Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Strategic Patents P.C.

Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

24 pending office actions • 5 clients • 19 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 24 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

STRATEGIC PATENTS P.C. has 2071 career applications, with a focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 73.23. This percentage indicates the frequency of allowances among all resolved cases and provides a historical benchmark for its 2071 career applications.

The firm averages 3.42 office actions per allowance, showing the typical number of responses required to achieve a grant. There are 21 pending office actions currently active. These actions represent the current prosecution effort for a firm with experience in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=2071 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

73.2%
Allowance Rate
n=2071
+0.41σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=2071
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=919
-0.20σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=919
1033 days
Time to Allowance
n=919
+24.4pp
Interview Lift
n=2071
29.5%
RCE Rate
n=2071
0.5%
Appeal Rate
n=2071

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

44.4%
§101 Overcome
n=401
54.9%
§102 Overcome
n=450
69.4%
§103 Overcome
n=803
74.3%
§112 Overcome
n=339

Specialization & Scale

H04L, G06F, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
46%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=2071
0
Practitioners
n=2071
—
Apps / Practitioner
n=2071 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

24
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
13
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

14
Hard (58%)
10
Medium (42%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (8%)
§101 + other8 (33%)
§103 only10 (42%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (17%)

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
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
8% of docket
19
Mechanical / Eng
79% of docket
3
Business / Other
12% 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.

240 h
Manual time on pending OAs
48 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
84 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YOON, CHANEL J 3 55.0% +40.1%
WALKER, OLIVIA 2 35.7% +75.0%
HOUGH, JESSANDRA F 2 45.6% +35.8%
SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 2 33.3% +37.7%
WINAKUR, ERIC FRANK 1 79.3% +13.8%
AMARA, MOHAMED K 1 75.8% +29.8%
PARK, HYUN D 1 41.7% +22.8%
CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 1 54.4% +52.6%
TRINH, HONG-VAN N 1 62.8% +57.0%
KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 1 72.3% +47.6%

Hard Cases (14)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18453572 DELIVERY DATE PREDICTION YOON, CHANEL J 5d overdue
18078067 WEARABLE INFECTION MONITOR PARK, EVELYN GRACE 1d overdue
18182197 DETECTING POSITION OF A WEARABLE MONITOR HOUGH, JESSANDRA F 12d
17025768 NEEDLE-FREE INJECTOR FOR LARGE-SCALE, MULTI-DOSE APPLICATIONS STIGELL, THEODORE J 13d
18229219 Needle-free Transdermal Injection Device TRINH, HONG-VAN N 26d
18323988 TIME DOMAIN PROCESSING OF PERIODIC PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 27d
17388711 PULSE SHAPE ANALYSIS YOON, CHANEL J 33d
18885120 TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION WINAKUR, ERIC FRANK —

Interview Candidates (15)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17508235 MODULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING SYSTEM SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 32d overdue
18453572 DELIVERY DATE PREDICTION YOON, CHANEL J 5d overdue
18182197 DETECTING POSITION OF A WEARABLE MONITOR HOUGH, JESSANDRA F 12d
18229219 Needle-free Transdermal Injection Device TRINH, HONG-VAN N 26d
18323988 TIME DOMAIN PROCESSING OF PERIODIC PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 27d
17388711 PULSE SHAPE ANALYSIS YOON, CHANEL J 33d
17508159 GARMENT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 60d
18798653 ECG ELECTRODES FOR WEARABLE PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORS WALKER, OLIVIA 77d

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37917
37966
37833
37712
28771
28571
37921

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18885120 TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION Whoop, Inc. WINAKUR, ERIC FRANK §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 13, 2024
18798653 ECG ELECTRODES FOR WEARABLE PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORS Whoop, Inc. WALKER, OLIVIA 3796 §103 Final Rejection 77d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18772785 CARDIOVASCULAR AGE ESTIMATION Whoop, Inc. YOON, CHANEL J 3791 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 15, 2024
18627060 RETROGRAPHIC SENSING Gelsight, Inc. AMARA, MOHAMED K 2877 §103 Final Rejection 84d Pending Apr 04, 2024
18601569 BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT WITH FORCE SENSING Whoop, Inc. PARK, HYUN D §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 11, 2024
18422710 CONNECTED HEALTH PLATFORM INCLUDING NEEDLE-FREE INJECTOR SYSTEM Portal Instruments, Inc. CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 3783 §103§112Other Final Rejection — Pending Jan 25, 2024
18536748 DYNAMIC STRESS SCORING WITH WEIGHTED CONTRIBUTIONS OF CARDIAC PARAMETERS Whoop, Inc. HOUGH, JESSANDRA F 3796 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 12, 2023
18536730 DYNAMIC STRESS SCORING WITH PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS Whoop, Inc. WALKER, OLIVIA 3796 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 12, 2023
18453572 DELIVERY DATE PREDICTION Whoop, Inc. YOON, CHANEL J 3791 §101§102§103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2023
18229219 Needle-free Transdermal Injection Device Portal Instruments, Inc. TRINH, HONG-VAN N 3783 §103§112 Final Rejection 26d Pending Aug 02, 2023
18323988 TIME DOMAIN PROCESSING OF PERIODIC PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS Whoop, Inc. KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 2857 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 25, 2023
18305083 CONTINUOUSLY WEARABLE PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH MULTI-FUNCTION WATCH Whoop, Inc. CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY 3791 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Apr 21, 2023
18300787 CYCLE-BASED COACHING Whoop, Inc. KUO, JONATHAN T 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Apr 14, 2023
18128096 SIMULATION OF CARBON EMISSIONS Altus Power, LLC SHALABY, AHMAD HUSSAM §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 29, 2023
18182197 DETECTING POSITION OF A WEARABLE MONITOR Whoop, Inc. HOUGH, JESSANDRA F 3796 §101 Final Rejection 12d Pending Mar 10, 2023
18078067 WEARABLE INFECTION MONITOR Whoop, Inc. PARK, EVELYN GRACE 3791 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2022
17939149 CONFIGURABLE WAKE UP ALARM USING PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING Whoop, Inc. WEARE, MEREDITH H 3791 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 07, 2022
17878406 INTRACORPOREAL SUTURE TYING Children'S Medical Center Corporation JAFFRI, ZEHRA 3771 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Aug 01, 2022
17855719 TISSUE FASTENING Children'S Medical Center Corporation SCHERBEL, TODD J 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jun 30, 2022
17508235 MODULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING SYSTEM Whoop, Inc. SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 3796 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2021
17508159 GARMENT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING Whoop, Inc. SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 3796 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Oct 22, 2021
17388711 PULSE SHAPE ANALYSIS Whoop, Inc. YOON, CHANEL J 3791 §101§112 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 29, 2021
17085464 OXYGEN DETECTION SENSOR IN CLOTHING AND RELATED APPARATUS AND METHODS Whoop, Inc. MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW 3791 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 30, 2020
17025768 NEEDLE-FREE INJECTOR FOR LARGE-SCALE, MULTI-DOSE APPLICATIONS Portal Instruments, Inc. STIGELL, THEODORE J 3783 §103§112 Final Rejection 13d Pending Sep 18, 2020

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