Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 10 clients • 14 examiners • 12 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Watts Law LLC handles patent prosecution in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 466 career applications on record. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 95.47 percent. Its prosecution history shows an average of 2.06 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 10 pending office actions.
The 466 career applications and 95.47 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance in this sector. The 2.06 average helps practitioners understand the typical procedural requirements for reaching an allowance. With 10 pending office actions, the firm maintains its presence in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. This data set reflects the firm's documented experience and current workload within the patent office. The recorded metrics provide a baseline for procedural duration in this specific field. Practitioners can evaluate the intensity of examiner interaction and resource requirements based on these historical figures. These statistics offer a view of the firm's prosecution profile.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (21%) |
| §103 only | 1 (7%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (43%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 1 | 74.2% | +24.6% |
| STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 1 | 75.5% | -3.6% |
| CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 1 | 74.4% | +11.3% |
| SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1 | 57.1% | +26.5% |
| CONLON, MARISA V | 1 | 41.2% | +37.2% |
| BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
| UTAMA, ROBERT J | 1 | 60.2% | +29.4% |
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 1 | 58.6% | +59.2% |
| ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 48.1% | +26.7% |
| WILSON, MICHAEL C | 1 | 41.5% | +17.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19045846 | Bell and Spigot and Method of Making Same | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 30d overdue |
| 18371199 | HAIR BRUSH | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 12d |
| 19087079 | SLIDING RING BRUSH HOLDER | STOUT, RILEY OWEN | — |
| 18440308 | EXPLOSION PROOF MOTOR, PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| 18575539 | INTERACTIVE READING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | UTAMA, ROBERT J | — |
| 17641473 | ASSAY FOR IMMUNE CELL RECOVERY | GAO, ASHLEY HARTMAN | — |
| 17431270 | USE OF PLASMA MEMBRANE PARTICLES, LIPOSOMES, AND EXOSOMES TO ASSAY IMMUNE CELL POTENCY | SKOKO III, JOHN JOSEPH | — |
| 17150576 | THERMALLY EFFICIENT WINDOW FRAME | DAVIS, ZACHARY M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19045846 | Bell and Spigot and Method of Making Same | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 30d overdue |
| 18671398 | PLANTING POT WITH CAPILLARY WATERING SYSTEM | CONLON, MARISA V | 3d overdue |
| 18371199 | HAIR BRUSH | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 12d |
| 18216116 | LOCKABLE CONTAINER | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 33d |
| 19207228 | Solar Tracker Bearing Apparatus | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | — |
| 19030894 | Snow Removal Method for Solar Tracker Installation | SUN, MICHAEL Y | — |
| 18440308 | EXPLOSION PROOF MOTOR, PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| 18575539 | INTERACTIVE READING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | UTAMA, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 3643 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 1638 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| 1600 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207228 | Solar Tracker Bearing Apparatus | Omco Solar, LLC | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 | |
| 19087079 | SLIDING RING BRUSH HOLDER | Venturetec Rotating Systems GmbH | STOUT, RILEY OWEN | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 | |
| 19045846 | Bell and Spigot and Method of Making Same | Springseal, Inc. | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 3679 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 19030894 | Snow Removal Method for Solar Tracker Installation | Omco Solar, LLC | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18671398 | PLANTING POT WITH CAPILLARY WATERING SYSTEM | NuVue Products Ltd. | CONLON, MARISA V | 3643 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18440308 | EXPLOSION PROOF MOTOR, PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD | The Gorman-Rupp Company | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18575539 | INTERACTIVE READING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | The Reasearch Institute AT Nationwide Children'S Hospital | UTAMA, ROBERT J | 3715 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18371199 | HAIR BRUSH | Tangle Teezer Limited | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3723 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18216116 | LOCKABLE CONTAINER | Secure Medication Systems, LLC | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 3733 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 17910992 | NK CELLS AND USES THEREOF FOR TREATMENT OF MICROBIAL INFECTIONS | Research Institute AT Nationwide Children'S Hospital | WILSON, MICHAEL C | 1638 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17641473 | ASSAY FOR IMMUNE CELL RECOVERY | Research Institute AT Nationwide Children'S Hospital | GAO, ASHLEY HARTMAN | 1678 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2022 |
| 17431270 | USE OF PLASMA MEMBRANE PARTICLES, LIPOSOMES, AND EXOSOMES TO ASSAY IMMUNE CELL POTENCY | Research Institute AT Nationwide Children'S Hospital | SKOKO III, JOHN JOSEPH | 1600 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2021 |
| 17150576 | THERMALLY EFFICIENT WINDOW FRAME | Ged Integrated Solutions, Inc. | DAVIS, ZACHARY M | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2021 |
| 17018681 | UNIVERSAL DONOR SELECTION METHOD TO IDENTIFY NK-CELL-DONORS | The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital | DIBRINO, MARIANNE | 1641 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2020 |
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