Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
AngioDynamics Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This volume of active prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct examiners. The portfolio is concentrated within distinct art units, suggesting a specific examination environment for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is TANNER, JOCELIN C, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This specific examiner's workload represents a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently facing the company. Because the actions are split between the distinct examiners, no single examiner holds a majority of the active cases.
Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art units involved creates a jurisdictional scope for these pending office actions. The presence of TANNER, JOCELIN C as the busiest examiner shows that the prosecution effort is divided. This distribution across the distinct examiners may require distinct communication strategies for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TANNER, JOCELIN C | 1 | 72.2% | +34.8% |
| CLARK, RYAN T | 1 | 50.4% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOVING MATERIAL FROM A HOLLOW ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
| 18905204 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABLATING A TISSUE SITE BY ELECTROPORATION WITH REAL-TIME PULSE MONITORING | CLARK, RYAN T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOVING MATERIAL FROM A HOLLOW ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
| 18905204 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABLATING A TISSUE SITE BY ELECTROPORATION WITH REAL-TIME PULSE MONITORING | CLARK, RYAN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOVING MATERIAL FROM A HOLLOW ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18905204 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABLATING A TISSUE SITE BY ELECTROPORATION WITH REAL-TIME PULSE MONITORING | CLARK, RYAN T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
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