Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 8 clients • 10 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Stratford Group Ltd. focuses on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics, managing 936 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 85.68. Currently, the firm is handling 8 pending office actions.
The prosecution process involves an average of 3.51 office actions per allowance. This figure indicates the rounds of communication with the patent office often necessary to reach the 85.68 resolved allowance rate pct. For the 8 pending office actions, this average provides a statistical expectation for the remaining steps.
Managing 936 career applications demonstrates the firm's activity in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field. The 3.51 avg office actions per allowance reflects the effort to overcome examiner objections. These metrics together illustrate the firm's prosecution results in this technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 1 (10%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| §102 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
| PEREZ, JULIO R | 1 | 83.2% | +9.3% |
| GUILIANO, CHARLES A | 1 | 37.5% | +37.9% |
| HULBERT, AMANDA K | 1 | 84.6% | +4.2% |
| NAHAR, QAMRUN | 1 | 88.0% | +10.0% |
| CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 1 | 51.7% | +39.9% |
| NGUYEN, THERESA | 1 | 60.0% | +100.0% |
| CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | 1 | 79.9% | +13.2% |
| AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 1 | 65.2% | +13.7% |
| VALVIS, ALEXANDER M | 1 | 62.5% | +55.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18819218 | SITUATIONAL AWARENESS OVER A LOW BANDWIDTH SHORT BURST DATA SATELLITE SYSTEM | PEREZ, JULIO R | — |
| 18431378 | MODULAR SENSOR PLATFORM FOR INLINE BIOMARKER MONITORING | HULBERT, AMANDA K | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18365597 | DISTRIBUTED ADAPTIVE RADIO CONFIGURATION | NGUYEN, THERESA | 30d overdue |
| 18427300 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO GAME DESIGN AND ENGAGEMENT TRACKING | NAHAR, QAMRUN | 57d |
| 19058822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING GAIT | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
| 18782092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ESTIMATING RISK FOR A PLURALITY OF ASSETS | GUILIANO, CHARLES A | — |
| 18508750 | FMCW LIDAR SIGNAL DISAMBIGUATION SAMPLING AND PROCESSING | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | — |
| 18177246 | INTEGRATED POLARIZATION CONTROLLER SYSTEMS | CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18365597 | DISTRIBUTED ADAPTIVE RADIO CONFIGURATION | NGUYEN, THERESA | 30d overdue |
| 17765903 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 6d |
| 18427300 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO GAME DESIGN AND ENGAGEMENT TRACKING | NAHAR, QAMRUN | 57d |
| 19058822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING GAIT | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
| 18782092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ESTIMATING RISK FOR A PLURALITY OF ASSETS | GUILIANO, CHARLES A | — |
| 18508750 | FMCW LIDAR SIGNAL DISAMBIGUATION SAMPLING AND PROCESSING | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | — |
| 18177246 | INTEGRATED POLARIZATION CONTROLLER SYSTEMS | CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | — |
| 17598118 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PREDICTING AND DETECTING POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS | VALVIS, ALEXANDER M | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Nerv Technology Inc. | 2 |
| Voyant Photonics, Inc. | 2 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA | 1 |
| Nortac Defence Limited | 1 |
| JANA | 1 |
| Begin AI Inc. | 1 |
| Aviat Networks | 1 |
| Miovision | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2199 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 2418 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19058822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING GAIT | UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 18819218 | SITUATIONAL AWARENESS OVER A LOW BANDWIDTH SHORT BURST DATA SATELLITE SYSTEM | Nortac Defence Limited | PEREZ, JULIO R | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 | |
| 18782092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ESTIMATING RISK FOR A PLURALITY OF ASSETS | Jana Corporation | GUILIANO, CHARLES A | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18431378 | MODULAR SENSOR PLATFORM FOR INLINE BIOMARKER MONITORING | Nerv Technology Inc. | HULBERT, AMANDA K | 3792 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18427300 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO GAME DESIGN AND ENGAGEMENT TRACKING | Begin AI Inc. | NAHAR, QAMRUN | 2199 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18508750 | FMCW LIDAR SIGNAL DISAMBIGUATION SAMPLING AND PROCESSING | Voyant Photonics, Inc. | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18365597 | DISTRIBUTED ADAPTIVE RADIO CONFIGURATION | Aviat U.S., Inc. | NGUYEN, THERESA | 2418 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18177246 | INTEGRATED POLARIZATION CONTROLLER SYSTEMS | Voyant Photonics, Inc. | CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | 2874 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 17765903 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL | Miovision Technologies US, LLC | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
| 17598118 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PREDICTING AND DETECTING POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS | Nerv Technology Inc. | VALVIS, ALEXANDER M | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2021 |
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