Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
880 pending office actions • 312 clients • 741 examiners • 308 art units • 0 of 880 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
TROUTMAN PEPPER LOCKE LLP has 893 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Its career record includes 48719 applications, a resolved allowance rate of 84.53%, and an average of 3.33 office actions per allowance.
The profile combines a large application history with a substantial active docket. The resolved allowance rate describes completed prosecution outcomes, while the office-action average indicates examination activity associated with allowed cases. The application total provides scale for interpreting those historical measures. For practitioners, the data supports evaluation of medical-device prosecution capacity and historical results, while the pending figure should be read as current workload rather than a success forecast.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 227 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. 227 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 | 17 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 104 (12%) |
| §103 only | 221 (25%) |
| §102 only | 39 (4%) |
| §112 only | 53 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 17 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 52 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 372 (42%) |
| No statute on record | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHODES, NORA W | 5 | 54.9% | +24.8% |
| ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 5 | 47.3% | +46.7% |
| ANTHOPOLOS, PETER | 4 | 57.4% | +58.6% |
| SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 4 | 51.0% | +19.1% |
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 4 | 47.5% | +41.3% |
| BATES, DAVID W | 3 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3 | 56.6% | +46.4% |
| BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 3 | 8.8% | +3.1% |
| BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 3 | 91.0% | +7.3% |
| GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 3 | 45.2% | +46.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18230934 | PLANAR MULTI-ELECTRODE CATHETERS | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17726372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOWERING WATER CONCENTRATION IN POLYACRYLAMIDE-BASED EMULSIONS | USELDING, JOHN E | 245d overdue |
| 17235974 | NEUROLOGIC TOXICITY ASSESSMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DOCUMENTING CHANGES IN HANDWRITING | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 164d overdue |
| 19089897 | MAGNETIC DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING FLUID FLOW IN A WELL | RO, YONG-SUK | 126d overdue |
| 18220384 | TRANSMISSION BOARD AND CONNECTING MEMBER | KRATT, JUSTIN M | 124d overdue |
| 18226366 | INTERACTIVE RETAIL CUSTOMER INTERFACE | GEORGALAS, ANNE MARIE | 107d overdue |
| 18260779 | SUBCUTANEOUS OR INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTION FORMULATIONS OF ILOPROST | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 105d overdue |
| 18052172 | METHODS OF TREATING CANCERS AND ENHANCING EFFICACY OF GPRC5DXCD3 BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES | GUSTILO, ESTELLA M | 88d overdue |
| 17920475 | AN AUTOMATED CONTROLLED RELEASE DEVICE FOR LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 87d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19303799 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS | ANTHOPOLOS, PETER | 51d overdue |
| 18747119 | ELECTRODE ATTACHMENTS FOR BASKET CATHETERS | RHODES, NORA W | 46d overdue |
| 18544835 | MAPPING AND ABLATION CATHETER | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 17d overdue |
| 18781097 | ADAPTERS FOR SURGICAL IMPACTING TOOLS | BATES, DAVID W | 9d overdue |
| 18510040 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CYLINDRICAL CAGE MAPPING AND ABLATION CATHETERS COMPRISING FLEXIBLE CIRCUITS | GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 22d |
| 18127600 | SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR IMPROVED IRRIGATION FLOW DURING CARDIAC PROCEDURE | RHODES, NORA W | 26d |
| 18773828 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR BONE FIXATION | BATES, DAVID W | 34d |
| 18159288 | ELECTRODE DESIGNS FOR CATHETERS | RHODES, NORA W | 55d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 55 |
| 3783 | 22 |
| 3771 | 17 |
| 1663 | 14 |
| 3791 | 12 |
| 3796 | 10 |
| 2857 | 9 |
| 1766 | 9 |
| 1738 | 9 |
| 2858 | 8 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19297399 | Untitled | Georgia Tech Research Corporation | HASKE, WOJCIECH | 1794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | |
| 19362875 | Untitled | Georgia Tech Research Corporation | WALLS-MURRAY, JESSIE LOGAN | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | ||
