Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
214 pending office actions • 93 clients • 194 examiners • 91 art units • 0 of 214 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
TAROLLI, SUNDHEIM, COVELL & TUMMINO L.L.P. focuses on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals with 12546 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 85.56. This rate indicates the percentage of resolved cases that have been allowed, providing a measure of historical outcomes for its 12546 career applications.
The firm averages 3.7 office actions per allowance, representing the typical procedural path to a patent grant. There are 154 pending office actions currently on the docket. This current activity is part of the firm's history in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and reflects its ongoing prosecution work.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 50 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. 50 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 + other | 31 (14%) |
| §103 only | 53 (25%) |
| §102 only | 9 (4%) |
| §112 only | 11 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 11 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 96 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3 | 52.5% | +40.8% |
| KING, BRADLEY T | 3 | 70.8% | +22.5% |
| VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT | 2 | 80.4% | +3.8% |
| EDOUARD, JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER | 2 | 22.4% | +37.1% |
| MORALES, JON ERIC C | 2 | 85.4% | +10.0% |
| WILHELM, TIMOTHY | 2 | 78.6% | +12.0% |
| FRISBY, KEITH J | 2 | 77.5% | +1.4% |
| TEJANI, ANKIT D | 2 | 81.0% | +16.9% |
| LEWOCZKO, EVAN MICHAEL | 2 | — | — |
| SHARMA, NABIN KUMAR | 2 | 52.7% | +56.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18388192 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF IMPROVING AND MONITORING ADDICTION USING CUE REACTIVITY | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 46d overdue |
| 18973181 | THERAPY DELIVERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR NON-DAMAGING NEURAL TISSUE CONDUCTION BLOCK | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
| 18950244 | PATTERNED STIMULATION INTENSITY FOR NEURAL STIMULATION | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
| 18778217 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING | TEJANI, ANKIT D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18495813 | SEATBELT RETRACTOR | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 155d overdue |
| 16630271 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING MYELIN DISORDERS | AUDET, MAURY A | 112d overdue |
| 18261366 | METHODS OF DETECTING HIGH RISK BARRETT'S ESOPHAGUS WITH DYSPLASIA, AND ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA | DAUNER, JOSEPH G | 77d overdue |
| 18158156 | HAEMOSTATIC MATERIAL | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | 72d overdue |
| 17639828 | FRONT AIRBAG FOR MOUNTING ON A VEHICLE ROOF AS WELL AS FRONT AIRBAG MODULE AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH FRONT AIRBAG | FRISBY, KEITH J | 44d overdue |
| 18552932 | ELECTRIC PARKING BRAKE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | IRVIN, THOMAS W | 11d overdue |
| 18517080 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING USHER SYNDROME III | NGUYEN, QUANG | 10d overdue |
| 18109406 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF REDUCING SERUM CHOLESTEROL AND PCSK9 | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18388192 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF IMPROVING AND MONITORING ADDICTION USING CUE REACTIVITY | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 46d overdue |
| 18544551 | ACCUMULATOR WITH FAST FILL SUPPLY VALVE AND BRAKE SYSTEM USING SAME | KING, BRADLEY T | 29d |
| 18633597 | SCREENING, MONITORING, AND TREATMENT FRAMEWORK FOR FOCUSED ULTRASOUND | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 53d |
| 18447541 | BRAKE SYSTEMS WITH MOTOR-DRIVEN MASTER CYLINDERS AND ELECTRIC SECONDARY POWER TRANSMISSION UNITS | KING, BRADLEY T | 70d |
| 19472420 | AN INTERACTIVE METHOD FOR SUPPORTING PATIENTS IN THE END OF THEIR LIFE | EDOUARD, JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18973181 | THERAPY DELIVERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR NON-DAMAGING NEURAL TISSUE CONDUCTION BLOCK | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
| 18950244 | PATTERNED STIMULATION INTENSITY FOR NEURAL STIMULATION | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
| 18911763 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING A MOTOR | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 9 |
| 3797 | 6 |
| 3791 | 6 |
| 3796 | 5 |
| 3786 | 4 |
| 3774 | 4 |
| 1615 | 3 |
| 3614 | 3 |
| 1759 | 3 |
