Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 1 client • 13 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Merchant & Gould- Welch Allyn focuses on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, with 404 career applications and 13 pending office actions. Its resolved allowance rate is 95.92%, showing that resolved applications have generally reached allowance.
The average of 4.85 office actions per allowance indicates that favorable results often followed several prosecution rounds. The record therefore combines a high resolved allowance rate with sustained examiner engagement, a useful consideration for medical device matters that may require continued claim development.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 5 (38%) |
| §103 only | 7 (54%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 1 | 46.8% | +24.0% |
| FATIMA, UROOJ | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| JONES, ANDREW B | 1 | 71.7% | +24.3% |
| THOMAS, BRANDI N | 1 | 82.7% | +7.7% |
| OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 1 | 55.1% | +52.1% |
| TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 1 | 50.5% | +31.7% |
| ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 1 | 72.7% | +17.6% |
| OBEID, MAMON A | 1 | 46.1% | +33.1% |
| HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 1 | 54.0% | +41.4% |
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 60.0% | +23.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18935929 | RETINAL IMAGING FOR DETECTION OF BIOMARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | THOMAS, BRANDI N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608028 | AUGMENTED REALITY IN HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS | OBEID, MAMON A | 60d overdue |
| 18067303 | ENHANCED INFORMATION DURING PATIENT MONITORING | WASEEM, HUMA | 58d overdue |
| 19086588 | VIDEO ANALYTICS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE IMPROVEMENTS | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | — |
| 18932277 | REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18588771 | RESPIRATION MONITORING | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | — |
| 18480845 | SEPSIS MONITORING | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608028 | AUGMENTED REALITY IN HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS | OBEID, MAMON A | 60d overdue |
| 19086588 | VIDEO ANALYTICS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE IMPROVEMENTS | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | — |
| 18951999 | WORKFLOWS AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR OPTICAL VIEWING DEVICES | JONES, ANDREW B | — |
| 18935155 | MEDICAL DEVICE APPLICATION MANAGEMENT | OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | — |
| 18932277 | REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18787376 | INFUSION PUMP MONITORING | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | — |
| 18588771 | RESPIRATION MONITORING | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | — |
| 18480845 | SEPSIS MONITORING | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| WELCH ALLYN, INC. | 13 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2438 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19086588 | VIDEO ANALYTICS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE IMPROVEMENTS | Welch Allyn, Inc. | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 3682 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19045048 | VIRTUAL FIELD OF VIEW FOR PATIENT MONITORING | Welch Allyn, Inc. | FATIMA, UROOJ | 2676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18951999 | WORKFLOWS AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR OPTICAL VIEWING DEVICES | Welch Allyn, Inc. | JONES, ANDREW B | 2667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18935929 | RETINAL IMAGING FOR DETECTION OF BIOMARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | Welch Allyn, Inc. | THOMAS, BRANDI N | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18935155 | MEDICAL DEVICE APPLICATION MANAGEMENT | Welch Allyn, Inc. | OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18932277 | REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING | Welch Allyn, Inc. | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 3791 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18787376 | INFUSION PUMP MONITORING | Welch Allyn, Inc. | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18608028 | AUGMENTED REALITY IN HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS | Welch Allyn, Inc. | OBEID, MAMON A | 3687 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18588771 | RESPIRATION MONITORING | Welch Allyn, Inc. | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 3791 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18480845 | SEPSIS MONITORING | Welch Allyn, Inc. | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18341005 | EMBEDDED SERVICING AND AUTHENTICATION FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | Welch Allyn, Inc. | LANE, GREGORY A | 2438 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 98d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18067303 | ENHANCED INFORMATION DURING PATIENT MONITORING | Welch Allyn, Inc. | WASEEM, HUMA | 3686 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 18065428 | CATARACT DETECTION AND ASSESSMENT | Welch Allyn, Inc. | DULANEY, BENJAMIN O | 2683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial95.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Merchant & Gould- Welch Allyn were allowed, across 404 applications in USPTO records.
4.85 office actions per allowed application on average.
13 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 13 examiners in 12 art units.
