Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP -

7 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=11318 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.1%
Allowance Rate
n=11318
+0.51σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=11318
2.9
OAs to Allowance
n=6515
-0.35σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=6515
860 days
Time to Allowance
n=6515
+7.0pp
Interview Lift
n=11318
22.7%
RCE Rate
n=11318
1.3%
Appeal Rate
n=11318

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

66.8%
§101 Overcome
n=1390
73.7%
§102 Overcome
n=2790
74.0%
§103 Overcome
n=4748
74.4%
§112 Overcome
n=3051

Specialization & Scale

G06F, A61K, H04L
Top CPC Subclasses
18%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=11318
22
Practitioners
n=11318
514.4
Apps / Practitioner
n=11318

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (43%)
4
Medium (57%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (43%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
86% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 2 68.6% +17.6%
NGUYEN, VI X 1 85.9% +13.2%
MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN 1 60.4% +47.5%
RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE 1 65.6% +34.2%
YANG, WEI WEN 1 82.0% +10.9%
ZAMORY, JUSTIN L 1 72.7% +17.4%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18165912 NEURAL NETWORK APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFICATION, SEGMENTATION, AND TREATMENT OUTCOME PREDICTION FOR ANEURYSMS YANG, WEI WEN

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18313305 DEVICES FOR VASCULAR OCCLUSION HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 1d overdue
17179287 Devices For Vascular Occlusion HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 76d
18747254 Implant Delivery System NGUYEN, VI X 84d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18313305 DEVICES FOR VASCULAR OCCLUSION HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 1d overdue
17179287 Devices For Vascular Occlusion HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 76d
18747254 Implant Delivery System NGUYEN, VI X 84d
18350641 Clot Retrieval MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN
18331015 Thermal Detachment System For Implantable Devices RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE
18165912 NEURAL NETWORK APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFICATION, SEGMENTATION, AND TREATMENT OUTCOME PREDICTION FOR ANEURYSMS YANG, WEI WEN
17454770 Distal Aspiration Catheter And Method ZAMORY, JUSTIN L

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Terumo 7

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37715
26621
37831

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18747254 Implant Delivery System Microvention, Inc. NGUYEN, VI X 3771 §102§103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18350641 Clot Retrieval Microvention, Inc. MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN 3771 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 11, 2023
18331015 Thermal Detachment System For Implantable Devices Microvention, Inc. RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE 3771 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 07, 2023
18313305 DEVICES FOR VASCULAR OCCLUSION Microvention, Inc. HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 3771 §102§103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18165912 NEURAL NETWORK APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFICATION, SEGMENTATION, AND TREATMENT OUTCOME PREDICTION FOR ANEURYSMS Microvention, Inc. YANG, WEI WEN 2662 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 07, 2023
17454770 Distal Aspiration Catheter And Method Microvention, Inc. ZAMORY, JUSTIN L 3783 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 12, 2021
17179287 Devices For Vascular Occlusion Microvention, Inc. HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 3771 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Feb 18, 2021

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