Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
36 pending office actions • 20 clients • 32 examiners • 16 art units • 0 of 36 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Wissing Miller LLP focuses on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, with 1312 career applications in its history. The firm has a strong resolved allowance rate of 91.39 percent, suggesting a high level of efficacy in obtaining patent grants. Currently, the firm is managing 24 pending office actions. The firm averages 3.12 office actions per allowance, indicating a typical prosecution cycle involving roughly three interactions with examiners before an allowance is issued.
This average of 3.12, combined with the 91.39 percent allowance rate, points to a successful strategy for overcoming technical rejections in the medical and mechanical fields. The 1312 career applications provide a solid foundation of experience for the firm's current and future clients. For practitioners, the 24 pending office actions represent an active practice that maintains a high success rate. The firm's ability to achieve a 91.39 percent allowance rate while averaging 3.12 office actions per allowance suggests a balanced approach that prioritizes both success and procedural thoroughness. This data from 1312 career applications confirms the firm's reliability in securing intellectual property rights for engineering innovations.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 (3%) |
| §103 only | 11 (31%) |
| §102 only | 2 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 20 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3 | 63.9% | +18.3% |
| BOLER, RYNAE E | 3 | 62.4% | +8.8% |
| MCLEAN, CHRISTIAN P | 1 | 90.0% | -0.9% |
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 1 | 77.9% | +19.2% |
| HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | 1 | 77.0% | +17.8% |
| NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 1 | 52.6% | +40.6% |
| GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON | 1 | 76.5% | +16.8% |
| TAUFIQ, FARAH N | 1 | 61.6% | +25.2% |
| WILSON, BRIAN P | 1 | 62.4% | +41.4% |
| NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 1 | 77.8% | +13.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35526788 | Watch case | MCLEAN, CHRISTIAN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17843217 | ENDOSCOPIC FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 81d overdue |
| 17910699 | Subsea desalination system for shallow water | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 67d overdue |
| 19262375 | EAR SPECULUM WITH FLUID DELIVERY DEVICE | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | — |
| 19219180 | ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATOR FOR A SUN PROTECTION OR A PRIVACY DEVICE | HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | — |
| 19218437 | Breast Cancer Screening of Xray-Dense Breasts Using Rotary ABUS and Advanced Artificial Intelligence | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | — |
| 19197510 | COSMETIC APPLICATOR WITH SEPARATELY FORMED SURFACE | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | — |
| 19123550 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AN OBSTRUCTION OF AN AUTOMATIC DOOR SYSTEM AS WELL AS A DETECTION UNIT | WILSON, BRIAN P | — |
| 18993116 | DOOR LEAF AS WELL AS A DOOR SYSTEM | AGUDELO, PAOLA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17843217 | ENDOSCOPIC FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 81d overdue |
| 18209947 | PORTABLE ENDOSCOPE WITH STEERABLE CANNULA | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 77d overdue |
| 19262375 | EAR SPECULUM WITH FLUID DELIVERY DEVICE | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | — |
| 19219180 | ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATOR FOR A SUN PROTECTION OR A PRIVACY DEVICE | HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | — |
| 19218437 | Breast Cancer Screening of Xray-Dense Breasts Using Rotary ABUS and Advanced Artificial Intelligence | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | — |
| 19132597 | BRAKING SYSTEM COMPRISING A PARKING BRAKING DEVICE WITH INCREASED OPERATIONAL RELIABILITY | GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON | — |
| 19197510 | COSMETIC APPLICATOR WITH SEPARATELY FORMED SURFACE | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | — |
| 19123550 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AN OBSTRUCTION OF AN AUTOMATIC DOOR SYSTEM AS WELL AS A DETECTION UNIT | WILSON, BRIAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 7 |
| 3773 | 2 |
| 3634 | 2 |
| 2951 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35526788 | Watch case | Furlan Marri SA | MCLEAN, CHRISTIAN P | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19262375 | EAR SPECULUM WITH FLUID DELIVERY DEVICE | The Feinstein Institute For Medical Research | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 19219180 | ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATOR FOR A SUN PROTECTION OR A PRIVACY DEVICE | Somfy Activites SA | HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 | |
| 19218437 | Breast Cancer Screening of Xray-Dense Breasts Using Rotary ABUS and Advanced Artificial Intelligence | Shih-Ping Wang | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2025 | |
| 19132597 | BRAKING SYSTEM COMPRISING A PARKING BRAKING DEVICE WITH INCREASED OPERATIONAL RELIABILITY | Hitachi Astemo Heilbronn GmbH | GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19197510 | COSMETIC APPLICATOR WITH SEPARATELY FORMED SURFACE | Toly Management Ltd. | TAUFIQ, FARAH N | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 | |
