Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
90 pending office actions • 56 clients • 84 examiners • 63 art units • 0 of 90 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
NUTTER MCCLENNEN & FISH LLP operates in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering with 91 pending office actions and 5454 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 82.14%, showing allowance in a substantial majority of resolved matters. The portfolio is broad, and the open-action inventory indicates a significant continuing examination workload.
The average of 3.68 office actions per allowance indicates that allowed matters often require several examination exchanges. Practitioners can use the allowance rate to understand resolved outcomes and the action average to anticipate response effort, while the pending inventory highlights docket-management needs. The aggregate profile is informative for planning but does not replace application-specific claim analysis.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 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. 21 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 | 1 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 18 (20%) |
| §103 only | 24 (27%) |
| §102 only | 4 (4%) |
| §112 only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 6 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 33 (37%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 4 | 68.6% | +14.2% |
| BELLO, AGUSTIN | 2 | 75.4% | +12.0% |
| BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 2 | 31.2% | +29.2% |
| TOWA, RENE T | 2 | 49.5% | +17.5% |
| BURGESS, JOSEPH D | 1 | 39.7% | +35.7% |
| JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T | 1 | 91.4% | -12.9% |
| SMITH, MAURICE C | 1 | 84.6% | -4.2% |
| TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | 1 | 64.7% | +29.6% |
| DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | 1 | 74.0% | +35.2% |
| GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 1 | 10.9% | +12.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19231045 | USER INTERFACE FOR CONTENT MODERATION FOR VOICE CHAT | JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18119589 | DEHYDROGENATION CATALYST | MCCAIG, BRIAN A | 127d overdue |
| 18225129 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NERVE STIMULATION | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 79d overdue |
| 17354649 | ENDOSCOPIC SUTURING DEVICE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 49d overdue |
| 18438452 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATION AND TESTING OF CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT PROTOCOLS TO ASSIST WITH TARGETED PATIENT INTERVENTIONS | BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 46d overdue |
| 17506585 | IV GRAVITY DELIVERY MONITOR | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 46d overdue |
| 18225130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NERVE STIMULATION | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 31d overdue |
| 18646466 | ELECTRO-MECHANICAL TOILET SEAT SYSTEM | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 30d overdue |
| 18660835 | MULTI-STAGE ADAPTIVE SYSTEM FOR CONTENT MODERATION | WOZNIAK, JAMES S | 29d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18438452 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATION AND TESTING OF CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT PROTOCOLS TO ASSIST WITH TARGETED PATIENT INTERVENTIONS | BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 46d overdue |
| 18405558 | SELF-ASSEMBLING MAGNETIC ANASTOMOSIS DEVICE HAVING AN EXOSKELETON | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 20d |
| 18438453 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATION AND TESTING OF CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT PROTOCOLS TO ASSIST WITH TARGETED PATIENT INTERVENTIONS | BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 22d |
| 18384022 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESERVING AND MANIPULATING OF ACUTE OTOMIES | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 28d |
| 19320651 | HEALTHCARE INFORMATION ANALYSIS AND GRAPHICAL DISPLAY PRESENTATION SYSTEM | BURGESS, JOSEPH D | — |
| 19241791 | ARTERIOTOMY CLOSURE APPARATUS WITH SLOTTED SHOE FOR ADVANTAGEOUS PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | — |
| 19209310 | MEDICAL DEVICE NAVIGATION TRACKING | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | — |
| 19208475 | METHOD OF AUGMENTING TISSUE | DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 9 |
| 3791 | 5 |
| 3796 | 4 |
| 3685 | 2 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2635 | 2 |
| 1784 | 2 |
| 2119 | 2 |
| 1791 | 2 |
| 2655 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19320651 | HEALTHCARE INFORMATION ANALYSIS AND GRAPHICAL DISPLAY PRESENTATION SYSTEM | T6 Health Systems LLC | BURGESS, JOSEPH D | 3685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19241791 | ARTERIOTOMY CLOSURE APPARATUS WITH SLOTTED SHOE FOR ADVANTAGEOUS PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION | Vivasure Medical Limited | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 3771 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19231045 | USER INTERFACE FOR CONTENT MODERATION FOR VOICE CHAT | Modulate, Inc. | JACOBS-BURTON, LASHONDA T | 2457 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19131889 | OPTICAL ELEMENT INSPECTION METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPLICATION | Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19209310 | MEDICAL DEVICE NAVIGATION TRACKING | Ocean Orthopedics, Inc. | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19208475 | METHOD OF AUGMENTING TISSUE | Ocean Orthopedics, Inc. | DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | 3771 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19202533 | PLASMA CENTER QUEUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | Haemonetics Corporation | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 3685 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19193651 | FORENSIC FILE SERVICE | Mimecast North America, Inc. | UDDIN, MD I | 2169 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19179792 | Low-Profile Expandable Grip and Stand | Epstein, Jacob | SMITH, NKEISHA | 3632 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19177168 | SUTURE LOCKING CINCH SYSTEM | Endofix Medical Technologies, Inc. | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19175390 | SYSTEM FOR MAPPING MODEL, COST, AND SCHEDULE OF LARGE SCALE CAPITAL PROJECTS | Hexagon Innovation Hub GmbH | ROTARU, OCTAVIAN | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19119991 | FLUID SAMPLING APPARATUS, METHOD AND KIT | Volumeer AB | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 | |
