Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
22 pending office actions • 17 clients • 21 examiners • 16 art units • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days
Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl manages a portfolio in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering with 2361 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 77.74 percent for applications that reach a final resolution. Achieving these results involves an average of 3.16 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm has 21 pending office actions to address.
The 2361 career applications and 77.74 percent allowance rate reflect the firm's practice in its primary technology area. The 3.16 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. 7 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. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 8 (36%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 13 (59%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, JENNY R | 2 | 63.5% | +16.0% |
| VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A | 1 | 79.5% | +20.1% |
| EKIERT, TERESA M | 1 | 79.3% | +3.1% |
| MONDESTIN, PIERRE FAUBE | 1 | — | — |
| ESTRADA, ANGEL R | 1 | 85.5% | -43.3% |
| MCGRATH, ERIN E | 1 | 60.1% | +28.6% |
| NGUYEN, THONG Q | 1 | 67.8% | +12.0% |
| MALLON, BRETT PETERSON | 1 | 64.8% | +26.0% |
| LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | 1 | 57.2% | +56.7% |
| REYNOLDS, FRED H | 1 | 33.0% | +39.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18141052 | LOW NI-CONTAINING STEEL ALLOYS WITH HYDROGEN DEGRADATION RESISTANCE | YANG, JIE | 50d |
| 18548064 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MARGINAL ABLATION IN TISSUE CAVITY | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 56d |
| 19337355 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ABLATING ANATOMICAL TARGETS FROM WITHIN A BLOOD VESSEL WITH IN-PROCEDURE FEEDBACK | VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A | — |
| 18995567 | BENDING MACHINE | EKIERT, TERESA M | — |
| 18995555 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURE OF A REINFORCED PIPE | MONDESTIN, PIERRE FAUBE | — |
| 18860741 | A CRYOGENIC COOLING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ESTRADA, ANGEL R | — |
| 18850158 | AN ENDOVASCULAR OCCLUSION DEVICE | MCGRATH, ERIN E | — |
| 18705967 | COVER SLIP STICKING DEVICE | NGUYEN, THONG Q | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18196573 | NANO-PRECIPITATION STRENGTHENED COLD-ROLLED BATCH ANNEALED HIGH STRENGTH LOW ALLOY STEEL SHEET | WU, JENNY R | 56d |
| 19337355 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ABLATING ANATOMICAL TARGETS FROM WITHIN A BLOOD VESSEL WITH IN-PROCEDURE FEEDBACK | VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A | — |
| 18850158 | AN ENDOVASCULAR OCCLUSION DEVICE | MCGRATH, ERIN E | — |
| 18705967 | COVER SLIP STICKING DEVICE | NGUYEN, THONG Q | — |
| 18699614 | A FABRICATED AUTOMATED UNMANNED AND GLOVELESS CLEANROOM PROCESSING ENCLOSURE | MALLON, BRETT PETERSON | — |
| 18686848 | SEALING APPARATUS | LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | — |
| 18294303 | METHODS OF TREATING MALIGNANT GLIOMAS | REYNOLDS, FRED H | — |
| 17993700 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING HIGH STRENGTH STEEL | WU, JENNY R | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Sakura Finetek Japan Co., Ltd. | 3 |
| Odfjell Oceanwind AS | 2 |
| U.S. Steel | 2 |
| PHARMAVITE LLC | 2 |
| Steer Medical, Inc. | 1 |
| Supernode Limited | 1 |
| UCD | 1 |
| Pharma Integration S.r.l. | 1 |
| Targepeutics, Inc. | 1 |
| Srl Holding Company Pty Ltd. | 1 |
| Sidero Bioscience, LLC | 1 |
| SenoGuard, Inc. | 1 |
| Big River Steel LLC | 1 |
| Bexco Enterprises, Inc. | 1 |
| Sensocure AS | 1 |
| PPG | 1 |
| Decolin | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 2 |
| 1733 | 2 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1635 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19337355 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ABLATING ANATOMICAL TARGETS FROM WITHIN A BLOOD VESSEL WITH IN-PROCEDURE FEEDBACK | Steer Medical, Inc. | VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2025 |
| 18995567 | BENDING MACHINE | Odfjell Oceanwind AS | EKIERT, TERESA M | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18995555 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURE OF A REINFORCED PIPE | Odfjell Oceanwind AS | MONDESTIN, PIERRE FAUBE | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 | |
| 18860741 | A CRYOGENIC COOLING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Supernode Limited | ESTRADA, ANGEL R | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18850158 | AN ENDOVASCULAR OCCLUSION DEVICE | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | MCGRATH, ERIN E | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18705967 | COVER SLIP STICKING DEVICE | Sakura Finetek Japan Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, THONG Q | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18699614 | A FABRICATED AUTOMATED UNMANNED AND GLOVELESS CLEANROOM PROCESSING ENCLOSURE | Pharma Integration S.r.l. | MALLON, BRETT PETERSON | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 | |
| 18686848 | SEALING APPARATUS | Sakura Finetek Japan Co., Ltd. | LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | 1653 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18294303 | METHODS OF TREATING MALIGNANT GLIOMAS | Targepeutics, Inc. | REYNOLDS, FRED H | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 | |
| 18426137 | ALUMINUM-MAGNESIUM-LITHIUM-SCANDIUM ALLOYS FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | Srl Holding Company Pty Ltd. | KESSLER, CHRISTOPHER S | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18291849 | SEALING APPARATUS | Sakura Finetek Japan Co., Ltd. | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 | |
| 18561439 | RECOMBINANT HOSTS COMPRISING FERRITIN OR HOMOLOGUES THEREOF | Sidero Bioscience, LLC | GIBBS, TERRA C | 1635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18548064 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MARGINAL ABLATION IN TISSUE CAVITY | Senoguard, Inc. | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18196573 | NANO-PRECIPITATION STRENGTHENED COLD-ROLLED BATCH ANNEALED HIGH STRENGTH LOW ALLOY STEEL SHEET | Big River Steel LLC | WU, JENNY R | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 18141052 | LOW NI-CONTAINING STEEL ALLOYS WITH HYDROGEN DEGRADATION RESISTANCE | United States Steel Corporation | YANG, JIE | 1734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18076982 | MULTI-STAGE CONVERTIBLE CRIB | Bexco Enterprises, Inc. | ORTIZ, ADAM C | 3673 | §103 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17993700 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING HIGH STRENGTH STEEL | United States Steel Corporation | WU, JENNY R | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
| 17971542 | TRIBUTYRIN SUPPLEMENTATION PROVIDES BENEFITS FOR MENTAL WELLNESS, IMMUNE HEALTH AND FAT METABOLISM | Pharmavite LLC | NOTTINGHAM, KYLE GREGORY | 1621 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2022 |
| 17795667 | MEMBRANE SEALING FOR A PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSOR | Sensocure AS | TURK, NEIL N | 1798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2022 |
| 17600697 | PNEUMATIC SPRAY GUN CARTRIDGE | Ppg Architectural Finishes, Inc. | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 01, 2021 |
| 17012009 | OIL-IN-WATER EMULSION GUMMY COMPOSITION | Pharmavite LLC | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 190d overdue | Pending | Sep 03, 2020 |
| 16516762 | Split Grommets For Curtains | Decolin Inc. | MASSAD, ABE L | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2019 |
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