Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 3 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 manages a portfolio in Chemistry & Materials with 144 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 83.12 percent for applications that reach a final resolution. Achieving these results involves an average of 2.22 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm has 3 pending office actions to address.
The 144 career applications and 83.12 percent allowance rate reflect the firm's practice in its primary technology area. The 2.22 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 Chemistry & Materials experience.
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 | 77.6% | +16.0% |
| MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 1 | 52.9% | +28.0% |
| FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 1 | 52.1% | +25.8% |
| SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 1 | 65.3% | +12.5% |
| KOSANOVIC, HELENA | 1 | 45.0% | +14.6% |
| HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 1 | 49.2% | +39.6% |
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 | — |
| 18821523 | Bow Support Systems and Related Devices and Methods | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | — |
| 18676898 | Candles and Related Components and Methods | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Biotricity Inc. | 2 |
| Hukr LLC | 2 |
| Hazar Enterprises LLC | 1 |
| Firefly Innovations LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| 3711 | 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. | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 | |
| 19020220 | Locking Carrying Devices and Related Assemblies and Methods | Hukr LLC | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | §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 |
| 18821523 | Bow Support Systems and Related Devices and Methods | Hukr LLC | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18676898 | Candles and Related Components and Methods | Firefly Innovations LLC | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | §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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