Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
26 pending office actions • 23 clients • 26 examiners • 20 art units • 0 of 26 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 63 patents granted in the last 365 days
Themis Law specializes in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm has handled 1655 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 87.12 percent. This rate represents the success of resolved applications in obtaining a patent grant. For a client, this percentage illustrates the firm's effectiveness in its field.
The firm currently has 20 pending office actions. The average number of office actions per allowance is 2.41. This 2.41 office actions per allowance metric describes the typical length of the prosecution cycle. The 1655 career applications and 20 pending office actions provide the basis for these performance metrics. These values reflect the firm's experience in medical device prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 | 1 (4%) |
| §103 only | 5 (19%) |
| §102 only | 2 (8%) |
| §112 only | 3 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 15 (58%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, JOHN DENNY | 1 | 63.2% | +48.4% |
| WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 1 | 71.5% | +11.8% |
| MARTIN, VERONICA | 1 | 82.7% | +13.4% |
| LEWIS, IYONDA LATIFAH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
| TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 1 | 70.1% | +32.2% |
| ZHANG, LEI | 1 | 15.4% | +100.0% |
| DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 1 | 77.5% | +14.2% |
| YABUT, DANIEL D | 1 | 56.7% | +26.9% |
| IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | 1 | 83.3% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876680 | System for detecting the position of a target located within a reference space | LEWIS, IYONDA LATIFAH | — |
| 18864525 | Bonded electrically insulated joint system for railway rails, method for fabricating such, method of modifying at least one starting type switch rail and use of two switch rails modified in accordance with said modifying method | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17817770 | Electrode support device for the registration of electroencephalographic signals | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 56d overdue |
| 18557220 | Low environmental impact flexible hose, as well as manufacturing method thereof | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 49d overdue |
| 18771896 | Recirculation system for ink or other material in a printing apparatus, in particular inkjet, and apparatus comprising said recirculation system | LEBRON, JANNELLE M | 35d overdue |
| 18555483 | A diode radiation sensor | ABDELAZIEZ, YASSER A | 10d overdue |
| 18556767 | System consisting of modular elements for making raised and/or aerated ribbed floors | SADLON, JOSEPH | 5d |
| 16980399 | Equipment for grilling food | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 13d |
| 18258477 | Sock or the like comprising sock structure with biomechanical effects particularly suitable for football. cycling and similar sports | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 26d |
| 18554639 | Mold for the forming of a spacer device for the replacement of an articular prosthesis | BEHA, CAROLINE | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19206126 | Apparatus for producing folded underwear pads | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 15d overdue |
| 19473612 | System for acquiring images in intraoperative magnetic resonance | LI, JOHN DENNY | — |
| 18879294 | Packaging machine | MARTIN, VERONICA | — |
| 18864525 | Bonded electrically insulated joint system for railway rails, method for fabricating such, method of modifying at least one starting type switch rail and use of two switch rails modified in accordance with said modifying method | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18858326 | System for cleaning rivers and waterways in general | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | — |
| 18851039 | Method for the analysis of radiographic images, and in particular lateral-lateral teleradiographic images of the skull, and relative analysis system | ZHANG, LEI | — |
| 18847238 | System for reducing the regeneration consumption of a dehumidifier | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | — |
| 18829027 | Process for separating, collecting and storing pieces cut from one or more metal sheets and system implementing said process | YABUT, DANIEL D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 2 |
| 3731 | 2 |
| 2647 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19473612 | System for acquiring images in intraoperative magnetic resonance | Esaote S.p.A. | LI, JOHN DENNY | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19206126 | Apparatus for producing folded underwear pads | Gdm S.p.A. | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 3731 | §112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 18879294 | Packaging machine | Mediatech S.r.l. | MARTIN, VERONICA | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18876680 | System for detecting the position of a target located within a reference space | Adant Technologies, Inc. | LEWIS, IYONDA LATIFAH | 2647 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18864525 | Bonded electrically insulated joint system for railway rails, method for fabricating such, method of modifying at least one starting type switch rail and use of two switch rails modified in accordance with said modifying method | AB Consulting S.A.S. Di Andrea Bracciali & C. | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2024 |
| 18858326 | System for cleaning rivers and waterways in general | Mold Srl | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 3678 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2024 |
| 18851039 | Method for the analysis of radiographic images, and in particular lateral-lateral teleradiographic images of the skull, and relative analysis system | Cefla S.C. | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18847238 | System for reducing the regeneration consumption of a dehumidifier | Mst Engineering Dell'Ing. Francesco Marzaro | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2024 | |
| 18829027 | Process for separating, collecting and storing pieces cut from one or more metal sheets and system implementing said process | Starmatik Srl Uninominale | YABUT, DANIEL D | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18839431 | Method for manufacturing a diode radiation sensor | Fondazione Bruno Kessler | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2024 | |
| 18771896 | Recirculation system for ink or other material in a printing apparatus, in particular inkjet, and apparatus comprising said recirculation system | Cefla Società Cooperativa | LEBRON, JANNELLE M | 2853 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18602027 | Femoral element of knee spacer | Cossington Limited | SHARMA, YASHITA | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18689002 | A UWB radar device | Aria Sensing S.r.l. | WOLFORD, NAOMI M | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18681185 | Filtering device for plastic materials with cleaning system | Alessandro Sartori | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18290773 | Working head for a machine tool having an interchangeable electrospindle | Hpt Sinergy S.r.l. | CADUGAN, ERICA E | 3722 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2024 |
| 18575258 | An electrospindle | Saccardo Gcf S.r.l. | RUFO, RYAN C | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18560373 | Delivery assembly for a machine for preparing beverages, comprising a piercing element for capsules | Cma Macchine Per Caffè S.r.l. | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 | |
| 18495030 | Acetabular spacer device comprising a pharmaceutical substance | Cossington Limited | HOBAN, MELISSA A | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 | |
| 18557220 | Low environmental impact flexible hose, as well as manufacturing method thereof | Fitt S.p.A. | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18556767 | System consisting of modular elements for making raised and/or aerated ribbed floors | Geoplast Spa | SADLON, JOSEPH | 3635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18555483 | A diode radiation sensor | Fondazione Bruno Kessler | ABDELAZIEZ, YASSER A | 2898 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18554639 | Mold for the forming of a spacer device for the replacement of an articular prosthesis | Cossington Limited | BEHA, CAROLINE | 1748 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18258477 | Sock or the like comprising sock structure with biomechanical effects particularly suitable for football. cycling and similar sports | Coffinardi & Delpanno Industries Srl | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 17997914 | Finishing method and system for tanned or synthetic hides | Todesco S.r.l. | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 1717 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2022 |
| 17817770 | Electrode support device for the registration of electroencephalographic signals | Spes Medica Srl | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Aug 05, 2022 |
| 16980399 | Equipment for grilling food | Modul Grill S.r.l. | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Sep 13, 2020 |
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