Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Acandis GmbH maintains a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area that is currently active, with 4 pending office actions. This volume indicates a significant level of engagement with the patent office, likely reflecting a pipeline of medical device innovations. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which introduces a variety of perspectives into the prosecution process. Such a spread suggests that the company must navigate different examiner temperaments and requirements to move applications toward allowance, requiring a flexible and responsive legal strategy.
The portfolio's activity is concentrated within 3 distinct art units, indicating that while the examiners differ, the technological focus remains somewhat clustered. RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending action. The involvement of 3 distinct art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests that the company's innovations may touch upon related but distinct mechanical or medical disciplines. Practitioners must manage separate legal dialogues while maintaining a unified strategy across these units to ensure that the pending office actions are resolved in a manner that strengthens the overall portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (100%) |
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 | 16.0% | +0.0% |
| PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 1 | 55.2% | +35.6% |
| HIGHLAND, RACHEL S | 1 | 67.2% | +35.5% |
| 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18202716 | STENT AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SUCH A STENT | 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17632687 | MEDICAL SET FOR TREATING ANEURYSMS, PRODUCTION PROCESS, AND MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR TREATING ANEURYSMS | HIGHLAND, RACHEL S | 49d overdue |
| 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 | 2 |
| 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 |
| 17632687 | MEDICAL SET FOR TREATING ANEURYSMS, PRODUCTION PROCESS, AND MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR TREATING ANEURYSMS | HIGHLAND, RACHEL S | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Feb 03, 2022 |
| 17632611 | MEDICAL KIT AND MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR THE TREATMENT OF ANEURYSMS | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2022 |
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