Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
104 pending office actions • 32 clients • 101 examiners • 60 art units • 0 of 104 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shih IP Law Group, PLLC focuses on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 2164 career applications. The firm has achieved a resolved allowance rate pct of 90.09. Currently, there are 75 pending office actions in its docket. The 2164 career applications show a foundation of experience in medical and mechanical patent law.
The average office actions per allowance for this profile is 2.81. This figure suggests the prosecution process for reaching an allowance in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The 90.09 resolved allowance rate pct reflects a degree of success for the 2164 career applications managed by the firm. With 75 pending office actions, the firm is actively managing its current workload. These data points together illustrate the firm's historical performance and its current status within its primary technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 38 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. 38 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 | 2 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (6%) |
| §103 only | 47 (45%) |
| §102 only | 9 (9%) |
| §112 only | 4 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 35 (34%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3 | 55.0% | +15.6% |
| RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 2 | 72.3% | +39.1% |
| TRAN, BINH Q | 1 | 88.2% | +6.6% |
| AZARI, SEPEHR | 1 | 66.8% | +7.8% |
| JIN, GEORGE C. | 1 | 84.0% | +13.5% |
| KALAPODAS, DRAMOS | 1 | 79.5% | +26.6% |
| YU, NORMAN | 1 | 87.4% | +14.1% |
| PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 1 | 62.2% | +27.9% |
| SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 1 | 66.5% | +25.3% |
| JOSHI, SUNITA | 1 | 81.1% | +6.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19355232 | EXHAUST TREATMENT DEVICE | TRAN, BINH Q | — |
| 19216468 | EAR-WORN DEVICE WITH NEURAL NETWORK-BASED NOISE MODIFICATION AND/OR SPATIAL FOCUSING | YU, NORMAN | — |
| 19081230 | MIXING SPEECH AND NOISE IN AN EAR-WORN DEVICE BASED ON NOISE LEVEL | JOSHI, SUNITA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17997028 | DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING DEVICE, DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING METHOD, DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING PROGRAM, AND LEARNED MODEL | BURKE, TIONNA M | 118d overdue |
| 18179849 | CATHETER | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 31d overdue |
| 18578871 | BONE CONDUCTION-BASED EATING MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | ABDULLAH, AAISHA | 18d overdue |
| 17943248 | ROTARY RECIPROCATING DRIVE ACTUATOR | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 18d overdue |
| 18477118 | DETERMINING A FLOW METRIC FOR A FLOW OF GRANULAR PARTICLES | FRANK, RODNEY T | 10d overdue |
| 18918173 | ALTERNATING CURRENT SIGNAL TRANSFER APPARATUS AND ALTERNATING CURRENT APPARATUS | POOS, JOHN W | 9d overdue |
| 17997558 | REPLACING APPARATUS AND REPLACING METHOD | CADUGAN, ERICA E | 2d overdue |
| 18552242 | STEP COUNTING METHOD AND DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | HAGOS, EYOB | 5d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19192765 | HANDHELD ULTRASOUND DEVICE FOR DETECTING BREAST MASS BY SENSING MOVEMENT SPEED OF ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS | PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 21d |
| 18086142 | CATHETER, BALLOON EXPANSION METHOD, BALLOON COMPRESSION METHOD | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 22d |
| 18483659 | BALLOON CATHETER AND BALLOON DILATATION METHOD | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 40d |
| 19252215 | PISTON AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | JIN, GEORGE C. | — |
| 19243778 | IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM | KALAPODAS, DRAMOS | — |
| 19216468 | EAR-WORN DEVICE WITH NEURAL NETWORK-BASED NOISE MODIFICATION AND/OR SPATIAL FOCUSING | YU, NORMAN | — |
| 19192727 | HANDHELD ULTRASOUND DEVICE FOR DETECTING BREAST MASS BY CONTROLLING OPERATION OF ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | — |
| 18668331 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE METHOD | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 5 |
| 2872 | 4 |
| 2884 | 3 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| 2693 | 2 |
| 3668 | 2 |
| 2694 | 2 |
