Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Axonics, Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing distributed examiner assignments within a concentrated art-unit structure.
LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel may compare art-unit treatment across the docket while tailoring arguments to each examiner. Consistency in device terminology and disclosed structure remains useful where the matters address related technology.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 1 | 65.4% | +29.7% |
| KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 1 | 64.4% | +55.6% |
| LONG, SARAH A | 1 | 60.7% | +42.4% |
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.9% | +25.0% |
| JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 1 | 58.0% | +49.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18219613 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN ESTIMATE OF BATTERY CAPACITY FOR AN IMPLANTABLE DEVICE | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 28d overdue |
| 18130126 | DEVICES AND METHODS TO IMPROVE EFFICACY AND EFFICIENCY OF LOCATING THE SACRAL FORAMINA DURING SACRAL NEUROMODULATION PROCEDURE | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 83d |
| 19030286 | ATTACHMENT DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF USE WITH A NERVE STIMULATION CHARGING DEVICE | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | — |
| 18856863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLACEMENT OF NEUROSTIMULATION LEADS | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | — |
| 18913963 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLACEMENT OF NEUROSTIMULATION LEADS | LONG, SARAH A | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18219613 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN ESTIMATE OF BATTERY CAPACITY FOR AN IMPLANTABLE DEVICE | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 28d overdue |
| 18130126 | DEVICES AND METHODS TO IMPROVE EFFICACY AND EFFICIENCY OF LOCATING THE SACRAL FORAMINA DURING SACRAL NEUROMODULATION PROCEDURE | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 83d |
| 19030286 | ATTACHMENT DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF USE WITH A NERVE STIMULATION CHARGING DEVICE | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | — |
| 18856863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLACEMENT OF NEUROSTIMULATION LEADS | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | — |
| 18913963 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLACEMENT OF NEUROSTIMULATION LEADS | LONG, SARAH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 3 |
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19030286 | ATTACHMENT DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF USE WITH A NERVE STIMULATION CHARGING DEVICE | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18856863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLACEMENT OF NEUROSTIMULATION LEADS | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3796 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18913963 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLACEMENT OF NEUROSTIMULATION LEADS | LONG, SARAH A | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18219613 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN ESTIMATE OF BATTERY CAPACITY FOR AN IMPLANTABLE DEVICE | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18130126 | DEVICES AND METHODS TO IMPROVE EFFICACY AND EFFICIENCY OF LOCATING THE SACRAL FORAMINA DURING SACRAL NEUROMODULATION PROCEDURE | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAxonics, Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Erica Shengkai Lee has the most, with 1 of Axonics, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
