Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
214 pending office actions • 68 clients • 174 examiners • 68 art units • 0 of 214 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH LLP has a presence in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, having handled 10876 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 79.51 percent, indicating its track record of securing patent rights for its clients. This rate is achieved with an average of 3.52 office actions per allowance, reflecting the procedural engagement with the patent office.
The firm is currently managing 163 pending office actions, which represents its active docket. This count of 163 pending actions, when viewed alongside the 10876 career applications, shows the flow of new and ongoing prosecution work. The 79.51 percent resolved allowance rate provides a metric for assessing the firm's effectiveness in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Practitioners can use the average of 3.52 office actions per allowance to forecast the likely duration of the prosecution cycle. With the current pending office actions active, the firm remains involved in advancing applications through the USPTO. The scale of the 10876 career applications underscores the firm's experience in managing complex mechanical and medical technology portfolios.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 67 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. 67 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 | 5 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 23 (11%) |
| §103 only | 64 (30%) |
| §102 only | 10 (5%) |
| §112 only | 9 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 5 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 17 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 80 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 5 | 74.3% | +18.0% |
| VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A | 4 | 79.5% | +20.1% |
| DELLA, JAYMI E | 4 | 68.8% | +29.9% |
| FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 4 | 73.2% | +20.5% |
| GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 3 | 76.5% | +37.3% |
| KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | 3 | 34.0% | +6.4% |
| SKELDING, ZACHARY S | 3 | 59.8% | +41.1% |
| COLLINS, SEAN W | 2 | 74.5% | +26.6% |
| FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 2 | 72.7% | +12.4% |
| ADAMOS, THEODORE V | 2 | 55.3% | +44.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18501257 | SLEEP APNEA RISK BASED ON BRADYCARDIA BURDEN | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 147d overdue |
| 18364184 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORECASTING STAFFING LEVELS IN AN INSTITUTION | BORISSOV, IGOR N | 104d overdue |
| 17625650 | ASSAY DEVICE AND RECEIVING DEVICE | GIERE, REBECCA M | 81d overdue |
| 18038365 | FLUID DRAINAGE AND DELIVERY DEVICE FOR WOUND TREATMENT | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 73d overdue |
| 17542004 | NEBULIZER DISINFECTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | LOUIS, LATOYA M | 58d overdue |
| 17843814 | MULTI-FUNCTION THERAPEUTIC SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | STUART, COLIN W | 29d overdue |
| 18020880 | FORMULATIONS OF NICOTINIC ACID DERIVATIVES AND FLAVONOID POLYPHENOLS AND USES THEREOF | CHO, DAVID H | 10d overdue |
| 19193493 | BI-DIRECTIONAL COMPRESSION LOADED MECHANICAL PACKING SEALING ASSEMBLY | PATEL, VISHAL A | 4d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16702996 | BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AGAINST CD3 AND CD20 | SKELDING, ZACHARY S | 117d overdue |
| 18459494 | TIP PORTION FOR A CAUTERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 85d overdue |
| 18303445 | DETACHABLE ABLATION TIP FOR LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE CLOSURE DEVICE | COLLINS, SEAN W | 60d overdue |
| 18608757 | DILATOR WITH BUILT-IN BALLOON FOR USE DURING TRANSSEPTAL PROCEDURE | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 11d overdue |
| 18737622 | ELECTROSURGICAL DEVICE WITH DIRECTIONAL ELECTRODE | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 10d overdue |
| 18741637 | BONE ACCESS SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 3d overdue |
| 18734697 | ELECTROANATOMICAL MAPPING ENABLE DILATOR AND SHEATH WITH ELECTRICAL COUPLING | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 14d |
| 18658123 | SPLICING DEVICE | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 37 |
| 3796 | 11 |
| 3792 | 7 |
| 3783 | 7 |
| 3771 | 5 |
| 1642 | 4 |
| 3675 | 3 |
| 3797 | 3 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| 2855 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19540369 | ELECTROSURGICAL DEVICE WITH SENSING | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | COLLINS, SEAN W | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2026 |
| 19540301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING STATE OF RF DEVICES USING IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENTS | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2026 |
| 19388862 | EXPANSION JOINT SPLICING DEVICE AND METHOD | 3Jr, LLC | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | 3635 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2025 |
| 19308659 | OVERCAP WITH METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | Sonoco Development, Inc. | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2025 |
| 19296413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE HIGH-SPEED APPLICATION OF PAPER-BASED END CLOSURES ON COMPOSITE CONTAINERS | Sonoco Development, Inc. | IMAM, TANZIM | 3731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19291188 | BONE REPAIR DEVICES AND METHODS | Circumfix Solutions, Inc. | KU, SI MING | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 | |
| 19265817 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING ATRIAL ARRHYTHMIA | Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. | TOMASZEWSKI, MICHAEL | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 | |
| 19223299 | MODULAR MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION | Trango Networks, LLC | LEE, BENNY T | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 | |
| 19222403 | MULTIPACK BEVERAGE CONTAINER INSULATION SYSTEM | Kanga, LLC | POOS, MADISON LYNN | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 | |