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19355232 | EXHAUST TREATMENT DEVICE | Isuzu Motors Limited | TRAN, BINH Q | 3746 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19163078 | INTERACTION CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND MEDIUM | Goertek Inc. | AZARI, SEPEHR | 2621 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19252215 | PISTON AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE | Isuzu Motors Limited | JIN, GEORGE C. | 3747 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19243778 | IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM | Jvckenwood Corporation | KALAPODAS, DRAMOS | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19216468 | EAR-WORN DEVICE WITH NEURAL NETWORK-BASED NOISE MODIFICATION AND/OR SPATIAL FOCUSING | Fortell Research Inc. | YU, NORMAN | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19192765 | HANDHELD ULTRASOUND DEVICE FOR DETECTING BREAST MASS BY SENSING MOVEMENT SPEED OF ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS | L’Imagin Inc. | PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 3799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19192727 | HANDHELD ULTRASOUND DEVICE FOR DETECTING BREAST MASS BY CONTROLLING OPERATION OF ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS | L’Imagin Inc. | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19081230 | MIXING SPEECH AND NOISE IN AN EAR-WORN DEVICE BASED ON NOISE LEVEL | Fortell Research Inc. | JOSHI, SUNITA | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 | |
| 19074887 | SEISMIC EXPLORATION METHOD, SUBSURFACE MONITORING METHOD, SEISMIC EXPLORATION SYSTEM, AND SEISMIC SOURCE DEVICE | The University of Tokyo | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| 19109582 | MOLYBDENUM PRECURSOR COMPOUND, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND METHOD FOR DEPOSITING MOLYBDENUM-CONTAINING THIN FILM USING SAME | SK Hynix Inc. | PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1712 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19065431 | PERSONALIZING A SPEECH ENHANCEMENT NEURAL NETWORK USING SAMPLES OF A TARGET SPEAKER'S CLONED VOICE | Fortell Research Inc. | REN, ZHUBING | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| 19057129 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE | Isuzu Motors Limited | PALL, CHARLES J | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19052423 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING USER INPUT REGARDING 3D OBJECT, DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | Mawari Corp. | ADAMS, CARL | 2627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19047954 | HYBRID VEHICLE | Isuzu Motors Limited | MUSTAFA, IMRAN K | 3668 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19101698 | NON-CONTACT TACTILE SENSE PRESENTATION DEVICE AND NON-CONTACT TACTILE SENSE PRESENTATION SYSTEM | Minebea Mitsumi Inc. | GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 | |
| 19029374 | PERSON SEARCH APPARATUS AND PERSON SEARCH METHOD | Jvckenwood Corporation | THOMAS, SOUMYA | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 | |
| 19025558 | MOVING PICTURE CODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE CODING PROGRAM, MOVING PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM | Jvckenwood Corporation | PHILIPPE, GIMS S | 2424 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18994889 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | Goertek Inc. | LUBIT, RYAN A | 2626 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19008703 | CORRECTION SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, PROGRAM TO CORRECT OUTPUT OF THREE-AXIS ANGULAR SPEED SENSOR AND THREE-AXIS ACCELERATION SENSOR | Jvckenwood Corporation | HUANG, DAVID Z | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 | |
| 18880045 | MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL FIBER TAPE CORE WIRE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR OPTICAL FIBER TAPE CORE WIRE | Swcc Corporation | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18961960 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM | Tokyo Electron Limited | TOLIN, MICHAEL A | 1745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18868247 | A MODULAR FLUID-FLUID HEAT TRANSFER ARRANGEMENT AND A METHOD THEREOF | Qvantum Industries AB | DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18708347 | WIRELESS NODE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD | Picocela Inc. | HAN, CLEMENCE S | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 | |
| 18950324 | NEURAL-NETWORK BASED DENOISING OF AUDIO SIGNALS RECEIVED BY AN EAR-WORN DEVICE CONTROLLED BASED ON ACTIVATION OF A USER INPUT DEVICE ON THE EAR-WORN DEVICE | Fortell Research Inc. | DABNEY, PHYLESHA LARVINIA | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 | |
| 18944028 | BATTERY VOLTAGE MONITORING SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT SYSTEM | Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. | LE, THANG XUAN | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 | |
