Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
80 pending office actions • 18 clients • 78 examiners • 56 art units • 0 of 80 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Meagher Emanuel Laks Goldberg & Liao, LLP practices in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and has handled 1,964 career applications. The profile records 85 pending office actions and an 88.78% resolved allowance rate.
An allowance has involved an average of 3.72 office actions. That pattern indicates that examination commonly requires several exchanges, while the resolved rate provides evidence of frequent allowance among matters that have reached resolution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 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. 23 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 only | 2 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 9 (11%) |
| §103 only | 27 (34%) |
| §102 only | 2 (2%) |
| §112 only | 4 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 34 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI | 2 | 46.2% | +53.6% |
| KIRWIN, STEFANIE JOHANNA | 2 | 15.6% | +29.6% |
| OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY | 1 | 73.1% | +24.1% |
| SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 1 | 73.8% | +20.3% |
| PHAM, THAI N | 1 | 78.0% | +20.3% |
| HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 1 | 61.7% | +19.5% |
| GUGGER, SEAN A | 1 | 64.9% | +23.2% |
| CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1 | 70.6% | +11.6% |
| COOK, WILLIAM J | 1 | 86.2% | +11.0% |
| CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 1 | 60.9% | +25.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934468 | ELASTIC ROBOT PLATFORM FOR CLEANING AND SCRUBBING WITH TENDON-DRIVEN JOINTS | COOK, WILLIAM J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17745322 | SHARED COLUMN ADCS FOR IN-MEMORY-COMPUTING MACROS | VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY | 107d overdue |
| 17756246 | Systems and Methods for Automatic Intravenous Injections | PAZ ESTEVEZ, GUILLERMO G | 53d overdue |
| 18203798 | ANHYDROUS COSMETIC COMPOSITION | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 45d overdue |
| 18599457 | SURFACE MODIFICATION OF MEDICAL DEVICES | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | 32d overdue |
| 18901070 | WEIGHT BENCH | NGUYEN, NYCA T | 30d overdue |
| 18237093 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 20d |
| 18195405 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING LIMB ISCHEMIA | DANG, ANH TIEU | 28d |
| 18031405 | UV-ABSORBING TRANSPARENT PEROVSKITE | MOWLA, GOLAM | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17269108 | MULTIPLEX DEVICE UTILIZING LINEAR ARRAY WITH SLANTED TEST LINES ON A LATERAL FLOW STRIP OR MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE | KIRWIN, STEFANIE JOHANNA | 63d |
| 19156513 | MOBILE ROBOTIC DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY | — |
| 19133953 | PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD USING EYELID TRACKING | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | — |
| 19175473 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING ULTRA-HIGH DC VOLTAGES IN OPEN FIELD LINE TRAPS WITH MINIMAL DISSIPATION AND MINIMAL DAMAGE | PHAM, THAI N | — |
| 19001895 | BLOOD PUMP WITH SENSORS | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | — |
| 18976924 | BLOOD PUMP MOTOR | GUGGER, SEAN A | — |
| 18872939 | PLASMA SYSTEMS FOR AIR DECONTAMINATION AND AEROSOL ACTIVATION | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | — |
| 18934468 | ELASTIC ROBOT PLATFORM FOR CLEANING AND SCRUBBING WITH TENDON-DRIVEN JOINTS | COOK, WILLIAM J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 7 |
| 3792 | 5 |
| 3771 | 4 |
| 1681 | 3 |
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3648 | 2 |
| 2142 | 2 |
| 1615 | 2 |
| 3700 | 2 |
| 2189 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19156513 | MOBILE ROBOTIC DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | The Trustees of Princeton University | OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY | 3657 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19133953 | PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD USING EYELID TRACKING | Blinklab | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 3797 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19175473 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING ULTRA-HIGH DC VOLTAGES IN OPEN FIELD LINE TRAPS WITH MINIMAL DISSIPATION AND MINIMAL DAMAGE | The Trustees of Princeton University | PHAM, THAI N | 2845 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19001895 | BLOOD PUMP WITH SENSORS | Abiomed, Inc. | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18976924 | BLOOD PUMP MOTOR | Abiomed Europe GmbH | GUGGER, SEAN A | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18872939 | PLASMA SYSTEMS FOR AIR DECONTAMINATION AND AEROSOL ACTIVATION | The Trustees of Princeton University | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18934468 | ELASTIC ROBOT PLATFORM FOR CLEANING AND SCRUBBING WITH TENDON-DRIVEN JOINTS | Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey | COOK, WILLIAM J | 3723 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18931258 | BLOOD PUMP WITH SURFACE MODIFICATION | Abiomed, Inc. | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 3792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18923012 | MULTI-LUMEN CATHETER | Abiomed, Inc. | LONG, SARAH A | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18912769 | DISTAL EXTENSION FOR BLOOD PUMP SYSTEMS | Abiomed, Inc. | PAHAKIS, MANOLIS Y | 3796 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18853565 | SUPERCONDUCTING WS2-BASED NANOSHEET INK | The Trustees of Princeton University | NORRIS, JEREMY C | 2847 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18901070 | WEIGHT BENCH | Vonrang International Corporation | NGUYEN, NYCA T | 3784 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18899897 | SMALL ANGLE TILTING TO APPROXIMATE VERTICAL SOLAR ARRAYS AND PROVIDE ENHANCED ENERGY YIELD | Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey | CHERN, CHRISTINA | 1722 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18849848 | CHEMOENZYMATIC SYNTHESIS OF SELENONEINE AND ITS ANALOGS | The Trustees of Princeton University | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18890928 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING AN OXYGENATED FLUID | Abiomed, Inc. | DIETRICH, JOSEPH M | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18891386 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED SURGICAL OR GRAFT ACCESS | Abiomed, Inc. | LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18848723 | COMMODITY TRANSFER APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME | Telexistence