Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Advanced Bionics AG has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The record therefore shows broad examiner distribution across a limited set of technical examination units, with multiple matters associated with each art unit.
WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner holds a dominant share of the pending workload. Counsel should organize prosecution by art unit for technical consistency, then tailor each response to the assigned examiner and action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 2 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.9% | +25.0% |
| WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 1 | 70.4% | +27.8% |
| SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 1 | 83.7% | +8.2% |
| WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 1 | 55.6% | +46.6% |
| EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 1 | 70.4% | +34.9% |
| BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 1 | 36.0% | +30.0% |
| FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 1 | 27.8% | +40.4% |
| PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 1 | 56.6% | +46.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718210 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COCHLEAR TRAUMA MANAGEMENT DURING AN ELECTRODE LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17853281 | HEARING PROSTHESIS SYSTEM | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 12d |
| 17870353 | ELECTRODE LOCATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE DURING A COCHLEAR IMPLANT LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 21d |
| 18738593 | CASE FOR USE IN IMPLANTABLE COCHLEAR STIMULATION SYSTEMS AND IMPLANTABLE COCHLEAR STIMULATION SYSTEM EXTERNAL COMPONENT INCLUDING THE SAME | PORTER, JR, GARY A | — |
| 18622075 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING STIMULUS FREQUENCIES TO USE DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — |
| 17620002 | SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING WHEN AN ELECTRODE LEAD REACHES A COCHLEAR BASAL TURN DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718422 | COCHLEAR IMPLANTS HAVING MRI-COMPATIBLE MAGNET APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3d overdue |
| 17853281 | HEARING PROSTHESIS SYSTEM | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 12d |
| 17870353 | ELECTRODE LOCATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE DURING A COCHLEAR IMPLANT LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 21d |
| 18738593 | CASE FOR USE IN IMPLANTABLE COCHLEAR STIMULATION SYSTEMS AND IMPLANTABLE COCHLEAR STIMULATION SYSTEM EXTERNAL COMPONENT INCLUDING THE SAME | PORTER, JR, GARY A | — |
| 18622075 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING STIMULUS FREQUENCIES TO USE DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — |
| 18678686 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE DURING A PROCEDURE ASSOCIATED WITH A COCHLEAR IMPLANT | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | — |
| 17620002 | SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING WHEN AN ELECTRODE LEAD REACHES A COCHLEAR BASAL TURN DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 4 |
| 3792 | 3 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18738593 | CASE FOR USE IN IMPLANTABLE COCHLEAR STIMULATION SYSTEMS AND IMPLANTABLE COCHLEAR STIMULATION SYSTEM EXTERNAL COMPONENT INCLUDING THE SAME | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18718422 | COCHLEAR IMPLANTS HAVING MRI-COMPATIBLE MAGNET APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18718210 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COCHLEAR TRAUMA MANAGEMENT DURING AN ELECTRODE LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 3796 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18622075 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING STIMULUS FREQUENCIES TO USE DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18678686 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE DURING A PROCEDURE ASSOCIATED WITH A COCHLEAR IMPLANT | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 17870353 | ELECTRODE LOCATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE DURING A COCHLEAR IMPLANT LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 3796 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
| 17853281 | HEARING PROSTHESIS SYSTEM | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 29, 2022 |
| 17620002 | SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING WHEN AN ELECTRODE LEAD REACHES A COCHLEAR BASAL TURN DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3794 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAdvanced Bionics AG has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 8 examiners.
Jr, Gary A Porter has the most, with 1 of Advanced Bionics AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
