Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 12 clients • 13 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 526 patents granted in the last 365 days
Law Offices of Sandy Lipkin has 13 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 1286 career applications. The profile combines an active current workload with a substantial historical application record in the same technical area.
The resolved allowance rate is 93.13%, and the average is 1.0 office action per allowance. These figures separately describe resolved allowance outcomes and examination activity associated with allowed matters. Practitioners can use the combination for docket planning and historical context, while evaluating each pending application independently based on its claims, record, and outstanding issues.
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 | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 2 (15%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 4 (31%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| URBIEL GOLDNER, GARY D | 1 | 73.4% | +60.5% |
| KELLY, CATHERINE A | 1 | 60.4% | +27.5% |
| DO, ROWLAND | 1 | 70.0% | -5.3% |
| LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 1 | 56.5% | +22.9% |
| NORMAN, MARC E | 1 | 84.0% | +10.8% |
| JOHNSON, RYAN | 1 | 83.7% | +15.8% |
| DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 1 | 24.2% | +25.6% |
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1 | 66.0% | +27.9% |
| MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH | 1 | 81.6% | +0.3% |
| ANDERSON, WILLIAM H | 1 | 84.9% | +18.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900893 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY STARTING UP OR SHUTTING DOWN VEHICLE-MOUNTED HUMIDIFIER | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
| 18827796 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TIMING APPARATUS | JOHNSON, RYAN | — |
| 18679274 | Cosmetic ceramic massage head formula and preparation technology | MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH | — |
| 18670825 | POWER CHIP EMBEDDED ENCAPSULATION MODULE | ANDERSON, WILLIAM H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843021 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PLANT REPRODUCTIVE STRUCTURES THINNING | DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 100d overdue |
| 19074375 | MAGNETIC FASTENER AND STRAP | DO, ROWLAND | — |
| 19031524 | EXTENDED HOOK STRUCTURE FOR ROOF CROSSBAR | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | — |
| 18760537 | PROCESS FOR EFFICIENTLY RECLAIMING COPPER AND EDTA LIGANDS FROM Cu-EDTA-CONTAINING WASTEWATER | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
| 17908376 | VERTICAL SOFT U-SHAPED OPENING AND CLOSING SEALED AIR-PRESSURE CHAMBER | JANG, JAEICK | — |
| 17784385 | BEVERAGE COMPOSITION | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843021 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PLANT REPRODUCTIVE STRUCTURES THINNING | DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 100d overdue |
| 19193098 | A protective fence with a pet door | KELLY, CATHERINE A | 26d |
| 19151987 | WEIGHT-ADJUSTABLE KETTLEBELL | URBIEL GOLDNER, GARY D | — |
| 19031524 | EXTENDED HOOK STRUCTURE FOR ROOF CROSSBAR | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | — |
| 18900893 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY STARTING UP OR SHUTTING DOWN VEHICLE-MOUNTED HUMIDIFIER | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
| 18827796 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TIMING APPARATUS | JOHNSON, RYAN | — |
| 18760537 | PROCESS FOR EFFICIENTLY RECLAIMING COPPER AND EDTA LIGANDS FROM Cu-EDTA-CONTAINING WASTEWATER | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
| 18670825 | POWER CHIP EMBEDDED ENCAPSULATION MODULE | ANDERSON, WILLIAM H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19151987 | WEIGHT-ADJUSTABLE KETTLEBELL | Zhejiang Jingling Industry And Trade Co., Ltd. | URBIEL GOLDNER, GARY D | 3784 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19193098 | A protective fence with a pet door | Zhongshan Chenbei Daily Necessities Co., Ltd. | KELLY, CATHERINE A | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19074375 | MAGNETIC FASTENER AND STRAP | Zhejiang Xier Technology Co., Ltd. | DO, ROWLAND | 3677 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2025 |
| 19031524 | EXTENDED HOOK STRUCTURE FOR ROOF CROSSBAR | Guangzhou Issyzone Technology Co.,Limited | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 3734 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 18900893 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY STARTING UP OR SHUTTING DOWN VEHICLE-MOUNTED HUMIDIFIER | Guangzhou Issyzone Technology Co.,Limited | NORMAN, MARC E | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18827796 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TIMING APPARATUS | Bao Jie Electronics (Shenzhen) Limited | JOHNSON, RYAN | 2836 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2024 |
| 18843021 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PLANT REPRODUCTIVE STRUCTURES THINNING | Mata Agritech, Ltd. | DIVELBISS, MATTHEW H | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18760537 | PROCESS FOR EFFICIENTLY RECLAIMING COPPER AND EDTA LIGANDS FROM Cu-EDTA-CONTAINING WASTEWATER | Nanchang Hangkong University | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18679274 | Cosmetic ceramic massage head formula and preparation technology | Guangzhou Candear Packing Products Co., Ltd. | MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH | 1731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18670825 | POWER CHIP EMBEDDED ENCAPSULATION MODULE | Raytrons Power Limited | ANDERSON, WILLIAM H | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18498409 | MODEL FOR TRAINING HIGH SIMULATION COLONOSCOPY | Preclinic Medtech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. | FRISBY, KESHA | 3715 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 17908376 | VERTICAL SOFT U-SHAPED OPENING AND CLOSING SEALED AIR-PRESSURE CHAMBER | Shanghai Baobang Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. | JANG, JAEICK | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
| 17784385 | BEVERAGE COMPOSITION | Moxcha Ltd. | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial93.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Law Offices Of Sandy Lipkin were allowed, across 1,286 applications in USPTO records.
1.00 office actions per allowed application on average.
13 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 12 clients, before 13 examiners in 13 art units.
