Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 1 client • 9 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
PERKINS COIE LLP - Shifamed Holdings, LLC has 301 career applications in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm has reached a resolved allowance rate of 76.54 percent. Each allowance requires an average of 2.23 office actions. There are 10 pending office actions currently active.
The 76.54 percent allowance rate provides a realistic expectation for success in this competitive technology area. The 2.23 office actions per allowance suggest a relatively efficient prosecution process. The 301 career applications offer a solid foundation for these performance statistics. Practitioners can use the 2.23 average to estimate the number of responses needed to reach an allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 7 (70%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 2 | 48.2% | +29.2% |
| DAKKAK, JIHAD | 1 | 49.3% | +46.0% |
| RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH | 1 | 48.8% | +55.5% |
| BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 1 | 54.6% | +32.4% |
| MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE | 1 | 78.2% | +9.6% |
| LOUIS, RICHARD G | 1 | 74.7% | +17.2% |
| MARCETICH, ADAM M | 1 | 72.7% | +18.8% |
| ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 1 | 68.1% | +31.0% |
| DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 1 | 48.1% | +45.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681858 | ADJUSTABLE SHUNTING SYSTEMS WITH ENERGY REDIRECTING ELEMENTS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS AND DEVICES | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 33d |
| 18572101 | ADJUSTABLE SHUNTING SYSTEMS WITH CONTROL ELEMENTS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 62d |
| 18567561 | METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SENSORS FOR MEDICAL SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND DEVICES | MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17992655 | IMPLANTABLE SHUNT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 147d overdue |
| 18247499 | ADJUSTABLE SHUNTS WITH RESONANT CIRCUITS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 138d overdue |
| 18290595 | IMPLANTABLE SHUNTS WITH MULTI-LAYERED FLUID RESISTORS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 35d overdue |
| 18555777 | ACCOMMODATING INTRAOCULAR LENSES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | LOUIS, RICHARD G | 9d overdue |
| 18681858 | ADJUSTABLE SHUNTING SYSTEMS WITH ENERGY REDIRECTING ELEMENTS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS AND DEVICES | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 33d |
| 18572101 | ADJUSTABLE SHUNTING SYSTEMS WITH CONTROL ELEMENTS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 62d |
| 18997775 | ADJUSTABLE SHUNTS WITH SHAPE MEMORY ACTUATORS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DAKKAK, JIHAD | — |
| 18698338 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING FLOW IN ADJUSTABLE SHUNTING SYSTEMS | RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SHIFAMED HOLDINGS, LLC | 10 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 7 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18997775 | ADJUSTABLE SHUNTS WITH SHAPE MEMORY ACTUATORS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Shifamed Holdings, LLC | DAKKAK, JIHAD | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18698338 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING FLOW IN ADJUSTABLE SHUNTING SYSTEMS | Shifamed Holdings, LLC | RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18681858 | ADJUSTABLE SHUNTING SYSTEMS WITH ENERGY REDIRECTING ELEMENTS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS AND DEVICES | Shifamed Holdings, LLC | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18290595 | IMPLANTABLE SHUNTS WITH MULTI-LAYERED FLUID RESISTORS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Shifamed Holdings, LLC | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18572101 | ADJUSTABLE SHUNTING SYSTEMS WITH CONTROL ELEMENTS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Shifamed Holdings, LLC | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18567561 | METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SENSORS FOR MEDICAL SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND DEVICES | Shifamed Holdings, LLC | MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18555777 | ACCOMMODATING INTRAOCULAR LENSES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | Shifamed Holdings, LLC | LOUIS, RICHARD G | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18247499 | ADJUSTABLE SHUNTS WITH RESONANT CIRCUITS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Shifamed Holdings, LLC | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 138d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 17992655 | IMPLANTABLE SHUNT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Shifamed Holdings, LLC | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 147d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
| 17760030 | ACCOMMODATING INTRAOCULAR LENSES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | Shifamed Holdings, LLC | DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
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