Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
EVERGREEN VALLEY LAW GROUP has managed 520 career applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm has reached a resolved allowance rate of 74.41 percent across these applications, providing a measure of its success in securing patent grants in this field.
The firm averages 2.66 office actions per allowance to secure these grants. Currently, there are 4 pending office actions under management, representing the firm's active workload in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering following its 520 career applications. This information provides a snapshot of the firm's historical performance and current prosecution status for practitioners evaluating its administrative efficiency.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIBBERT, MARY C | 1 | 66.4% | +26.5% |
| MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | 1 | 66.8% | +33.6% |
| SHIH, HAOSHIAN | 1 | 69.6% | +20.4% |
| BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | 1 | 17.4% | +19.0% |
| ABOU EL SEOUD, MOHAMED | 1 | 39.3% | +37.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18645162 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING ENGAGING KNOWLEDGE ARTICLES | SHIH, HAOSHIAN | 8d overdue |
| 19458847 | MODULAR SEALING APPARATUS | HIBBERT, MARY C | — |
| 18582590 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING ONLINE REPUTATION OF DIGITAL PROFILES | BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18645162 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING ENGAGING KNOWLEDGE ARTICLES | SHIH, HAOSHIAN | 8d overdue |
| 19458847 | MODULAR SEALING APPARATUS | HIBBERT, MARY C | — |
| 18805278 | TAMPONADE DEVICE | MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | — |
| 18582590 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING ONLINE REPUTATION OF DIGITAL PROFILES | BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | — |
| 17761182 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR UNSTRUCTURED PRUNING OF A NEURAL NETWORK | ABOU EL SEOUD, MOHAMED | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Contemplate LLC | 1 |
| Myodynamics, LLC | 1 |
| Wildboom Corporation dba Intellective | 1 |
| Real Grader, Inc. | 1 |
| Lightmetrics Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 2179 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 2148 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19458847 | MODULAR SEALING APPARATUS | Contemplate LLC | HIBBERT, MARY C | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2026 |
| 18805278 | TAMPONADE DEVICE | Myodynamics, LLC | MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | 3771 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18645162 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING ENGAGING KNOWLEDGE ARTICLES | Wildboom Corporation Dba Intellective | SHIH, HAOSHIAN | 2179 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18582590 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING ONLINE REPUTATION OF DIGITAL PROFILES | Real Grader, Inc. | BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | 3629 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 17761182 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR UNSTRUCTURED PRUNING OF A NEURAL NETWORK | Lightmetrics Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | ABOU EL SEOUD, MOHAMED | 2148 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2022 |
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