Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Acandis GmbH has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners. RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The portfolio shows 3 pending office actions assigned to 3 distinct examiners. This distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's technologies are being reviewed in different specialized sections of the patent office. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is split among the assigned staff. Practitioners can analyze the pending actions to determine if prosecution trends are consistent across the 3 distinct art units. This variety in examiners reduces the impact of any individual reviewer's tendencies on the overall portfolio. Such a distributed approach provides the company with different data points for evaluating its current prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 | 1 | 15.4% | +0.0% |
| PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 1 | 55.4% | +35.9% |
| MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 1 | 60.3% | +49.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18202716 | STENT AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SUCH A STENT | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | — |
| 17632611 | MEDICAL KIT AND MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR THE TREATMENT OF ANEURYSMS | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17786476 | MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR TREATING STENOSIS IN INTRACRANIAL VESSELS | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 23d overdue |
| 17632611 | MEDICAL KIT AND MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR THE TREATMENT OF ANEURYSMS | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18202716 | STENT AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SUCH A STENT | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 17786476 | MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR TREATING STENOSIS IN INTRACRANIAL VESSELS | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17632611 | MEDICAL KIT AND MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR THE TREATMENT OF ANEURYSMS | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAcandis GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Gabriella Giselle Bono Rios has the most, with 1 of Acandis GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
