Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
552 pending office actions • 152 clients • 432 examiners • 237 art units • 1 of 552 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
SCULLY SCOTT MURPHY & PRESSER, PC focuses on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and has 555 pending office actions. Its 22566 career applications indicate a broad prosecution base and a substantial amount of continuing examination activity.
The resolved allowance rate is 86.63%, and an allowance has required an average of 3.17 office actions. These measures show that a large share of resolved matters reaches allowance, while the average path includes multiple examination exchanges. Practitioners should anticipate meaningful response activity and maintain close control of a sizable active docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 176 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. 176 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 | 14 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 47 (9%) |
| §103 only | 174 (32%) |
| §102 only | 25 (5%) |
| §112 only | 32 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 6 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 23 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 229 (41%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (0%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 50 | 60.1% | +25.6% |
| LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 7 | 47.9% | +40.6% |
| EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL | 5 | 59.7% | +63.0% |
| SPARKS, RUSSELL E | 4 | 64.1% | +14.0% |
| DEZENDORF, MORGAN FAITH | 4 | 26.7% | +50.0% |
| BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | 3 | 71.4% | +40.0% |
| TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | 3 | 68.6% | +24.2% |
| SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 3 | 50.4% | +27.2% |
| MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | 3 | 59.9% | +11.5% |
| BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 3 | 75.7% | +9.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801520 | Heat Exchanger | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 607d overdue |
| 17946046 | Method for preparing NdFeB magnets including lanthanum or cerium | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 547d overdue |
| 17768858 | Gas-Liquid Separator and Compression System | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 545d overdue |
| 18027917 | Flow Regulating Valve | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 538d overdue |
| 17949253 | Bulk Acoustic Resonator and Filter | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 534d overdue |
| 17638204 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 534d overdue |
| 18030500 | Valve Needle Assembly and Electronic Expansion Valve Having Same | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 516d overdue |
| 17764565 | COBALT-FREE CATHODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERY, METHOD FOR PREPARING COBALT-FREE CATHODE MATERIAL AND LITHIUM ION BATTERY | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 516d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801520 | Heat Exchanger | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 607d overdue |
| 17946046 | Method for preparing NdFeB magnets including lanthanum or cerium | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 547d overdue |
| 17768858 | Gas-Liquid Separator and Compression System | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 545d overdue |
| 18027917 | Flow Regulating Valve | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 538d overdue |
| 17949253 | Bulk Acoustic Resonator and Filter | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 534d overdue |
| 17638204 | RESIN COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 534d overdue |
| 17763664 | Cobalt-free positive electrode material, preparation method thereof and lithium ion battery | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 525d overdue |
| 18030500 | Valve Needle Assembly and Electronic Expansion Valve Having Same | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 516d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2178 | 52 |
| 3795 | 37 |
| 1755 | 18 |
| 2838 | 10 |
| 2853 | 9 |
| 3763 | 9 |
| 1761 | 9 |
| 1632 | 8 |
| 2681 | 7 |
| 1627 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19369558 | Untitled | Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | RAK, TAYLOR SIMON DUANE | 3697 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19558680 | VEHICLE | Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. | FLORES, ROBERTO W | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2026 |
| 19548012 | HELMET, COMPRISING A HELMET SHELL AND A STRAP SYSTEM | Busch Protective Germany GmbH & Co. Kg | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2026 |
| 18878036 | EYEBALL TRACKING OPTICAL SYSTEM AND HEAD-MOUNTED DEVICE | Beijing 7Invensun Technology Co., Ltd. | LEE, MICHAEL | 2422 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 19368472 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | HKC Corporation Limited | GYAWALI, BIPIN | 2625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2025 |
| 19332374 | A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-READABLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTROL DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD | Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | MA, LISA | 3628 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
| 19314341 | STEER-BY-WIRE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Ningbo Geely Automobile Research And Development Co., Ltd. | KIRBY, BRIAN R | 3747 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19297269 | ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE | Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | LE, PETER D | 2488 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2025 |
| 19289308 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND COOLING UNIT | Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | HARRIS, WILLIAM N | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19287964 | MEDICAL DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | REMALY, MARK DONALD | 3797 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19277956 | IoMT ENABLED ENDOSCOPE STATUS DISPLAY DEVICE | Olympus Surgical Technologies Europe Olympus Winter&Ibe GmbH | ROBINSON, KYLE G | 3685 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19257072 | INDUSTRIAL TRUCK COMPRISING A HYDRAULIC SYSTEM AND AT LEAST ONE HYDRAULICALLY OPERATED COMPONENT, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A HYDRAULIC SYSTEM OF AN INDUSTRIAL TRUCK | Jungheinrich AG | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19257041 | MOTION ESTIMATION REGION FOR THE MERGE CANDIDATES | BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | DANG, PHILIP | 2482 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19242515 | ROBOT CONTROL DEVICE, ROBOT, AND ROBOT CONTROL METHOD | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | MARC, MCDIEUNEL | 3656 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19226406 | INTERFERENCE FRINGE PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM, SHAPE MEASUREMENT DEVICE, AND SHAPE MEASUREMENT METHOD | Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | LAPAGE, MICHAEL P | 2877 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19210430 | Three-dimensional Imaging Module and Three-dimensional Scanner | Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd. | HANCOCK, DIANA ROBERT | 2852 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19203377 | ADJUSTABLE DELAY TO CONTROL NODE MISMATCH | Renesas Electronics America Inc. | KESSIE, DANIEL | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19189555 | INSERTION DEVICE HAVING OPERATION LEVER MORE EASILY BENDABLE IN PREDETERMINED DIRECTION AND OPERATION PORTION OF INSERTION DEVICE | Olympus Corporation | BOLER, RYNAE E | 3795 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19124600 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RAID, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | Suzhou MetaBrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | CHERY, MARDOCHEE | 2133 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19189825 | PRINTING DEVICE READING SURFACE OF PRINTING TARGET ON PLATEN TO OBTAIN SCAN DATA | Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | HUFFMAN, JULIAN D | 2859 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19181866 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | Renesas Electronics Corporation | HOUSTON, ADAM D | 2836 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19181783 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MEDICAL MULTI-DYE FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | BRUCE, FAROUK A | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19179308 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | Olympus Corporation | WOO, JAE KYUN | 3795 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19097404 | LAMINATED GLASS AND VEHICLE | Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. | KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19116791 | MEMORY DATA MIGRATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Suzhou MetaBrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | WONG, NANCI N | 2137 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19092205 | ELECTRODE SHEET AND SPLICING METHOD OF ELECTRODE SHEET | Hithium Tech Hk Limited | RIVERA, JOSHEL | 1746 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19089516 | POWER SWITCH FAULT DETECTION IN AN ELECTRICAL POWER CONVERTER | Magnix Usa Inc. | NGUYEN, TRUNG Q | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19088118 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | JOHNSON, RYAN | 2849 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19088317 | INFORMATION OUTPUT METHOD, INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | LANE, DANIEL E | 3715 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19088144 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVER, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | NGUYEN, PHUOC H | 2451 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19083570 | TOOL FOR GENERATING AND PUBLISHING VEHICLE OFFER | Constellation Software Inc. | KIM, PATRICK | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19073671 | CIRCUIT DEVICE, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, ENDOSCOPE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS | Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19073612 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | KHAN, USMAN A | 2637 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19071870 | MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | MORRISON, RASHEN E | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19072279 | ENDOSCOPE CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD OF CHANGING WAVELENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF ILLUMINATION LIGHT, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM | Olympus Corporation | WOO, JAE KYUN | 3795 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19069734 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | GUILLERMETY, JUAN M | 2682 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19105650 | Method and Apparatus for Predicting Loop Closure Path, Non-Transitory Storage Medium, and Processor | Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd. | KONG, SZE-HON | 3657 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19058635 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR ACCEPTING INPUT OPERATIONS FROM MOBILE TERMINAL | Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | MILIA, MARK R | 2681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19058689 | IMAGE READER, MULTI-FUNCTION PERIPHERAL, AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING ERROR NOTIFICATION AT APPROPRIATE TIME IN RESPONSE TO OCCURRENCE OF ERROR DURING USE OF READING UNIT | Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha | PACHOL, NICHOLAS C | 2699 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19057350 | ULTRASOUND PROBE AND ULTRASOUND ENDOSCOPE | Olympus Corporation | LY, TOMMY TAI | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19103736 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | BAE Systems PLC | GMOSER, WILLIAM L | 3647 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19049859 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | National Cancer Center | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | 3795 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19102719 | Method, Apparatus and System for Three-Dimensional Reconstruction | Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd. | CHANG, KENT WU | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19102665 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION | Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd. | CLOTHIER, MATTHEW MORRIS | 2614 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19049581 | CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR T CELL THERAPY | Kite Pharma, Inc. | WESTON, ALYSSA G | 1632 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19049249 | MULTIPHASE POWER CONVERTER | Renesas Electronics America Inc. | BERHANE, ADOLF D | 2838 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19047849 | CUTTING CONTROL METHOD, CUTTING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Casio Computer Co., Ltd. | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19044872 | INSERTION DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE | Olympus Corporation | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 3795 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 19100777 | ROTARY TELESCOPIC HANDLER | Magni Real Estate S.r.l. | YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 3665 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19043936 | BATTERY CELL RECYCLING DEVICE AND BATTERY CELL TAPE PROCESSING METHOD | Hithium Tech Hk Limited | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial86.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc were allowed, across 22,566 applications in USPTO records.
3.17 office actions per allowed application on average.
552 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 152 clients, before 432 examiners in 237 art units.
