Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
105 pending office actions • 56 clients • 99 examiners • 67 art units • 0 of 105 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Belles Group, P.C. has 109 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Its record includes 3698 career applications, providing substantial context for the active examination workload.
The resolved allowance rate is 90.91%, and the average is 2.56 office actions per allowance. Resolved matters show a high allowance outcome, while the average indicates that allowance generally follows more than two office-action exchanges. Practitioners can examine how the firm combines favorable outcomes with continuing prosecution effort in medical-device and mechanical cases.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 | 4 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (2%) |
| §103 only | 29 (28%) |
| §102 only | 10 (10%) |
| §112 only | 6 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 45 (43%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3 | 61.3% | +39.4% |
| DANG, ANH TIEU | 2 | 65.7% | +34.8% |
| CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 2 | 76.8% | +17.4% |
| SAN MARTIN, JAYDI A | 2 | 84.7% | +12.3% |
| RUPPERT, ERIC S | 2 | 60.1% | +23.9% |
| YOON, TAE H | 1 | 66.7% | +24.5% |
| TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | 1 | 77.8% | +11.4% |
| STANEK, KELSEY L | 1 | 80.7% | +15.3% |
| CAUDLE, LOGAN WILLIAM | 1 | — | — |
| PATEL, SANJIV D | 1 | 78.2% | +3.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561458 | RESONATOR, RESONATOR ASSEMBLY, FILTER, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR FABRICATING RESONATOR AND PACKAGING STRUCTURE | SAN MARTIN, JAYDI A | — |
| 18561701 | RESONATOR, RESONATOR ASSEMBLY, FILTER, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RESONATOR | SAN MARTIN, JAYDI A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800402 | ARCUATE CUTTING TOOL PART, CUTTING TOOL AND MACHINING DEVICE | DONG, LIANG | 44d overdue |
| 18479216 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MEASUREMENTS ON A WORKPIECE AS WELL AS MACHINING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINING A WORKPIECE | EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 16d overdue |
| 19283811 | TIGHTENING STRAP FOR SKI BOOTS AND SKI BOOT PROVIDED WITH SUCH STRAP | PRANGE, SHARON M | 9d overdue |
| 18267356 | DEVICE FOR DISINFECTING A FLUID FLOW IN A CONDUIT BY MEANS OF UV-C RADIATION | CHOI, JAMES J | 4d overdue |
| 18386899 | EDDY CURRENT TESTING APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | LANE, DEVON | 29d |
| 19407373 | FIREARM STOCK WITH ACCESSORY RAIL MOUNTING SYSTEM | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | — |
| 19404916 | SOLAR POWER GENERATION SYSTEM | STANEK, KELSEY L | — |
| 19398919 | RECOIL PAD ASSEMBLY FOR FIREARM | CAUDLE, LOGAN WILLIAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18636433 | MOTOR VEHICLE WITH A SOUND GENERATION ASSEMBLY | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 16d overdue |
| 18266572 | DISPENSING NOZZLE FOR A MILK MODULE FOR PRODUCING HOT OR COLD, FOAMED OR NON-FOAMED MILK | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 29d |
| 18427167 | Controlled Tissue Dissection Systems and Methods | DANG, ANH TIEU | 34d |
| 19632518 | BINDER COMPOSITIONS AND USE THEREOF | YOON, TAE H | — |
| 19407373 | FIREARM STOCK WITH ACCESSORY RAIL MOUNTING SYSTEM | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | — |
| 19404916 | SOLAR POWER GENERATION SYSTEM | STANEK, KELSEY L | — |
| 19288727 | Controlled Tissue Dissection Systems and Methods | DANG, ANH TIEU | — |
| 19173315 | VISUAL DISTRESS SIGNAL DEVICE | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 7 |
| 3761 | 7 |
| 3771 | 5 |
| 3763 | 5 |
| 3641 | 3 |
| 2951 | 3 |
| 3725 | 3 |
| 3732 | 2 |
| 3663 | 2 |
| 2689 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19632518 | BINDER COMPOSITIONS AND USE THEREOF | Nilo Limited | YOON, TAE H | 1762 | §112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2026 |
| 19407373 | FIREARM STOCK WITH ACCESSORY RAIL MOUNTING SYSTEM | Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | 3641 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2025 |
| 19404916 | SOLAR POWER GENERATION SYSTEM | Holtec International | STANEK, KELSEY L | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2025 |
