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Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Canary Medical Switzerland AG manages a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 6 pending office actions. These 6 actions are spread across 6 distinct examiners, indicating that every pending matter is being handled by a different individual. The prosecution spans 4 distinct art units, which shows a distribution of the company's medical device technology across various examination groups. This breadth of review suggests that the portfolio covers a wide range of mechanical engineering applications.
DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the 6 distinct examiners each manage a portion of the 6 pending office actions. The use of 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's mechanical engineering filings are diverse enough to require review from 4 specialized units. For practitioners, this distribution means navigating 4 different art unit environments and 6 different examiner perspectives. The fact that the busiest examiner pending count is only 1 confirms that the workload is not concentrated with a single examiner.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | 1 | 84.2% | +13.3% |
| ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 1 | 66.2% | +58.6% |
| GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | 1 | 85.0% | +8.8% |
| LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 1 | 68.2% | +46.9% |
| YOUNG, MICAH PAUL | 1 | 55.1% | +30.0% |
| TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 1 | 49.8% | +32.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18441932 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING AND MONITORING TUBES IN BODY PASSAGEWAYS | GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18377242 | SPINAL IMPLANT SENSOR ASSEMBLY | LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 23d |
| 17855422 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING AND ANALYZING KINEMATIC DATA FROM INTELLIGENT KINEMATIC DEVICES | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 28d |
| 18846520 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WITH SENSING AND COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONALITY UTILIZING A SUBSTRATE ANTENNA | DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | — |
| 18684633 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WITH SENSING AND COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONALITY | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18116737 | POLYMERS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR USING AND MONITORING POLYMERS FOR USE IN MEDICAL POLYMERS, IMPLANTS, AND PROCEDURES | YOUNG, MICAH PAUL | 21d |
| 18377242 | SPINAL IMPLANT SENSOR ASSEMBLY | LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 23d |
| 17855422 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING AND ANALYZING KINEMATIC DATA FROM INTELLIGENT KINEMATIC DEVICES | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 28d |
| 18846520 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WITH SENSING AND COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONALITY UTILIZING A SUBSTRATE ANTENNA | DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | — |
| 18684633 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WITH SENSING AND COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONALITY | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846520 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WITH SENSING AND COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONALITY UTILIZING A SUBSTRATE ANTENNA | DEWITT, JORDAN EDWARD | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18684633 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WITH SENSING AND COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONALITY | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18441932 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING AND MONITORING TUBES IN BODY PASSAGEWAYS | GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | — | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18377242 | SPINAL IMPLANT SENSOR ASSEMBLY | LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 2119 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18116737 | POLYMERS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR USING AND MONITORING POLYMERS FOR USE IN MEDICAL POLYMERS, IMPLANTS, AND PROCEDURES | YOUNG, MICAH PAUL | 1618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 17855422 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING AND ANALYZING KINEMATIC DATA FROM INTELLIGENT KINEMATIC DEVICES | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
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