Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Law Office of Michael J. Pennington manages a portfolio in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering with 268 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 86.45 percent for applications that reach a final resolution. Achieving these results involves an average of 3.39 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm has 5 pending office actions to address.
The 268 career applications and 86.45 percent allowance rate reflect the firm's practice in its primary technology area. The 3.39 average office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for expected examiner interaction during the patent acquisition process. These figures offer a data-grounded view of the firm's historical performance and current workload for practitioners evaluating the firm's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering experience.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE | 1 | 72.3% | -4.5% |
| MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 46.5% | +54.6% |
| HAGOS, EYOB | 1 | 66.3% | +43.1% |
| TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V | 1 | 55.4% | +46.2% |
| DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 1 | 48.9% | +42.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17051355 | SOLAR APPLIANCE | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 12d |
| 17163358 | CONTROLLED RELEASE DOSAGE FORMS OF 5-AMINOSALICYLIC ACID AND PROCESS THEREOF | TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V | 26d |
| 18318653 | METHOD AND SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SENSORS IN ENVIRONMENT | HAGOS, EYOB | 33d |
| 18562611 | MODULAR AND PORTABLE PLUG-AND-TRAIN ROBOT FOR PROVIDING HAND REHABILITATION | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17051355 | SOLAR APPLIANCE | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 12d |
| 17163358 | CONTROLLED RELEASE DOSAGE FORMS OF 5-AMINOSALICYLIC ACID AND PROCESS THEREOF | TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V | 26d |
| 18318653 | METHOD AND SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SENSORS IN ENVIRONMENT | HAGOS, EYOB | 33d |
| 18562611 | MODULAR AND PORTABLE PLUG-AND-TRAIN ROBOT FOR PROVIDING HAND REHABILITATION | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Conzumex Industries Private Limited | 1 |
| Christian Medical College | 1 |
| Digitectura Technologies Pvt. Ltd | 1 |
| Atoz Pharmaceuticals | 1 |
| INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18778967 | WEARABLE RING DEVICE FOR MANAGING WIRELESS CHARGING AND NFC COMMUNICATION | Conzumex Industries Private Limited | TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2024 | |
| 18562611 | MODULAR AND PORTABLE PLUG-AND-TRAIN ROBOT FOR PROVIDING HAND REHABILITATION | Christian Medical College | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 3785 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18318653 | METHOD AND SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SENSORS IN ENVIRONMENT | Digitectura Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | HAGOS, EYOB | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
| 17163358 | CONTROLLED RELEASE DOSAGE FORMS OF 5-AMINOSALICYLIC ACID AND PROCESS THEREOF | Atoz Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd. | TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V | 1615 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jan 30, 2021 |
| 17051355 | SOLAR APPLIANCE | Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 3762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 28, 2020 |
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