Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
129 pending office actions • 65 clients • 121 examiners • 89 art units • 1 of 129 (1%) have an AI response strategy ready
WOOD, HERRON & EVANS, LLP has 135 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 13739 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 87.67%, with an average of 2.67 office actions per allowance.
The profile combines a substantial active device and mechanical docket with a broad reported application base. The allowance rate summarizes resolved outcomes, while the office-action average indicates that allowed matters generally involve multiple examination exchanges. Practitioners can use these figures for workload planning and expectations around response strategy, but application-specific review remains necessary to assess claim scope, cited art, and amendment options.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 33 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. 33 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 only | 1 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (3%) |
| §103 only | 38 (29%) |
| §102 only | 9 (7%) |
| §112 only | 6 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 68 (53%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 2 | 69.6% | +47.8% |
| GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 2 | 54.8% | +13.6% |
| BROWN, MICHAEL J | 2 | 87.9% | +8.8% |
| MCKNIGHT, CIARA A | 2 | 61.5% | +40.3% |
| STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 2 | 65.1% | +21.6% |
| KENNY, DANIEL J | 2 | 61.8% | +21.6% |
| LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 2 | 72.3% | +20.4% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 2 | 63.7% | +11.8% |
| TENTONI, LEO B | 1 | 81.9% | +10.1% |
| PARSLEY, DAVID J | 1 | 54.1% | +28.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18947689 | Untitled | TENTONI, LEO B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18635615 | UNFINISHED FIREARM FRAME AND JIG | GILBERT, WILLIAM V | 154d overdue |
| 18172851 | SPREADER OR SPRAYER AND CONTROL SYSTEM THEREFORE | GORMAN, DARREN W | 89d overdue |
| 18484687 | FACELESS PRESSURE-SENSITIVE LABEL AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME | NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | 73d overdue |
| 17606565 | METHOD FOR FLOCCULATING SOLID PARTICLES CONTAINED IN A SUSPENSION, AND SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD | PEO, JONATHAN M | 73d overdue |
| 18286963 | STRUCTURAL GUTTER SYSTEM FOR SOLAR PANEL ARRAY | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 72d overdue |
| 19042805 | PASTES FOR SOLAR CELLS, SOLAR CELLS, AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 60d overdue |
| 17421616 | CONTINUOUS EX-VIVO AFFINITY-BASED SENSING OF INTERSTITIAL FLUID | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 59d overdue |
| 19257289 | REUSABLE, REAR-OPENING PROTECTIVE GARMENT WITH COMFORT FEATURES | HUANG, GRACE | 24d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19042805 | PASTES FOR SOLAR CELLS, SOLAR CELLS, AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 60d overdue |
| 19078420 | Large Scale Solar Energy Storage System-Based Advanced Materials | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 42d overdue |
| 18689673 | COIL SPRING PRODUCT WITH ROTARY CUTTER | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 15d |
| 18332294 | DEBURRING TOOL FOR FORWARD AND REVERSE DEBURRING OF BORE EDGES | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 28d |
| 18947689 | Untitled | TENTONI, LEO B | — |
| 19425315 | FOOD PROCESSING MACHINE WITH SEAL | PARSLEY, DAVID J | — |
| 19265117 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INNERSPRING UNIT | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | — |
| 18826563 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING THE YIELD AND/OR PURITY OF PROTEIN AND OIL FROM A GRAIN PROTEIN AND GRAIN OIL RECOVERY SYSTEM | MCKNIGHT, CIARA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 7 |
| 3726 | 6 |
| 1795 | 4 |
| 1721 | 3 |
| 1652 | 3 |
| 3731 | 3 |
| 3711 | 3 |
| 3643 | 2 |
| 3642 | 2 |
| 3732 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18947689 | Untitled | General Electric Company | TENTONI, LEO B | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | ||
| 19425315 | FOOD PROCESSING MACHINE WITH SEAL | VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 3643 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 19486417 | A WIND TURBINE BLADE | VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19395686 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM FOR USE WITH PHARMACEUTICALS | I-Property Holding Corp. | GETACHEW, WODAJO | 3697 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2025 |
