Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 clients • 4 examiners • 2 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
IP Attorneys Group, LLC specializes in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm has handled 746 career applications, demonstrating a strong history of handling engineering and medical patent filings. Its resolved allowance rate pct of 95.73 indicates an exceptionally 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 5 pending office actions, representing its active workload before the patent office. The firm averages 1.43 avg office actions per allowance, reflecting a highly efficient examination process with minimal rounds of review. For practitioners, the 95.73 resolved allowance rate pct and 1.43 avg office actions per allowance serve as key metrics for evaluating the firm's prosecution strategy and speed across its 746 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. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRANGE, SHARON M | 2 | 54.2% | +46.6% |
| HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1 | 84.5% | +7.5% |
| LYNCH, MEGAN E | 1 | 38.2% | +40.0% |
| SETH, MANAV | 1 | 90.7% | +8.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18864695 | AN AUTOMATED AIR FILTRATION SYSTEM FOR CONTINOUS REMOVAL OF AEROSOLS | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18892851 | VAMP CONSTRUCTION AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING THE SAME | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 36d overdue |
| 19210270 | Interchangeable Foreparts for Shoes | PRANGE, SHARON M | 26d overdue |
| 18644264 | Reversible Multi-Purpose Liner | PRANGE, SHARON M | — |
| 17416380 | HYPERSPECTRAL DETECTION DEVICE | SETH, MANAV | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18892851 | VAMP CONSTRUCTION AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING THE SAME | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 36d overdue |
| 19210270 | Interchangeable Foreparts for Shoes | PRANGE, SHARON M | 26d overdue |
| 18644264 | Reversible Multi-Purpose Liner | PRANGE, SHARON M | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Columbia Insurance | 3 |
| Enbioadvice Pty Ltd. | 1 |
| Lysia | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 3 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19210270 | Interchangeable Foreparts for Shoes | Columbia Insurance Company | PRANGE, SHARON M | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 18864695 | AN AUTOMATED AIR FILTRATION SYSTEM FOR CONTINOUS REMOVAL OF AEROSOLS | Enbioadvice Pty Ltd. | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 | |
| 18892851 | VAMP CONSTRUCTION AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING THE SAME | Columbia Insurance Company | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18644264 | Reversible Multi-Purpose Liner | Columbia Insurance Company | PRANGE, SHARON M | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 17416380 | HYPERSPECTRAL DETECTION DEVICE | Lysia | SETH, MANAV | 2672 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2021 |
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