Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
228 pending office actions • 65 clients • 203 examiners • 114 art units • 3 of 228 (1%) have an AI response strategy ready
EDELL, SHAPIRO & FINNAN, LLC manages a volume of 15583 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 93.1 percent. This success rate is coupled with an average of 3.48 office actions per allowance.
The firm currently faces 174 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. With 15583 career applications, the 93.1 percent allowance rate reflects the firm's historical performance. The 3.48 office actions per allowance indicates the level of examiner interaction typically required to secure these allowances.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 59 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. 59 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 only | 2 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 23 (10%) |
| §103 only | 78 (34%) |
| §102 only | 7 (3%) |
| §112 only | 3 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 6 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 103 (45%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 3 | 70.4% | +34.9% |
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3 | 68.9% | +25.1% |
| PETTITT, JOHN F | 3 | 25.9% | +21.4% |
| JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 2 | 62.4% | +27.1% |
| KING, BRIAN M | 2 | 70.2% | +23.9% |
| PERSAUD, DEORAM | 2 | 77.1% | +11.8% |
| WHITESELL, STEVEN H | 2 | 82.0% | +12.9% |
| MERLIN, JESSICA M | 2 | 61.7% | +24.0% |
| GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2 | 70.5% | +20.3% |
| VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N | 2 | 23.5% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19073220 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICE | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — |
| 19018304 | LENS ELEMENT FOR A MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS DESIGNED FOR OPERATION IN THE DUV, AND METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR FORMING AN ANTIREFLECTION LAYER | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17462576 | BEAM STEERING IN FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE (FMCW) LIDAR SYSTEMS | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 237d overdue |
| 18261794 | DUTY CYCLE CONTROL IN POLYPHASE WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEMS | BEHM, HARRY RAYMOND | 71d overdue |
| 18319617 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MAIN BODY OF AN OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR SEMICONDUCTOR LITHOGRAPHY, AND MAIN BODY OF AN OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR SEMICONDUCTOR LITHOGRAPHY | CARRUTH, JENNIFER DOAK | 58d overdue |
| 18799040 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF PREFERRED ROUTES | PHAM, CLINT V | 52d overdue |
| 16637113 | VIRTUAL CURRENCY DATA ISSUING SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | CHOI, YUE YIN | 42d overdue |
| 18333658 | FAST SESSION TRANSFER BETWEEN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK AND 5G NETWORK | HUA, QUAN M | 32d overdue |
| 18447533 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | KENDALL, BENJAMIN R | 4d overdue |
| 19051719 | Sole Structure With Bottom-Loaded Compression | HUYNH, KHOA D | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19204742 | PERISTALTIC PUMP | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 4d overdue |
| 18728579 | IMPLANTABLE STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURES | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 2d overdue |
| 18248496 | SELF-FITTING OF PROSTHESIS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 2d overdue |
| 16385269 | Mixed Refrigerant Liquefaction System and Method with Pre-Cooling | PETTITT, JOHN F | 15d |
| 18300724 | CRYOGENIC PUMP | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 40d |
| 19191851 | Hydrogen Liquefaction System and Method | KING, BRIAN M | — |
| 19092004 | COOLING DEVICE FOR COOLING A POSITION-SENSITIVE COMPONENT OF A LITHOGRAPHY SYSTEM | PERSAUD, DEORAM | — |
| 19073220 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICE | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 11 |
| 3792 | 6 |
| 3763 | 5 |
| 3761 | 5 |
| 1718 | 4 |
| 2871 | 4 |
| 3624 | 3 |
| 3732 | 3 |
| 2882 | 3 |
| 2659 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19477327 | MAGNETIC INDUCTION ANTENNA MODULE | Cochlear Limited | INGE, JOSEPH N | 2836 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19357409 | PROJECTION IMAGE CORRECTION SYSTEM AND PROJECTION IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD | Sigmastar Technology Ltd. | SHAH, PRIYANK J | 2626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2025 |
| 19337293 | BACKPACK INCLUDING SUSPENSION STRAP | Under Armour, Inc. | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 3734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 19286449 | DEPTH CHART VISUALIZATION FOR TEAM MANAGEMENT | Sumersports, Llc. | SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2025 |
| 19272000 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT DEVICE | Sigmastar Technology Ltd. | KHAN, MASUD K | 2132 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19267913 | FIBER REINFORCED VALVE SEAL | Gd Energy Products, LLC | TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 | |
| 19254543 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A PLURALITY OF HEALTH CONDITIONS OF A COCHLEA | Cochlear Limited | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19254576 | DECENTRALIZED INTERNET PROTOCOL SECURITY KEY NEGOTIATION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | CHAO, MICHAEL W | 2431 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19214388 | BI-DIRECTIONAL POWER OVER ETHERNET FOR DIGITAL BUILDING APPLICATIONS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | PRIFTI, AUREL | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 | |
| 19204742 | PERISTALTIC PUMP | Oina Vv AB | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 3746 | DP | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19191851 | Hydrogen Liquefaction System and Method | Chart Energy & Chemicals, Inc. | KING, BRIAN M | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 | |
| 19122316 | SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR MULTI-DEVICE SYSTEMS | Cochlear Limited | KUO, JONATHAN T | 3792 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19170404 | MIRROR, IN PARTICULAR FOR A MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF PROCESSING A MIRROR | Carl Zeiss Smt GmbH | RIDDLE, CHRISTINA A | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 | |
| 19118264 | Techniques For Measuring Skin Flap Thickness Using Ultrasound | Cochlear Limited | SANTOS RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH M | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19096958 | DETACHABLE MOORING CHAIN LINK, CONNECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCONNECTING TWO MOORING CHAINS UNDERWATER | Vicinay Marine Innovacion (Aie) | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 | |
