Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

K&L Gates LLP - Gambro

13 pending office actions • 2 clients • 13 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (23%)
9
Medium (69%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (23%)
§103 only9 (69%)
§112 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
31% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
54% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WOOD, KIMBERLY T 1 54.5% +27.2%
MPAMUGO, CHINYERE 1 26.6% +26.9%
BAKER, CHARLOTTE M 1 92.8% +0.0%
HAN, SETH 1 60.0% +24.8%
MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN 1 65.3% +18.5%
PEO, JONATHAN M 1 48.5% +48.3%
NEWTON, CHAD A 1 36.9% +25.4%
PATEL, PRANAV N 1 68.2% +22.1%
LAGOY, KYRA RAND 1 0.0% +0.0%
RASSAVONG, ERIC 1 71.0% +35.0%

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18016231 SYSTEM, METHODS, AND APPARATUS HAVING A CIRCULAR BUFFER FOR THE REPLAY OF RENAL THERAPY MACHINE ALARMS AND EVENTS LAGOY, KYRA RAND 28d overdue
18721129 MEDICAL DEVICE INTEROPERABILITY METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM MPAMUGO, CHINYERE 26d overdue
18634066 MEASURING ACCESS FLOW RATE BY USE OF BLOOD TREATMENT MACHINE BAKER, CHARLOTTE M 24d overdue
18030116 ESTIMATING RESIDUAL RENAL FUNCTION NEWTON, CHAD A 29d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18554437 PRIMING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORWARD OSMOSIS MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN 31d overdue
18721129 MEDICAL DEVICE INTEROPERABILITY METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM MPAMUGO, CHINYERE 26d overdue
18858010 PLATFORM FOR MOUNTING DEVICES WOOD, KIMBERLY T 16d overdue
17928788 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT RASSAVONG, ERIC 9d overdue
18032400 MOBILE MEDICAL FLUID GENERATION SYSTEM PEO, JONATHAN M 20d
18105977 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TESTING INTEGRITY OF AN ULTRAFILTER MEMBRANE PATEL, PRANAV N 21d
18030116 ESTIMATING RESIDUAL RENAL FUNCTION NEWTON, CHAD A 29d
18565022 AN APPARATUS FOR EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT HAN, SETH 34d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
GAMBRO LUNDIA AB 12
BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37813
36852
36311
26641
17731
17791
36811
17771
17581
28571

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18858010 PLATFORM FOR MOUNTING DEVICES Gambro Lundia AB WOOD, KIMBERLY T 3631 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2024
18721129 MEDICAL DEVICE INTEROPERABILITY METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM Gambro Lundia AB MPAMUGO, CHINYERE 3685 §101 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2024
18634066 MEASURING ACCESS FLOW RATE BY USE OF BLOOD TREATMENT MACHINE Gambro Lundia AB BAKER, CHARLOTTE M 2664 §101 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2024
18565022 AN APPARATUS FOR EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT Gambro Lundia AB HAN, SETH 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18554437 PRIMING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORWARD OSMOSIS Gambro Lundia AB MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Oct 06, 2023
18032400 MOBILE MEDICAL FLUID GENERATION SYSTEM BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. PEO, JONATHAN M 1779 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Apr 18, 2023
18030116 ESTIMATING RESIDUAL RENAL FUNCTION Gambro Lundia AB NEWTON, CHAD A 3681 §101 Final Rejection 29d Pending Apr 04, 2023
18105977 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TESTING INTEGRITY OF AN ULTRAFILTER MEMBRANE Gambro Lundia AB PATEL, PRANAV N 1777 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Feb 06, 2023
18016231 SYSTEM, METHODS, AND APPARATUS HAVING A CIRCULAR BUFFER FOR THE REPLAY OF RENAL THERAPY MACHINE ALARMS AND EVENTS Gambro Lundia AB LAGOY, KYRA RAND 3685 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Jan 13, 2023
17928788 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT Gambro Lundia AB RASSAVONG, ERIC 3781 §112 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2022
17784723 SYSTEM FOR ULTRAFILTRATION OF BLOOD Gambro Lundia AB RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2022
17424406 ESTIMATING GENERATION RATE OF SUBSTANCE IN DIALYSIS PATIENTS Gambro Lundia AB SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE 1758 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Jul 20, 2021
16969811 FILTERING A PRESSURE SIGNAL FROM A MEDICAL APPARATUS Gambro Lundia AB FERRELL, CARTER W 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 13, 2020

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