Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Prince Lobel Tye LLP reports 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 692 career applications. The current unresolved workload is limited relative to the application record shown in the profile.
Its resolved allowance rate is 86.88%, with an average of 3.5 office actions per allowance. These figures provide both an outcome measure and an indication of prosecution effort for resolved allowances. A practitioner reviewing the profile can consider the active docket alongside the firm’s reported historical handling pattern.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | 1 | 68.9% | +28.4% |
| NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | 1 | 31.0% | +36.8% |
| GONG, KRIS HANYU | 1 | 25.0% | +48.2% |
| PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 1 | 26.9% | +37.5% |
| GEBRE, MESSERET F | 1 | 56.9% | +19.9% |
| CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1 | 41.1% | +50.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009242 | Buoyant Water-Inflatable Toy | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | — |
| 18899641 | DISPLAY DEVICE GATED ON NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN CONTRACTS | NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | — |
| 18813762 | ANTIMICROBIAL FACE MASK | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
| 18774371 | Wearable Thermoregulation Device | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18535144 | APPLICATION-LAYER LOAD BALANCING AND HIGH AVAILABILITY VIA LACP BONDING IN A NETWORK | GEBRE, MESSERET F | 16d |
| 19009242 | Buoyant Water-Inflatable Toy | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | — |
| 18899641 | DISPLAY DEVICE GATED ON NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN CONTRACTS | NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | — |
| 18813762 | ANTIMICROBIAL FACE MASK | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
| 18774371 | Wearable Thermoregulation Device | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | — |
| 17964447 | Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Material for Concrete Applications | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Slis Inc. | 1 |
| Facet Labs Inc. | 1 |
| Nexvera LLC | 1 |
| Thermaband, Inc. | 1 |
| 12952386 CANADA Inc. | 1 |
| Chasm Advanced Materials | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 2445 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19009242 | Buoyant Water-Inflatable Toy | Slis Inc. | ZHANG, YINGCHUAN | 3711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18899641 | DISPLAY DEVICE GATED ON NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN CONTRACTS | Facet Labs Inc. | NILFOROUSH, MOHAMMAD A | 3697 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18813762 | ANTIMICROBIAL FACE MASK | Nexvera LLC | GONG, KRIS HANYU | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18774371 | Wearable Thermoregulation Device | Thermaband, Inc. | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 3794 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18535144 | APPLICATION-LAYER LOAD BALANCING AND HIGH AVAILABILITY VIA LACP BONDING IN A NETWORK | 12952386 Canada Inc. | GEBRE, MESSERET F | 2445 | §112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 17964447 | Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Material for Concrete Applications | Chasm Advanced Materials, Inc. | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial86.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Prince Lobel Tye LLP were allowed, across 692 applications in USPTO records.
3.50 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.
