Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Merchant & Gould- Welch Allyn

13 pending office actions • 1 client • 13 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=399 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

95.8%
Allowance Rate
n=399
+0.78σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=399
4.8
OAs to Allowance
n=230
+0.46σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=230
1127 days
Time to Allowance
n=230
-2.4pp
Interview Lift
n=399
52.9%
RCE Rate
n=399
1.4%
Appeal Rate
n=399

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=17 (min 20)
87.5%
§102 Overcome
n=32
85.8%
§103 Overcome
n=204
§112 Overcome
n=19 (min 20)

Specialization & Scale

A61B, G16H, G06F
Top CPC Subclasses
63%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=399
0
Practitioners
n=399
Apps / Practitioner
n=399 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

1
Hard (8%)
12
Medium (92%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§103 only12 (92%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
15% of docket
1
Communications
8% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
69% of docket
1
Business / Other
8% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TC 3600, DOCKET 1 2.3% -0.8%
WRIGHT, KRYSTEN NIKOLE 1 0.0% +0.0%
HARTMAN JR, RONALD D 1 89.7% +4.5%
CHEN, CHIA WEI A 1 77.0% +19.4%
BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN 1 50.0% +54.5%
HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL 1 66.7% +44.8%
ULRICH, NICHOLAS S 1 69.1% +7.6%
WASEEM, HUMA 1 17.2% +19.6%
JOHNSON, NICOLE F 1 87.5% +7.1%
LANE, GREGORY A 1 74.6% -0.3%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18798963 HEAT MITIGATION FOR MEDICAL DEVICE HARTMAN JR, RONALD D

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19053662 MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE TC 3600, DOCKET 39d
18931561 MEDICAL RECORD GENERATION FOR VIRTUAL NURSING WRIGHT, KRYSTEN NIKOLE
18536648 HEALTH SCORE GENERATION ON MEDICAL DEVICE WASEEM, HUMA
18468446 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM ANALYSIS JOHNSON, NICOLE F

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18658152 IMAGING FOR OPTICAL VIEWING DEVICES CHEN, CHIA WEI A
18656842 SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN
18588771 RESPIRATION MONITORING HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL
18536648 HEALTH SCORE GENERATION ON MEDICAL DEVICE WASEEM, HUMA

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
WELCH ALLYN, INC. 13

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37913
36862
36851
36821
26371
21791
37961
24381
36831

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19053662 MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE Welch Allyn, Inc. TC 3600, DOCKET 3685 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Feb 14, 2025
18931561 MEDICAL RECORD GENERATION FOR VIRTUAL NURSING Welch Allyn, Inc. WRIGHT, KRYSTEN NIKOLE 3682 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 30, 2024
18798963 HEAT MITIGATION FOR MEDICAL DEVICE Welch Allyn, Inc. HARTMAN JR, RONALD D §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 09, 2024
18658152 IMAGING FOR OPTICAL VIEWING DEVICES Welch Allyn, Inc. CHEN, CHIA WEI A 2637 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2024
18656842 SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER Welch Allyn, Inc. BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN 3791 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 07, 2024
18588771 RESPIRATION MONITORING Welch Allyn, Inc. HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL 3791 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2024
18435409 CONFIGURATOR FOR REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL DEVICES Welch Allyn, Inc. ULRICH, NICHOLAS S 2179 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18536648 HEALTH SCORE GENERATION ON MEDICAL DEVICE Welch Allyn, Inc. WASEEM, HUMA 3686 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2023
18468446 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM ANALYSIS Welch Allyn, Inc. JOHNSON, NICOLE F 3796 §101 Final Rejection Pending Sep 15, 2023
18341005 EMBEDDED SERVICING AND AUTHENTICATION FOR MEDICAL DEVICE Welch Allyn, Inc. LANE, GREGORY A 2438 §103 Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2023
18185454 VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY FOR TELEHEALTH Welch Allyn, Inc. ERICKSON, BENNETT S 3683 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18178815 TELEHEALTH IMAGING AND ROBOTICS Welch Allyn, Inc. REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH 3686 §103 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2023
17823642 PATIENT MONITORING FOR ALARM MANAGEMENT Welch Allyn, Inc. BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS 3791 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 31, 2022

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