 | METHOD FOR COMPENSATING THE ARTIFACTS GENERATED BY MOVING MEASUREMENT OBJECTS IN MEASUREMENT SIGNALS OF SWEPT-SOURCE OCT SYSTEMS | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | COOK, JONATHON | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 | |
| 19088105 | CIRCUITRY AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING PROCESSING EVENTS | Arm Limited | JOHNSON, TERRELL S | 2176 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19107996 | BIOLOGICAL SOUND DETECTION DEVICE | Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 | |
| 18698295 | INTERMEDIATE STORAGE UNIT FOR CYCLICAL POWER SMOOTHING AND OPHTHALMOLOGICAL LASER THERAPY SYSTEM HAVING AN INTERMEDIATE STORAGE UNIT | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | DIETRICH, JOSEPH M | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 | |
| 19041411 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND CIRCUITRY | Arm Limited | HILTUNEN, THOMAS J | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19032890 | STORAGE META DATA INTERROGATION | Arm Limited | DUDEK JR, EDWARD J | 2132 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18992537 | PROTEASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2 (PAR2) INHIBITOR AND ITS USES | Università Degli Studi Di Padova | WEBB, WALTER E | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 | |
| 18880710 | DELIMITED MACHINE-ENABLED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION | Cabo Applications LLC | PATEL, SHREYANS A | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 | |
| 18877373 | TILLER | Reecher Marine AB | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 3644 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18982318 | POWER REGULATOR FOR DIGITAL CIRCUITRY | Arm Limited | CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, ULARISLAO | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18980870 | HEADGEAR MOUNT AND IMAGING SYSTEM | Maranon, Inc. | CROCKETT, RYAN M | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 | |
| 18971144 | WATER FLOW DEFLECTION DEVICE FOR A WATERCRAFT AND METHODS OF USE | Swell Ventures LLC | VASUDEVA, AJAY | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 | |
| 18970384 | LASER INSTRUMENT FOR EYE THERAPY | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 3993 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18694856 | METHOD AND ASSEMBLY FOR RECALIBRATING THE FOCUS OF AN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SYSTEM FOR INTRAOCULAR LASER TREATMENT | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 | |
| 18939932 | STORAGE CIRCUITRY FOR READ AND WRITE OPERATIONS | Arm Limited | NGUYEN, KATHY KIEU NGOC | 2825 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18925406 | DROOP PROTECTION METHOD AND CIRCUIT | Arm Limited | KIM, JUNG H | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 | |
| 18926235 | EVALUATING PERFORMANCE OF A DROOP MITIGATION SCHEME | Arm Limited | BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D | 2138 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18925518 | METHOD OF MONITORING A CLOCK SIGNAL | Arm Limited | REHMAN, MOHAMMED H | 2176 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18889634 | LARGE-SCALE STONE SLABS | Cambria Company LLC | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1744 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18843473 | FUNGICIDE COMPOSITION | UPL Corporation Limited | GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | §112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 | |
| 18842176 | CRANIAL FIXATION DEVICE FOR DECOMPRESSIVE / AUGMENTATIVE CRANIECTOMY | Ntplast S.r.l. | WEISBERG, AMY REGINA | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 | |
| 18842106 | CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION AS A CLEAN FEEDSTOCK | Michigan Technological University | WONG, EDNA | 1795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18808704 | MODULAR EDGE NETWORK SECURITY | Adveon Security Technologies, Inc. | TRUONG, LAWRENCE QUANG | 2434 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18835471 | FUNGICIDE COMPOSITION | UPL Corporation Limited | SONG, JIANFENG | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 | |
| 18832605 | METHOD OF IMPROVING PLANT GROWTH | UPL Corporation Limited | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1616 | §101§102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18832577 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING FUNGI | UPL Corporation Limited | ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 | |
