Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 2 | 77.6% | +12.8% |
| DEAK, LESLIE R | 2 | 75.3% | +17.6% |
| GRAY, PHILLIP A | 1 | 74.0% | +10.6% |
| LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 1 | 35.6% | -3.3% |
| HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 1 | 70.0% | +14.1% |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608958 | CYCLED PULSING TO MITIGATE THERMAL DAMAGE FOR MULTI-ELECTRODE IRREVERSIBLE ELECTROPORATION THERAPY | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 43d overdue |
| 17869687 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE FOR ASPIRATION SYSTEM RETRIEVERS | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 29d overdue |
| 18390932 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVING UNDESIRABLE MATERIAL WITHIN A CIRCULATORY SYSTEM UTILIZING A BALLOON CATHETER | DEAK, LESLIE R | 8d |
| 18528051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABLATING A TISSUE SITE BY ELECTROPORATION WITH REAL-TIME MONITORING OF TREATMENT PROGRESS | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 29d |
| 18602646 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVING UNDESIRABLE MATERIAL WITHIN A CIRCULATORY SYSTEM UTILIZING A BALLOON CATHETER | DEAK, LESLIE R | 63d |
| 18309223 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUAL ASPIRATION AND REMOVAL OF AN UNDESIRABLE MATERIAL | GRAY, PHILLIP A | 68d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 3 |
| 3799 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18608958 | CYCLED PULSING TO MITIGATE THERMAL DAMAGE FOR MULTI-ELECTRODE IRREVERSIBLE ELECTROPORATION THERAPY | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | Other | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18602646 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVING UNDESIRABLE MATERIAL WITHIN A CIRCULATORY SYSTEM UTILIZING A BALLOON CATHETER | DEAK, LESLIE R | 3799 | DPOther | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18390932 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVING UNDESIRABLE MATERIAL WITHIN A CIRCULATORY SYSTEM UTILIZING A BALLOON CATHETER | DEAK, LESLIE R | 3799 | Other | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18528051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABLATING A TISSUE SITE BY ELECTROPORATION WITH REAL-TIME MONITORING OF TREATMENT PROGRESS | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | §102 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18309223 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUAL ASPIRATION AND REMOVAL OF AN UNDESIRABLE MATERIAL | GRAY, PHILLIP A | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18055004 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROBE NAVIGATION OF AN ABLATION SYSTEM | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
| 17869687 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE FOR ASPIRATION SYSTEM RETRIEVERS | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2022 |
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