| 19116546 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, FIRST COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SECOND COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | Nti, Inc. | GRIJALVA LOBOS, BORIS D | 2496 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19093433 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | Kokusai Electric Corporation | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19092004 | COOLING DEVICE FOR COOLING A POSITION-SENSITIVE COMPONENT OF A LITHOGRAPHY SYSTEM | ASML Netherlands B.V. | PERSAUD, DEORAM | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 | |
| 19073659 | CONDUCTING COMMUNICATION SESSIONS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION OF USER INTERACTION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ESPINAS, KYLENINO TAGALOG | 2655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19073220 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICE | Carl Zeiss Smt GmbH | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 | |
| 19063834 | SEALS AND FLOW RESTRICTORS FOR ROTARY MACHINES | Howden Group Limited | KONERU, LAKSHMI S | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19059808 | INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT FOR PRODUCING AN OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR A PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS, OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR A PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN OPTICAL ELEMENT | Carl Zeiss Smt GmbH | NGUYEN, HUNG | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 | |
| 19051719 | Sole Structure With Bottom-Loaded Compression | Under Armour, Inc. | HUYNH, KHOA D | 3732 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19046075 | NATURAL LANGUAGE DETERMINISTIC NETWORK TROUBLESHOOTING AND CONFIGURATION TOOLS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T | 2457 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 19042836 | Smoothing Surface Roughness Using Atomic Layer Deposition | University Of Colorado Boulder | TADAYYON ESLAMI, TABASSOM | 1718 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19038895 | Auto Darkening Filter Lens and Control Panel for Welding Helmet | The ESAB Group, Inc. | MERLIN, JESSICA M | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 | |
| 19037488 | DYNAMIC AUTHENTICATION VIA AN AUTHENTICATION INTERMEDIATOR | Cisco Technology, Inc. | DO, KHANG D | 2492 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19036211 | SPORTS STADIUM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING A SPORTS STADIUM INTO A MULTI-SPACE, MULTIFUNCTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE | Sener Mobility S.A. | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 | |
| 19031790 | METHOD OF FORMING AN ARTICLE OF FOOTWEAR | Under Armour, Inc. | WANG, ALEXANDER A | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 | |
| 19025246 | Compact Antenna Technology for Wireless Communications | Ignion, S.L. | LEE, SEUNG H | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 | |
| 19025137 | DYNAMIC SKILLS-BASED REGISTRATION AND ROUTING IN A FRAMEWORK OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENTS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19018304 | LENS ELEMENT FOR A MICROLITHOGRAPHIC PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS DESIGNED FOR OPERATION IN THE DUV, AND METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR FORMING AN ANTIREFLECTION LAYER | Carl Zeiss Smt GmbH | WHITESELL, STEVEN H | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 | |
| 19014736 | LOCATING WIRELESS DEVICES | Cochlear Limited | GHULAMALI, QUTBUDDIN | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 | |
| 19004988 | APPAREL FABRIC WITH HEAT RETENTION | Under Armour, Inc. | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19000922 | MEASURING ASSEMBLY FOR DETECTING A DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO ELEMENTS, DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE, OPTICAL MEASURING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Carl Zeiss Smt GmbH | NGUYEN, SANG H | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 | |
| 18999074 | Wireless Device and Antenna System with Extended Bandwidth | Ignion, S.L. | NGUYEN, HOANG V | 2845 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18878388 | IMPLANTABLE SENSOR TRAINING | Cochlear Limited | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 | |
| 18988819 | CONTAINER AND WITHDRAWAL SYSTEM | Brita LP | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18986435 | STATOR | Mcf Electric Drive Corporation | ANDREWS, MICHAEL | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 | |
| 18876463 | Methods And Apparatuses For Inhibiting Movement Of Implanted Magnetic Devices | Cochlear Limited | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 | |
| 18985463 | OPTICAL SAFETY MECHANISM FOR ROUTED OPTICAL NETWORKING LINEAR AMPLIFIER | Cisco Technology, Inc. | VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N | 2634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18982759 | Wireless Device Including a Multiband Antenna System | Ignion, S.L. | PATEL, AMAL A | 2845 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18981948 | MACSEC-LIKE ENCRYPTION FOR BLANKET OBFUSCATION AND ENHANCED PRIVACY CONTENT | Cisco Technology, Inc. | ALI, AFAQ | 2434 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18976735 | CONNECTOR FOR A TOY FIGURE | Mattel, Inc. | FERNSTROM, KURT | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 | |
| 18973625 | WORKSPACE AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT BASED ON OCCUPANCY DETECTION | Cisco Technology, Inc. | GUNN, JEREMY L | 3624 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18971186 | LOW DROPOUT VOLTAGE REGULATOR HAVING LOW POWER MODE | Sigmastar Technology Ltd. | SHAW, LAUREN ASHLEY | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 | |
| 18967048 | ROTOR STRUCTURE | Mcf Electric Drive Corporation | VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 | |
| 18964979 | ATHLETIC BRA | Under Armour, Inc. | BRAVO, JOCELYN MARY | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18960064 | DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF PERFORMANCE ISSUES DURING ONLINE MEETINGS | Cisco Technology, Inc. | CAUDLE, PENNY LOUISE | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 | |
| 18869091 | ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNAL RECOGNITION TRAINING | Cochlear Limited | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 3715 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial93.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC were allowed, across 15,583 applications in USPTO records.
3.48 office actions per allowed application on average.
228 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 65 clients, before 203 examiners in 114 art units.