| 19398919 | RECOIL PAD ASSEMBLY FOR FIREARM | Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. | CAUDLE, LOGAN WILLIAM | 3641 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2025 |
| 19380028 | TOUCH SENSOR AND TOUCH INPUT DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | HiDeep, Inc. | PATEL, SANJIV D | 2625 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19356469 | COMBINED OPEN VENT AND EMERGENCY RELIEF VENT | Discovery Energy, LLC | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2025 |
| 19341530 | DISPLAY DRIVING DEVICE OF PIXEL ARRAY HAVING A PLURALITY OF PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUITS | Raontech, Inc. | GILES, EBONI N | 2622 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 35526635 | Buckle | Calzaturificio S.C.A.R.P.A. S.p.A. | CUSTER, KELLY A | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19306567 | TOUCH SENSOR AND TOUCH INPUT DEVICE COMPRISING SAME | HiDeep, Inc. | SHAH, SUJIT | 2624 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19288727 | Controlled Tissue Dissection Systems and Methods | Bioprotect Ltd. | DANG, ANH TIEU | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19283811 | TIGHTENING STRAP FOR SKI BOOTS AND SKI BOOT PROVIDED WITH SUCH STRAP | Calzaturificio S.C.A.R.P.A.S.P.A. | PRANGE, SHARON M | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 19276293 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE ELECTRIC MOTOR OF A ROAD MOTOR VEHICLE | Ferrari S.p.A. | KINGSLAND, KYLE J | 3663 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19247563 | MOTOR VEHICLE AND RELATED CONTROL METHOD | Ferrari S.p.A. | PETTIEGREW, TOYA R | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19246514 | CONVERTIBLE SILENCER | Discovery Energy, LLC | TRAN, BINH Q | 3746 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2025 |
| 19243904 | ZONAL ELASTIC SHOE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | Fujian Ligang New Material Technology Co., Ltd. | ZHAO, AIYING | 3732 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19243820 | SLIDE TAKEDOWN AND MAGAZINE DISCONNECT ASSEMBLY FOR FIREARMS | Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. | KLEIN, GABRIEL J | 3641 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19241272 | FERRITE CORES AND STYLUS PEN INCLUDING THE SAME | HiDeep, Inc. | NGUYEN, JIMMY H | 2626 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 35526554 | Office table | 2Workfromx Aps | YOSINSKI, JENNIFER SIERRA | 2951 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19177911 | REFRIGERATOR WITH AUTOMATIC LIGHTING AND METHOD TO CONTROL THE AUTOMATIC LIGHTING OF A REFRIGERATOR | Smeg S.p.A. | MA, KUN KAI | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19173315 | VISUAL DISTRESS SIGNAL DEVICE | Sirius Signal, LLC | CASILLASHERNANDEZ, OMAR | 2689 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
| 19084937 | STEERING WHEEL FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE WITH A GLASS CONTROL INTERFACE | Ferrari S.p.A. | YABUT, DANIEL D | 3617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19079411 | STABILIZATION OF DC-TO-DC CONVERTER | Curtis Instruments, Inc. | CAULK, JENNIFER CHRISTINE | 2838 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19068714 | DETECTING FAILED PULSE FROM RF POWER SOURCE | Asm Ip Holding B.V. | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19055594 | MOTOR VEHICLE WITH HILL DESCENT CONTROL CONTROLLED BY PEDALS AND RELATIVE CONTROL PROCESS | Ferrari S.p.A. | DAGER, JONATHAN M | 3663 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19102826 | A LOCK AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A KEY | Henry Squire & Sons Holdings Ltd. | HOROWITZ, NOAH NMN | 3675 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19016340 | FLOW CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS | Ichor Systems, Inc. | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19014670 | SUPPORT FOR A REAR-VIEW MIRROR AND METHOD FOR MOUNTING A SUPPORT FOR A REAR-VIEW MIRROR | Ferrari S.p.A. | AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 3672 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19013782 | GUIDED FLOW VALVE ASSEMBLY AND SYSTEM INCORPORATING SAME | Ichor Systems, Inc. | ROST, ANDREW J | 3753 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18991888 | AN INJECTABLE AQUEOUS-BASED LEUCOVORIN FORMULATION AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | Riconpharma LLC | WEBB, WALTER E | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18983538 | ELECTRIC MOTOR FOR AUTO-TRACTION AND ROAD VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH SUCH MOTOR | Ferrari S.p.A. | YOUNG, EDWIN | 3655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18713569 | SHIELD RING INCLUDED IN SPACER FOR GAS INSULATION SWITCHGEAR HAVING ELECTRONIC TRANSFORMER EMBEDDED THEREIN | Tai Han Electric Wire Co., Ltd. | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 2841 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18980182 | VEHICLE FOR TRANSPORTING MOTOR VEHICLES | Ferrari S.p.A. | RESTIFO, JEFFREY J | 3613 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18872451 | A Cell Surface Marker Signature for Arrhythmogenic Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes | The University of Queensland | KELLY, ROBERT M | 1638 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18968312 | SELECTOR KNOB FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | Ferrari S.p.A. | ROGERS, ADAM D | 3617 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18965228 | CONDITIONING APPARATUS FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | Ferrari S.p.A. | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18959408 | MOTOR VEHICLE WITH IMPROVED ELECTRIC CHARGING SOCKET DOOR | Ferrari S.p.A. | FLEMING, FAYE M | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 | |
| 18869126 | NOVEL HEPATOSELECTIVE POLYADENYLATING POLYMERASES INHIBITORS AND THEIR METHOD OF USE | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | JACKSON, SHAWQUIA | 1626 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18957004 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A STRUCTURAL COMPONENT IN COMPOSITE MATERIAL STIFFENED WITH AT LEAST ONE STRINGER | Leonardo S.p.A. | DODDS, SCOTT | 1746 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18955514 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | Ichor Systems, Inc. | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18954887 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | Leonardo S.p.A. | CHOI, PETER Y | 1786 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18950495 | MULTI-TARGET TRACKING SYSTEM | Leonardo S.p.A. | LE, HAILEY R | 3648 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18943350 | CONFIGURABLE WHEEL FOR A VEHICLE | Ferrari S.p.A. | MORANO IV, SAMUEL J | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18931589 | METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF A STIFFENED STRUCTURAL COMPONENT MADE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND STRUCTURAL COMPONENT | Leonardo S.p.A. | WILLIAMS, CEDRICK S | 1749 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 35527031 | Electric grill | Smeg S.p.A. | PHAM, RICKY NGOC | 2951 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18915152 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING FLUID FLOW | Ichor Systems, Inc. | KEASEL, ERIC S | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18851873 | IMPROVED PLASTIC MASKS | Kajuem Holdings Pty Limited | DANIELS, MATTHEW J | 1742 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18886156 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SEAM USING A BENDING MACHINE, AND BENDING MACHINE CONFIGURED FOR THIS PURPOSE | Evobend GmbH | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 3725 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18886890 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SEAM USING A BENDING MACHINE, AND BENDING MACHINE CONFIGURED FOR THIS PURPOSE | Evobend GmbH | EKIERT, TERESA M | 3725 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18886245 | NUCLEAR MATERIALS APPARATUS AND IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | Holtec International | MASKELL, MICHAEL P | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 | |
| 18844973 | CARBONATED WATER METERING SYSTEM FOR BEVERAGE MACHINE | Lavazza Professional North America LLC | BUSHEY, CHARLES S | 1776 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial90.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by The Belles Group, P.C. were allowed, across 3,698 applications in USPTO records.
2.56 office actions per allowed application on average.
105 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 56 clients, before 99 examiners in 67 art units.
