Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Volpe Koenig - FLEX has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The broader practice record includes 33337 career applications and an 88.23% resolved allowance rate. The historical record therefore reflects extensive prosecution activity and a high proportion of resolved matters reaching allowance.
The practice averages 3.19 office actions per allowance. For FLEX matters, that measure points to a prosecution process in which allowance commonly follows several examiner exchanges. The current docket is limited, but the available practice history offers a substantial basis for anticipating claim refinement and response work.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAPEL, DEREK S | 1 | 70.3% | +22.0% |
| ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 1 | 86.7% | +18.2% |
| TURKOWSKI, KAYLA MARIE | 1 | 67.9% | +50.4% |
| ALSOMIRI, ISAM A | 1 | 66.8% | +23.2% |
| RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 1 | 76.5% | +12.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18022054 | MODULAR CLEANING SYSTEM FOR CLEANING A SENSOR WINDOW OF AN OPTICAL SENSING DEVICE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | ALSOMIRI, ISAM A | 58d overdue |
| 18769260 | LEADSCREW TIP FOR AN AUTOINJECTOR | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | — |
| 17909081 | ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18022054 | MODULAR CLEANING SYSTEM FOR CLEANING A SENSOR WINDOW OF AN OPTICAL SENSING DEVICE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | ALSOMIRI, ISAM A | 58d overdue |
| 18852180 | DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING A VIEWING MEANS ASSEMBLY, VIEWING MEANS DEVICE, AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE | CHAPEL, DEREK S | — |
| 18769260 | LEADSCREW TIP FOR AN AUTOINJECTOR | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | — |
| 18621862 | BIO-ELECTRICAL SENSING IN AN AUTOINJECTOR | TURKOWSKI, KAYLA MARIE | — |
| 17909081 | ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. | 3 |
| Flex | 2 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18852180 | DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING A VIEWING MEANS ASSEMBLY, VIEWING MEANS DEVICE, AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE | Mci (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. | CHAPEL, DEREK S | 2872 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18769260 | LEADSCREW TIP FOR AN AUTOINJECTOR | Flextronics Ap, LLC | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18621862 | BIO-ELECTRICAL SENSING IN AN AUTOINJECTOR | Flextronics Ap, LLC | TURKOWSKI, KAYLA MARIE | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18022054 | MODULAR CLEANING SYSTEM FOR CLEANING A SENSOR WINDOW OF AN OPTICAL SENSING DEVICE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | Mci (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. | ALSOMIRI, ISAM A | 3645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 17909081 | ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING | Mci (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 3618 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial88.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Volpe Koenig - Flex were allowed, across 33,337 applications in USPTO records.
3.19 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 5 examiners in 4 art units.
