Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
22 pending office actions • 2 clients • 21 examiners • 13 art units • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vorys-Solventum operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm has managed 5478 career applications and maintains a resolved allowance rate pct of 84.9. This percentage reflects the firm's success in obtaining patent grants across its 5478 career applications. Practitioners can use these metrics to evaluate the firm's historical performance in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The data provides a foundation for setting expectations for future prosecution in this technical field.
Currently, the firm has 21 pending office actions. The avg office actions per allowance for the firm is 3.43. This 3.43 avg office actions per allowance indicates the number of examiner interactions typically required to reach an allowance. With 21 pending office actions, the firm continues to manage its active cases. The 3.43 avg office actions per allowance helps practitioners estimate the resources needed for the examination phase. The 84.9 resolved allowance rate pct and the 21 pending office actions offer a view of the firm's results.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 (5%) |
| §103 only | 11 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (32%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 2 | 45.0% | -13.9% |
| STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 1 | 63.1% | +48.8% |
| KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 1 | 83.6% | +7.6% |
| HARRIS, WESLEY G | 1 | 73.3% | +22.0% |
| HALL, DEANNA K | 1 | 75.7% | +15.7% |
| WIEST, PHILIP R | 1 | 81.3% | +16.3% |
| SHAH, NILAY J | 1 | 76.3% | +46.9% |
| LEWIS, KIM M | 1 | 74.0% | +12.8% |
| KIM, CRAIG SANG | 1 | 86.3% | +9.8% |
| XU, JUSTIN | 1 | 60.2% | +36.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292202 | SECUREMENT DEVICE, KIT, AND METHOD OF USING SECUREMENT DEVICE | KIM, CRAIG SANG | 28d |
| 19096890 | MEDICAL ARTICLES WITH RADIO OPAQUE PATTERNS | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917306 | MEDICAL ADHESIVE ARTICLES HAVING A LOW EFFECTIVE MODULUS OF ELASTICITY | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 3d overdue |
| 18039692 | IMPEDANCE BASED WOUND HEALING MONITOR | GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 9d |
| 18719637 | Wound Dressings and Methods of Making the Same | WIEST, PHILIP R | — |
| 18707455 | Adhesives for Wet or Dry Adhesion | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | — |
| 18700917 | Securement Systems for Vascular Devices | SHAH, NILAY J | — |
| 18267630 | VENOUS STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND DRESSING | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | — |
| 17913495 | MEDICAL PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVES FREE OF POLAR GROUPS | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | — |
| 17636913 | TUBE SECUREMENT SYSTEM | DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19353455 | TISSUE SUBSTITUTE MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE REPAIR | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | — |
| 18850791 | SECUREMENT DEVICE FOR SECURING MEDICAL ARTICLE, KIT COMPRISING SECUREMENT DEVICE, AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | HARRIS, WESLEY G | — |
| 18723736 | Sealing Film with Perimeter Edge Weakness for Tamper Evident Protection | HALL, DEANNA K | — |
| 18719637 | Wound Dressings and Methods of Making the Same | WIEST, PHILIP R | — |
| 18700917 | Securement Systems for Vascular Devices | SHAH, NILAY J | — |
| 18688804 | Compression Bandage Systems with Areas of Increased Local Pressure | LEWIS, KIM M | — |
| 18571379 | Article, System, and Method for Detecting Extravasation | XU, JUSTIN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| 3M | 21 |
| Solventum Intellectual Properties Campany | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 4 |
| 1788 | 2 |
| 3786 | 2 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19353455 | TISSUE SUBSTITUTE MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE REPAIR | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19096890 | MEDICAL ARTICLES WITH RADIO OPAQUE PATTERNS | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 | |
| 18850791 | SECUREMENT DEVICE FOR SECURING MEDICAL ARTICLE, KIT COMPRISING SECUREMENT DEVICE, AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | HARRIS, WESLEY G | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 | |
| 18723736 | Sealing Film with Perimeter Edge Weakness for Tamper Evident Protection | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | HALL, DEANNA K | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 | |
| 18719637 | Wound Dressings and Methods of Making the Same | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | WIEST, PHILIP R | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18707455 | Adhesives for Wet or Dry Adhesion | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 1788 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18700917 | Securement Systems for Vascular Devices | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | SHAH, NILAY J | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 | |
| 18688804 | Compression Bandage Systems with Areas of Increased Local Pressure | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | LEWIS, KIM M | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18292202 | SECUREMENT DEVICE, KIT, AND METHOD OF USING SECUREMENT DEVICE | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | KIM, CRAIG SANG | 3741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18571379 | Article, System, and Method for Detecting Extravasation | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | XU, JUSTIN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18553630 | Laminate and Coating Composition | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18259555 | NOVEL ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | HIRT, ERIN E | 1616 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18267630 | VENOUS STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND DRESSING | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18039692 | IMPEDANCE BASED WOUND HEALING MONITOR | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | GLOVER, NELSON ALEXANDER | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18253989 | MICROSTRUCTURED SURFACE WITH INCREASED MICROORGANISM REMOVAL WHEN CLEANED, ARTICLES AND METHODS | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 17917306 | MEDICAL ADHESIVE ARTICLES HAVING A LOW EFFECTIVE MODULUS OF ELASTICITY | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 3786 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
| 17913495 | MEDICAL PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVES FREE OF POLAR GROUPS | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 1788 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
| 17778886 | Multilayer Adhesive Fluid Collection Articles Including Capillary Channels | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2022 |
| 17636913 | TUBE SECUREMENT SYSTEM | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2022 |
| 17669880 | GARMENT WITH A CONFIGURABLE CONVECTIVE DEVICE | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
| 17630032 | ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME | Solventum Intellectual Properties Campany | KETCHAM, KAREN A | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Jan 25, 2022 |
| 17270228 | ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING CHLORHEXIDINE | Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | AL-AWADI, DANAH J | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2021 |
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