Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Avia Vascular, LLC is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This structure indicates that while the technical focus is within one broad area, the company is navigating multiple specific sub-specialties or art units. This requires a strategy that can adapt to different examiner perspectives while maintaining technical consistency across the portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 3 pending actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly divided among the examiners involved. This distribution requires the company to manage separate examiner relationships across the 2 distinct art units identified in the data. Practitioners should be aware that each of the 3 distinct examiners will bring their own interpretation to the pending office actions. Coordinating the responses across the 2 distinct art units will be essential for a cohesive patent strategy in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.5% | +39.7% |
| CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 1 | 64.5% | +28.0% |
| NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 1 | 67.7% | +9.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17535821 | BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17988606 | BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 81d overdue |
| 18106930 | BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18106930 | BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 17988606 | BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 81d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17535821 | BLOOD COLLECTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2021 |
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