Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
416 pending office actions • 120 clients • 368 examiners • 185 art units • 0 of 416 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
This profile covers Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and shows 419 pending office actions. Its 16744 career applications indicate a large portfolio supporting a substantial active prosecution workload.
The resolved allowance rate is 86.96%, and the average is 3.3 office actions per allowance. The resolved record indicates that allowance was reached in most matters, while the action average reflects repeated examination activity before allowance.
For practitioners, portfolio scale makes docket segmentation and consistent response management important. The allowance rate provides a favorable historical outcome benchmark, and the action average helps establish the prosecution effort that may be needed for medical device and mechanical matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 95 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. 95 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 | 5 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 26 (6%) |
| §103 only | 145 (35%) |
| §102 only | 16 (4%) |
| §112 only | 20 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (0%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 15 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 187 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHUM, KENT N | 4 | 38.5% | +48.3% |
| YANG, JIE | 4 | 62.5% | +19.4% |
| MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 3 | 48.4% | +37.2% |
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3 | 59.1% | +29.3% |
| VERA, ELISA H | 3 | 72.4% | +26.3% |
| CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 3 | 43.5% | +67.7% |
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 3 | 61.8% | +19.7% |
| CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 3 | 41.1% | +50.8% |
| PETERSON, ERIK T | 3 | 76.4% | +10.5% |
| PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH | 3 | 31.8% | +58.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17640466 | METHODS OF IMPROVING SEED SIZE AND QUALITY | WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 182d overdue |
| 18670194 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SPARS OR RIBS FOR AIRCRAFTS | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 147d overdue |
| 16955699 | USE FOR PROTECTING OR MITIGATING RADIATION DAMAGE, AND FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING PULMONARY FIBROSIS | ANDERSON, JAMES D | 103d overdue |
| 17858520 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR CONTINUOUS OHMIC HEATING OF FOODSTUFFS | KHLOK, BONITA | 88d overdue |
| 18816184 | SENSOR | JEN, MINGJEN | 52d overdue |
| 18010045 | MARC1 INHIBITORS FOR TREATMENT OF LIPID METABOLISM DISORDERS | HUTTER, GILLIAN A | 50d overdue |
| 18944917 | SLIP-ON FOOTWEAR WITH A HEEL SUPPORT | BAYS, MARIE D | 49d overdue |
| 17658031 | CUTTING METHOD OF WAFER | SRINIVASAN, SESHA SAIRAMAN | 49d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17615453 | COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESS FOR INTEGRATING CELLS INTO EPITHELIUM | PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH | 99d overdue |
| 17925842 | COMPOSITIONS AND COMBINATIONS FOR SUBJECTS SUFFERING FROM ENDOMETRIOSIS | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 66d overdue |
| 18186323 | GRINDING METHOD OF WAFER | SHUM, KENT N | 35d overdue |
| 17800338 | Viral vector particle based on AA V2 for gene therapy | PENNINGTON, KATIE LEIGH | 17d overdue |
| 18461077 | POLISHING LIQUID FOR POLISHING COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 16d overdue |
| 18328988 | VERIFICATION METHOD FOR DEVICE CHIPS | PETERSON, ERIK T | 8d |
| 18722289 | ACOUSTIC POWER MODULATION IN A THERMOACOUSTIC MACHINE | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 14d |
| 17652537 | GRINDING APPARATUS | SHUM, KENT N | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 19 |
| 3642 | 10 |
| 3724 | 10 |
| 3745 | 9 |
| 1748 | 8 |
| 3783 | 8 |
| 1655 | 7 |
| 2898 | 7 |
| 1735 | 7 |
| 3761 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19546623 | ASSEMBLY FOR AN AIRCRAFT COMPRISING A TURBOMACHINE, A PYLON AND A MOUNTING SYSTEM | Airbus Operations SAS | WANG, MICHAEL H | 3642 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2026 |
| 19426729 | AIRCRAFT PROPULSION ASSEMBLY HAVING A JET ENGINE, A PYLON AND MEANS FOR ATTACHING THE JET ENGINE TO THE PYLON | Airbus Operations SAS | GMOSER, WILLIAM L | 3647 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 19407745 | PROTECTION FOR AN AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE | Airbus Operations GmbH | BENEDIK, JUSTIN M | 3642 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2025 |
| 19401516 | ASSEMBLY FOR AN AIRCRAFT COMPRISING MEANS FOR FIXING A WING TO AN ENGINE PYLON | Airbus Operations SAS | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 3642 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2025 |
