Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 1 client • 7 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kim & Stewart LLP- Terumo specializes in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, with 4532 career applications. The resolved allowance rate pct is 79.58. There are 5 pending office actions currently being handled. The 79.58 resolved allowance rate pct provides a measure of success across the firm's career applications. The 5 pending office actions are fewer than the 4532 career applications.
The firm averages 1.95 office actions per allowance. This indicates a prosecution process that typically requires a limited number of office actions to reach a grant. The 1.95 avg office actions per allowance is a characteristic of the firm's performance. These metrics highlight the firm's ability to secure patents in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. 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. 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 (14%) |
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 1 | 81.4% | +23.1% |
| JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE | 1 | 71.8% | +13.9% |
| FARAG, AMAL ALY | 1 | 68.7% | +36.8% |
| ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 1 | 60.5% | +20.7% |
| RUSH, ERIC | 1 | 60.8% | +36.1% |
| CWERN, JONATHAN | 1 | 50.9% | +33.3% |
| PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 1 | 56.5% | +48.6% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18620980 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM | RUSH, ERIC | 35d |
| 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 7 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 |
| 19094717 | IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | — |
| 18898595 | IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE | — |
| 18898605 | MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | FARAG, AMAL ALY | — |
| 18792250 | METHOD, MEDICAL SYSTEM, AND MEDIUM | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | — |
| 15791346 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Terumo | 7 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 2 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19094717 | IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 18898595 | IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE | §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 | §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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