| 19478098 | AIRCRAFT | Leonardo UK Ltd. | GORDON, ANNA L | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2025 |
| 19469040 | System And Method For Transporting A Package | Variable Uav, Inc. | RODZIWICZ, AARON M | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 19165280 | A PITCH CONTROLLED WIND TURBINE | VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S | DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19265117 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INNERSPRING UNIT | Spühl GmbH | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19257289 | REUSABLE, REAR-OPENING PROTECTIVE GARMENT WITH COMFORT FEATURES | Standard Textile Co., Inc. | HUANG, GRACE | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19255052 | OPTHALMIC INCISIONAL PROCEDURE INSTRUMENT AND METHOD | Eyemdenginnering LLC | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19141388 | A Method And System For Correcting A Self-Describing Dataset Of An Ego-Vehicle, Computer Program Product And Computer Readable Medium For Implementing The Method | Commsignia Kft. | OH, HARRY Y | 3657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19192423 | WELDLESS SHELF SUPPORT BEAMS AND SHELVING UNITS UTILIZING SAME | Edsal Manufacturing Company, LLC | HAWN, PATRICK D | 3631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19187297 | Method for Producing a Filling for a Horn Antenna, Horn Antenna for a Radar Measuring Device and Radar Measuring Device | VEGA Grieshaber KG | KING, MONICA C | 2845 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19185831 | LIQUID TOPPINGS DISPENSING SYSTEM | Kona Ice, Inc. | CARROLL, JEREMY W | 3754 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19179286 | QUICK-DISCONNECT POSITIVE MUZZLE MOUNTING MECHANISM | Breek LLC D/B/A Breek Arms | MORGAN, DERRICK R | 3641 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19118805 | METHOD FOR HANDLING A WIND TURBINE BLADE USING A CRANE SYSTEM | VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S | HOLLY, LEE A | 3726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19078420 | Large Scale Solar Energy Storage System-Based Advanced Materials | University Of Cincinnati | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1721 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19072372 | CONVEYOR DEVICE AND FILLING MACHINE FOR PASTY FOODS | VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH | PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS | 3643 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19061153 | LIGHT BLOCKING LABELS | Multi-Color Corporation | SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 1785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19055779 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING CONTROL | General Electric Company | SAFAIPOUR, BOBBAK | 2665 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19102465 | PRE-BENT WIND TURBINE BLADE WITH MULTIPLE INFLECTION POINTS AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME | VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S | MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19046715 | SEMI-RIGID, MULTI-PLY, SILICONE DETACHABLE DRAIN TUBE FOR FRYERS AND OTHER COMMERCIAL COOKING EQUIPMENT AND METHODS OF USE | Ws Holdings, LLC | ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19042805 | PASTES FOR SOLAR CELLS, SOLAR CELLS, AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | Bert Thin Films, Inc. | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1721 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19099080 | METHOD FOR LIQUEFYING AGAROSE AND PRODUCING NEOAGAROTETRAOSE/NEOAGAROHEXAOSE BY USING THERMOSTABLE GH16B BETA-AGARASE DERIVED FROM NOVEL AGAR-DEGRADING BACTERIUM | Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation | HUTSON, RICHARD G | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19039315 | ADMINISTRATION METHODS FOR ORAL MEDICATIONS | Omnicare, LLC | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18997706 | PROTECTIVE SPORTS EQUIPMENT WITH LAYERED SEGMENTED PADDING | INA International Ltd. | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18997361 | Improvements Relating to Modular Wind Turbine Blades | VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S | WILENSKY, MOSHE K | 3726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19020371 | COLLAPSIBLE SCOOTER WITH ROTATABLE DECK FOR COMPACT PACKAGING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | Huffy Corporation | LARSEN, JEFFREY R | 3612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19014557 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING FAULT INDICATIONS FOR AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS BASED ON A PROBABILISTIC COMPARISON OF THE OUTPUTS OF MULTIPLE PROCESS MODELS TO MEASURED SENSOR DATA | General Electric Company | AZAD, MD ABUL K | 2119 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18881968 | DAMPING ARRANGEMENT FOR A WIND TURBINE | VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S | REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 19010347 | URN CARRIER FOR A FUNERAL VEHICLE, FUNERAL VEHICLE HAVING SUCH AN URN CARRIER, AND RELATED METHOD | Federaleagle, LLC | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 3734 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18878425 | TAMPER-PROOF MOUNTING STRAP FOR A MONITORING DEVICE | Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc. | FOXX, CHICO A | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18877612 | A RADIATOR MODULE FOR A CONDITIONING SYSTEM OF A WIND TURBINE | VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18870860 | DEVICE FOR CONVERTING A STARTING MATERIAL INTO A PADDING MATERIAL FOR FILLING THE EMPTY VOLUME IN A CONTAINER, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A DEVICE | Storopack Hans Reichenecker GmbH | RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18961892 | ROTATING RECREATIONAL SLIDE | Slick Slide LLC | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 3711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18867097 | WIND TURBINE BLADE | VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S | LAMBERT, WAYNE A | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18940922 | DETECTING OPTICAL ANOMALIES ON OPTICAL ELEMENTS USED IN AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MACHINE | Concept Laser GmbH | BROWN, MICHAEL J | 2115 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18929210 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECOATING PARAMETER CONTROL | General Electric Company | BROWN, MICHAEL J | 2115 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18860508 | Bed-Mounted Surgical Tool Organization System | University Of Cincinnati | SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18706564 | GH117A a-NEOAGAROBIOSE HYDROLASE DERIVED FROM A NOVEL AGAR-DEGRADING BACTERIUM AND PRODUCING METHOD OF L-AHG USING THE SAME | Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation | UNDERDAHL, THANE E | 1652 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18902224 | MARINE SURFACE VESSEL TRAJECTORY TRACKING CONTROL | Ohio University | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 3663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18826563 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING THE YIELD AND/OR PURITY OF PROTEIN AND OIL FROM A GRAIN PROTEIN AND GRAIN OIL RECOVERY SYSTEM | Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC | MCKNIGHT, CIARA A | 1656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18794452 | BEVERAGE CONTAINER LID | Thermco LLC | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18777995 | TRANSFORMABLE RIDE-ON VEHICLE | Huffy Corporation | HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE | 3711 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18728021 | Electrochemical Aptamer Sensors with Signal Amplification Via Multiple Redox Tags | University Of Cincinnati | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18726968 | ELECTRO-SPINNING METHODS AND USES THEREOF | Ohio State Innovation Foundation | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18727023 | METHODS FOR SELF-SEEDED HYDROTHERMAL GROWTH OF MFI ZEOLITE NANOSHEETS AND NANOSHEET ASSEMBLIES AND FOR TILING NANOSHEET ZEOLITE PLATES ON POLYMER SUPPORTS | University Of Cincinnati | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1717 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18748713 | FRYER INCLUDING AUTOMATIC BASKET SHAKER LIFT AND VISION-BASED CONTROLS OF COOKING CYCLES AND COOKING MEDIUM SERVICING | Henny Penny Corporation | KERR, ELIZABETH M | 1792 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18716569 | TREATMENT OF WOOD WITH POLYORGANOSILOXANES | Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen Stiftung Offentlichen Rechts | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18674298 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS WITH ARRAY OF LASER DIODES | General Electric Company | TSUI, YUNG-SHENG M | 1684 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial87.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP were allowed, across 13,739 applications in USPTO records.
2.67 office actions per allowed application on average.
129 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 65 clients, before 121 examiners in 89 art units.
