Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
389 pending office actions • 125 clients • 353 examiners • 195 art units • 0 of 389 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sheridan Ross PC has 397 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, with 20631 career applications. The figures indicate a large active docket and an extensive application history in this technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 85.87%, and allowed matters averaged 3.41 office actions per allowance. The rate provides a measure of resolved allowance outcomes, while the action average indicates the examination activity associated with allowed matters. Reviewing all four figures helps practitioners distinguish current workload from historical results and the response effort reflected in resolved prosecutions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 103 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. 103 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 | 22 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 63 (16%) |
| §103 only | 105 (27%) |
| §102 only | 21 (5%) |
| §112 only | 10 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 9 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 13 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 144 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOSSER, ROBERT E | 4 | 46.8% | +10.0% |
| MYHR, JUSTIN L | 3 | 63.8% | +28.1% |
| D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY | 3 | 73.2% | +13.9% |
| KIM, KEVIN Y | 3 | 78.3% | +15.9% |
| PARENDO, KEVIN A | 3 | 72.3% | +11.5% |
| YOO, JASSON H | 3 | 62.4% | +32.9% |
| GARNER, WERNER G | 3 | 60.1% | +24.2% |
| VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 3 | 54.4% | +38.2% |
| GRAY, AARON J | 3 | 82.3% | +29.8% |
| MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 2 | 5.9% | -6.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18257921 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | GRAY, AARON J | 5d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494153 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED REMITTANCE VALUE OUTLIER DETECTION IN PROCESSING OF DATABASE RECORDS | MOSER, BRUCE M | 114d overdue |
| 18435869 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING AIRFLOW AND CONTAMINATION IN LOADING STATIONS AND CHUTES OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 93d overdue |
| 18494092 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING CHARGE VALUES AFFECTING THE PROCESSING OF DATABASE RECORDS | FELTEN, DANIEL S | 86d overdue |
| 17920541 | MICROFLUIDIC CHIPS AND MICROPHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS USING THE SAME | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 86d overdue |
| 18344502 | ROR2 INHIBITORS AND USE THEREOF IN TREATING AND/OR PREVENTING CARTILAGE LOSS | MCCOLLUM, ANDREA K | 73d overdue |
| 17914006 | IMAGING ELEMENT AND IMAGING DEVICE | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 38d overdue |
| 16703558 | TAPERED METAL CUP AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 38d overdue |
| 18250936 | HAND OPERATED ACTUATOR MECHANISM | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 35d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18106573 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CENTRALIZED CASINO PATRON AND ACTIVITY TRACKING, ANALYSIS AND REPORTING | GARNER, WERNER G | 2d overdue |
| 18257921 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | GRAY, AARON J | 5d |
| 18476191 | WAGERING GAME PLAY FEATURE WITH SEQUENTIALLY PROVIDED BONUS GAME AWARDS | YOO, JASSON H | 16d |
| 18252583 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | GRAY, AARON J | 19d |
| 17824123 | PAYLINE BONUS FEATURE FOR A WAGERING GAME | MOSSER, ROBERT E | 19d |
| 18210188 | TIERED BONUS GAME METHODS | MYHR, JUSTIN L | 20d |
| 18242614 | PLAYER IDENTIFICATION BASED ON PLAYER BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS IN A CASINO ENVIRONMENT | KIM, KEVIN Y | 22d |
| 17797956 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | VAN ROY, TOD THOMAS | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 42 |
| 2893 | 12 |
| 2817 | 10 |
| 2812 | 8 |
| 3791 | 7 |
| 3796 | 7 |
| 2897 | 7 |
| 2884 | 5 |
| 2859 | 5 |
| 2828 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18770970 | Untitled | Igt | CARROLL, BRITTNEY M | 6217 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 18828843 | Untitled | Igt | LEICHLITER, CHASE E | 3715 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19456553 | METHODS FOR MANAGING ONE OR MORE UNCORRELATED ELEMENTS IN DATA AND DEVICES THEREOF | Mitchell International, Inc. | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 3681 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2026 |
| 19407885 | Interleukin-15, PD-1 Antibodies, and Taxanes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer | Immunitybio, Inc. | KONOPELSKI SNAVEL, SARA ELIZABETH | 1658 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2025 |
| 19481086 | DIGITAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NAVIGATING AND MANAGING CLINICAL CARE CONTINUUM | Manta Cares Inc. | PATEL, JAY M | 3681 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2025 |
| 19156951 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM | Krypton Arc Pty Ltd. | TULLIA, STEVEN A | 3675 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2025 |
| 19285680 | HARDWARE RECOVERY UTILIZING STATE INFORMATION | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | MCNAMARA, SEAN KEVIN | 2113 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19284536 | INTERCHANGEABLE END EFFECTOR AND STERILE BARRIER | Mazor Robotics Ltd. | BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY | 3618 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 19274319 | ADAPTIVE PORT ROUTING | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | THIEU, BENJAMIN M | 2453 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19259662 | SURGICAL DRAPE WITH SEPARABLE ELEMENTS | Creative Surgical Solutions, LLC | NGUYEN, CAMTU TRAN | 3786 | Other | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19253255 | MULTI-CABLE INTERCONNECT CONNECTION SYSTEM | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | 2833 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19253071 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING AND USING AN IMPLANT PLAN EVALUATION MODEL | Mazor Robotics Ltd. | JONES, DIANA S | 3775 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19251512 | AUTOMATIC ROBOTIC PROCEDURE FOR SKIN CUTTING, TISSUE PATHWAY, AND DILATION CREATION | Mazor Robotics Ltd. | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19234950 | INULIN COMPOSITIONS AND PLANT-BASED DAIRY MILK ALTERNATIVE COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THE SAME | Whitewave Services, Inc. | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19220492 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO CURE A COATING ON A METALLIC CONTAINER | BALL CORPORATION | PAIK, SANG YEOP | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19213643 | NAVIGATION AT ULTRA LOW TO HIGH FREQUENCIES | Medtronic Navigation, Inc. | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19213755 | MOUNTING DEVICE FOR A METAL PANEL | Rmh Tech LLC | KRYCINSKI, STANTON L | 3631 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19211886 | CONTENT AUTHENTICATION AND VALIDATION VIA MULTI-FACTOR DIGITAL TOKENS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | Immunitybio, Inc. | ZAIDI, SYED A | 2432 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19204253 | CONTAINER CLOSURE AND DISPENSATION SYSTEM | Danone US, LLC | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19196037 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBOTIC COLLISION AVOIDANCE USING MEDICAL IMAGING | Mazor Robotics Ltd. | AZHAR, ARSLAN | 3656 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19191680 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING PROPERTY INSPECTION EFFICIENCY | Accurence, Inc. | THERKORN, ERICA GERALDINE | 2618 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19186346 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR BACK-BETTING PROGRESSIVE PRIZE POOLS IN A GAMING SYSTEM | Igt | CUFF, MICHAEL A | 3715 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19178531 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING ANATOMICAL MOTION | Mazor Robotics Ltd. | MARC, MCDIEUNEL | 3656 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19174316 | DYNAMIC FABRIC REACTION FOR OPTIMIZED COLLECTIVE COMMUNICATION | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | WOO, ANDREW M | 2458 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19174443 | COMPANION METADATA FOR PRECISION TIME PROTOCOL (PTP) HARDWARE CLOCK | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | WAQAS, SAAD A | 2468 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19170969 | STRAP CLIP FOR A ROWING MACHINE | Rowmo Co. | HAWN, PATRICK D | 3631 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19169745 | FUNCTIONALIZED AROMATIC PHOSPHONIC ACIDS FOR DISPLAY AND SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | KANG, TAE-SIK | 1728 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19083321 | PARTICIPATION AWARDS FOR WIDE-AREA PROGRESSIVE WAGERING GAMES | Igt | SHAH, MILAP | 3715 | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19110972 | VEHICLE-EXTERNAL SOUND REPRODUCING DEVICE AND VEHICLE DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | ELAHEE, MD S | 2694 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19109772 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND LEARNING DEVICE | Sony Group Corporation | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 3792 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19109626 | PELVIC EDUCATIONAL MODEL | Granville Biomedical Inc. | UTAMA, ROBERT J | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19068544 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR ENCRYPTED DATA TRANSFER | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | WRIGHT, BRYAN F | 2497 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19105931 | LIGHT DETECTION ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | GILES, NICHOLAS G | 2639 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19105700 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR CLASSIFICATION OF AN EDIBLE SEED AND A SCANNING DEVICE THEREFOR | Surenut Pty Ltd. | LYONS, MICHAEL A | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19058978 | TRAFFIC REORDERING FOR LOWER TOGGLING | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | ABAD, FARLEY J | 2181 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19057041 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR DISAGGREGATED MEMORY RESOURCES IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | MYERS, PAUL R | 2176 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19104086 | AUTOMATED METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE DEGRADATION OF AN ACTIVE SUBSTANCE | Universidad Simón Bolívar | YAZBACK, MAHER | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19104076 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING HLB DISEASE | Universidad Simón Bolívar | TANINGCO, MARCUS H | 2884 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19050522 | ARRANGEMENTS FOR PROVIDING A SUBSTANTIALLY FLUID-TIGHT SEAL | Galvgard (U.K.) Limited | LEE, GILBERT Y | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19044298 | GANTRY SYSTEM FOR ANIMALS | Paw Acquisition I Corp. | WANG, MICHAEL H | 3642 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19030479 | SPINAL IMPLANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030694 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVAPORATIVE COOLING CONTROL | Western Mechanical Solutions, LLC | FURDGE, LARRY L | 3763 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030166 | SLOT MACHINE IMPLEMENTING A MIRROR OPERATION | Igt | MYHR, JUSTIN L | 3715 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030220 | CARDLESS LOGIN AT TABLE GAMES | Igt | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030411 | DATA SHUFFLE OFFLOAD | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | MYERS, PAUL R | 2176 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030136 | AUTOMATED PILL FULFILLMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Cvs Pharmacy, Inc. | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19028356 | STATISTICAL HIGH BANDWIDTH AND PACKET RATE CROSSBAR WITH LOW CELL COUNT | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | COUSINS, JOSEPH M | 2459 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19024508 | TAPERED METAL CUP AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | BALL CORPORATION | BROWN, JARED O | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 | |
| 19024476 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING MONETARY VALUE GAMING TICKET REDEMPTION | Everi Payments Inc. | PIERCE, DAMON JOSEPH | 3715 | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19024073 | PRE-AUTHORIZED CASINO CREDIT INSTRUMENT | Everi Payments Inc. | HALL, SHAUNA-KAY N | 3715 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial85.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Sheridan Ross Pc were allowed, across 20,631 applications in USPTO records.
3.41 office actions per allowed application on average.
389 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 125 clients, before 353 examiners in 195 art units.
