Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 11 clients • 14 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days
MASUVALLEY & PARTNERS handles Chemistry & Materials matters and has 1,002 career applications. Its profile lists 16 pending office actions, showing active prosecution alongside a substantial application history.
The resolved allowance rate is 89.57%, and an allowance required an average of 3.11 office actions. The record indicates that most resolved applications reached allowance, commonly after multiple examination actions. Practitioners can use the pending count for workload review and the outcome figures for historical prosecution assessment.
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 | 3 (21%) |
| §103 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (64%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, CHRISTINE | 1 | 49.7% | +51.4% |
| LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | 1 | 67.7% | +24.2% |
| LE, HUYEN D | 1 | 73.0% | +8.3% |
| GRUBY, RANDALL A | 1 | 62.4% | +43.2% |
| JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | 1 | 78.2% | +14.2% |
| HARBOTTLE, CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| PREGLER, SHARON | 1 | 78.0% | +21.1% |
| RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 1 | 44.9% | +16.7% |
| GU, QINHUA | 1 | 76.2% | +27.1% |
| FLORES, ADRIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685016 | MEDICINE DISPENSING DEVICE | RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 56d |
| 19476523 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | DANG, CHRISTINE | — |
| 19158596 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR HEAT TREATMENT JIG | LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | — |
| 19087254 | VOICE COIL AND SPEAKER DEVICE USING THE SAME | LE, HUYEN D | — |
| 18879692 | DISCHARGE CAP | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
| 18787881 | CLEANING SHEET | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | — |
| 18719223 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | HARBOTTLE, CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH | — |
| 18573713 | A MEDIUM FOR STORING ISOLATED PANCREATIC ISLETS AND A METHOD FOR STORING ISOLATED PANCREATIC ISLETS | GU, QINHUA | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685016 | MEDICINE DISPENSING DEVICE | RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 56d |
| 19476523 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | DANG, CHRISTINE | — |
| 19158596 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR HEAT TREATMENT JIG | LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | — |
| 18879692 | DISCHARGE CAP | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
| 18787881 | CLEANING SHEET | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | — |
| 18688337 | HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL FILTER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | PREGLER, SHARON | — |
| 18573713 | A MEDIUM FOR STORING ISOLATED PANCREATIC ISLETS AND A METHOD FOR STORING ISOLATED PANCREATIC ISLETS | GU, QINHUA | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Axell | 3 |
| Polbionica Sp. Z O.O. | 2 |
| SUSHI TOP MARKETING, Inc. | 1 |
| Tokyo Yogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | 1 |
| Goto Denshi Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Tenga Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Probe Innovation, Inc. | 1 |
| SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. | 1 |
| Fuji Filter Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Yuyama | 1 |
| Life Quest | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3698 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 2694 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19476523 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | Sushi Top Marketing, Inc. | DANG, CHRISTINE | 3698 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19158596 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR HEAT TREATMENT JIG | Tokyo Yogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING | 1741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19087254 | VOICE COIL AND SPEAKER DEVICE USING THE SAME | Goto Denshi Co., Ltd. | LE, HUYEN D | 2694 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 18879692 | DISCHARGE CAP | Tenga Co., Ltd. | GRUBY, RANDALL A | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18787881 | CLEANING SHEET | Probe Innovation, Inc. | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | 3723 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18719223 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | HARBOTTLE, CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH | 2818 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18688337 | HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL FILTER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | Fuji Filter Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | PREGLER, SHARON | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18685016 | MEDICINE DISPENSING DEVICE | Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd. | RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 3651 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18573713 | A MEDIUM FOR STORING ISOLATED PANCREATIC ISLETS AND A METHOD FOR STORING ISOLATED PANCREATIC ISLETS | Polbionica Sp. Z O.O. | GU, QINHUA | 1633 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18571778 | A SYSTEM FOR CONNECTING A BIONIC ORGAN TO A VASCULAR GRAFT AND A METHOD OF CONNECTING A BIONIC ORGAN TO A VASCULAR GRAFT | Polbionica Sp. Z O.O. | FLORES, ADRIAN | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18540794 | ENCRYPTION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ENCRYPTION PROCESSING METHOD | Axell Corporation | POTRATZ, DANIEL B | 2491 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18568285 | EMOTION INFERRING APPARATUS, EMOTION INFERRING METHOD AND PROGRAM | Life Quest Inc. | BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G | 2674 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 17116930 | INFERENCE APPARATUS, AND INFERENCE METHOD | Axell Corporation | NGUYEN, TRI T | 2128 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2020 |
| 17097926 | INFERENCE SYSTEM, INFERENCE DEVICE, AND INFERENCE METHOD | Axell Corporation | VAUGHN, RYAN C | 2125 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2020 |
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Start Free Trial89.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Masuvalley & Partners were allowed, across 1,002 applications in USPTO records.
3.11 office actions per allowed application on average.
14 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 11 clients, before 14 examiners in 14 art units.