| 2123 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19413411 | BRAKE PRESSURE GENERATOR | ZF Active Safety GmbH | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 3745 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2025 |
| 19379178 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING USING VOICE | Kvi Brave Fund I, Inc. | VINCENT, DAVID ROBERT | 2123 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 19477321 | GATE VALVE MONITOR | Fst Innovation Pty Ltd. | CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 19472137 | MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTION MODELS OF OUTCOME FROM CROSS-SECTIONAL VASCULAR IMAGES | Inselspital, University Hospital Bern | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 3685 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19472420 | AN INTERACTIVE METHOD FOR SUPPORTING PATIENTS IN THE END OF THEIR LIFE | Epilog End Of Life Companion Ltd. | EDOUARD, JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER | 3683 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19322098 | STRUT ASSEMBLY FOR ORAL APPLIANCE | Achaemenid, LLC | NGUYEN, CAMTU TRAN | 3786 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19159438 | WHEEL HUB WITH ANTI-THEFT MEANS | 2Lock GmbH | CUMAR, NATHAN | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2025 |
| 19157580 | A SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONISING EXERCISE OR TRAINING MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT | Vald Pty Ltd. | WENDMAGEGN, GIRUMSEW | 2484 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19262634 | HYBRID CONTROL OF A ROBOTIC SYSTEM | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | SINGH, ESVINDER | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 | |
| 19141561 | BRACKET AND IMAGING ASSEMBLY | Toucam Technology Inc. | CAMARGO, MARLY S.B. | 2638 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19229053 | HIERARCHICAL TAGGING FOR PERSONALIZED MATCHING | Vitalxchange, Inc. | SHANMUGASUNDARAM, KANNAN | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 | |
| 19134628 | AIRBAG BOX INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEM | Do Lim Industry Co., Ltd. | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19132030 | STRESS OFFLOADING PILLOW | BIOCONIX PTY LTD. | HARE, DAVID R | 3673 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19208069 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LLM-BASED USER INTERFACES FOR ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL MATERIALS | Klick Inc. | MARI VALCARCEL, FERNANDO MARIANO | 2159 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19198193 | COMPLIANCE CORRECTION IN A ROBOTIC SYSTEM | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 | |
| 19180653 | ACCOMMODATING LIGHT ADJUSTABLE INTRAOCULAR LENSES | Jellisee Ophthalmics Inc. | SCHERBEL, TODD J | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 | |
| 19096990 | RELOCATABLE TANK | Entacon Pty Ltd. | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 | |
| 19084469 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE-BASED CATHETER LOCALIZATION | Case Western Reserve University | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19110409 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PLAQUE FROM AN ARTERY | Herbarius Ltd. | NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 1656 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19074968 | ELECTRICALLY ANESTHETIZING A PERIPHERAL NERVE WITH ON-DEMAND ELECTRICAL NERVE BLOCK FOR CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | Case Western Reserve University | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| 19068904 | CHRISTMAS TREE AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING A TREE | Balsam International Unlimited Company | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 | |
| 19068168 | LOW-VIBRATION CRYOGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 | |
| 19064970 | DOOR OPENER FOR AN ELECTRIC HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE | Emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. Kgaa | CORMIER, DAVID G | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| 19106685 | INJECTION-MOULDED COMPONENT, CONNECTION SYSTEM, STEERING WHEEL COVER PLATE, AND VEHICLE | ZF Asia Pacific Automotive Safety Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. | POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 | |
| 19105416 | TARGETED NEUROMODULATION TO IMPROVE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC FUNCTION | West Virginia University | JAHAN, ISRAT | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 | |
| 19104848 | THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE, SYSTEM AND METHOD | Phelas GmbH | MCKINNON, TERRELL L | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 | |
