Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Biocardia Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. AHMED, TASNIM M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data shows distributed examination across separate assignments.
Counsel should preserve consistent descriptions of the medical-device technology while treating each examiner’s objections independently. Structural limitations, deployment or operating steps, and functional results should be separated clearly in the claims and response. The different art units may affect the relevant prior-art framing, making matter-specific analysis important. A coordinated portfolio review can reduce inconsistent terminology, but the examiner distribution means that amendment and interview decisions should follow the record for each pending matter.
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 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED, TASNIM M | 1 | 81.4% | +4.9% |
| FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1 | 62.6% | +25.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774349 | Method of Accessing A Vascular Site With A Multi-Directional Steerable Catheter | AHMED, TASNIM M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343698 | FETAL STROMAL CELL DERIVED EXOSOMES FOR TISSUE REPAIR | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343698 | FETAL STROMAL CELL DERIVED EXOSOMES FOR TISSUE REPAIR | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18774349 | Method of Accessing A Vascular Site With A Multi-Directional Steerable Catheter | AHMED, TASNIM M | 3783 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18343698 | FETAL STROMAL CELL DERIVED EXOSOMES FOR TISSUE REPAIR | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1655 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBiocardia Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Tasnim M Ahmed has the most, with 1 of Biocardia Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
