Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Headland Law & Strategy manages a portfolio focused on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, having handled 150 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 76.92 percent, indicating its ability to secure patent grants within this technical domain. This rate provides a benchmark for the firm's historical results in these specific engineering fields.
Practitioners at the firm navigate the examination process with an average of 2.0 office actions per allowance. This process is currently being applied to 5 pending office actions. The combination of 150 career applications and a 76.92 percent resolved allowance rate reflects a track record for clients seeking protection in mechanical and medical technologies. The 2.0 office actions per allowance metric suggests a path to patent issuance for new applications.
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% | -9.9% |
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 48.7% | +70.4% |
| TAN, DING Y | 1 | 76.0% | +17.6% |
| YUEN, JESSICA JIPING | 1 | 60.2% | +21.6% |
| WEAVER, SUE A | 1 | 62.0% | +28.0% |
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1 | 28.3% | +27.3% |
| PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE | 1 | 23.3% | +15.4% |
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 |
| 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 | §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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