| 19475976 | DEVICE FOR EMITTING A LIGHT BEAM INTENDED TO BE INSTALLED IN A LIGHTING DEVICE WITH A VIEW TO GENERATING LIGHT EFFECTS | Arteffect | DELAHOUSSAYE, KEITH G | 2875 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 19353043 | AUTOMATED METHOD FOR THE EFFECTIVE FIXATION OF X-RAY MARKERS IN VASCULAR IMPLANTS | Cortronik GmbH | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 3797 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19351971 | FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AIRCRAFT | Airbus Operations SAS | SMITH, ISAAC G | 3662 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19472994 | FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SONICATION WITH MECHANICAL AND ELECTRONIC STEERING ALONG A COMPUTED TRAJECTORY | UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG | VARGAS MONTALVO, DIXOMARA | 3798 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 19162502 | INNOVATIVE PHOTOMOBILE POLYMER, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAID PHOTOMOBILE POLYMER WITHOUT RUBBING, AND HANDLING DEVICE FOR A PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL | Enea - Agenzia Nazionale Per Le Nuove Tecnologie, L’Energia E Lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1721 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19306215 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AIRCRAFT | Airbus Operations Limited | AMICK, JACOB M | 3747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19293984 | PET URINE COLLECTION APPARATUS | BEYOND ENVIRONMENTAL, LLC. | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 3642 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19291136 | HYDROGEN-POWERED AIRCRAFT WITH ANTENNA FOR SATELLITE INTERNET ACCESS | Airbus Operations GmbH | SANDERSON, JOSEPH W | 3619 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19150364 | SYSTEM, METHOD FOR OPERATING A SYSTEM, AND USE | Haver & Boecker Ohg | TECCO, ANDREW M | 3731 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19274769 | VACUUM-INSULATED PIPE ASSEMBLY | Airbus Operations Limited | NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19264005 | METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING ADVERTISING CHANNEL INFORMATION AND ADVERTISING CONTENT ITEM ABOUT PRODUCT OR SERVICE BASED ON SEARCH KEYWORD | Naver Corporation | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 3622 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19263294 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING LIVE CONTENT STREAMING SERVICE | Naver Corporation | ALLEN, WILLIAM J | 3619 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 19261503 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROBOT BASED ON WEB BROWSER AND ROBOT USING SAME | Naver Corporation | EVANS, KARSTON G | 3657 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19249501 | SOLE INCLUDING MEDIAL AND LATERAL PLATE MEMBERS | Deckers Outdoor Corporation | DENKOVIC, HALEY | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19227660 | FIRE ALERT SIGNAL MANAGEMENT METHOD AND FIRE ALERT SIGNAL DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ENABLING IMPLEMENTATION OF SAID METHOD | Airbus Operations SAS | GARCIA, CARLOS E | 2686 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19217028 | AIRCRAFT MONUMENT CONFIGURED AS AN AIRCRAFT GALLEY, METHOD OF OPERATING AN AIRCRAFT MONUMENT AND AIRCRAFT | Airbus Operations GmbH | MAHASE, PAMESHANAND | 3642 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19201605 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING VISUAL FEATURE MAP USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL AND STREET VIEW IMAGE | Naver Corporation | RENZE, GEORGE NICHOLAS | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 | |
| 19197018 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM WITH BUFFER TANK FOR POTABLE WATER DELIVERY | Airbus Operations GmbH | MURPHY, KEVIN F | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19196832 | PIPE ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE, SUCH AS AN AIRCRAFT, PROPULSION SYSTEM AND VEHICLE EQUIPPED THEREWITH | Airbus Operations SAS | MEILLER, SEAN V | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19179673 | A DRIVE DEVICE, A VICE, AN ASSEMBLY WITH A DRIVE DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH AN ASSEMBLY | Zwo17 GmbH & Co. Kg | SALONE, BAYAN | 3726 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19175777 | HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR AN AIRCRAFT WITH A TANK STORING SUPERCRITICAL HYDROGEN | Airbus Operations SAS | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 | |
| 19175774 | AIRCRAFT HYDROGEN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WITH A COMPRESSOR | Airbus Operations SAS | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 | |
