Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Headland Law & Strategy has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 151 career applications. The profile reflects an active docket within a comparatively limited recorded application history.
The resolved allowance rate is 76.84%, and the average is 1.97 office actions per allowance. These measures describe resolved outcomes and the examination activity associated with each allowance.
For a medical-device client, the figures support a focused review of both current matters and reported prosecution history. They do not reveal how the results vary by product type or application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.8% |
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 49.2% | +69.8% |
| TAN, DING Y | 1 | 76.2% | +17.6% |
| YUEN, JESSICA JIPING | 1 | 60.4% | +21.4% |
| WEAVER, SUE A | 1 | 62.0% | +28.0% |
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1 | 28.4% | +27.4% |
| PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE | 1 | 23.1% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18528733 | Absorptive Drying Element | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 65d |
| 19246161 | ASSESSING MOTIVATED ATTENTION WITH CUE REACTIVITY | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | — |
| 18385676 | ENCODING RESPIRATION FLOW AND VOLUME METRICS USING A MOBILE DEVICE | PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18528733 | Absorptive Drying Element | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 65d |
| 19246161 | ASSESSING MOTIVATED ATTENTION WITH CUE REACTIVITY | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | — |
| 19034266 | TEXTURED SENSORY DEVICE | TAN, DING Y | — |
| 18667762 | HOLDER | YUEN, JESSICA JIPING | — |
| 18413709 | MECHANICAL WALLET | WEAVER, SUE A | — |
| 18385676 | ENCODING RESPIRATION FLOW AND VOLUME METRICS USING A MOBILE DEVICE | PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Dorai Home | 2 |
| Big Bee, Little Bee Inc. | 1 |
| Neurotype Inc. | 1 |
| Gyre & Gimble Gidgets Inc. | 1 |
| Peter M. Goodwin | 1 |
| Emercent Technologies LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19275708 | FOOD STORAGE CONTAINER | Big Bee, Little Bee Inc. | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19246161 | ASSESSING MOTIVATED ATTENTION WITH CUE REACTIVITY | Neurotype Inc. | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 3791 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19034266 | TEXTURED SENSORY DEVICE | Gyre & Gimble Gidgets Inc. | TAN, DING Y | 3632 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18667762 | HOLDER | Dorai Home, Inc. | YUEN, JESSICA JIPING | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18413709 | MECHANICAL WALLET | Peter M. Goodwin | WEAVER, SUE A | 3733 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18528733 | Absorptive Drying Element | Dorai Home, Inc. | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 65d | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18385676 | ENCODING RESPIRATION FLOW AND VOLUME METRICS USING A MOBILE DEVICE | Emercent Technologies LLC | PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial76.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Headland Law & Strategy were allowed, across 151 applications in USPTO records.
1.97 office actions per allowed application on average.
7 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 7 examiners in 5 art units.
