Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 10 clients • 11 examiners • 10 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Smith Keane LLP has 9 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Its record includes 268 career applications, an 89.06% resolved allowance rate, and an average of 2.56 office actions per allowance.
The reported allowance rate provides a favorable historical outcome measure within the available record, while the office-action average indicates that resolved matters generally involve more than one examination exchange. Practitioners can use this context when reviewing the pending docket, while relying on matter-specific facts for prosecution decisions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (64%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +19.0% |
| MAI, TRI M | 1 | 36.2% | +20.5% |
| KOLB, NATHANIEL J | 1 | 62.5% | +34.9% |
| TRAN, QUOC DUC | 1 | 85.9% | +4.8% |
| PHAN, AN BACH | 1 | 75.0% | +50.0% |
| WONG, JESSICA BOWEN | 1 | 66.9% | +19.4% |
| VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 1 | 83.6% | +13.9% |
| TON, TRI T | 1 | 86.1% | +10.5% |
| VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 1 | 59.1% | +50.7% |
| QUAIM, LAMIA | 1 | 74.6% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550247 | Method and System for Calibrating Detection Efficiencies For Condensation Particle Counters | TON, TRI T | 71d overdue |
| 18621907 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE DELIVERY OF ELECTRICAL CURRENT TO AN ORAL CAVITY | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 9d overdue |
| 18923417 | Telecommunications Technology | TRAN, QUOC DUC | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18811752 | PCM Cell and System Technology | PHAN, AN BACH | 9d overdue |
| 19217613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO CUSTOMIZABLE DUNNAGE | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550247 | Method and System for Calibrating Detection Efficiencies For Condensation Particle Counters | TON, TRI T | 71d overdue |
| 18782089 | ANIMAL FEEDER SYSTEM WITH OPPOSED OPENABLE DOORS | WONG, JESSICA BOWEN | 70d overdue |
| 18811752 | PCM Cell and System Technology | PHAN, AN BACH | 9d overdue |
| 18621907 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE DELIVERY OF ELECTRICAL CURRENT TO AN ORAL CAVITY | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 9d overdue |
| 17633107 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT | QUAIM, LAMIA | 13d |
| 19217613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO CUSTOMIZABLE DUNNAGE | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 18872363 | COVER FOR PROTECTING ARTICLES | MAI, TRI M | — |
| 18933915 | Tuning Aerosolization Parameters to Distinguish the Contributions of Particle and Particle-Precursor Concentrations for Liquid Samples | KOLB, NATHANIEL J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Kanomax FMT | 2 |
| Keiding Inc. | 1 |
| Cocoon Factory | 1 |
| T. W. Vending, Inc. | 1 |
| Michaels Energy | 1 |
| DEADFALL LLC | 1 |
| JODI VENTURES, INC. | 1 |
| Biolectrics LLC | 1 |
| Nemein Limited | 1 |
| Molendotech | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 2 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2691 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3644 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19217613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO CUSTOMIZABLE DUNNAGE | Keiding Inc. | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 18872363 | COVER FOR PROTECTING ARTICLES | Cocoon Factory | MAI, TRI M | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18933915 | Tuning Aerosolization Parameters to Distinguish the Contributions of Particle and Particle-Precursor Concentrations for Liquid Samples | Kanomax Fmt, Inc. | KOLB, NATHANIEL J | 2855 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18923417 | Telecommunications Technology | T. W. Vending, Inc. | TRAN, QUOC DUC | 2691 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18811752 | PCM Cell and System Technology | Michaels Energy, Inc. | PHAN, AN BACH | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18782089 | ANIMAL FEEDER SYSTEM WITH OPPOSED OPENABLE DOORS | Deadfall LLC | WONG, JESSICA BOWEN | 3644 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18621907 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE DELIVERY OF ELECTRICAL CURRENT TO AN ORAL CAVITY | Jodi Ventures, Inc. | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18550247 | Method and System for Calibrating Detection Efficiencies For Condensation Particle Counters | Kanomax Fmt, Inc. | TON, TRI T | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 17918614 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORAL IONTOPHORESIS | Biolectrics LLC | VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 17633107 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT | Nemein Limited | QUAIM, LAMIA | 3676 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
| 16962319 | WATER QUALITY TESTING | Molendotech Limited | GERIDO, DWAN A | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jul 15, 2020 |
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Start Free Trial89.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Smith Keane LLP were allowed, across 268 applications in USPTO records.
2.56 office actions per allowed application on average.
11 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 10 clients, before 11 examiners in 10 art units.
