Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
27 pending office actions • 11 art units • 26 examiners • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd. has 30 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 29 distinct examiners across 11 distinct art units, indicating minimal examiner overlap and considerable concentration within the art-unit structure.
PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That repeated assignment can support coordinated review, but the larger management issue is maintaining consistent positions across many examiners. The lower art-unit count creates an opportunity to organize responses around shared examination contexts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 | 9 (33%) |
| §102 only | 4 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 14 (52%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 2 | 52.9% | +47.5% |
| DANG, PHONG SON H | 1 | 78.0% | +24.4% |
| WEARE, MEREDITH H | 1 | 50.5% | +31.4% |
| OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 1 | 50.0% | +58.4% |
| RICE, STEVEN | 1 | 39.3% | +43.7% |
| SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | 1 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
| BURKE, TIONNA M | 1 | 53.7% | +20.5% |
| KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | 1 | 51.2% | +48.2% |
| FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 1 | 62.1% | +36.7% |
| HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | 1 | 86.8% | +1.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738077 | MAGNETIZATION DEVICE | HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140390 | CATHETER AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 22d overdue |
| 18118405 | CATHETER | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 18d overdue |
| 18129461 | MEDICAL DEVICE | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 4d overdue |
| 18584340 | LESION RETRIEVAL DEVICE AND ATHERECTOMY DEVICE | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 82d |
| 19034131 | GUIDE WIRE WITH SENSOR | WEARE, MEREDITH H | — |
| 19032677 | GUIDE WIRE WITH SENSOR | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | — |
| 18999497 | ELONGATED MEDICAL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELONGATED MEDICAL DEVICE | RICE, STEVEN | — |
| 18920408 | EXERCISE MENU MANAGEMENT DEVICE, EXERCISE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | BURKE, TIONNA M | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18448465 | GUIDE WIRES | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 19d overdue |
| 17150019 | GUIDE WIRE, AND GUIDE WIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 19d overdue |
| 18905291 | MUSCLE TRAINING DEVICE | KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | 71d |
| 19269488 | MEDICAL DEVICE | DANG, PHONG SON H | — |
| 19034131 | GUIDE WIRE WITH SENSOR | WEARE, MEREDITH H | — |
| 19032677 | GUIDE WIRE WITH SENSOR | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | — |
| 18999497 | ELONGATED MEDICAL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELONGATED MEDICAL DEVICE | RICE, STEVEN | — |
| 18923199 | PLASMA GUIDE WIRE | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 9 |
| 3783 | 5 |
| 3771 | 4 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| 3784 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19269488 | MEDICAL DEVICE | DANG, PHONG SON H | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19034131 | GUIDE WIRE WITH SENSOR | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19032677 | GUIDE WIRE WITH SENSOR | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18999497 | ELONGATED MEDICAL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELONGATED MEDICAL DEVICE | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18923199 | PLASMA GUIDE WIRE | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18920408 | EXERCISE MENU MANAGEMENT DEVICE, EXERCISE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | BURKE, TIONNA M | 2178 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18905291 | MUSCLE TRAINING DEVICE | KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | 3784 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18768032 | CATHETER | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18738077 | MAGNETIZATION DEVICE | HOMZA, LISA NHUNG | 2837 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18735242 | GUIDE WIRE | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18665247 | GUIDE WIRE | AHMED, TASNIM M | 3783 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18619678 | GUIDE WIRE | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18584340 | LESION RETRIEVAL DEVICE AND ATHERECTOMY DEVICE | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 82d | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18539290 | RESIN-COATED WIRE AND DRUG SOLUTION INJECTION DEVICE | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18535086 | GUIDE WIRE | KRETZER, KYLE W. | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18388110 | MEDICAL SYSTEM AND NAVIGATION METHOD | BRUCE, FAROUK A | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18240708 | CATHETER | THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18448465 | GUIDE WIRES | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18213509 | CATHETER | RHODES, NORA W | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18210093 | ELONGATED MEDICAL DEVICE | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18140390 | CATHETER AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18129461 | MEDICAL DEVICE | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18118405 | CATHETER | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 18076719 | CATHETER | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17945691 | CATHETER | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
| 17544963 | BALLOON CATHETER | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2021 |
| 17150019 | GUIDE WIRE, AND GUIDE WIRE MANUFACTURING METHOD | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAsahi Intecc Co., Ltd. has 27 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 26 examiners.
Nidhi Niraj Patel has the most, with 2 of Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
