Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Berlin Heart GmbH maintains an active prosecution profile in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 6 pending office actions currently active. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio spans multiple technical divisions. The company is interacting with 5 distinct examiners, which requires managing multiple examiner perspectives simultaneously. This level of activity suggests an ongoing effort to protect its mechanical and medical innovations.
GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 2 pending office actions. The remaining pending office actions are spread among the other 5 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that while GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR has a higher concentration of the workload, the company must still coordinate responses across a diverse group of officials. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the 6 pending office actions cover related but distinct technical sub-categories. This multi-examiner environment requires a versatile prosecution strategy to address the varying requirements of 5 different individuals.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 2 | 60.5% | +27.8% |
| WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 1 | 55.1% | +39.0% |
| ISLAM, MUHAMMAD S | 1 | 88.2% | +8.9% |
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 59.7% | +23.7% |
| TRAN, THIEN JASON | 1 | 74.7% | +21.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17780203 | BLOOD PUMP SYSTEM WITH MAGNETICALLY LEVITATED ROTOR | TRAN, THIEN JASON | 35d overdue |
| 18878404 | SAFETY MECHANISM, SAFETY SYSTEM, VAD SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELEASING TWO UNITS COUPLED BY A CORRESPONDING SAFETY SYSTEM | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | — |
| 18947280 | ROTARY MACHINE | ISLAM, MUHAMMAD S | — |
| 18849096 | CONTROL UNIT FOR A BLOOD PUMP, PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17780203 | BLOOD PUMP SYSTEM WITH MAGNETICALLY LEVITATED ROTOR | TRAN, THIEN JASON | 35d overdue |
| 18644778 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR A BLOOD PUMP | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 15d overdue |
| 18064559 | CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING ENERGY AND/OR DATA FROM AND/OR TO AN IMPLANTABLE BLOOD PUMP, AND VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 26d |
| 18878404 | SAFETY MECHANISM, SAFETY SYSTEM, VAD SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELEASING TWO UNITS COUPLED BY A CORRESPONDING SAFETY SYSTEM | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | — |
| 18849096 | CONTROL UNIT FOR A BLOOD PUMP, PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3792 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18878404 | SAFETY MECHANISM, SAFETY SYSTEM, VAD SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELEASING TWO UNITS COUPLED BY A CORRESPONDING SAFETY SYSTEM | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18947280 | ROTARY MACHINE | ISLAM, MUHAMMAD S | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18849096 | CONTROL UNIT FOR A BLOOD PUMP, PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 3796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18644778 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR A BLOOD PUMP | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18064559 | CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING ENERGY AND/OR DATA FROM AND/OR TO AN IMPLANTABLE BLOOD PUMP, AND VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 3796 | §112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 17780203 | BLOOD PUMP SYSTEM WITH MAGNETICALLY LEVITATED ROTOR | TRAN, THIEN JASON | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
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