Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 7 clients • 10 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
NEW RIVER VALLEY INTELLECTUAL operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm has managed 406 career applications and currently oversees 11 pending office actions. These figures indicate the firm's historical experience and its current level of engagement with the USPTO. This data provides a baseline for understanding the firm's presence in this sector.
The firm's resolved allowance rate is 66.28. On average, the firm receives 4.19 office actions per allowance. Practitioners can use this average to estimate the frequency of examiner interactions required to reach a grant for applications in this portfolio. These metrics offer an overview of the firm's prosecution results.
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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (17%) |
| §112 only | 2 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (58%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETTITT, JOHN F | 2 | 26.0% | +21.8% |
| BARSKY, JARED | 2 | 50.2% | +22.7% |
| CLARK, RYAN T | 1 | 50.4% | +18.2% |
| ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | 1 | 68.7% | +28.6% |
| WILSON, MICHAEL C | 1 | 41.5% | +17.9% |
| LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 1 | 82.1% | +24.2% |
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 1 | 65.6% | +27.7% |
| PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 1 | 77.8% | +13.0% |
| KING, BRIAN M | 1 | 70.1% | +23.8% |
| COOK, LISA V | 1 | 67.6% | +9.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404473 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING OF ELECTROPHYSICAL EFFECTS DURING TISSUE TREATMENT | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18398897 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR NATURAL GAS LIQUEFACTION | PETTITT, JOHN F | 8d overdue |
| 18356991 | Drainage System | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 8d overdue |
| 18315233 | LNG Liquefaction System and Process | KING, BRIAN M | 41d |
| 18890466 | MOVING TARGETS ROUTE SIMULATOR QUARTERBACK GAME | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | — |
| 18792154 | LNG LIQUEFACTION SYSTEM AND PROCESS | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 18680548 | FEL D 1 KNOCKOUTS AND ASSOCIATED COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS BASED ON CRISPR-CAS9 GENOMIC EDITING | WILSON, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18348605 | IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC METHODS USING ELECTROPORATION | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18126561 | METHODS OF ADMINISTERING SOTALOL HYDROCHLORIDE | BARSKY, JARED | 125d overdue |
| 18417748 | METHOD OF INITIATING AND ESCALATING SOTALOL HYDROCHLORIDE DOSING | BARSKY, JARED | 121d overdue |
| 18398897 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR NATURAL GAS LIQUEFACTION | PETTITT, JOHN F | 8d overdue |
| 18356991 | Drainage System | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 8d overdue |
| 18315233 | LNG Liquefaction System and Process | KING, BRIAN M | 41d |
| 18930252 | METHODS OF REDUCING ADVERSE EFFECTS OF NON-THERMAL ABLATION | CLARK, RYAN T | — |
| 18890466 | MOVING TARGETS ROUTE SIMULATOR QUARTERBACK GAME | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | — |
| 18792154 | LNG LIQUEFACTION SYSTEM AND PROCESS | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Virginia Tech | 3 |
| NuBlu Innovations, LLC | 3 |
| AltaThera Pharmaceuticals | 2 |
| Mao, Shiwei | 1 |
| Indoor Biotechnologies Inc. | 1 |
| High Roller | 1 |
| David Kroeger | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 3 |
| 1628 | 2 |
| 1638 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 1642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18930252 | METHODS OF REDUCING ADVERSE EFFECTS OF NON-THERMAL ABLATION | VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC. | CLARK, RYAN T | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 | |
| 18890466 | MOVING TARGETS ROUTE SIMULATOR QUARTERBACK GAME | Mao, Shiwei | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 | |
| 18792154 | LNG LIQUEFACTION SYSTEM AND PROCESS | NuBlu Innovations, LLC | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18680548 | FEL D 1 KNOCKOUTS AND ASSOCIATED COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS BASED ON CRISPR-CAS9 GENOMIC EDITING | Indoor Biotechnologies Inc. | WILSON, MICHAEL C | 1638 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18417748 | METHOD OF INITIATING AND ESCALATING SOTALOL HYDROCHLORIDE DOSING | AltaThera Pharmaceuticals LLC | BARSKY, JARED | 1628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 121d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18404473 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING OF ELECTROPHYSICAL EFFECTS DURING TISSUE TREATMENT | VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC. | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 3791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18398897 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR NATURAL GAS LIQUEFACTION | NuBlu Innovations, LLC | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18356991 | Drainage System | NuBlu Innovations, LLC | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 3762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18348605 | IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC METHODS USING ELECTROPORATION | VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC. | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18315233 | LNG Liquefaction System and Process | High Roller E & C, LLC | KING, BRIAN M | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18126561 | METHODS OF ADMINISTERING SOTALOL HYDROCHLORIDE | AltaThera Pharmaceuticals LLC | BARSKY, JARED | 1628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 125d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 17787773 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR OOCYTE-SPECIFIC CONTRACEPTION | David Kroeger | COOK, LISA V | 1642 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
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