| 18770925 | LIQUID DALBAVANCIN COMPOSITIONS | Hikma Pharmaceuticals Usa Inc. | D' AMBROSIO, THEA | 1654 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18725699 | THERAPEUTICAL PEPTIDOMIMETIC | Association Française Contre Les Myopathies – Afm-Téléthon | HUTSON, RICHARD G | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 | |
| 18720062 | EXTENDABLE UNIVERSAL SOUND BAR MOUNT | Legrand Av Inc. | TAN, DING Y | 3632 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18717505 | ORAL FORMULATION BASED ON A PRE-ESTABLISHED ASSOCIATION OF SULODEXIDE AND FLAVONOIDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY AND PREVENTION OF COMPLICATIONS THEREOF | Omikron Italia S.r.l. | MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C | 1623 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18733464 | GOSERELIN IMPLANT DOSING REGIMENS FOR IMPROVED PATIENT COMPLIANCE | Tersera Therapeutics LLC | JOHNSON, TIRONE DEREK | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 | |
| 18715978 | SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE, NOx and SOx USING SINGLE STAGE ABSORPTION COLUMN AND RELATED METHODS | Michigan Technological University | LEE, CRYSTAL J | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 | |
| 18637243 | COMPOSITIONS TO CONTROL THE RELEASE RATES OF CHEMICAL PESTICIDES | Envionics LLC | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1616 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18637035 | CONTROL FOR FLOOR SCRAPING MACHINE | National Flooring Equipment, Inc. | FLORES SANCHEZ, OMAR | 3724 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18635772 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR LASER SURGERY OF AN EYE, ESPECIALLY FOR KERATOPLASTY | Resbiomed Technologies Ood | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18634477 | LIFT FRAME ASSEMBLY | Hiab AB | NEUPANE, ADARSH | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18699742 | WELDING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A BUTT-WELDED JOINT | Huerner Schweisstechnik GmbH | TOLIN, MICHAEL A | 1745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18698824 | PLANNING DEVICE FOR GENERATING CONTROL DATA FOR A LASER DEVICE OF A TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR REFRACTIVE CORRECTION OF AN EYE, TREATMENT APPARATUS, METHOD FOR GENERATING CONTROL DATA AND METHOD FOR REFRACTIVE CORRECTION | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 3796 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18696845 | MEASURING APPARATUS AND MEASURING METHOD FOR PREPARING LASER TREATMENT, AND LASER TREATMENT APPARATUS | Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | HO, WAI-GA DAVID | 2872 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18693777 | TIMED SYSTEM FOR RAPID ASSAY | Cubit Diagnostics, Inc. | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 | |
| 18598827 | COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING METAL-COMPLEXED PLANT COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF | Rd Life Sciences, LLC | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1655 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18682242 | VALVE | Imperial College Innovations Ltd. | LEDERER, SARAH B | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 | |
| 18435747 | CONICAL STENT FOR INTRACRANIAL ANGIOPLASTY AND METHODS OF STENT PLACEMENT FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF ISCHEMIC STROKE | Dyqure LLC | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18427359 | Recycled Graphite for Li-Ion Batteries | Ascend Elements, Inc. | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1717 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18579119 | CLOSURE CAP AND CLOSURE SYSTEM FOR A SYRINGE THAT IS PREFILLED WITH A MEDICAMENT OR MEDICAL ACTIVE SUBSTANCE | Inductio AG | BURKE, THOMAS P | 3741 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18573676 | ENERGY PRODUCTION SYSTEM | Photoncycle AS | LEE, JAMES | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 | |
| 18573804 | FOOD IN CONTROLLED DYNAMIC FERMENTATION FOR BACTERIOSTASIS OF BENEFICIAL MICROORGANISMS, KEEPING THEM ALIVE AND METABOLICALLY ACTIVE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION | Kuragobiotek Holdings Sapi De Cv | MORENO, LARK JULIA | 1793 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18394354 | METHOD OF PRODUCING CARBON MATERIALS FROM FEEDSTOCK GASES | Up Catalyst Oü | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial82.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Dewitt LLP (Madison) were allowed, across 6,252 applications in USPTO records.
2.92 office actions per allowed application on average.
79 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 51 clients, before 75 examiners in 47 art units.