Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 7 clients • 10 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
FisherBroyles LLP - C Mueller operates within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This profile accounts for 6 pending office actions out of the firm's broader portfolio. The firm has a total history of 20473 career applications.
The resolved allowance rate stands at 75.5 percent. With an average of 3.19 office actions per allowance, the firm demonstrates a consistent prosecution strategy across different technical disciplines. This data helps quantify the firm's experience in high-tech hardware sectors.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (10%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (70%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 1 | 83.5% | +11.1% |
| HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 1 | 41.4% | +52.1% |
| CHANG, OLIVIA C | 1 | 84.4% | +13.3% |
| CHEN, DANIEL GUANG-DIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 1 | 73.6% | +21.9% |
| CHOI, TAEKWON NMN | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 1 | 78.2% | +11.4% |
| CHOI, PETER Y | 1 | 20.6% | +33.0% |
| OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B | 1 | 54.5% | +19.4% |
| NGO, MEAGAN N | 1 | 58.3% | +33.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823877 | ACOUSTIC FRONT STORAGE COMPARTMENT FOR A VEHICLE | CHEN, DANIEL GUANG-DIAN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247944 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL AUTOMOTIVE FLOORING PART COMPRISING FIBERS FROM TEXTILE WASTE | CHOI, PETER Y | 8d overdue |
| 18717338 | PARTICLE ACOUSTIC DAMPER POUCH | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 4d overdue |
| 18350995 | DUAL COMPRESSION INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN A TALAR TIBIA CALCANEAL FUSION | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 9d |
| 19230310 | PATIENT-MATCHED APPARATUS FOR USE IN SPINE RELATED SURGICAL PROCEDURES AND METHODS FOR USING THE SAME | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | — |
| 18858249 | CLOSED SYSTEM BLOOD TRANSFER DEVICE | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | — |
| 18917351 | ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT SYSTEM FOR VARIABLE ANGLE LOCKING HAVING ENGINEERED MATING THREAD ENGAGEMENT | CHANG, OLIVIA C | — |
| 18000253 | AUTOMOTIVE TRIM PART WITH VIBRATION DAMPING PROPERTIES | OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247944 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL AUTOMOTIVE FLOORING PART COMPRISING FIBERS FROM TEXTILE WASTE | CHOI, PETER Y | 8d overdue |
| 18717338 | PARTICLE ACOUSTIC DAMPER POUCH | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 4d overdue |
| 18350995 | DUAL COMPRESSION INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN A TALAR TIBIA CALCANEAL FUSION | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 9d |
| 19230310 | PATIENT-MATCHED APPARATUS FOR USE IN SPINE RELATED SURGICAL PROCEDURES AND METHODS FOR USING THE SAME | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | — |
| 18858249 | CLOSED SYSTEM BLOOD TRANSFER DEVICE | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | — |
| 18917351 | ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT SYSTEM FOR VARIABLE ANGLE LOCKING HAVING ENGINEERED MATING THREAD ENGAGEMENT | CHANG, OLIVIA C | — |
| 18000253 | AUTOMOTIVE TRIM PART WITH VIBRATION DAMPING PROPERTIES | OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B | — |
| 18052988 | PLASMA HYDROGEL THERAPY | NGO, MEAGAN N | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Autoneum | 4 |
| Mighty Oak Medical | 1 |
| Lifeoutcomes LLC | 1 |
| Ortho Solutions Holdings Limited | 1 |
| L&H Industrial, Inc. | 1 |
| Ortho Solutions | 1 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 2 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19230310 | PATIENT-MATCHED APPARATUS FOR USE IN SPINE RELATED SURGICAL PROCEDURES AND METHODS FOR USING THE SAME | Mighty Oak Medical, Inc. | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 | |
| 18858249 | CLOSED SYSTEM BLOOD TRANSFER DEVICE | Lifeoutcomes LLC | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 | |
| 18917351 | ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT SYSTEM FOR VARIABLE ANGLE LOCKING HAVING ENGINEERED MATING THREAD ENGAGEMENT | Ortho Solutions Holdings Limited | CHANG, OLIVIA C | 3775 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18823877 | ACOUSTIC FRONT STORAGE COMPARTMENT FOR A VEHICLE | Autoneum Management AG | CHEN, DANIEL GUANG-DIAN | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 | |
| 18717338 | PARTICLE ACOUSTIC DAMPER POUCH | Autoneum Management AG | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 2837 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18512494 | MOUNTING AND SEALING ASSEMBLY | L&H Industrial, Inc. | CHOI, TAEKWON NMN | 3615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18350995 | DUAL COMPRESSION INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN A TALAR TIBIA CALCANEAL FUSION | Ortho Solsolutions Holdings Limited | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18247944 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL AUTOMOTIVE FLOORING PART COMPRISING FIBERS FROM TEXTILE WASTE | Autoneum Management AG | CHOI, PETER Y | 1786 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 18000253 | AUTOMOTIVE TRIM PART WITH VIBRATION DAMPING PROPERTIES | Autoneum Management AG | OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B | 2837 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
| 18052988 | PLASMA HYDROGEL THERAPY | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA | NGO, MEAGAN N | 3781 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
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