| 19123550 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AN OBSTRUCTION OF AN AUTOMATIC DOOR SYSTEM AS WELL AS A DETECTION UNIT | Assa Abloy Entrance System AB | WILSON, BRIAN P | 2689 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19176809 | ENDOSCOPY SYSTEM WITH OFF-CENTER DIRECTION OF VIEW | Suzhou AcuVu Medical Technology Co., Ltd. | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 | |
| 19095283 | PORTABLE ENDOSCOPE WITH SIDE-MOUNTABLE DISPOSABLE PORTION | UroViu Corp. | SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 | |
| 18993116 | DOOR LEAF AS WELL AS A DOOR SYSTEM | Assa Abloy Entrance Systesms AB | AGUDELO, PAOLA | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 | |
| 18992497 | ACTUATOR FOR DRIVING A SCREEN | Somfy Activites SA | SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 | |
| 18880198 | ASSEMBLY TYPE BAR STOOL BASE AND BAR STOOL COMPRISING SAME | Yuhua Wang | ISLAM, SYED A | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 | |
| 18873811 | LID AND LID SYSTEM | Jets AS | NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M | 3753 | §102 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18964145 | EXPANDABLE INTERVERTEBRAL SPACER | The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 3773 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18927416 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO FACILITATE INTRODUCTION OF CERVICAL BALLOON CATHETER | The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research | LONG, SARAH A | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18840160 | TENSION ARRANGEMENT FOR A DOOR OPERATOR SYSTE | Assa Abloy AB | MASSAD, ABE L | 3634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18833700 | ROLLER SKI COMPRISING AN IMPROVED SHOCK ABSORBER DEVICE | Ff Rollerskis AS | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 | |
| 18714938 | ERROR DATA REPORTING FOR ENTRANCE SYSTEMS | Assa Abloy AB | POPE, DARYL C | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 | |
| 18628133 | ERGONOMIC URETEROSCOPE HAVING SINGLE-USE AND REUSABLE PORTIONS | Micronvision Corp. | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18692959 | SPEED AND LANDING ZONE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | Precision Approach LLC | HANSELL JR., RICHARD A | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18685945 | METHOD FOR MONITORING AN AUTOMATIC DOOR SYSTEM AS WELL AS SYSTEM WITH AN AUTOMATIC DOOR SYSTEM | Assa Abloy AB | FORRISTALL, JOSHUA L | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 | |
| 18288272 | INSTALLATION FOR TREATING WASTEWATER FROM A TOILET AND SANITARY UNIT COMPRISING SUCH AN INSTALLATION | Mizufalls SA | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18288325 | AUTOMATIC DOOR OPERATOR IN ENTRANCE SYSTEM | Assa Abloy AB | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | 2119 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18378057 | CHARGING ADAPTER FOR CHARGING A BATTERY FOR BLINDS AND ELECTRIC CURTAINS ALL HAVING A DC BATTERY | Somfy Activites SA | MCDANIEL, TYNESE V | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 | |
| 18285337 | A Door Operation Support System and Method for Predicting Maintenance | Assa Abloy AB | SHERWIN, RYAN W | 2688 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18374740 | HAND-HELD ENDOSCOPIC SYSTEM WITH A SINGLE-USE CANNULA AND A SINGLE-USE ACCESS SHEATH | Micronvision Corp. | BOLER, RYNAE E | 3795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18268288 | ROLL DOOR UNIT, ROLL-UP DOOR AND USE OF A ROLL DOOR UNIT FOR COVERING A DOOR OPENING | Assa Abloy AB | SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD | 3634 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
| 18211486 | HAND-HELD, MULTI-BAND IMAGING PEN | Micronvision Corp. | BOLER, RYNAE E | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 104d overdue | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
| 18209947 | PORTABLE ENDOSCOPE WITH STEERABLE CANNULA | UroViu Corp. | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18113395 | PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY IMAGING | Micronvision Corp. | BOLER, RYNAE E | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 18083209 | Compact Robotic Endoscope | Micronvision Corp. | CHOU, WILLIAM B | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 17910699 | Subsea desalination system for shallow water | Waterise AS | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17843217 | ENDOSCOPIC FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | Micronvision Corp. | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 81d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17194094 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING USER INTENTION FROM LIMB OR BODY MOTION OR TRAJECTORY TO CONTROL NEUROMUSCULAR STIMUATION OR PROSTHETIC DEVICE OPERATION | The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2021 |
| 17054098 | STIMULATION AND TREATMENT DEVICE | Rodney Burnett-Jones | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3791 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2020 |
| 16850292 | COSMETIC APPLICATOR WITH SEPARATE BRUSH AND MOLDED APPLICATOR STRUCTURES | Toly Management Ltd. | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 3772 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2020 |
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