Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1,674 pending office actions • 650 clients • 1291 examiners • 407 art units • 1 of 1,674 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP has 95159 career applications in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 1664 pending office actions. The figures reflect a very large application record and an extensive active docket in the identified technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 85.38%. The average of 3.25 office actions per allowance indicates that matters reaching allowance generally involved multiple prosecution exchanges. For practitioners, the profile offers both broad portfolio scale and a concrete indication of examination activity associated with successful outcomes.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 491 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. 491 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 only | 42 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 141 (8%) |
| §103 only | 545 (33%) |
| §102 only | 73 (4%) |
| §112 only | 89 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 47 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 98 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 622 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 17 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 7 | 65.4% | +29.7% |
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 6 | 13.0% | +14.5% |
| LIU, CHU CHUAN | 6 | 71.3% | +14.9% |
| PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 6 | 59.8% | +49.7% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 6 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 5 | 72.4% | +11.4% |
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 5 | 70.7% | +35.4% |
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 5 | 8.9% | +12.3% |
| ARBLE, JESSICA R | 5 | 66.6% | +25.0% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 5 | 29.2% | +33.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17106753 | Color-changing tire accordant with external conditions | JOHNSTONE, ADRIENNE C | 356d overdue |
| 18761156 | ESTIMATE ACCURACY SCORING MODEL | GAW, MARK H | 209d overdue |
| 18006660 | MEDICAL DOSING DEVICE | SHAH, NILAY J | 169d overdue |
| 18759056 | SCREEN TILT ASSEMBLY | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 155d overdue |
| 18038924 | AN IMPROVED CONSTRAINED LAYER DAMPENING MATERIALS AND SYSTEM FOR USE WITH OILY SUBSTRATES | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 155d overdue |
| 18747313 | COMMENT DISPLAY METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | KHAN, HASSAN ABDUR-RAHMAN | 147d overdue |
| 17915954 | AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITION | TOWNSLEY, SARA ELIZABETH | 147d overdue |
| 18548857 | VISION-BASED COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT TESTING DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD | HENSON, DEVIN B | 142d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547984 | STRETCHABLE CHEESE ALTERNATIVE PRODUCING METHOD | LI, CHANGQING | 89d overdue |
| 18751030 | SUPPORT STRUCTURES FOR INTRAVASCULAR BLOOD PUMPS | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 84d overdue |
| 17766986 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 44d overdue |
| 18678443 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 36d overdue |
| 16784850 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING SKIN | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 28d overdue |
| 18628174 | SHAVING BLADE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 9d |
| 18385291 | WOUND DRESSING AND METHOD OF TREATMENT | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 19d |
| 18245627 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSED CHICKPEA MILK | LI, CHANGQING | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 65 |
| 3783 | 53 |
| 3781 | 52 |
| 3785 | 40 |
| 3796 | 28 |
| 1793 | 27 |
| 3774 | 23 |
| 3771 | 22 |
| 1791 | 22 |
| 3797 | 21 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19194794 | Untitled | Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation | TZENG, FRED | 2625 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19570707 | INTEGRATED SPROUTER DEVICE | Wova Labs, Inc. | HAYES, KRISTEN C | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2026 |
| 19543152 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING CYBERSECURITY | Relevant Compliance Inc. | NGUY, CHI D | 2435 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2026 |
| 19462762 | TISSUE REPAIR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | Integrity Medical Services Inc. | RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2026 |
| 19455536 | PHYSICIAN CONTROLLED TISSUE RESECTION INTEGRATED WITH TREATMENT MAPPING OF TARGET ORGAN IMAGES | Procept Biorobotics Corporation | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2026 |
| 19450244 | METHOD FOR BONDING | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | SAAD, ERIN BARRY | 1735 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2026 |
| 19434941 | CAPSULE CONTAINER FOR STORING OR TRANSPORTING INJECTOR PENS | Ember Lifesciences, Inc. | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2025 |
| 19434967 | TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE PRODUCTS CAPSULE CONTAINER | Ember Lifesciences, Inc. | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2025 |
| 19417881 | JOINT STABILIZATION SYSTEM | SurGenTec, LLC | BLANCO, JAVIER G | 3774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2025 |
| 19416994 | CATHETER FOR DEPLOYING AN EXPANDER IN A URETHRA | Proverum Limited | SHARMA, YASHITA | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2025 |
| 19489372 | HANDLING OF SECURITY EVENT OF A PERSONAL DEVICE IN COLLABORATION WITH A VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSET | Orange | SHEN, YUZHEN | 2623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2025 |
| 19402305 | AUTOMATED CELL PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Genesis Technologies Limited | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1798 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2025 |
| 19402604 | WEARABLE DEVICES FOR VIBRATORY STIMULATION TO REDUCE TREMOR | Cala Health, Inc. | CHANG, THOMAS ZHU | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2025 |
| 19390203 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED PROPERTY IMAGE MATCHING ANALYSIS | Corelogic Solutions, LLC | ALLEN, BRITTANY N | 2169 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2025 |
