Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Meagher Emanuel Laks Goldberg & Liao, LLP

69 pending office actions • 16 clients • 66 examiners • 44 art units • 0 of 69 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=1916 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

88.8%
Allowance Rate
n=1916
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1916
3.7
OAs to Allowance
n=871
+0.00σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=871
1008 days
Time to Allowance
n=871
+10.2pp
Interview Lift
n=1916
38.4%
RCE Rate
n=1916
3.1%
Appeal Rate
n=1916

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

77.6%
§101 Overcome
n=219
72.7%
§102 Overcome
n=414
74.8%
§103 Overcome
n=721
75.3%
§112 Overcome
n=531

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, A61K
Top CPC Subclasses
19%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1916
6
Practitioners
n=1916
319.3
Apps / Practitioner
n=1916

Portfolio Summary

69
Total Pending OAs
45
Non-Final OAs
23
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

15
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
4
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 26 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (15)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (4)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

38
Hard (55%)
28
Medium (41%)
3
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (1%)
§101 + other7 (10%)
§103 only23 (33%)
§102 only3 (4%)
§112 only3 (4%)
Double-patenting + other2 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)30 (43%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

19
Life Sciences
28% of docket
7
Information Tech
10% of docket
1
Communications
1% of docket
2
Semiconductors
3% of docket
30
Mechanical / Eng
43% of docket
10
Business / Other
14% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

690 h
Manual time on pending OAs
138 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
241 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YU, HONG 2 31.1% +5.5%
GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA 2 70.3% +35.1%
KIRWIN, STEFANIE JOHANNA 2 15.4% +35.3%
PHAM, THAI N 1 77.9% +20.4%
HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA 1 56.1% +13.9%
COOK, WILLIAM J 1 86.1% +11.1%
CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY 1 58.6% +29.8%
NGUYEN, VI X 1 85.9% +13.2%
NORRIS, JEREMY C 1 86.6% +4.4%
CHERN, CHRISTINA 1 38.6% +41.7%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18934468 ELASTIC ROBOT PLATFORM FOR CLEANING AND SCRUBBING WITH TENDON-DRIVEN JOINTS COOK, WILLIAM J
18853565 SUPERCONDUCTING WS2-BASED NANOSHEET INK NORRIS, JEREMY C

Hard Cases (39)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18547216 MODULAR EYEWEAR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND KITS MUHAMMAD, KEY 107d overdue
18411256 OUTFLOW TUBE AND OUTFLOW TUBE ASSEMBLIES MARSH, OWEN LEWIS 73d overdue
18645688 EYEBROW PRIMER YU, HONG 45d overdue
18195535 DISTAL LIMB PERFUSION CANNULA STENT & STENT CANNULA COVER BARIA, DINAH N 30d overdue
17941149 Computing system for executing quantum programs on analog and digital quantum computers GUTMAN, JENNIFER MARIE 19d overdue
17696069 VARIATION POLYGENIC INDEX/SCORE AUGER, NOAH ANDREW 19d overdue
18649154 METAL ENHANCED TRANSITION METAL OXIDE ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR REDUCTION OF CO2 CONTRERAS, CIEL P 16d overdue
18842902 PUMPLESS DISPENSING MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS 11d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17269108 MULTIPLEX DEVICE UTILIZING LINEAR ARRAY WITH SLANTED TEST LINES ON A LATERAL FLOW STRIP OR MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE KIRWIN, STEFANIE JOHANNA 63d
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
18934468 ELASTIC ROBOT PLATFORM FOR CLEANING AND SCRUBBING WITH TENDON-DRIVEN JOINTS COOK, WILLIAM J
18931258 BLOOD PUMP WITH SURFACE MODIFICATION CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY
18922641 MULTI-LUMEN CATHETER WITH OCCLUSION ELEMENT NGUYEN, VI X
18899897 SMALL ANGLE TILTING TO APPROXIMATE VERTICAL SOLAR ARRAYS AND PROVIDE ENHANCED ENERGY YIELD CHERN, CHRISTINA
18094067 ACCESS DEVICE HUB GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA

Client Portfolio (16 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37966
37835
37713
16143
37002
16772
37231
17221
36561
37531

