Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 6 clients • 9 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nordic Patent Service operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm has managed 100 career applications and currently oversees 6 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 73.08. On average, the firm receives 3.26 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. 4 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. 4 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 | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| §112 only | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 1 | 81.3% | +12.7% |
| YIP, JACK | 1 | 33.0% | +37.8% |
| SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 1 | 56.3% | +37.7% |
| LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
| ZADEH, BOB | 1 | 77.0% | +38.6% |
| GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1 | 72.3% | +37.7% |
| PIERCE, JEREMY R | 1 | 56.8% | +43.2% |
| CLARK, AMY LYNN | 1 | 39.1% | +31.2% |
| FRENCH, CORRELL T | 1 | 44.4% | +32.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873926 | CONNECTOR FOR BEVERAGE DISPENSE LINE | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566426 | PLANT-DERIVED VESICLES INCORPORATING TRANS-MEMBRANE PROTEINS | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 18d overdue |
| 18554391 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF VIRUS-INDUCED DISEASE | CLARK, AMY LYNN | — |
| 18003394 | APPARATUS AND MECHANISM FOR SIMULATING MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND METHODS | FRENCH, CORRELL T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566426 | PLANT-DERIVED VESICLES INCORPORATING TRANS-MEMBRANE PROTEINS | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 18d overdue |
| 18839512 | COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR A BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEM | ZADEH, BOB | 14d |
| 18839490 | Exchangeable applicator for inserting a flexible line and a dispensing valve in a beverage tapping head | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 29d |
| 18557833 | ZOSTERA MARINA FIBER OBJECT WITH IMPROVED ACOUSTIC AND THERMAL PROPERTIES | PIERCE, JEREMY R | 61d |
| 18873926 | CONNECTOR FOR BEVERAGE DISPENSE LINE | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
| 18950736 | APPARATUSES FOR SIMULATING DENTAL PROCEDURES AND METHODS | YIP, JACK | — |
| 18864036 | MEAT INJECTION DEVICE | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | — |
| 18554391 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF VIRUS-INDUCED DISEASE | CLARK, AMY LYNN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Carlsberg Breweries A/S | 3 |
| SIMtoLIFE B.V. | 2 |
| Fomaco A/S | 1 |
| Aquaporin A/S | 1 |
| Søuld Aps | 1 |
| Qur Medical Aps | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 3 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873926 | CONNECTOR FOR BEVERAGE DISPENSE LINE | Carlsberg Breweries A/S | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 3754 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18950736 | APPARATUSES FOR SIMULATING DENTAL PROCEDURES AND METHODS | Simtolife B.V. | YIP, JACK | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18864036 | MEAT INJECTION DEVICE | Fomaco A/S | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18839490 | Exchangeable applicator for inserting a flexible line and a dispensing valve in a beverage tapping head | Carlsberg Breweries A/S | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 3754 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18839512 | COOLING ARRANGEMENT FOR A BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEM | Carlsberg Breweries A/S | ZADEH, BOB | 3754 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18566426 | PLANT-DERIVED VESICLES INCORPORATING TRANS-MEMBRANE PROTEINS | Aquaporin A/S | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1773 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18557833 | ZOSTERA MARINA FIBER OBJECT WITH IMPROVED ACOUSTIC AND THERMAL PROPERTIES | Søuld Aps | PIERCE, JEREMY R | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18554391 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF VIRUS-INDUCED DISEASE | Qur Medical Aps | CLARK, AMY LYNN | 1628 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18003394 | APPARATUS AND MECHANISM FOR SIMULATING MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND METHODS | Simtolife B.V. | FRENCH, CORRELL T | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
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