Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 14 clients • 14 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
LOWE GRAHAM JONES, PLLC has a career history of 3699 applications, primarily in the Medical Devices and Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm currently manages 15 pending office actions. This career volume of 3699 applications demonstrates experience in mechanical and medical device prosecution.
The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 83.14 percent. It averages 2.49 office actions per allowance to secure a patent grant. This 2.49 average office actions per allowance indicates the typical level of examiner interaction for the firm's 3699 career applications. The 83.14 percent allowance rate serves as a benchmark for its performance in the Medical Devices and Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (21%) |
| §103 only | 3 (21%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (43%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARC, MCDIEUNEL | 1 | 90.9% | +7.6% |
| MAY, ROBERT J | 1 | 75.4% | +15.5% |
| AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 1 | 65.2% | +13.7% |
| YOON, CHANEL J | 1 | 55.0% | +40.1% |
| HANSEN, KENNETH J | 1 | 81.2% | +7.4% |
| N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 1 | 78.2% | +15.1% |
| BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | 1 | 63.0% | +18.4% |
| MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 33.3% | +52.4% |
| COMBER, KEVIN J | 1 | 82.6% | +11.8% |
| KARLS, SHAY LYNN | 1 | 68.9% | +26.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18647793 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE INSOLE | COMBER, KEVIN J | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18986373 | GYROSCOPIC AIR HANDLER METHOD AND APPARATUS | HANSEN, KENNETH J | 134d overdue |
| 19272856 | ARTICLES OF FOOTWEAR HAVING THERAPEUTIC ASSEMBLIES | MAY, ROBERT J | 19d overdue |
| 18540121 | MOLDING APPARATUS AND METHOD | NGUYEN, THUKHANH T | 17d overdue |
| 19195634 | TONOMETER DISINFECTION SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | YOON, CHANEL J | 2d overdue |
| 19242893 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING VEHICLE RIDERS | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | — |
| 18904596 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND TECHNIQUES FOR VARYING EYE GAZE DWELL ACTIVATION TIMING | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | — |
| 18278056 | APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A TEMPORAL BREAST CANCER RISK | GRAFF, SHARON LEVINE | — |
| 18026120 | INDUCTIVE WELDING OF WORKPIECES | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18575844 | DIVIDABLE DENTAL CARE PRODUCT, HEAD PART AND KIT OF PARTS | KARLS, SHAY LYNN | 37d overdue |
| 19272856 | ARTICLES OF FOOTWEAR HAVING THERAPEUTIC ASSEMBLIES | MAY, ROBERT J | 19d overdue |
| 19195634 | TONOMETER DISINFECTION SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | YOON, CHANEL J | 2d overdue |
| 18647793 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE INSOLE | COMBER, KEVIN J | 42d |
| 19242893 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING VEHICLE RIDERS | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | — |
| 18985194 | SONAR SYSTEM AND METHOD | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | — |
| 18904596 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND TECHNIQUES FOR VARYING EYE GAZE DWELL ACTIVATION TIMING | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | — |
| 18755471 | WEARABLE SPEECH THERAPY DEVICE | MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19310282 | Semantic Robotic Device System | Lucomm Technologies, Inc. | MARC, MCDIEUNEL | 3656 | Other | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 19272856 | ARTICLES OF FOOTWEAR HAVING THERAPEUTIC ASSEMBLIES | Therabody, Inc. | MAY, ROBERT J | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19242893 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING VEHICLE RIDERS | Western Power Sports, LLC | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 | |
| 19195634 | TONOMETER DISINFECTION SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | Eye-Novation LLC | YOON, CHANEL J | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 18986373 | GYROSCOPIC AIR HANDLER METHOD AND APPARATUS | Airborne Motorworks Inc. | HANSEN, KENNETH J | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 134d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18985194 | SONAR SYSTEM AND METHOD | Electronic Navigation Limited | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 3645 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18904596 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND TECHNIQUES FOR VARYING EYE GAZE DWELL ACTIVATION TIMING | Tolt Technologies LLC | BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 | |
| 18755471 | WEARABLE SPEECH THERAPY DEVICE | Quadralynx, Inc. | MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER | 2654 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18647793 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE INSOLE | Superfeet Worldwide, LLC | COMBER, KEVIN J | 2838 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18575844 | DIVIDABLE DENTAL CARE PRODUCT, HEAD PART AND KIT OF PARTS | Tepe Munhygienprodukter AB | KARLS, SHAY LYNN | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Dec 30, 2023 |
| 18540121 | MOLDING APPARATUS AND METHOD | Global Polymer Industries, Inc. | NGUYEN, THUKHANH T | 1743 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18278056 | APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A TEMPORAL BREAST CANCER RISK | Screenpoint Medical B.V. | GRAFF, SHARON LEVINE | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 | |
| 18026120 | INDUCTIVE WELDING OF WORKPIECES | Corebon AB | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
| 18021891 | COMPUTING DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING THE PROBABILITY OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION | Art-Emis Hamburg GmbH | NGUYEN, PETER | 3795 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
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