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 10, 2025
19001895 BLOOD PUMP WITH SENSORS Abiomed, Inc. HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 26, 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 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 30, 2024
18922641 MULTI-LUMEN CATHETER WITH OCCLUSION ELEMENT Abiomed, Inc. NGUYEN, VI X 3771 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 22, 2024
18853565 SUPERCONDUCTING WS2-BASED NANOSHEET INK The Trustees of Princeton University NORRIS, JEREMY C §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 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 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18898887 MASCARA COMPOSITION L’Oréal HOLT, ANDRIAE M 1614 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18849848 CHEMOENZYMATIC SYNTHESIS OF SELENONEINE AND ITS ANALOGS The Trustees of Princeton University RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM §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
18891643 MODULAR FLOATATION SYSTEM Polygone Systems, Inc. CHAN, KEVIN §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 Final Rejection Pending Sep 19, 2024
18886714 BROADBAND AND MULTI-BAND PLANAR ANTENNA ARRAY ARCHITECTURES The Trustees of Princeton University GREGORY, BERNARR E §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 16, 2024
18842902 PUMPLESS DISPENSING Tendo Technologies Inc. MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS 3753 §102§103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2024
18804650 MODULAR BIOSENSOR FOR RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE ACTIVITY The Trustees of Princeton University STEPHENS, AMELIA CAROLE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 14, 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
18761556 METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF PROCESSING RESOURCES AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME Bull SAS CAO, DIEM K §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 02, 2024
18758056 CARDIORENAL SYNDROME (CRS) THERAPY SYSTEMS AND METHODS Abiomed, Inc. JOHNSON, NICOLE F 3796 §102§103 Non-Final OA 48d Pending Jun 28, 2024
18720797 AUTOMATIC LEARNING OF A COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLED AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS Netatmo ZHANG, WILLIAM XIANG §101§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 17, 2024
18716208 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Telexistence Inc. GARCIA-GUERRA, DARLENE 3625 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 04, 2024
18679749 HYBRID NAIL COMPOSITION L'Oréal ARNOLD, ERNST V 1613 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2024
18651905 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING KIDNEY FUNCTION Abiomed, Inc. KISH, JAMES M 3792 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 01, 2024
18649154 METAL ENHANCED TRANSITION METAL OXIDE ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR REDUCTION OF CO2 The Trustees of Princeton University CONTRERAS, CIEL P 1794 §103§112 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2024
18645688 EYEBROW PRIMER L’Oréal YU, HONG 1614 §103§112 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2024
18643560 ONLINE FEEDBACK PLATFORM The City University of New York GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN 3715 §101§102 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Apr 23, 2024
18683828 MERCHANDISE MOVEMENT DEVICE, MERCHANDISE MOVEMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MERCHANDISE MOVEMENT DEVICE Telexistence Inc. WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW 3658 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 15, 2024
18438331 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING ANTEGRADE SHEATHS Abiomed, Inc. WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY 3783 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 09, 2024
18435065 ECMO AND LV UNLOADING SYSTEM Abiomed, Inc. STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH 3781 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 07, 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 Final Rejection Pending Jan 15, 2024
18411256 OUTFLOW TUBE AND OUTFLOW TUBE ASSEMBLIES Abiomed, Inc. MARSH, OWEN LEWIS 3796 §103§112 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Jan 12, 2024
18502266 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPTOGENETICALLY CONTROLLING METABOLIC PATHWAYS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS The Trustees of Princeton University PAK, YONG D 1652 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 06, 2023
18386057 DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FLUID MASS DETERMINATION Tendo Technologies Inc. WEST, PAUL M 2855 §102§103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Nov 01, 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
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
18374859 NAIL POLISH TOPCOAT COMPOSITION L'Oréal BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE 1619 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18374765 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GROWING A LATTICE MATCHED, MULTILAYER, ORGANIC CRYSTAL HETEROSTRUCTURE The Trustees of Princeton University BRATLAND JR, KENNETH A 1714 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18281710 TEXT MINING METHOD FOR TREND IDENTIFICATION AND RESEARCH CONNECTION The Trustees of Princeton University ALMANI, MOHSEN 2159 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2023
18547216 MODULAR EYEWEAR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND KITS Obinna Chiaka Amuneke MUHAMMAD, KEY 2872 §102§112 Non-Final OA 107d overdue Pending Aug 21, 2023
