Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 15 clients • 16 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
KF ROSS PC focuses on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, with 4126 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 80.0. There are 12 pending office actions currently being handled. The 80.0 resolved allowance rate pct across 4126 applications provides a measure of the firm's long-term success. The 12 pending office actions are fewer than the career applications.
The avg office actions per allowance is 2.59. This suggests a prosecution cycle typically requiring interaction with the USPTO. The 2.59 avg office actions per allowance is a metric for clients evaluating the firm's speed in reaching a grant. These performance statistics are grounded in the firm's history of 4126 career applications in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Practitioners can use the resolved allowance rate pct and the avg office actions per allowance to set expectations for the prosecution cycle.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 5 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (65%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 2 | 28.3% | +27.3% |
| COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 1 | 85.2% | +9.4% |
| SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1 | 67.6% | +19.6% |
| HARANDI, SIAMAK | 1 | 90.6% | +7.7% |
| NGUYEN, PHONG H | 1 | 70.7% | +20.6% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 1 | 39.5% | +54.8% |
| ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1 | 62.0% | +20.6% |
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
| TOLIN, MICHAEL A | 1 | 63.2% | +27.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19280901 | COMPOSITE MEMBRANE FOR MEMBRANE PUMP | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 40d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18214563 | MOUNT FOR VEHICULAR HEADS-UP DISPLAY | AKAKPO, DANY E | 164d overdue |
| 18284445 | METHOD OF MAKING METAL FIBERS, IN PARTICULAR OF STEEL | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 13d |
| 18728539 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING AS BRIQUETTE STRAND | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 15d |
| 19062562 | ADHESIVE TAPE FOR HEAT-GENERATING BATTERY CELL | SWIER, WAYNE K. | — |
| 18858802 | NONWOVEN TEXTILE AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING SAME | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
| 18858321 | SPUNBONDED NONWOVEN LAMINATE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
| 16495018 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITIONING AND PROCESSING A WEB | HARANDI, SIAMAK | — |
| 18728166 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING A STRAND OF BRIQUETTES | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284445 | METHOD OF MAKING METAL FIBERS, IN PARTICULAR OF STEEL | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 13d |
| 18728539 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING AS BRIQUETTE STRAND | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 15d |
| 19062562 | ADHESIVE TAPE FOR HEAT-GENERATING BATTERY CELL | SWIER, WAYNE K. | — |
| 18858802 | NONWOVEN TEXTILE AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING SAME | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
| 18858321 | SPUNBONDED NONWOVEN LAMINATE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
| 18728166 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING A STRAND OF BRIQUETTES | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
| 18713183 | SANITARY CUBICLE | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | — |
| 18414560 | SUBSTRATE BAND FOR CABLE-WRAPPING TAPE | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| 3725 | 2 |
| 3723 | 2 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19280901 | COMPOSITE MEMBRANE FOR MEMBRANE PUMP | ULMAN DICHTUNGSTECHNIK GMBH | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 3745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19062562 | ADHESIVE TAPE FOR HEAT-GENERATING BATTERY CELL | Certoplast Vorwerk & Sohn GmbH | SWIER, WAYNE K. | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 | |
| 18858802 | NONWOVEN TEXTILE AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING SAME | Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Kg Maschinenfabrik | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1789 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18858321 | SPUNBONDED NONWOVEN LAMINATE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME | Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. Kg Maschinenfabrik | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 | |
| 16495018 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITIONING AND PROCESSING A WEB | Schmale Holding GmbH & Co. | HARANDI, SIAMAK | §101§102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 | |
| 18728539 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING AS BRIQUETTE STRAND | Maschinenfabrik Köppern GmbH & Co. Kg | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18728166 | APPARATUS FOR SUBDIVIDING A STRAND OF BRIQUETTES | Maschinenfabrik Köppern GmbH & Co. Kg | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18713183 | SANITARY CUBICLE | Toi Toi & Dixi Group GmbH | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18414560 | SUBSTRATE BAND FOR CABLE-WRAPPING TAPE | Certoplast Technische Klebebaender GmbH | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18284445 | METHOD OF MAKING METAL FIBERS, IN PARTICULAR OF STEEL | Hacanoka GmbH | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18281682 | CONSTRUCTION BOARD, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING SAME AND USE OF SAME | Siempelkamp Maschinen-Und Anlagenbau GmbH | TOLIN, MICHAEL A | 1745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18214563 | MOUNT FOR VEHICULAR HEADS-UP DISPLAY | Gedia Gebrueder Dingerkus GmbH | AKAKPO, DANY E | 3672 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 164d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18026504 | METHOD OF COMMINUTING FERTILIZER SLUGS IN A TWO-ROLL MILL | Maschinenfabrik Koppern GmbH Co. Kg | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 3725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
| 18022371 | BATTERY FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE | Voltabox | LAIOS, MARIA J | 1727 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 18111248 | CLEANING ROLL | Wessel-Werk GmbH | HENSON, KATINA N | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 18100585 | ROTARY BRUSH ASSEMBLY | Monti-Werkzeuge GmbH | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 16348971 | LOAF PAN | Marc-Hamid Elsen | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2019 |
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