Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
765 pending office actions • 181 clients • 650 examiners • 225 art units • 0 of 765 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
MICHAEL BEST & FRIEDRICH LLP (Mke) is a patent law firm in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm has 14607 career applications. It currently manages 547 pending office actions. This volume of 547 pending office actions is the current workload across its 14607 career applications.
The firm's resolved allowance rate pct is 99.33. This rate is achieved with an avg office actions per allowance of 3.96. For its career applications, the 99.33 resolved allowance rate pct is a primary performance metric. The 3.96 avg office actions per allowance indicates the level of interaction with the USPTO required to reach an allowance. The resolved allowance rate pct and avg office actions per allowance together define the firm's prosecution results in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Practitioners should note that the final success metric is reached through the average number of interactions across the total career volume.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 223 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. 223 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 | 10 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 50 (7%) |
| §103 only | 263 (34%) |
| §102 only | 35 (5%) |
| §112 only | 23 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 17 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 27 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 335 (44%) |
| No statute on record | 5 (1%) |
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, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 5 | 72.2% | +20.3% |
| SHUTTY, DAVID G | 5 | 69.0% | +12.7% |
| LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 5 | 69.4% | +35.5% |
| PELTON, NATHANIEL R | 5 | 74.5% | +19.0% |
| HENSON, KATINA N | 4 | 56.6% | +31.9% |
| LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 3 | 81.9% | +11.6% |
| NEJAD, MAHDI H | 3 | 73.9% | +29.2% |
| AYALA, FERNANDO A | 3 | 53.6% | +26.2% |
| DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3 | 64.1% | +48.9% |
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3 | 58.6% | +59.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19453951 | IMPACT TOOL ANVIL WITH IMPROVED DURABILITY | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18364340 | MOLDED CONTAINER BASE | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 194d overdue |
| 18304484 | VEHICLE DOOR, VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE MANUFACTURING METHOD | CONDO, VERONICA MARIE | 163d overdue |
| 17372586 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING DATA | BLAIR, DOUGLAS B | 124d overdue |
| 17909318 | ANTIMICROBIAL TARGET | BERRY, LAYLA D | 121d overdue |
| 18965760 | IMPACT TOOL | IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E | 92d overdue |
| 18267287 | ROTATABLE MANDREL | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 89d overdue |
| 18687001 | COOLING PLATE | VORTMAN, ANATOLY | 87d overdue |
| 18060425 | BATTERY CELL CARRIER FOR BATTERY PACK | CANTELMO, GREGG | 87d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886557 | POWER TOOL WITH MULTIPLE ACTUATOR CONFIGURATIONS | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 32d overdue |
| 18709748 | ATTACHMENT MECHANISM FOR A POWER TOOL | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 18d overdue |
| 18667075 | STATIC DISCHARGE MITIGATION OF POWER TOOLS | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 10d overdue |
| 18918545 | ROTARY TOOL | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 4d overdue |
| 18749765 | IMPACT TOOL | SHUTTY, DAVID G | 4d overdue |
| 17106806 | MULTI-SPEED POWER TOOL WITH ELECTRONIC CLUTCH | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 6d |
| 18293591 | STRUT SHEARING TOOL AND DIES THEREFOR | AYALA, FERNANDO A | 9d |
| 19211914 | POWER TOOL INCLUDING DUAL BATTERY PACK SEQUENTIAL DISCHARGE | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 29 |
| 3724 | 23 |
| 3723 | 20 |
| 2859 | 20 |
| 2834 | 13 |
| 3645 | 9 |
| 3735 | 7 |
| 2639 | 7 |
| 1725 | 7 |
| 3791 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19135888 | Untitled | Robert Bosch GmbH | ZALESKAS, JOHN M | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | ||
| 18710374 | Untitled | Robert Bosch GmbH | TRUONG, THOMAS | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 19453951 | IMPACT TOOL ANVIL WITH IMPROVED DURABILITY | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 3731 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2026 |
| 19418281 | INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE | Genective SA | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1662 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2025 |
| 19411901 | POWER TOOL INCLUDING FIELD ORIENTED CONTROL SPEED-TORQUE CURVE MATCHING | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | SEIF, DARIUSH | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2025 |
| 19401617 | CO-ROTATING SCROLL COMPRESSOR | Robert Bosch GmbH | TRAN, BINH Q | 3746 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2025 |
| 19392396 | POWER TOOL INCLUDING A NON-CONTACT ROTATABLE ACTUATOR | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | JALLOW, EYAMINDAE CHOSSAN | 3731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2025 |
| 19384149 | POWER TOOLS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF TEMPERATURE SENSORS | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | CHUKWURAH, NATHANIEL C | 3731 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19377617 | POWER TOOL INCLUDING MOTOR POWER RAMPING DURING IMPACTING | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2025 |