| 19132607 | IMPROVEMENTS IN, OR RELATING TO GRADING APPARATUS AND METHODS | Sienz Group Limited | BIDWELL, JAMES R | 3651 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19202631 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING ELEVATED STRUCTURES | 3Jr, LLC | KATCHEVES, BASIL S | 3633 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19193493 | BI-DIRECTIONAL COMPRESSION LOADED MECHANICAL PACKING SEALING ASSEMBLY | A.W. Chesterton Company | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19188921 | BONE REPAIR DEVICES AND METHODS | Circumfix Solutions, Inc. | KU, SI MING | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 | |
| 19181973 | PLATFORM SYSTEM | Safe Rack LLC | MENEZES, MARCUS | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19182331 | HOSE REEL ACCUMULATOR DRUM | Droplet Ip Holdings, LLC | KIM, SANG K | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 | |
| 19180955 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING ARRHYTHMIAS | Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. | SAHAND, SANA | 3796 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19173426 | PRESSURE BALANCED SELF-REGULATING MECHANICAL PACKING SEALING ASSEMBLY | A.W. Chesterton Company | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 19172370 | ELECTRIC FIELD APPLICATION FOR SINGLE SHOT CARDIAC ABLATION BY IRREVERSIBLE ELECTROPORATION | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 | |
| 19098471 | PUMP PERFORMANCE DATA LOGGING APPARATUS | Kimley-Horn Technology Solutions, Inc. | FERRELL, CARTER W | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19098846 | LASER THERAPY DEVICE | 528 Innovations LLC | JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 | |
| 19086927 | DEVICE ENABLING WIRE CANNULATION | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | MCEVOY, THOMAS M | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 | |
| 19074127 | MEDICAL DEVICE HAVING A SUPPORT STRUCTURE | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | DEMIE, TIGIST S | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19062359 | PROGRAMMING AND PACING THERAPY OPTIMIZATION | Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 | |
| 19106027 | Radiopaque Components and Method of Making the Same | Atex Technologies, Inc. | JOHNSON, GERALD | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19056147 | S4 BASED THERAPY ADJUSTMENT IN HCM PATIENTS | Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. | WALKER, OLIVIA | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 | |
| 19047384 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY SETTING DATA CAPACITY IN ONE OR MORE WIRELESS NETWORK DEVICES | Trango Networks, LLC | RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 | |
| 19046359 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICE | Trango Networks, LLC | CHEN, WUJI | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 | |
| 19041501 | CARDIAC MONITOR USING GAIT INFORMATION | Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 | |
| 19038507 | MOLECULAR HOPPER | Oxford University Innovation Limited | BALL, JOHN C | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 | |
| 19033060 | NEAR-IMPLANT PARAMETER TRANSITION | Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. | JAHAN, ISRAT | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 | |
| 19030846 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR ABLATION OF ENDOCARDIAL TISSUE | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 | |
| 18881705 | ABLATION CATHETERS WITH EXPANDABLE ELEMENTS AND BIPOLAR ELECTRODES TO TREAT VARICOSE VEINS | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 | |
| 18881673 | ABLATION CATHETERS WITH PRESSURE SENSOR TO TREAT VARICOSE VEINS | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 | |
| 18881692 | ABLATION CATHETERS TO TREAT VARICOSE VEINS | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | DELLA, JAYMI E | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 | |
| 18881641 | ABLATION CATHETERS WITH INDUCTION HEATING TO TREAT VARICOSE VEINS | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | DEMIE, TIGIST S | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 | |
| 19008009 | MULTI-FACTOR ENFORCEMENT OF SINGLE-USE FOR DISPOSABLE RF DEVICES | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 | |
| 19008488 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR SIGNAL GENERATION | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 3794 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19002236 | LONG-ELECTRODE CONCEPT FOR DISCRETE CUTTING WITH RF ENERGY IN ELECTROSURGICAL APPLICATIONS | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 | |
| 18989743 | PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE OF LIQUID PAINT SUPPLY SYSTEMS | Binks US, LLC | COUSINEAU, CONNOR DANIEL | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| 18990078 | BIASED TACHY LEAD FOR CONDUCTION SYSTEM PACING | Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| 18990081 | ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR SPLIT SALIVA COLLECTION AND TESTING | Premier Biotech, LLC | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| 18991089 | ELECTROPORATION ABLATION FROM TISSUE-CONTACTING ELECTRODES | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| 18987872 | GANGWAY ASSEMBLY | Safe Rack LLC | DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 | |
| 18988079 | IDENTIFYING AND REPAIRING A DEFECT DURING AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS | Corps Technologies LLC | ZERVOS, NIKOLAOS PHILLIP | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 | |
| 18976997 | STIMULATION APPARATUS | Nalu Medical, Inc. | STICE, PAULA J | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 | |
| 18972694 | CARTRIDGE-BASED SINGLE-USE RF MEDICAL DEVICE WITH EXPANSION CARTRIDGE | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 | |
| 18972675 | MULTI-LOOP MAPPING CATHETER | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 | |
| 18969783 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEUROMODULATION TREATMENTS OF PAIN AND OTHER CONDITIONS | Nalu Medical, Inc. | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18968935 | DIVERTER FOR MEMBRANE OXYGENATION DEVICE | Lifemotion Medical Technology Co., Ltd. | WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 | |
| 18967991 | RIBBED POLYMERIC CONTAINER | Sonoco Development, Inc. | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial79.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP were allowed, across 10,876 applications in USPTO records.
3.52 office actions per allowed application on average.
214 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 68 clients, before 174 examiners in 68 art units.