| 19384755 | MOBILE LOYALTY AND PAYMENT SYSTEM USING TEMPORARY SHORT CODES | Tillster, Inc. | REAGAN, JAMES A | 3697 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19483072 | SYSTEM | Riken | KIM, ANDREW SANG | 3668 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19482031 | REUSABLE CLICHÉ TAPE FOR REMOVABLY ATTACHING A FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING CLICHÉ | Orafol Europe GmbH | FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA | 2853 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19380847 | MEDICATION TRACKING | BLUESIGHT, INC. | KIM, AHSHIK | 2876 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19375809 | SURGICAL GUIDE | Trice Medical, Inc. | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19373596 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVAL OF BIOLOGICAL OBJECTS FROM ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES WITHIN A BODY | Ventaris Surgical, Inc. | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2025 |
| 19355394 | HAND-HELD SURFACE CLEANING DEVICE | Sharkninja Operating LLC | MULLER, BRYAN R | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19354793 | CONTAINER FILLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Goodfarms, LLC | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19349565 | SUTURE PASSER DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | Integrity Medical Services Inc. | DANG, PHONG SON H | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19348613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSIBLY POSITIONED SANITIZING MATERIALS | Simplehuman, LLC | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 3754 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2025 |
| 19343971 | ULTRASOUND ARRAYS FOR ENHANCED SONODYNAMIC THERAPY FOR TREATING CANCER | Alpheus Medical, Inc. | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19344192 | ULTRASOUND MEDIATED DELIVERY OF DRUGS | Exact Therapeutics AS | VU, JAKE MINH | 1618 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19340217 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING AND PLACING SEMANTICALLY AND CONTEXTUALLY AWARE SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT | Prorataai, Inc. | CIRNU, ALEXANDRU | 3622 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19340551 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR GENERATING VIDEO CONTENT USING DIGITAL CONTENT BASED ON GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL AND METHOD THEREOF | Kakao Entertainment Corp. | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19168787 | VEHICLE LAMP ILLUMINATION MODULE AND VEHICLE LAMP | Hasco Vision Technology Co., Ltd. | CHIANG, MICHAEL | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2025 |
| 19336208 | WOUND DRESSING AND METHOD OF USE | Smith & Nephew PLC | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 19325290 | NATURAL LANGUAGE MODEL BASED REAL ESTATE TREND PREDICTIONS | Corelogic Solutions, LLC | MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | 3629 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19163884 | STORAGE BATTERY SYSTEM | Tmeic Corporation | AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19322196 | ROAD TRAFFIC SIGNAL DEVICE EXTENSIBLE IN BOTH DIRECTIONS AND ROAD TRAFFIC SIGNAL VEHICLE EMPLOYING THE SAME | Jb Solution Co., Ltd. | TUN, NAY L | 2688 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19320368 | METHODS OF SONODYNAMIC TREATMENT USING ULTRASOUND | Alpheus Medical, Inc. | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19307968 | MEDICAL DEVICE | Smith & Nephew, Inc. | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 3798 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19305015 | CONTROL DEVICE | Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation | CHERY, MARDOCHEE | 2133 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2025 |
| 19157597 | WIRELESS CHARGING CIRCUIT TOPOLOGY AND RELATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURING | Tesla, Inc. | KESSIE, DANIEL | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19300198 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE PROTECTIVE CASE | Dorco Co., Ltd. | BUI, LUAN KIM | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19300410 | AUTOMATED VEHICLE MANAGEMENT FOR OCCUPANT-COUNT RESTRICTED ROAD SEGMENTS | Tesla, Inc. | SOOD, ANSHUL | 3667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19298494 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR OCCLUDING THE PUNCTAL OPENING | Oasis Medical, Inc. | HAN, ROBIN | 3786 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19296567 | AUXILIARY GRAY WATER SOURCE DEVICE FOR COMMERCIAL KITCHENS | Seven Hour Drive, LLC | HICKS, ANGELISA | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19289585 | MODULAR CRATE COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS | Crative, LLC | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 3735 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19282719 | NEGATIVE VOLTAGE GENERATOR WITH P-TYPE FLY CAPACITOR | Skyworks Solutions, Inc. | SKIBINSKI, TOMI SWEET | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19283065 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA AUTHENTICATION SERVICES | UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT | ZHOU, YINGYING | 3697 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19273853 | HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM FOR LIMITING THE SPREAD OF AN INFECTION | Masimo Corporation | PARK, EVELYN GRACE | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19274396 | CENTRALIZED PLATFORM FOR ENHANCED AUTOMATED MACHINE LEARNING USING DISPARATE DATASETS | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | RIFKIN, BEN M | 2123 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19271131 | SEPARABLE HOUSING FOR TREMOR REDUCTION SYSTEM | Cala Health, Inc. | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 47d | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19271267 | TAILORED NERVE STIMULATION FOR TREMOR | Cala Health, Inc. | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 82d | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19271273 | TREMOR REDUCTION USING CLOUD COMPUTING | Cala Health, Inc. | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19270963 | TREMOR REDUCTION USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS | Cala Health, Inc. | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 82d | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial85.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP were allowed, across 95,159 applications in USPTO records.
3.25 office actions per allowed application on average.
1,674 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 650 clients, before 1291 examiners in 407 art units.
