Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 1 client • 11 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kim & Stewart LLP- Terumo handles Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering matters and reports 10 pending office actions across 4550 career applications. The application total places the current docket within a broad prosecution record.
The resolved allowance rate is 79.51%, while the average is 1.96 office actions per allowance. These figures provide practitioners with separate measures for resolved outcomes and office-action activity through allowance.
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 | 2 (18%) |
| §103 only | 5 (45%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 1 | 65.1% | +33.2% |
| JACOB, OOMMEN | 1 | 79.2% | +17.3% |
| REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 1 | 30.1% | +33.4% |
| CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 1 | 81.4% | +23.1% |
| CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 1 | 71.6% | +48.2% |
| JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE | 1 | 73.2% | +16.0% |
| FARAG, AMAL ALY | 1 | 68.0% | +38.4% |
| ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 1 | 60.5% | +20.7% |
| RUSH, ERIC | 1 | 60.8% | +36.2% |
| CWERN, JONATHAN | 1 | 51.0% | +33.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19094717 | IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18620980 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM | RUSH, ERIC | 35d |
| 19462931 | CATHETER INTERFACE DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | DAVIS, AMELIE R | — |
| 19340806 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE OF A LUMINAL ORGAN | JACOB, OOMMEN | — |
| 19224922 | MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | — |
| 18898605 | MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FARAG, AMAL ALY | — |
| 18792250 | METHOD, MEDICAL SYSTEM, AND MEDIUM | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18620980 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM | RUSH, ERIC | 35d |
| 18471251 | MEDICAL SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROCESSING MEDICAL IMAGE, AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS | CWERN, JONATHAN | 56d |
| 19462931 | CATHETER INTERFACE DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | DAVIS, AMELIE R | — |
| 19340806 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE OF A LUMINAL ORGAN | JACOB, OOMMEN | — |
| 19224922 | MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | — |
| 19094717 | IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
| 19092963 | IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | — |
| 18898595 | IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Terumo | 11 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 3 |
| 3797 | 3 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19462931 | CATHETER INTERFACE DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2026 |
| 19340806 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE OF A LUMINAL ORGAN | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | JACOB, OOMMEN | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19224922 | MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 3686 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19094717 | IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19092963 | IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18898595 | IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE | 2666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18898605 | MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | FARAG, AMAL ALY | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18792250 | METHOD, MEDICAL SYSTEM, AND MEDIUM | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18620980 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | RUSH, ERIC | 2677 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18471251 | MEDICAL SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROCESSING MEDICAL IMAGE, AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | CWERN, JONATHAN | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 15791346 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2017 |
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Start Free Trial79.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Kim & Stewart Llp- Terumo were allowed, across 4,550 applications in USPTO records.
1.96 office actions per allowed application on average.
11 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 11 examiners in 7 art units.
