Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Atricure Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters span 8 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. Examiner assignments are fully dispersed, while the lower art-unit figure indicates repeated activity in some units. Counsel should maintain centralized docket oversight and track unit-level patterns without assuming identical examiner treatment.
TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a concentrated share of the workload. A common technical framework can support consistency, while each application requires a response tailored to its own claims, disclosure, and examination record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 1 | 63.9% | +48.1% |
| KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 1 | 71.3% | +32.9% |
| AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | 1 | 70.9% | +26.6% |
| PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 1 | 77.8% | +13.5% |
| GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 1 | 68.3% | +10.9% |
| STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 1 | 54.1% | +43.9% |
| LUONG, PETER | 1 | 69.4% | +26.2% |
| SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 1 | 54.8% | +51.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19236789 | SEGMENTED ELECTRODE CLAMP AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | — |
| 19037512 | CLIP APPLICATION SYSTEM AND MEHOD | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | — |
| 19033741 | EXCLUSION DEVICE COVERS AND RELATED METHODS | AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | — |
| 18545190 | MAGNETICALLY COUPLED ABLATION COMPONENTS | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | — |
| 18278789 | DELIVERY DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18672173 | PULSED FIELD ABLATION APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 14d |
| 19236789 | SEGMENTED ELECTRODE CLAMP AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | — |
| 19037512 | CLIP APPLICATION SYSTEM AND MEHOD | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | — |
| 19033741 | EXCLUSION DEVICE COVERS AND RELATED METHODS | AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | — |
| 18657402 | COMBINATION HANDPIECE WITH PRESSURE ACTIVATED LOCK FOR USE WITH CRYOGENIC DEVICES | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | — |
| 18545190 | MAGNETICALLY COUPLED ABLATION COMPONENTS | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | — |
| 18243988 | BIOLOGICAL TISSUE POSITION LOCATION AND MARKING | LUONG, PETER | — |
| 18278789 | DELIVERY DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 4 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19236789 | SEGMENTED ELECTRODE CLAMP AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 19037512 | CLIP APPLICATION SYSTEM AND MEHOD | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 3771 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19033741 | EXCLUSION DEVICE COVERS AND RELATED METHODS | AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | 1743 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18672173 | PULSED FIELD ABLATION APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | §112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18657402 | COMBINATION HANDPIECE WITH PRESSURE ACTIVATED LOCK FOR USE WITH CRYOGENIC DEVICES | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 3794 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18545190 | MAGNETICALLY COUPLED ABLATION COMPONENTS | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18243988 | BIOLOGICAL TISSUE POSITION LOCATION AND MARKING | LUONG, PETER | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18278789 | DELIVERY DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAtricure Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 8 examiners.
Marina Delaney Templeton has the most, with 1 of Atricure Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
