Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Law Office of Paul B. Johnson has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 145 career applications. The profile shows a current examination workload supported by a smaller historical application record in the same technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 81.48%, and the average is 2.27 office actions per allowance. The rate describes resolved outcomes, while the average describes examination activity associated with allowed matters. Together, they provide useful historical context for response planning without establishing a result for any particular pending application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | 1 | 78.0% | +15.5% |
| MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 1 | 52.7% | +27.6% |
| FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 1 | 51.4% | +23.2% |
| QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | 1 | 83.3% | +13.1% |
| KOSANOVIC, HELENA | 1 | 44.9% | +14.3% |
| HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 1 | 49.2% | +40.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896581 | Motors and Related Methods of Manufacture and Use | QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274921 | MULTI-SENSOR WEARABLE PATCH | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 125d overdue |
| 19048220 | SMART PATCH FOR MONITORING HEALTH METRICS | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | — |
| 19020220 | Locking Carrying Devices and Related Assemblies and Methods | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | — |
| 18951414 | Drain Cleaners and Related Systems and Methods | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | — |
| 18676898 | Candles and Related Components and Methods | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274921 | MULTI-SENSOR WEARABLE PATCH | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 125d overdue |
| 19048220 | SMART PATCH FOR MONITORING HEALTH METRICS | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | — |
| 19020220 | Locking Carrying Devices and Related Assemblies and Methods | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | — |
| 18951414 | Drain Cleaners and Related Systems and Methods | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | — |
| 18896581 | Motors and Related Methods of Manufacture and Use | QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | — |
| 18676898 | Candles and Related Components and Methods | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Biotricity Inc. | 2 |
| Hukr LLC | 1 |
| Hazar Enterprises LLC | 1 |
| Ye Olde Robotics | 1 |
| Firefly Innovations LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19048220 | SMART PATCH FOR MONITORING HEALTH METRICS | Biotricity Inc. | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | 3796 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19020220 | Locking Carrying Devices and Related Assemblies and Methods | Hukr LLC | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 3734 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18951414 | Drain Cleaners and Related Systems and Methods | Hazar Enterprises LLC | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18896581 | Motors and Related Methods of Manufacture and Use | Ye Olde Robotics Company LLC | QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18676898 | Candles and Related Components and Methods | Firefly Innovations LLC | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18274921 | MULTI-SENSOR WEARABLE PATCH | Biotricity Inc. | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 3792 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 125d overdue | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial81.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Law Office Of Paul B. Johnson were allowed, across 145 applications in USPTO records.
2.27 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.
