Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 7 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
WEAVER IP L.L.C. handles patent prosecution in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 1034 career applications on record. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 90.7 percent. Its prosecution history shows an average of 3.92 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 5 pending office actions.
The 1034 career applications and 90.7 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance in this sector. The 3.92 average helps practitioners understand the typical procedural requirements for reaching an allowance. With 5 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. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (29%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 1 | 68.0% | +28.7% |
| YANG, YI-SHAN | 1 | 70.6% | +53.3% |
| YOON, CHANEL J | 1 | 55.0% | +40.1% |
| SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 1 | 62.9% | +22.9% |
| COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | 1 | 46.1% | +31.3% |
| SANKS, SCHYLER S | 1 | 72.8% | +16.0% |
| SAN, JASON W | 1 | 65.2% | +32.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617157 | PATIENT-WEARABLE DEVICE FOR DETECTING A SUBPULSE OF A PATIENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS | COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | 18d overdue |
| 19298375 | ULTRASOUND PROBE WITH AN INTEGRATED NEEDLE ASSEMBLY AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PATH FOR INSERTING A NEEDLE OF THE ULTRASOUND PROBE | YANG, YI-SHAN | — |
| 18714507 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AN AORTIC STATE | YOON, CHANEL J | — |
| 18400709 | QUANTUM CONTROL | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — |
| 18555872 | CONNECTOR FOR TWO COMPONENTS | SAN, JASON W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617157 | PATIENT-WEARABLE DEVICE FOR DETECTING A SUBPULSE OF A PATIENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS | COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | 18d overdue |
| 19335800 | PATIENT-WEARABLE DEVICE FOR DETECTING A SUBPULSE OF A PATIENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 33d |
| 19298375 | ULTRASOUND PROBE WITH AN INTEGRATED NEEDLE ASSEMBLY AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PATH FOR INSERTING A NEEDLE OF THE ULTRASOUND PROBE | YANG, YI-SHAN | — |
| 18714507 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AN AORTIC STATE | YOON, CHANEL J | — |
| 18709376 | FITTING AND CONNECTOR FOR COMPONENTS | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | — |
| 18400709 | QUANTUM CONTROL | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — |
| 18555872 | CONNECTOR FOR TWO COMPONENTS | SAN, JASON W | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Dandelion Medical Devices, Inc. | 2 |
| Knapp Holding GmbH | 2 |
| Dandelion Technologies, LLC | 1 |
| Arterioscope Flexco | 1 |
| UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3677 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19335800 | PATIENT-WEARABLE DEVICE FOR DETECTING A SUBPULSE OF A PATIENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS | Dandelion Medical Devices, Inc. | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 19298375 | ULTRASOUND PROBE WITH AN INTEGRATED NEEDLE ASSEMBLY AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PATH FOR INSERTING A NEEDLE OF THE ULTRASOUND PROBE | Dandelion Technologies, LLC | YANG, YI-SHAN | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 18714507 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AN AORTIC STATE | Arterioscope Flexco | YOON, CHANEL J | 3791 | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18709376 | FITTING AND CONNECTOR FOR COMPONENTS | Knapp Holding GmbH | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 3677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18617157 | PATIENT-WEARABLE DEVICE FOR DETECTING A SUBPULSE OF A PATIENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS | Dandelion Medical Devices, Inc. | COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18400709 | QUANTUM CONTROL | UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA | SANKS, SCHYLER S | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 | |
| 18555872 | CONNECTOR FOR TWO COMPONENTS | Knapp Holding GmbH | SAN, JASON W | 3677 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
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