17928028 MODULAR PLATFORM FOR PROGRAMMABLE SPATIOTEMPORAL BIOMOLECULE CLUSTERING WITH APPLICATIONS INCLUDING ENHANCED METABOLIC YIELD The Trustees of Princeton University SU-TOBON, QIWEN NMN 1636 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 10, 2023
18223628 MEDICAL DEVICE SUPPORT DEVICES Abiomed, Inc. SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE 3783 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 19, 2023
18220552 METHODS FOR CAPTURING LONG POLYNUCLEOTIDES FOR SEQUENCING SPECIFIC GENOMIC REGIONS Generation Biotech, LLC MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE 1681 §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 11, 2023
18203798 ANHYDROUS COSMETIC COMPOSITION L’Oréal WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES 1616 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending May 31, 2023
18196022 CATHETER SECUREMENT DEVICE Abiomed, Inc. STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL 3783 §102§103 Final Rejection 28d Pending May 11, 2023
18195535 DISTAL LIMB PERFUSION CANNULA STENT & STENT CANNULA COVER Abiomed, Inc. BARIA, DINAH N 3774 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending May 10, 2023
18195695 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF REDUCING LIMB ISCHEMIA Abiomed, Inc. TON, MARTIN TRUYEN 3771 §102 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending May 10, 2023
18195405 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING LIMB ISCHEMIA Abiomed, Inc. DANG, ANH TIEU 3771 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 10, 2023
18031405 UV-ABSORBING TRANSPARENT PEROVSKITE The Trustees of Princeton University MOWLA, GOLAM 1721 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Apr 12, 2023
18131918 MEDICAL DEVICE SUPPORT DEVICES Abiomed, Inc. STRANSKY, KATRINA MARIE 3700 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 07, 2023
18111978 METHOD OF PURGING A BLOOD PUMP Abiomed, Inc. DEAK, LESLIE R 3799 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 21, 2023
18111216 LIQUID-INFUSED SURFACES FOR INCREASING HEAT TRANSFER Kth Royal Institute Of Technology CIRIC, LJILJANA V 3763 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Feb 17, 2023
18093850 MONITORING PATCH Abiomed, Inc. BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS 3791 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 06, 2023
18094067 ACCESS DEVICE HUB Abiomed, Inc. GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA 3783 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 06, 2023
18093878 ACCESS DEVICE Abiomed, Inc. GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA 3783 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 06, 2023
15545983 CONTROL OF ACCESS TO THE EQUIPMENT OF A SITE SECURED BY BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION Atos SE MAYE, AYUB A 2436 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 04, 2023
18073067 SMART MACHINES AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR HEMODYNAMIC SUPPORT DEVICES Abiomed, Inc. HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER 3796 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 01, 2022
17993076 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CANNULA FIBER LUMEN STRAIN RELIEF Abiomed, Inc. HOLMES, REX R 3700 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 23, 2022
17978619 ELECTRIC AND FLUIDIC CABLES Abiomed, Inc. MORALES, JON ERIC C 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2022
17941149 Computing system for executing quantum programs on analog and digital quantum computers Bull SAS GUTMAN, JENNIFER MARIE 2194 §103§112 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2022
17940620 Computing system for executing hybrid quantum/classical programs Bull SAS MILLS, PAUL V 2196 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 08, 2022
17797833 SCALABLE ARRAY ARCHITECTURE FOR IN-MEMORY COMPUTING The Trustees of Princeton University YAARY, MICHAEL D 2151 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 05, 2022
17852201 CANNULA SYSTEM Abiomed, Inc. BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD 3796 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2022
17826413 ADHESIVE MASCARA COMPOSITIONS L'Oréal YU, HONG 1614 §112 Final Rejection Pending May 27, 2022
17765036 PROGRAM, DESIGN AID APPARATUS AND DESIGN AID METHOD Nature Architects Inc. COTHRAN, BERNARD E 2188 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 30, 2022
17696069 VARIATION POLYGENIC INDEX/SCORE The Trustees of Princeton University AUGER, NOAH ANDREW 1687 §101§112 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2022
17578734 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC PREDICTION OF THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF MATERIALS DURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES Bull SAS TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI 2189 §101 Final Rejection Pending Jan 19, 2022
17221140 MULTI-ASSAY RAPID DIAGNOSTIC PANEL Intelligent Material Solutions, Inc. KIRWIN, STEFANIE JOHANNA 1677 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 02, 2021
17277518 HIGH THROUGHPUT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAPPING INTRACELLULAR PHASE DIAGRAMS The Trustees of Princeton University SABOUR, GHAZAL 1686 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Mar 18, 2021
17269108 MULTIPLEX DEVICE UTILIZING LINEAR ARRAY WITH SLANTED TEST LINES ON A LATERAL FLOW STRIP OR MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE Intelligent Material Solutions, Inc. KIRWIN, STEFANIE JOHANNA 1677 §103§112 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Feb 17, 2021
17097484 OPTOGENETIC CIRCUITS FOR CONTROLLING CHEMICAL AND PROTEIN PRODUCTION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI The Trustees of Princeton University RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES 1635 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 13, 2020

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