Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 9 clients • 9 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
IMPERIUM PATENT WORKS specializes in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm has handled 976 career applications, demonstrating a strong history of handling complex engineering and medical patent filings. Its resolved allowance rate pct of 92.47 indicates a high frequency of successful outcomes for its clients. This performance metric highlights the firm's ability to effectively communicate complex engineering concepts to patent examiners.
Currently, the firm is managing 7 pending office actions, representing its active workload before the patent office. The firm averages 3.07 avg office actions per allowance, reflecting the typical level of examiner interaction required to reach a grant. For practitioners, the 92.47 resolved allowance rate pct and 3.07 avg office actions per allowance serve as key metrics for evaluating the firm's prosecution strategy and efficiency across its 976 career applications. These data points help set realistic expectations for the prosecution cycle in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (67%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 1 | 74.4% | +14.9% |
| CRAWFORD, GENE O | 1 | 45.9% | +5.7% |
| MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1 | 56.5% | +45.7% |
| LAU, JASON | 1 | 53.7% | +15.6% |
| TON, TRI T | 1 | 86.1% | +10.5% |
| FISK, KATHLEEN M | 1 | 63.2% | +44.7% |
| MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 1 | 65.4% | +30.1% |
| MOSS, JAMES R | 1 | 51.1% | +41.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520279 | DUAL SCAN BEAM SEPARATION WITH INDEPENDENT ANGLE OF INCIDENCE DEFECT SCANNER AND OPTICAL INSPECTOR | TON, TRI T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18506985 | EXERCISE BACKREST ALLOWING FOR INCREASED RANGE OF MOTION | FISK, KATHLEEN M | 44d overdue |
| 18153981 | Wearable Heartbeat and Breathing Waveform Continuous Monitoring System | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 5d overdue |
| 18970852 | INSPECTION UNIT AND/OR SORTER UNIT COMMAND CENTER (HUB) | CRAWFORD, GENE O | — |
| 18422379 | DRYER MACHINE AIR RECYCLING MODULE | LAU, JASON | — |
| 18375525 | Laser-Assisted Soldering Apparatus | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | — |
| 17820184 | METHOD APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF WEARABLE SYNCHRONIZED MULTIPLE VITAL HEALTH SENSORS AND DATA PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS | MOSS, JAMES R | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18506985 | EXERCISE BACKREST ALLOWING FOR INCREASED RANGE OF MOTION | FISK, KATHLEEN M | 44d overdue |
| 18986722 | Compressor Device and a Cooling Device Having the Compressor Device | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 11d overdue |
| 18153981 | Wearable Heartbeat and Breathing Waveform Continuous Monitoring System | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 5d overdue |
| 18922732 | DEVICE AND METHODS FOR ARTICULATING SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS WITH BALANCED HORIZONTAL SCISSOR CANTILEVER BEAMS | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 12d |
| 18422379 | DRYER MACHINE AIR RECYCLING MODULE | LAU, JASON | — |
| 18520279 | DUAL SCAN BEAM SEPARATION WITH INDEPENDENT ANGLE OF INCIDENCE DEFECT SCANNER AND OPTICAL INSPECTOR | TON, TRI T | — |
| 17820184 | METHOD APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF WEARABLE SYNCHRONIZED MULTIPLE VITAL HEALTH SENSORS AND DATA PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS | MOSS, JAMES R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3784 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18986722 | Compressor Device and a Cooling Device Having the Compressor Device | Pressure Wave Systems GmbH | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18970852 | INSPECTION UNIT AND/OR SORTER UNIT COMMAND CENTER (HUB) | Qcify Inc. | CRAWFORD, GENE O | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 | |
| 18922732 | DEVICE AND METHODS FOR ARTICULATING SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS WITH BALANCED HORIZONTAL SCISSOR CANTILEVER BEAMS | Southern Beams Builds, Inc. | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1726 | Other | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18422379 | DRYER MACHINE AIR RECYCLING MODULE | William J. Bohac, Trustee Of The William J. Bohac 2026 Separate Property Revocable Trust | LAU, JASON | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 | |
| 18520279 | DUAL SCAN BEAM SEPARATION WITH INDEPENDENT ANGLE OF INCIDENCE DEFECT SCANNER AND OPTICAL INSPECTOR | Lumina Instruments Inc. | TON, TRI T | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18506985 | EXERCISE BACKREST ALLOWING FOR INCREASED RANGE OF MOTION | Jon Holsbach Fitness - Mechanical By Nature LLC | FISK, KATHLEEN M | 3784 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18375525 | Laser-Assisted Soldering Apparatus | Pac Tech - Packaging Technologies GmbH | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2023 |
| 18153981 | Wearable Heartbeat and Breathing Waveform Continuous Monitoring System | Bayland Scientific LLC | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 17820184 | METHOD APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF WEARABLE SYNCHRONIZED MULTIPLE VITAL HEALTH SENSORS AND DATA PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS | Bayland Scientific Inc. | MOSS, JAMES R | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2022 |
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