| 19368432 | METERING DEVICE FOR A PACKAGING MACHINE, PACKAGING MACHINE WITH SUCH A METERING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A METERING DEVICE | Syntegon Packaging Systems AG | IMAM, TANZIM | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19363757 | BLIND RIVET NUT-SETTING TOOL | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 3726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19343143 | GAS SPRING-POWERED FASTENER DRIVER | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 3731 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19341648 | HOLE SAW ARBOR ASSEMBLY | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | RUFO, RYAN C | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19290178 | MARKER DEVICES, MARKER SYSTEMS, AND CONTAINERS WITH MARKER PLATES THEREON FOR DISPLAYING PERSONALIZED INFORMATION RELATED APPLICATIONS | Stitch Golf Holdings, Inc. | DAVIS, CASSANDRA HOPE | 3631 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19149439 | SYSTEM FOR MAKING PREPARATORY INCISION LONGITUDINALLY OF A POULTRY LEG | Foodmate B.V. | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 3643 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19274274 | PUMP AND VALVE SYSTEM | Leggett & Platt Canada Co. | HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 3746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19148716 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | Robert Bosch GmbH | GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS | 3668 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19264613 | DISPLAY FOR CONTROLLING ROBOTIC TOOL | Techtronic Cordless Gp | HUTCHINSON, ALAN D | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 | |
| 19145257 | CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD | Robert Bosch GmbH | LAMBERT, GABRIEL JOSEPH RENE | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19144763 | IMAGING DEVICE AND SHADING CORRECTION METHOD | Sony Group Corporation | FLOHRE, JASON A | 2637 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 18857327 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Sony Group Corporation | JERABEK, KELLY L | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 | |
| 19244225 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR ATTITUDE DETERMINATION OF AN AIRCRAFT FOR NAVIGATION | Flare Bright Ltd. | OH, HARRY Y | 3657 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19242299 | MODULAR POWER SUPPLIES | Techtronic Cordless Gp | DEBERADINIS, ROBERT L | 2836 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19138996 | H2 TANK VALVE FOR ARRANGEMENT ON AN H2 TANK OF AN H2-POWERED MOTOR VEHICLE | Robert Bosch GmbH | COLON MORALES, DAVID | 3753 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19233983 | POWER TOOL WITH IMPULSE ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A VALVE | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | SHUTTY, DAVID G | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19231062 | METHOD OF FORMING A POLYMER COMPOSITE AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME | Arizona Board of Regents | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19226352 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TRAVEL SPEED OF A VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AS WELL AS IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | Robert Bosch GmbH | DEL VALLE, LUIS GERARDO | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 | |
| 19226709 | OSCILLATING POWER TOOL WITH ADJUSTABLE ANGULAR AMPLITUDE OF OSCILLATION | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19220680 | ADAPTER FOR POWER TOOL | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19221360 | INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE | Genective SA | SHARMA, SANTOSH | 1663 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19211914 | POWER TOOL INCLUDING DUAL BATTERY PACK SEQUENTIAL DISCHARGE | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19129470 | CRYOABLATION CATHETER WITH VARYING CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE | Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company | NASSER, ROBERT L | 3992 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19194587 | ELECTROFUSION TOOL | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | TOLIN, MICHAEL A | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 | |
| 19194872 | IDENTIFYING DEVICES ON NETWORKED COMPUTER SYSTEMS THAT ORIGINATE MALICIOUS NETWORK TRAFFIC | Mastercard Technologies Canada Ulc | DILUZIO, NICHOLAS JOSEPH | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 | |
| 19123223 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UTILITY CONDUCTOR POSITION MONITORING SYSTEM | Aclara Technologies LLC | CLARK, CHRISTOPHER JAY | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 | |
| 19185454 | CAMERA MODULE | Japan Display Inc. | JOHNSON-CALDERON, FRANK J | 2425 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19184114 | CAMERA MODULE | Japan Display Inc. | CAMARGO, MARLY S.B. | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 | |
| 19183146 | WORK LIGHT | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation | HARRIS, WILLIAM N | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19122298 | FUEL INJECTOR ARRANGEMENT FOR INSTALLING A FUEL INJECTOR IN AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | Robert Bosch GmbH | BRAUCH, CHARLES JOSEPH | 3747 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 18853590 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | NARRAMORE, BLAKE I | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 | |
| 19176959 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD | Robert Bosch GmbH | GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 | |
| 19173900 | DISPLAY DEVICE | Japan Display Inc. | NGUYEN, LAUREN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 | |
| 19173530 | BACKPACKS, BACKPACK SYSTEMS, BACKPACK INSERTS AND RELATED METHODS | Fowl, LLC | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 | |
| 19173398 | INDOOR ASSET TRACKING | Conexus, Inc. | TRAN, THANG DUC | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 | |
| 19171029 | GRAPHENE-NICKEL COMPOSITE WIRES | Arizona Board of Regents | RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19169812 | USER AUTHENTICATION WITH BIOMETRIC DATA IN CONJUNCTION WITH AUTOFILL ASSISTANCE | Mastercard Technologies Canada Ulc | LE, CANH | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 | |
| 19097072 | LIQUID CRYSTAL OPTICAL SHUTTER AND IMAGING DEVICE | Japan Display Inc. | CROCKETT, RYAN M | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 | |
| 19097324 | DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR BIT STREAM SUPPORTING PLURALITY OF LAYERS | ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | PICON-FELICIANO, ANA J | 2482 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19095619 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | Japan Display Inc. | SHAH, PRIYANK J | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 | |
| 19116482 | CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD | Robert Bosch GmbH | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial95.3% of resolved applications prosecuted by Michael Best & Friedrich LLP were allowed, across 2,292 applications in USPTO records.
2.45 office actions per allowed application on average.
765 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 181 clients, before 650 examiners in 225 art units.