Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 9 clients • 10 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Stratum Law LLC has a career total of 737 applications, with a focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 95.94. This percentage reflects the ratio of allowances to total resolved cases and characterizes the firm's historical performance across its 737 career applications.
The firm averages 1.33 office actions per allowance, indicating the typical number of rejections or objections encountered before a grant. Currently, there are 6 pending office actions. This current workload is part of the firm's broader history and represents the active phase of prosecution for its clients in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 1 | 50.7% | +42.2% |
| SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | 1 | 75.0% | +33.3% |
| LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 1 | 54.9% | +30.9% |
| CHU, KATHERINE J | 1 | 46.2% | +21.1% |
| VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1 | 54.5% | +24.8% |
| KIM, AHSHIK | 1 | 87.8% | +10.6% |
| BROOKS, KREGG T | 1 | 57.1% | +1.1% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 1 | 62.3% | +22.0% |
| LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN | 1 | 61.1% | +11.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566988 | METHOD OF CHARGING A RECHARGEABLE ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE AND CHARGER CONTROLLER THEREOF | KIM, AHSHIK | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18588218 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL FOOT PAD | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 20d |
| 18922482 | MAGNETIC INDUCTION YAW MOTOR BASED ON HALL EFFECT | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | — |
| 18919456 | ANTI-LOOSE MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER FIXED BLADE MOUNTING FRAME | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | — |
| 17920393 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL FIBER WITH FULL-SPECTRUM INFRARED RADIATION, FLAME RETARDANT AND ANTIBACTERIAL FUNCTIONS AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | BROOKS, KREGG T | — |
| 17802715 | PARALLEL-IN-TIME DISTURBANCE REGION UPDATE METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FLIGHT VEHICLES | LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18588218 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL FOOT PAD | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 20d |
| 18237498 | CUTTER HEAD ASSEMBLY WITH GUIDE STRUCTURE AND WRENCH ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 85d |
| 18964736 | HIGH BRANCH SCISSORS | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | — |
| 18922482 | MAGNETIC INDUCTION YAW MOTOR BASED ON HALL EFFECT | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | — |
| 18919456 | ANTI-LOOSE MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER FIXED BLADE MOUNTING FRAME | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | — |
| 18658416 | CONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR SPLICING PREFABRICATED SEGMENTAL BRIDGES | CHU, KATHERINE J | — |
| 18566988 | METHOD OF CHARGING A RECHARGEABLE ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE AND CHARGER CONTROLLER THEREOF | KIM, AHSHIK | — |
| 18033413 | CONVENIENT-TO-ASSEMBLE ESOPHAGUS MEDICINE APPLYING DEVICE FOR THE GASTROENTEROLOGY DEPARTMENT | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 3 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18964736 | HIGH BRANCH SCISSORS | Yongkang Gold Arrow Metal Products Co.,Ltd. | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18922482 | MAGNETIC INDUCTION YAW MOTOR BASED ON HALL EFFECT | Shenzhen Ou Yi Zhi Zao Ke Ji Co.,Ltd. | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | 2834 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18919456 | ANTI-LOOSE MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER FIXED BLADE MOUNTING FRAME | Ningbo Iclipper Electric Appliance Co.,Ltd | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 3724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18658416 | CONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR SPLICING PREFABRICATED SEGMENTAL BRIDGES | China Road & Bridge Corporation | CHU, KATHERINE J | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 | |
| 18588218 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL FOOT PAD | Smart International Trade Co.,Ltd | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18566988 | METHOD OF CHARGING A RECHARGEABLE ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE AND CHARGER CONTROLLER THEREOF | Xnergy Autonomous Power Technologies Pte. Ltd. | KIM, AHSHIK | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 | |
| 17920393 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL FIBER WITH FULL-SPECTRUM INFRARED RADIATION, FLAME RETARDANT AND ANTIBACTERIAL FUNCTIONS AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | Zhejiang Tongkun New Materials Research Institute Co., Ltd. | BROOKS, KREGG T | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 | |
| 18237498 | CUTTER HEAD ASSEMBLY WITH GUIDE STRUCTURE AND WRENCH ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER | Ningbo Iclipper Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 85d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18033413 | CONVENIENT-TO-ASSEMBLE ESOPHAGUS MEDICINE APPLYING DEVICE FOR THE GASTROENTEROLOGY DEPARTMENT | Guangdong Guoshijian Technology Development Co., Ltd. | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 17802715 | PARALLEL-IN-TIME DISTURBANCE REGION UPDATE METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FLIGHT VEHICLES | BEIHANG UNIVERSITY | LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN | 2187 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2022 |
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