| 19119516 | AN AI BASED SYSTEM FOR MONITORING OF PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE PATIENTS | BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG | SOREY, ROBERT A | 3682 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19118947 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC MAPPING OF GOLF COURSE SOIL MOISTURE | Terrarad Tech AG | ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 3669 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19098361 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR NETWORK-ASSISTED DATA TRANSPORT | Airbus S.A.S. | LE, CANH | 2439 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19093830 | PROTECTIVE LAYER FORMING METHOD AND WORKPIECE PROCESSING METHOD | Disco Corporation | BERGNER, ERIN FLANAGAN | 1713 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19092626 | DOWNHOLE SEALING TOOL ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | Delta Tool Co. Inc. | ANDREWS, DAVID L | 3672 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19114292 | NANOPHOTONIC PURCELL ENHANCED METAMATERIAL SCINTILLATOR | The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University | BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY | 2884 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19085660 | VAPOR CYCLE REFRIGERATION SYSTEM, AIRCRAFT GALLEY UNIT, AIRCRAFT GALLEY AND AIRCRAFT | Airbus Operations GmbH | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19113795 | ROCKET PROBULSION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND A SPACE VEHICLE | Arianegroup GmbH | MEADE, LORNE EDWARD | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19112443 | A SOLID CELLULOSE FOAM PRODUCT FOR PROTECTION OF AN OBJECT | Stora Enso OYJ | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 3736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19110223 | HANGER FOR FASTENING A CONSTRUCTION ELEMENT OF DRY CONSTRUCTION TO A SUPPORT STRUCTURE | Knauf Gips Kg | HAWN, PATRICK D | 3631 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19109364 | ENDODONTIC INSTRUMENT COMPRISING AN IMPROVED ASSEMBLY PORTION | Neolix | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 3772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19066492 | FRAME UNIT FORMING METHOD, FRAME UNIT FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF FORMING DEVICE CHIPS | Disco Corporation | KOSKY, JUSTIN THOMAS | 3655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19063851 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEECH-TO-TEXT CONVERSION OF PASSENGER ANNOUNCEMENTS ON BOARD OF AN AIRCRAFT | Airbus Operations GmbH | FANG-WU, JOHN HONG | 2653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19059655 | WHEEL COMPONENT FOR A BICYCLE | Dt Swiss Inc. | ROGERS, ADAM D | 3617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19104429 | WHEEL | Nippon Steel Corporation | COMINO, EVA L | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18723189 | TUMOR TREATING FIELD SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING ALTERNATING CURRENT SIGNALS THEREOF | Jiangsu Healthy Life Innovation Medical Technology Co., Ltd. | WU, TONG E | 3796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19103934 | BLANK CONFIGURED TO BE ERECTED INTO A PACKAGE AND A PACKAGE FORMED BY SUCH A BLANK | Stora Enso OYJ | ATTEL, NINA KAY | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19103947 | FOLDABLE PACKAGING INSERT COMPRISING MULTIPLE CELLULOSE-BASED AIR-LAID OR SOLID FOAM SUBSTRATES | Stora Enso OYJ | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19103931 | FOLDABLE PACKAGING INSERT COMPRISING MULTIPLE CELLLULOSE-BASED AIR-LAID OR SOLID FOAM | Stora Enso OYJ | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19048469 | METHOD AND REPAIR KIT FOR REPAIRING A SANDWICH STRUCTURE | Airbus Operations GmbH | BEHA, CAROLINE | 1748 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19048313 | METHOD, CONTROL UNIT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A DATA CONNECTION, AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SAME | Airbus S.A.S. | DAGER, JONATHAN M | 3663 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19045723 | FLOOR ASSEMBLY AND AIRCRAFT WITH MONOLITHIC FLOOR ELEMENT | Airbus Operations GmbH | ZOHOORI, COLIN NAYSAN MISHA | 3642 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 19045137 | MEASURING APPARATUS FOR MEASURING CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A FLUID, AND CLEANING METHOD | Airbus Operations GmbH | ZAKARIA, AKM | 2858 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 19044071 | AIRCRAFT AND VEHICLE TRANSCEIVERS | Airbus Operations Limited | LIU, LI | 2634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial87.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd. were allowed, across 16,744 applications in USPTO records.
3.30 office actions per allowed application on average.
416 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 120 clients, before 368 examiners in 185 art units.