| 19098442 | LOGICAL DATA CENTER | Soluna Holdings, Inc. | CLARE, MARK C | 3628 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19082813 | STERILE FIELD SURGICAL IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Ocean Orthopedics, Inc. | SATTI, HUMAM M | 2422 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19072201 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING ESOPHAGEAL TISSUE FROM THERMAL INJURY | Advanced Cooling Therapy, Inc. | SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 3794 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19062898 | TAMPER-RESISTANT CONTAINER | Legitimate, Inc. | HAILE, BENYAM | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19060150 | INFRARED TRANSMISSION CELL WITH ATTACHED FLOW SENSOR FOR MICROFLUIDIC MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY | Redshift Bioanalytics, Inc. | DOWNING, SAVANNAH STARR | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18997403 | SWITCHABLE GLASS, VEHICLE DOOR ASSEMBLY, AND VEHICLE | Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. | LIN, CHUN-NAN | 2629 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19029809 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESERVING AND MANIPULATING ACUTE OTOMIES | G.I. Windows, Inc. | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19024984 | INTEGRATED DATA CENTER ABSORPTION SYSTEM | Advanced Liquid Cooling Technologies Inc. | BAUER, CASSEY D | 3763 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19021662 | MOISTURE-ERASABLE NOTE TAKING SYSTEM | Rocket Innovations, Inc. | FERNSTROM, KURT | 3715 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19016468 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR NEUROMODULATION | National Autonomous University Of Mexico | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 3796 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19014803 | EYE TRACKING-BASED DETECTION AND CORRELATION WITH NEUROLOGICAL CONDITION | Stardots AB | SIPES, JOHN CURTIS | 2872 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19013171 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING HEMOSTATIC MATERIALS FOR BLOOD VESSEL CLOSURE | Cardiva Medical, Inc. | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 3771 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18878426 | ATMOSPHERE LAMP | Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. | CARTER, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18985859 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ERROR CORRECTION AND MANAGEMENT IN A MOBILE-BASED CROWDSOURCING PLATFORM | Crowdcomfort, Inc. | MUSTAFA, IMRAN K | 3668 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18969495 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A RUNNING MOBILE APPLICATION | Crowdcomfort, Inc. | WANG, ZHIPENG | 2115 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18956828 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING GEOLOCATION SERVICES IN A MOBILE-BASED CROWDSOURCING PLATFORM | Crowdcomfort, Inc. | BELLO, AGUSTIN | 2635 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18950558 | LONG TRAINING FIELD SEQUENCE CONSTRUCTION | Atlas Global Technologies LLC | PHAN, MAN U | 2477 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18689392 | COATED GLASS AND LAMINATED GLASS | Fujian Wanda Automobile Glass Industry Co., Ltd. | HORGER, KIM S. | 1784 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18917338 | ENHANCED RESTRICTED ACCESS WINDOW MECHANISM FOR LOW LATENCY TRANSMISSION | Avalon Technology Solutions LLC | CRIGLER, RYAN ALEXANDER | 2472 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18857155 | PHOTONIC FILM AND TRANSPARENT PROJECTION DISPLAY GLASS | Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. | DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18903733 | MULTI-LINK OPERATION AND INDICATION FOR NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS | Avalon Technology Solutions LLC | LAMONT, BENJAMIN S | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 | |
| 18843840 | LAMINATED GLASS | Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. | SAMPLE, DAVID R | 1784 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18815180 | Systems and Methods for Supply Chain Intelligence | Agtools Inc. | OBAID, FATEH M | 3627 | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18812135 | CHANNEL PUNCTURING INDICATION IN A SOUNDING NULL DATA PACKET (NDP) FRAME | Avalon Technology Solutions LLC | TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | 2469 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18805899 | PADDING METHOD FOR AGGREGATED PPDU IN ENHANCEMENT OF IEEE 802.11AX | Avalon Technology Solutions LLC | NG, CHRISTINE Y | 2464 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18798393 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING, MANAGING, AND LEVERAGING CROWDSOURCED DATA | Crowdcomfort, Inc. | WORKU, KIDEST | 2119 | §101§102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18777209 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SEAFOOD IMITATION PRODUCT | Fukuichi Fishery Co., Ltd. | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18773672 | WAVELENGTH CALIBRATION METHOD FOR GRATING SPECTROMETERS | Zolix Analytical Instruments Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, LAM S | 2853 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18727617 | ENCAPSULATED BRIGHT STRIP ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING ENCAPSULATED BRIGHT STRIP ASSEMBLY AND EXTERNAL COMPONENT | Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. | DOUGLAS, STEVEN O | 3672 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18760931 | CORDAGE TRAVERSING DEVICE | Atlas Devices LLC | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18758832 | TETHERED CAP | Cheer Pack North America LLC | HOPPMANN, JOHN MARTIN | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18676706 | METHOD OF AUGMENTING WEIGHT LOSS BY PYLORUS-SPARING GASTRIC MYOTOMY | Envision Endoscopy, Inc. | DIETZ, NOE ROBERT | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18660835 | MULTI-STAGE ADAPTIVE SYSTEM FOR CONTENT MODERATION | Modulate, Inc. | WOZNIAK, JAMES S | 2655 | §101§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18646466 | ELECTRO-MECHANICAL TOILET SEAT SYSTEM | Kohler Co. | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 3754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18643493 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING PENILE BLOOD FLOW DURING SURGERY | Neuro-Vascular Research And Design Corporation | LAU, MICHAEL J | 3796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18630118 | CONTAINER FOR BLOOD COMPONENT COOLING AND FREEZING | Haemonetics Corporation | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18608295 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED INCIDENT REPORT CLASSIFICATION | Jensen Hughes, Inc. | BARBEE, MANUEL L | 2857 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18691211 | VEHICLE WINDOW ASSEMBLY WITH DECORATION | Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. | MORROW, JASON S | 3612 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial82.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP were allowed, across 5,454 applications in USPTO records.
3.68 office actions per allowed application on average.
90 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 56 clients, before 84 examiners in 63 art units.
