Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
11 pending office actions • 1 client • 11 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Merchant & Gould- Welch Allyn manages a portfolio of 402 career applications in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 95.9 percent. Achieving these results involves an average of 4.86 office actions per allowance.
There are 12 pending office actions currently active. The combination of career applications and these active matters shows the scale of this portfolio. Practitioners should note that while the 95.9 percent resolved allowance rate is high, the 4.86 average office actions per allowance suggests that clients must be prepared for engagement with examiners. These 12 pending office actions are part of a long-term commitment to the firm's established success rate. The firm's management of 402 career applications demonstrates its capacity for handling large volumes of mechanical and e-commerce patent matters.
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 | 4 (36%) |
| §103 only | 5 (45%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG, FONYA M | 1 | 3.4% | +0.8% |
| MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 1 | 46.9% | +24.3% |
| JONES, ANDREW B | 1 | 73.3% | +21.8% |
| OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 1 | 55.2% | +52.3% |
| TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 1 | 49.8% | +32.1% |
| ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 1 | 72.9% | +17.4% |
| BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 1 | 50.0% | +54.6% |
| TAPIA, ANDREW KYLE | 1 | 10.5% | +19.7% |
| LANE, GREGORY A | 1 | 74.8% | -0.7% |
| WASEEM, HUMA | 1 | 17.7% | +20.5% |
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 | TAPIA, ANDREW KYLE | 60d overdue |
| 18067303 | ENHANCED INFORMATION DURING PATIENT MONITORING | WASEEM, HUMA | 58d overdue |
| 19339598 | MEDICAL DEVICE CONFIGURATION | LONG, FONYA M | — |
| 19086588 | VIDEO ANALYTICS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE IMPROVEMENTS | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | — |
| 18932277 | REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18656842 | SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | — |
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 | TAPIA, ANDREW KYLE | 60d overdue |
| 18067303 | ENHANCED INFORMATION DURING PATIENT MONITORING | WASEEM, HUMA | 58d 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 | — |
| 18656842 | SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| WELCH ALLYN, INC. | 11 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3682 | 2 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 2438 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19339598 | MEDICAL DEVICE CONFIGURATION | Welch Allyn, Inc. | LONG, FONYA M | 3682 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19086588 | VIDEO ANALYTICS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE IMPROVEMENTS | Welch Allyn, Inc. | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 3682 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 18951999 | WORKFLOWS AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR OPTICAL VIEWING DEVICES | Welch Allyn, Inc. | JONES, ANDREW B | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 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 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 | |
| 18787376 | INFUSION PUMP MONITORING | Welch Allyn, Inc. | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 | |
| 18656842 | SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER | Welch Allyn, Inc. | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18608028 | AUGMENTED REALITY IN HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS | Welch Allyn, Inc. | TAPIA, ANDREW KYLE | 3687 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 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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