Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 3 clients • 9 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tomlinson McKinstry, P.C. has handled 1270 career applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate_pct of 91.55 and an avg_office_actions_per_allowance of 2.64. Currently, the firm is managing 6 pending office actions.
The 1270 career applications show the firm's history in medical and mechanical patenting. A resolved allowance rate_pct of 91.55 indicates the frequency with which the firm secures patent grants. The 6 pending office actions show that the firm continues its engagement with the USPTO. These active matters require ongoing attention to examiner communications.
This workload in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering requires technical and legal analysis. The data indicates a practice focused on achieving allowance rates through the office action responses recorded in the 2.64 avg_office_actions_per_allowance figure. Practitioners can use these metrics to understand the firm's prosecution profile within this specific technology sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| §112 only | 3 (30%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 2 | 62.3% | +27.3% |
| BASTIANELLI, JOHN | 1 | 73.4% | +28.5% |
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.9% |
| AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY | 1 | 79.6% | +17.1% |
| ANDRISH, SEAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +32.1% |
| KEENAN, JAMES W | 1 | 66.8% | +24.1% |
| SHAKERI, HADI | 1 | 62.1% | +37.0% |
| KASTURE, DNYANESH G | 1 | 48.1% | +26.5% |
| JEONG, YOUNGSUL | 1 | 71.5% | +21.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19090013 | AUTONOMOUS BACKFILLING APPARATUS | ANDRISH, SEAN D | — |
| 19073550 | FLUID END WITH THREADED DYNAMIC SECTION | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18078768 | MULTI-CYCLONE VACUUM EXCAVATION SYSTEM | JEONG, YOUNGSUL | 7d |
| 18441097 | WRENCH WITH OVER-CENTER JAWS | SHAKERI, HADI | 34d |
| 19193599 | ISOLATION GAP IN FLUID END DYNAMIC BODY | AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY | 39d |
| 18334701 | MULTI-PIECE FLUID END | KASTURE, DNYANESH G | 70d |
| 19442146 | SEALING HIGH PRESSURE FLOW DEVICES | BASTIANELLI, JOHN | — |
| 19090013 | AUTONOMOUS BACKFILLING APPARATUS | ANDRISH, SEAN D | — |
| 19073550 | FLUID END WITH THREADED DYNAMIC SECTION | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | — |
| 19037729 | MULTI-USE TRAILER | KEENAN, JAMES W | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Kerr Machine | 5 |
| The Charles Machine Works, Inc. | 4 |
| Magness Equipment, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 4 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19442146 | SEALING HIGH PRESSURE FLOW DEVICES | Kerr Machine Co. | BASTIANELLI, JOHN | 3753 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2026 |
| 19215831 | VACUUM TANK DOOR LATCHING ASSEMBLY | The Charles Machine Works, Inc. | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19193599 | ISOLATION GAP IN FLUID END DYNAMIC BODY | Kerr Machine Co. | AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY | 3746 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19090013 | AUTONOMOUS BACKFILLING APPARATUS | The Charles Machine Works, Inc. | ANDRISH, SEAN D | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 | |
| 19073550 | FLUID END WITH THREADED DYNAMIC SECTION | Kerr Machine Co. | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19037729 | MULTI-USE TRAILER | Magness Equipment, LLC | KEENAN, JAMES W | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 | |
| 18441097 | WRENCH WITH OVER-CENTER JAWS | The Charles Machine Works, Inc. | SHAKERI, HADI | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18508657 | HIGH PRESSURE PUMP | Kerr Machine Co. | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18334701 | MULTI-PIECE FLUID END | Kerr Machine Co. | KASTURE, DNYANESH G | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18078768 | MULTI-CYCLONE VACUUM EXCAVATION SYSTEM | The Charles Machine Works, Inc. | JEONG, YOUNGSUL | 1772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
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