Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bardy Technologies Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All of these matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a total concentration of the company's current prosecution effort. This high level of examiner focus means that the company's success at the patent office is currently dependent on a single individual's review.
The 3 pending office actions are all situated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the technical subject matter of the company's current filings is very narrow and falls under a single specialized group. For a patent practitioner, this environment allows for a highly consistent prosecution strategy, as all cases are being evaluated against the same art unit standards.
ERIC D BERTRAM is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 3 pending office actions. Because ERIC D BERTRAM is the only examiner involved, his specific examination patterns and preferences will dictate the outcome for the entire pending portfolio. Practitioners should focus on building a consistent dialogue with this examiner to streamline the prosecution of the pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERTRAM, ERIC D | 3 | 81.2% | +12.4% |
| SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN | 1 | 33.3% | +37.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982974 | DEFIBRILLATOR HOUSING WITH COVER | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 16d overdue |
| 19224706 | SELF-APPLIED DEFIBRILLATOR AND METHOD FOR SELF-APPLICATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 15d overdue |
| 19224713 | AMBULATORY MONITOR WITH INTEGRATED DEFIBRILLATOR AND METHOD OF USE FOR SELF-APPLICATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19315052 | DEFIBRILLATION ASSEMBLY ENERGIZABLE THROUGH CASE OPENING | SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982974 | DEFIBRILLATOR HOUSING WITH COVER | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 16d overdue |
| 19224706 | SELF-APPLIED DEFIBRILLATOR AND METHOD FOR SELF-APPLICATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 15d overdue |
| 19224713 | AMBULATORY MONITOR WITH INTEGRATED DEFIBRILLATOR AND METHOD OF USE FOR SELF-APPLICATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 15d |
| 19315052 | DEFIBRILLATION ASSEMBLY ENERGIZABLE THROUGH CASE OPENING | SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19315052 | DEFIBRILLATION ASSEMBLY ENERGIZABLE THROUGH CASE OPENING | SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19224706 | SELF-APPLIED DEFIBRILLATOR AND METHOD FOR SELF-APPLICATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 3796 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19224713 | AMBULATORY MONITOR WITH INTEGRATED DEFIBRILLATOR AND METHOD OF USE FOR SELF-APPLICATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 3796 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 18982974 | DEFIBRILLATOR HOUSING WITH COVER | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 3796 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
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