Inc. | JUNG, JAEWOOK | 3656 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18886714 | BROADBAND AND MULTI-BAND PLANAR ANTENNA ARRAY ARCHITECTURES | The Trustees of Princeton University | GREGORY, BERNARR E | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18812347 | Non-Interlock Assembled Flooring System | Carol Young Corporation | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 3635 | §112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18804650 | MODULAR BIOSENSOR FOR RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE ACTIVITY | The Trustees of Princeton University | STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE | 1645 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18835113 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONE PENETRATION TESTING OF GROUNDS | Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. | ZEENDER, FLORIAN M | 3627 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18789861 | ACCESS DEVICE WITH DUAL ENTRY PORTS | Abiomed, Inc. | RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18782768 | HARDWARE-SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN FOR EFFICIENT TRANSFORMER TRAINING AND INFERENCE | The Trustees of Princeton University | ARJOMANDI, NOOSHA | 2166 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18782246 | SPATIAL MODULATION-BASED ORTHOGONAL SIGNAL DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATIONS | Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey | SANDHU, AMRITBIR K | 2634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18778223 | PATH-INTEGRATED OPTICAL SENSING AND SIMULTANEOUS RETROREFLECTOR TRACKING | The Trustees of Princeton University | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18774152 | OPTOGENETIC CONTROL OF MICROBIAL CO-CULTURE POPULATIONS | The Trustees of Princeton University | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18748416 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN APPROXIMATED FINAL QUANTUM STATE SUCH THAT A FIDELITY OF THE APPROXIMATED FINAL QUANTUM STATE IS EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN A LOWER BOUND | Bull SAS | RAMESH, TIRUMALE K | 2121 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18743428 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC COUNTERFACTUALS VIA SPATIOTEMPORAL TRANSFORMERS | The Trustees of Princeton University | MOORE, URIAH VENDELL | 2142 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18743768 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LABEL ERROR DETECTION VIA CLUSTERING TRAINING LOSSES | The Trustees of Princeton University | TRAN, TAN H | 2141 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18679749 | HYBRID NAIL COMPOSITION | L'Oréal | ARNOLD, ERNST V | 1613 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18658248 | BIORESORBABLE DEVICE | Abiomed, Inc. | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18707400 | 3D-PRINTING ENGINEERED LIVING MATERIALS | The Trustees of Princeton University | TSAY, MARSHA M | 1656 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18651905 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING KIDNEY FUNCTION | Abiomed, Inc. | KISH, JAMES M | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18633843 | BLOOD PUMP | Abiomed, Inc. | CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18694288 | DNA VALENCY SORTING CHROMATOGRAPHY | The Trustees of Princeton University | CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA | 1681 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18600982 | Method for configuring a data processing chain | Atos France | HICKS, AUSTIN JAMES | 2142 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18599457 | SURFACE MODIFICATION OF MEDICAL DEVICES | Abiomed, Inc. | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18586690 | Method for assessing carbon capture of an area of interest | Atos France | HANSEN, CONNOR LEVI | 2672 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18444912 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PEDOLOGICAL DATA, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE | Institut National De Recherche Pour L’Agriculture, L’Alimentation Et L’Environnement | WU, ZHEN Y | 2685 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18682168 | METHOD OF ASSESSING BACTERIAL VIABILITY AND BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE CHANGES | The Trustees of Princeton University | KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | 1681 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18273816 | METHODS OF SCREENING INHIBITORS OF BIOMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS USING PHASE SEPARATION AS IN CELLULO READ-OUT | The Trustees of Princeton University | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1758 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18579388 | MONITORING DEFINED OPTICAL PATTERNS BY MEANS OF OBJECT DETECTION AND MACHINE LEARNING | Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. | LU, ZHIYU | 2665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18572358 | METHOD FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF A FOREIGN CONDUCTIVE OBJECT ON THE CHARGING SURFACE OF A CHARGING DEVICE | Energysquare | TORRES RUIZ, JOHALI ALEJANDRA | 2859 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18543619 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION WITH IMPROVED SOLVENT SYSTEMS | L’Oréal | KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18384056 | SUPER-REGENERATIVE OSCILLATOR INTEGRATED METAMATERIAL LEAKY WAVE ANTENNA FOR MULTI-TARGET MOTION DETECTION AND RANGING | Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey | SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18381233 | BLOOD PUMP WITH MODIFIED LINER | Abiomed Europe GmbH | LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18381416 | MONITORING VITAL SIGNS OF MULTIPLE PERSONS VIA SINGLE PHASED-MIMO RADAR | Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 82d | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18283604 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR AQUATIC MICROPLASTICS REMOVAL | Polygone Systems, Inc. | BREWSTER, HAYDEN R | 1779 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18281710 | TEXT MINING METHOD FOR TREND IDENTIFICATION AND RESEARCH CONNECTION | The Trustees of Princeton University | ALMANI, MOHSEN | 2159 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18237093 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION | L’Oréal | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial88.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Meagher Emanuel Laks Goldberg & Liao, LLP were allowed, across 1,964 applications in USPTO records.
3.72 office actions per allowed application on average.
80 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 18 clients, before 78 examiners in 56 art units.