| 19102107 | END EFFECTOR AND ROBOT HAVING AN END EFFECTOR | Centrotherm International AG | VARMA, ASHISH K | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 | |
| 19046805 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF IMPROVING TINNITUS VIA ULTRASOUND NEUROMODULATION OF THE BRAIN | West Virginia University | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19042183 | MAGNETIC GRADIOMETER BASED ON MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS IN MAGNETIC VORTEX STATE (VORTEX MTJ) | King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology | NGUYEN, VINH P | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 | |
| 18998615 | ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING HUMAN WELLNESS | West Virginia University | CHOI, DAVID | 3684 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19020159 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ML-ASSISTED GENERATION OF PROJECT INITIATION DOCUMENTS | Klick Inc. | NOVAK, REBECCA R | 3629 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19016291 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED IMAGING WITH INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS) | The United States Department of Veterans Affairs | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18992764 | TRANSIENT ELECTRODES AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEURAL MODULATION AND RECORDING | Case Western Reserve University | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19011859 | INTRAOCULAR LENS INSERTION SYSTEM WITH GUIDE RAILS | Jellisee Ophthalmics Inc. | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19011830 | PARTITION MODE DECISION FOR VIDEO CODING WITH LITE MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON | Lingnan University | GINGRICH, SHADAN HAGHANI | 2485 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18879734 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF IMPROVING SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 | |
| 18982030 | STEERABLE ACOUSTIC WAVEGUIDE FOR TARGETED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND DELIVERY | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 | |
| 18975596 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MARKETING REACTION SIMULATION | Klick Inc. | VIG, NARESH | 3622 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18973181 | THERAPY DELIVERY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR NON-DAMAGING NEURAL TISSUE CONDUCTION BLOCK | Case Western Reserve University | MORALES, JON ERIC C | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 | |
| 18966238 | STEERING SYSTEM | ZF Automotive Germany GmbH | SHABARA, HOSAM | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 | |
| 18967052 | MELT PROCESSED VIRAL NANOPARTICLE CONSTRUCTS | Case Western Reserve University | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 | |
| 18869925 | MOLECULARLY CLEAVABLE BIOINK FORMULATION | The Brigham And Women'S Hospital, Inc. | MERCIER, MELISSA S | 1743 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18868744 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN INCREASED REALITY REPRESENTATION OF VIBRATIONAL DEFORMATIONS FOR A STRUCTURE | Weg Equipamentos Eletricos S.A. | TROOST, AARON L | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2024 | |
| 18956213 | IDENTIFYING PATIENTS FOR INTENSIVE HYPERGLYCEMIA MANAGEMENT | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | BOOKER, KELVIN | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 | |
| 18867002 | EDGE COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING CONSTRUCTION SITES | AI Clearing Inc. | FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 | |
| 18866973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIGGERING DATA TRANSFER USING PROGRESS TRACKING | AI Clearing Inc. | BEG, SAMAH A | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 | |
| 18950244 | PATTERNED STIMULATION INTENSITY FOR NEURAL STIMULATION | Case Western Reserve University | MORALES, JON ERIC C | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 | |
| 18941637 | ASSEMBLY SYSTEM FOR CRASH PAD LOWER ASSEMBLY PANEL | Do Lim Industry Co., Ltd. | SHUM, KENT N | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 | |
| 18941016 | STEERING GEAR AND STEER-BY-WIRE STEERING DEVICE WITH SUCH A STEERING GEAR | ZF Automotive Germany GmbH | LEE, MATTHEW D | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 | |
| 18862998 | IMMUNOSTIMULATORY NANOPARTICLE | Cleveland Clinic Foundation | LI, WENHAN | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial85.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP were allowed, across 12,550 applications in USPTO records.
3.70 office actions per allowed application on average.
214 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 93 clients, before 194 examiners in 91 art units.