| 18806158 | Untitled | Capital One Services, LLC | PATEL, AMIT HEMANTKUMAR | 3696 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | |
| 19640515 | FOLDABLE AND ADJUSTABLE BED WITH STAGGERED DRIVE ASSEMBLIES | Nisco Co., Ltd. | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2026 |
| 19406703 | LIVER DETARGETED CAPSIDS | Kate Therapeutics, Inc. | MARVICH, MARIA | 1634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2025 |
| 19397801 | METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ACCENT CONVERSION AND SYSTEMS THEREOF | Sanas.Ai Inc. | BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S | 2658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19482910 | METHOD FOR GENERATING MOVEMENT AMOUNT ESTIMATION MODEL FOR WORK VEHICLE AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING MOVEMENT AMOUNT ESTIMATION MODEL FOR WORK VEHICLE | Komatsu Ltd. | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 3665 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19481219 | DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM FOR WORK MACHINE | Komatsu Ltd. | MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 3669 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 19481236 | WORK VEHICLE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND WORK VEHICLE MEASUREMENT METHOD | Komatsu Ltd. | MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | 3663 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 19369593 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING AN EXISTING DYNAMIC TRANSACTION CARD | Capital One Services, LLC | MARSHALL, CHRISTLE I | 2876 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19369728 | CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOSE CALCULATION SYSTEM, AND DOSE CALCULATION SYSTEM | Neuboron Therapy System Ltd. | BORISSOV, IGOR N | 3685 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 19477530 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING WORK MACHINE, METHOD FOR MANAGING WORK MACHINE, AND WORK MACHINE | Komatsu Ltd. | PALL, CHARLES J | 3663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2025 |
| 19476826 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEALTH ANALYSYS BASED ON PHARMACOGENOMICS AND/OR MICROBIOME | Cardiai Technologies Ltd. | RASNIC, HUNTER J | 3684 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2025 |
| 19359503 | LATCH AND CAGE COMPRISING THIS LATCH | Tecniplast S.p.A. | LUGO, CARLOS | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19474651 | A PIPING SYSTEM TO RECOVER FLUID FROM A WELL OR TO INJECT FLUID IN A WELL AND RELATED METHOD | TotalEnergies OneTech SAS | BOMAR, THOMAS S | 3674 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19341255 | LATCH MECHANISM AND NON-EQUILATERAL RECTANGULAR RETICLE CONTAINER HAVING THE SAME | Gudeng Precision Industrial Co., Ltd. | TULLIA, STEVEN A | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19469531 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND WORK MACHINE | Komatsu Ltd. | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 3669 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19330750 | SUPPORT BEAM | Jaguar Land Rover Limited | KECK, DANIEL M | 3614 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 19330738 | VEHICLE STRUCTURE | Jaguar Land Rover Limited | O'NEILL, MATTHEW JAMES | 3614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 19165498 | LOW EMISSION EXPANSION JOINT ASSEMBLY | Eagleburgmann Germany GmbH & Co. Kg | HEWITT, JAMES M | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19317953 | COMPOSTABLE INSULATION FOR SHIPPING CONTAINER | Temperpack Technologies, Inc. | BRADEN, SHAWN M | 3736 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2025 |
| 19303799 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS | Calliditas Therapeutics AB | ANTHOPOLOS, PETER | 1611 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Aug 19, 2025 |
| 19304103 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS | Calliditas Therapeutics AB | ANTHOPOLOS, PETER | 1611 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2025 |
