Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 2 clients • 12 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
K&L Gates LLP - Gambro has 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The profile also records 34332 career applications, an 84.49% resolved allowance rate, and 3.82 average office actions per allowance. These measures place the client-linked workload within a broader prosecution record.
The pending-action figure concerns current matters, while the remaining metrics describe historical activity associated with the record. The allowance rate is not an individual-case forecast, and the office-action average indicates repeated examination activity before allowance in the resolved set. Practitioners should use the data to support workload planning while evaluating chemical and materials issues on the facts of each application.
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 only | 2 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 2 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPAMER, DONALD R | 1 | 59.4% | +32.3% |
| LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 1 | 78.4% | +9.5% |
| MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 1 | 28.9% | +26.9% |
| BARSKY, JARED | 1 | 50.3% | +22.8% |
| STIGELL, THEODORE J | 1 | 78.3% | +14.8% |
| KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1 | 56.7% | +17.7% |
| FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1 | 48.1% | +16.0% |
| MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1 | 64.1% | +18.0% |
| NEWTON, CHAD A | 1 | 38.4% | +23.4% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 48.4% | +47.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721129 | MEDICAL DEVICE INTEROPERABILITY METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 26d overdue |
| 18030116 | ESTIMATING RESIDUAL RENAL FUNCTION | NEWTON, CHAD A | 29d |
| 18711827 | DIALYSIS FLUID COMPRISING KETONE BODIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | BARSKY, JARED | — |
| 18709360 | PERITONEAL DIALYSIS SYSTEM HAVING A CAPILLARY PATIENT LINE FILTER | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| 18572121 | ACIDIC AND ALKALINE CLEANING OF ION EXCHANGE SYSTEMS, SUCH AS WATER PURIFIERS, BY ION EXCHANGE RESIN | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | — |
| 17757266 | FLUID DIVERTING DEVICE FOR AN APPARATUS FOR EXTRACORPOREAL TREATMENT OF BLOOD AND BLOOD SET PROVIDED WITH SAID FLUID DIVERTING DEVICE | ARBLE, JESSICA 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721129 | MEDICAL DEVICE INTEROPERABILITY METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 26d overdue |
| 18030116 | ESTIMATING RESIDUAL RENAL FUNCTION | NEWTON, CHAD A | 29d |
| 18872148 | DEVICE FOR DISINFECTING AND CLEANING A CATHETER, AND A METHOD THEREOF | SPAMER, DONALD R | — |
| 18711827 | DIALYSIS FLUID COMPRISING KETONE BODIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | BARSKY, JARED | — |
| 18709360 | PERITONEAL DIALYSIS SYSTEM HAVING A CAPILLARY PATIENT LINE FILTER | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| 18608304 | PREPARING AN EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT APPARATUS | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
| 18572121 | ACIDIC AND ALKALINE CLEANING OF ION EXCHANGE SYSTEMS, SUCH AS WATER PURIFIERS, BY ION EXCHANGE RESIN | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | — |
| 18554418 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF DIALYSIS FLUID USING FORWARD OSMOSIS | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Baxter | 11 |
| Baxter Healthcare S.A. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 2 |
| 1773 | 2 |
| 3781 | 2 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 1628 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872148 | DEVICE FOR DISINFECTING AND CLEANING A CATHETER, AND A METHOD THEREOF | Gambro Lundia AB | SPAMER, DONALD R | 1799 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18844270 | GENERATING MEDICAL FLUID FOR RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY | Gambro Lundia AB | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3772 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18721129 | MEDICAL DEVICE INTEROPERABILITY METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM | Gambro Lundia AB | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 3685 | §101 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18711827 | DIALYSIS FLUID COMPRISING KETONE BODIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | Gambro Lundia AB | BARSKY, JARED | 1628 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18709360 | PERITONEAL DIALYSIS SYSTEM HAVING A CAPILLARY PATIENT LINE FILTER | BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18608304 | PREPARING AN EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT APPARATUS | Gambro Lundia AB | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1779 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18572121 | ACIDIC AND ALKALINE CLEANING OF ION EXCHANGE SYSTEMS, SUCH AS WATER PURIFIERS, BY ION EXCHANGE RESIN | Gambro Lundia AB | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18554418 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF DIALYSIS FLUID USING FORWARD OSMOSIS | Gambro Lundia AB | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18030116 | ESTIMATING RESIDUAL RENAL FUNCTION | Gambro Lundia AB | NEWTON, CHAD A | 3681 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 18108091 | PACKAGE FOR AN ACIDIC DIALYSIS FLUID CONCENTRATE CONTAINING CITRATE AND GLUCOSE | Gambro Lundia AB | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 17757266 | FLUID DIVERTING DEVICE FOR AN APPARATUS FOR EXTRACORPOREAL TREATMENT OF BLOOD AND BLOOD SET PROVIDED WITH SAID FLUID DIVERTING DEVICE | Gambro Lundia AB | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2022 |
| 17634855 | NON-REMOVABLE CONNECTION SYSTEM | Gambro Lundia AB | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial84.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by K&L Gates LLP - Gambro were allowed, across 34,332 applications in USPTO records.
3.82 office actions per allowed application on average.
12 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 12 examiners in 9 art units.
