Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Launchpad Intellectual Property, Inc. focuses on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 409 career applications. The firm achieves a resolved allowance rate of 81.82 percent, indicating the proportion of its cases that successfully reach a grant. This volume of 409 career applications provides a historical basis for the firm's experience in navigating the requirements of the patent office within the mechanical and medical sectors.
The firm's prosecution process averages 3.0 office actions per allowance. This figure represents the typical number of interactions with patent examiners required to reach a grant. Currently, the firm has 4 pending office actions, which represent its active workload in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. These 4 pending office actions are fewer than the 409 career applications on record.
The 81.82 percent allowance rate and the 3.0 office actions per allowance offer specific metrics for evaluating prosecution timelines. The 4 pending office actions show the firm's current focus, while the 409 career applications document its historical involvement in the field. These figures provide a data-grounded view of the firm's activity and results.
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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TRAN N | 1 | 61.9% | +16.8% |
| MCCORMACK, JASON L | 1 | 84.6% | +8.1% |
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 30.0% | +35.4% |
| LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 1 | 69.4% | +29.7% |
| JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 1 | 87.4% | +7.0% |
| ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | 1 | 76.5% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18365635 | MICROCURRENT TMJ TREATMENT DEVICE WITH AN ADAPTIVE TRIGGER | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18422862 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING YOGURT | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 10d overdue |
| 18512454 | MIGRAINE TREATMENT DEVICE WITH ADAPTIVE CIRCUIT | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 12d |
| 18966849 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUGMENTING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | NGUYEN, TRAN N | — |
| 18787448 | FAR UV-C DISINFECTION LIGHTING, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MCCORMACK, JASON L | — |
| 18073449 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING SINUS DISCOMFORT | ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18422862 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING YOGURT | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 10d overdue |
| 18512454 | MIGRAINE TREATMENT DEVICE WITH ADAPTIVE CIRCUIT | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 12d |
| 18966849 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUGMENTING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | NGUYEN, TRAN N | — |
| 18073449 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING SINUS DISCOMFORT | ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| TIVIC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC. | 3 |
| Io Health Technologies, LLC | 1 |
| Far Uv Technologies, Inc. | 1 |
| DOS CENTAVOS | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18966849 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUGMENTING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | Io Health Technologies, LLC | NGUYEN, TRAN N | 3685 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18787448 | FAR UV-C DISINFECTION LIGHTING, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Far Uv Technologies, Inc. | MCCORMACK, JASON L | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 | |
| 18422862 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING YOGURT | Dos Centavos, LLC | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18512454 | MIGRAINE TREATMENT DEVICE WITH ADAPTIVE CIRCUIT | Tivic Health Systems Inc. | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18365635 | MICROCURRENT TMJ TREATMENT DEVICE WITH AN ADAPTIVE TRIGGER | Tivic Health Systems Inc. | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18073449 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING SINUS DISCOMFORT | Tivic Health Systems Inc. | ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | 3796 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
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