| 19295855 | QUANTIFYING USAGE OF DISPARATE COMPUTING RESOURCES AS A SINGLE UNIT OF MEASURE | Infrasight Software Corporation | ULLAH, ARIF | 3625 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 19293012 | METHODS OF USING OPTICAL FIBER-BASED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY FOR SURGICAL GUIDANCE AND/OR TISSUE DIAGNOSTICS AND APPLICATIONS OF SAME | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19281940 | SUBSTRATE CONTAINER EQUIPPED WITH STABILIZING SUPPORT AND SMOOTH TRAY CONNECTION | Gudeng Precision Industrial Co., Ltd. | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 19280573 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR DETECTING VULNERABILITIES IN COMPUTER CODE | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | MAYE, AYUB A | 2436 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19281154 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MONITORING THE TREATMENT OF RELAPSED AND/OR REFRACTORY MULTIPLE MYELOMA | Janssen Biotech, Inc. | IVICH, FERNANDO NMN | 1678 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19279086 | VEHICLE RAMP ANGLE CONTROL | Jaguar Land Rover Limited | BAILEY, JOHN D | 3747 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19280051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SPEND MEMORY RECORD | Capital One Services, LLC | WALKER, MICHAEL JARED | 3627 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19280034 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PREDICTIVE RISK OUTCOMES | Capital One Services, LLC | COBB, MATTHEW | 3661 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19258507 | POWERED SURGICAL TOOL WITH AN OSCILLATING SAW BLADE | Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | SEVILLA, CHRISTIAN ANTHONY | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19250708 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | Jaguar Land Rover Limited | KAN, YURI | 3662 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19250600 | IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Kddi Corporation | MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | 2482 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19250857 | VEHICLE ACTIVE SUSPENSION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | Jaguar Land Rover Limited | JIN, GEORGE C. | 3747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19247963 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING AND MANAGING SURFACE PRESSURE OF CASING STRINGS | ExxonMobil | AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 3672 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19245145 | METHODS FOR ALLOCATING A TRAFFIC LOAD AND DEVICES THEREOF | F5, Inc. | BARKER, TODD L | 2447 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19242462 | CONTROLLING AN ELECTRIC MACHINE TO SUPPORT DIAGNOSTIC TESTING | Jaguar Land Rover Limited | SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE | 3661 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19242005 | ZIRCONIA MODIFICATION SOLUTION AND USE THEREOF | Aidite (Qinhuangdao) Technology Co., Ltd. | RUMMEL, IAN A | 1785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19140778 | MULTI-CHANNEL PULSE HIGH-VOLTAGE PARAMETER-CONTROLLABLE SHOCK WAVE LITHOTRIPSY BALLOON IMAGING SYSTEM AND CATHETER THEREOF | Nanjing Forssmann Medical Technology Co., Ltd. | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19242405 | CONTROLLING AN ELECTRIC MACHINE TO SUPPORT DIAGNOSTIC TESTING | Jaguar Land Rover Limited | SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE | 3664 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19238307 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDIRECTING A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION | Capital One Services, LLC | APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ | 3693 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19137668 | TRAVEL DEVICE, TUNNEL BORING MACHINE, TRAILING CAR, TRANSPORT VEHICLE, TUNNEL BORING SYSTEM, AND MOVEMENT METHOD | Komatsu Ltd. | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 3678 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19231144 | SUSTAINABLE RESILIENT PLANK | Tower Ipco Company Limited | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1763 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 18835104 | WORK MACHINE MONITORING SYSTEM AND WORK MACHINE MONITORING METHOD | Komatsu Ltd. | HUYNH, LUAT T | 3667 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19219987 | DETECTING MALICIOUS DNS REQUESTS USING MACHINE LEARNING | F5, Inc. | SHEPPERD, ERIC W | 2492 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19217163 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTHENTICATION USING PARTITIONED AUTHENTICATION TOKENS | Capital One Services, LLC | WON, MICHAEL YOUNG | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 | |
| 19216453 | HYDRAULIC FRACTURING WITH DYNAMIC LOADING | ExxonMobil | LEE, CRYSTAL J | 3674 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19208855 | DRAIN STRAINER WITH SUPPORT RIBS | Ginsey Industries, Inc. | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19130429 | COMPLIANT BONE PLATE FOR FRACTURE FIXATION | The Penn State Research Foundation | YANG, ANDREW | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial84.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, LLP were allowed, across 48,719 applications in USPTO records.
3.33 office actions per allowed application on average.
880 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 312 clients, before 741 examiners in 308 art units.
