Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 8 clients • 8 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
LAMORTE & ASSOCIATES P.C. specializes in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with a history of 1227 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 87.08 percent, demonstrating the percentage of its applications that successfully result in a patent grant. This total of 1227 career applications indicates the firm's experience in handling mechanical and medical device disclosures.
The firm's prosecution process involves an average of 2.29 office actions per allowance. This metric represents the typical number of communications with patent examiners required to reach an allowance for a given application. Currently, the firm has 4 pending office actions, which represent its active workload within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering practice. These 4 pending office actions are fewer than the 1227 career applications filed by the firm.
The 87.08 percent allowance rate and the 2.29 office actions per allowance provide a data-grounded basis for evaluating the firm's prosecution performance. The 4 pending office actions show the firm's immediate focus, while the 1227 career applications document its involvement in the field over time. These figures offer a view of the firm's activity and results.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | 1 | 26.5% | +39.6% |
| CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED | 1 | 56.3% | +30.9% |
| BAYS, PAMELA M | 1 | 71.7% | +37.5% |
| YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 63.4% | +73.3% |
| WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 1 | 70.2% | +18.8% |
| WILSON, JERICA KATLYNN | 1 | 61.4% | +39.1% |
| STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 1 | 39.2% | +35.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18356216 | Toy Block Construction Set Made from Elastomeric Material | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 19d |
| 19538955 | Book with Audio Output and Recording Function | POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | — |
| 19054700 | Audio Matching Memory Game | YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18913773 | Buffering Device for the Slide Rail of a Drawer | WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 22d overdue |
| 19067788 | Material Characteristics Ideal for Providing Either Partial or Total Mechanical Support to the Failing or Arrested Heart and Method for Developing Ideal Characteristics for Underlying Cardiac Disorders | BAYS, PAMELA M | 19d |
| 18356216 | Toy Block Construction Set Made from Elastomeric Material | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 19d |
| 19538955 | Book with Audio Output and Recording Function | POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | — |
| 19183572 | Carry Bag with Sliding Cut-Out Panel | CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED | — |
| 18934093 | Mesh Fence | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18815698 | Formulation for a Low Viscosity Agricultural Adjuvant Applied in a Spray Syrup | WILSON, JERICA KATLYNN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Jast Gifts Shenzhen Company Limited | 1 |
| Funko, LLC | 1 |
| Lifebridge | 1 |
| Green Straw LLC | 1 |
| UMC Innovation Limited | 1 |
| JIEYANG CITY LALALE INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 1 |
| Forquimica Agrociencia Ltda | 1 |
| Goliath | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 2 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19538955 | Book with Audio Output and Recording Function | Jast Gifts Shenzhen Company Limited | POLLOCK, ZACHARY JOSEPH | 3715 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2026 |
| 19183572 | Carry Bag with Sliding Cut-Out Panel | Funko, LLC | CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 | |
| 19067788 | Material Characteristics Ideal for Providing Either Partial or Total Mechanical Support to the Failing or Arrested Heart and Method for Developing Ideal Characteristics for Underlying Cardiac Disorders | Lifebridge Technologies LLC | BAYS, PAMELA M | 3796 | §112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19054700 | Audio Matching Memory Game | Green Straw LLC | YOUNGER, KALYN GABRIELLE | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 18934093 | Mesh Fence | UMC Innovation Limited | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 | |
| 18913773 | Buffering Device for the Slide Rail of a Drawer | Jieyang City Lalale Industry Co., Ltd. | WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY S | 3637 | §102 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18815698 | Formulation for a Low Viscosity Agricultural Adjuvant Applied in a Spray Syrup | Forquimica Agrociencia Ltda | WILSON, JERICA KATLYNN | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 | |
| 18356216 | Toy Block Construction Set Made from Elastomeric Material | Goliath Ip Stichting | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 3711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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