| 18861891 | FILM DEPOSITING COMPOSITION INCLUDING GROUP 4 METAL ELEMENT-CONTAINING PRECURSOR COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR FORMING FILM USING SAME | UP CHEMICAL CO., LTD. | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §112 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18925111 | IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD | Jvckenwood Corporation | OMETZ, DAVID LOUIS | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 | |
| 18918173 | ALTERNATING CURRENT SIGNAL TRANSFER APPARATUS AND ALTERNATING CURRENT APPARATUS | Laser Systems Inc. | POOS, JOHN W | 2896 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18918186 | ALTERNATING CURRENT APPARATUS | Laser Systems Inc. | KING, MONICA C | 2844 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18912644 | AUDIO CONTROL METHOD, WEARABLE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | Goertek Inc. | KURR, JASON R | 2695 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18852549 | OPTICAL GAS SENSOR DEVICE, GAS DETECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18895682 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING A CENTER FREQUENCY OF A WAVELET | Acconeer AB | LE, HAILEY R | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 | |
| 18841494 | OPTICAL RECEPTACLE AND OPTICAL MODULE | Enplas Corporation | WONG, ERIC K | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 | |
| 18839466 | SOUND PRODUCTION MODULE AND TERMINAL DEVICE | Goertek Inc. | LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL | 2694 | §102 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18838755 | CONTROL ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ONE OR MORE UV-C LIGHT SOURCES | Brainlit AB | WANG, JING | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 | |
| 18788593 | BRAIDED STRUCTURE, TUBE STRUCTURE, TUBE STRUCTURE FOR CATHETER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BRAIDED STRUCTURE | Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd. | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18770739 | OPTICAL GAS SENSOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL GAS SENSOR DEVICE | Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. | KAO, CHIH CHENG G | 2884 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18756095 | COIN PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING COIN PROCESSING DEVICE | Glory Ltd. | UEBERSCHAER, JONATHAN REED | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 | |
| 18746109 | MACHINE LEARNING APPARATUS, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM STORING MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM | Jvckenwood Corporation | RAMESH, TIRUMALE K | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 | |
| 18741873 | OPTICAL GAS SENSOR DEVICE, GAS SENSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. | MALEVIC, DJURA | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18739389 | MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM HAVING MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM | Jvckenwood Corporation | DUNAY, CHRISTOPHER E | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 | |
| 18739972 | STENT GRAFT | Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd. | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 | |
| 18716150 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM | Tokyo Electron Limited | POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 | |
| 18715043 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MIXING AND CONSUMING ON-DEMAND BEVERAGE COMPRISING LIQUIDS AND INGREDIENTS | Sreenivasa Reddy Donapaty | HUYNH, BRYANT KHIEM | 1791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18711900 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM | Tokyo Electron Limited | CRANDALL, JOEL DILLON | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 | |
| 18668331 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE METHOD | Glory Ltd. | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 | |
| 18709606 | IN-WHEEL MOTOR | Isuzu Motors Limited | SECK, AHMED F | 2834 | §102 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18645706 | CHARGING SYSTEM | Isuzu Motors Limited | HENZE, DAVID V | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 | |
| 18704093 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD | Tokyo Electron Limited | RAHMAN, MOIN M | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 | |
| 18630014 | PROCESSING METHOD FOR AGING MEAT | Deeplant, Inc. | DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial90.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Shih Ip Law Group, Pllc were allowed, across 2,168 applications in USPTO records.
2.81 office actions per allowed application on average.
104 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 32 clients, before 101 examiners in 60 art units.