Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
The company 4C Medical Technologies Inc. operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. It currently has 5 pending office actions, which are being handled by 4 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that the company is interacting with several different examiner styles, requiring a coordinated approach to prosecution.
The portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the technical evaluation of these innovations is focused within a specialized group. RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This workload represents a significant portion of the 5 pending office actions currently active for the company.
For practitioners, the presence of 4 distinct examiners within a distinct art unit requires maintaining consistency in technical arguments. While the examiners may differ, they all operate under the same art unit standards. The concentration of 2 busiest examiner pending office actions under RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO provides a specific point of focus for the current legal strategy in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 2 | 16.0% | +0.0% |
| WHITE, KIA XIONG | 1 | 66.0% | +44.1% |
| NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU | 1 | — | — |
| FLORES, ADRIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200691 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING BLOOD FLOW | FLORES, ADRIAN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18211504 | PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE | NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU | 16d overdue |
| 19443207 | STENT FEATURES AND METHODS TO AID WITH APPOSITION AND ALIGNMENT TO NATIVE ANATOMY, MITIGATION OF PARAVALVULAR LEAK AND FUNCTIONAL EFFICIENCY OF PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | — |
| 18900183 | Anchored Leaflet Device And Methods For Transcatheter Valve Repair | WHITE, KIA XIONG | — |
| 18505324 | STENT FEATURES AND METHODS TO AID WITH APPOSITION AND ALIGNMENT TO NATIVE ANATOMY, MITIGATION OF PARAVALVULAR LEAK AND FUNCTIONAL EFFICIENCY OF PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900183 | Anchored Leaflet Device And Methods For Transcatheter Valve Repair | WHITE, KIA XIONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19443207 | STENT FEATURES AND METHODS TO AID WITH APPOSITION AND ALIGNMENT TO NATIVE ANATOMY, MITIGATION OF PARAVALVULAR LEAK AND FUNCTIONAL EFFICIENCY OF PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2026 |
| 18900183 | Anchored Leaflet Device And Methods For Transcatheter Valve Repair | WHITE, KIA XIONG | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18505324 | STENT FEATURES AND METHODS TO AID WITH APPOSITION AND ALIGNMENT TO NATIVE ANATOMY, MITIGATION OF PARAVALVULAR LEAK AND FUNCTIONAL EFFICIENCY OF PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18211504 | PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE | NGUYEN, NHA UYEN CHAU | 3774 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
| 18200691 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING BLOOD FLOW | FLORES, ADRIAN | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
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