Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin is a patent law firm specializing in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm has handled 211 career applications, maintaining a focused portfolio in this area. Its resolved allowance rate_pct is 95.18, which is an exceptionally high success rate for obtaining patent grants.
The firm averages 2.0 office actions per allowance, indicating a very efficient and direct prosecution strategy. This efficiency is notable for a firm with 211 career applications. Currently, the firm has 4 pending office actions under its management.
The 95.18 resolved allowance rate_pct and 2.0 average office actions per allowance are key indicators of the firm's performance. These figures suggest that the firm is highly effective at obtaining allowances with minimal back-and-forth with examiners. The 4 pending office actions show the firm's current level of activity.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | 1 | 33.9% | +11.8% |
| PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 48.6% | +39.3% |
| TRAN, THIEN S | 1 | 71.9% | +24.0% |
| SUN, HAI TAO | 1 | 73.6% | +24.0% |
| HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | 1 | 50.6% | +62.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18773074 | System and Method to Determine List Prices Based on Cash Incentives and Transaction Costs | BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | 10d overdue |
| 18111475 | Apparatus and Method for Modulating Forced Air Electric Heater Control with Temperature Protection | TRAN, THIEN S | 77d |
| 18645670 | Container for Beverage | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17954527 | Point of Interest System and Method for AR, VR, MR, and XR Connected Spaces | SUN, HAI TAO | 42d overdue |
| 18773074 | System and Method to Determine List Prices Based on Cash Incentives and Transaction Costs | BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | 10d overdue |
| 18111475 | Apparatus and Method for Modulating Forced Air Electric Heater Control with Temperature Protection | TRAN, THIEN S | 77d |
| 18645670 | Container for Beverage | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 17826889 | SKIN CARE PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION | HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Parse Pay, Inc. | 1 |
| In Motion Design | 1 |
| Evolution Controls Inc. | 1 |
| Magnopus, LLC | 1 |
| Theubeauty.Com, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18773074 | System and Method to Determine List Prices Based on Cash Incentives and Transaction Costs | Parse Pay, Inc. | BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | 3627 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18645670 | Container for Beverage | In Motion Design Inc. | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3754 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18111475 | Apparatus and Method for Modulating Forced Air Electric Heater Control with Temperature Protection | Evolution Controls Inc. | TRAN, THIEN S | 3761 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 17954527 | Point of Interest System and Method for AR, VR, MR, and XR Connected Spaces | Magnopus, LLC | SUN, HAI TAO | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17826889 | SKIN CARE PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION | Theubeauty.Com, LLC | HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial95.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin were allowed, across 211 applications in USPTO records.
2.00 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.