Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cardiacassist Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket spans 6 distinct examiners across 2 art units, making examiner coordination a central prosecution-management issue.
PRICE, NATHAN R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No single examiner accounts for more than the identified 1 matter, so counsel should maintain individualized response strategies across the docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEJANI, ANKIT D | 1 | 81.0% | +16.3% |
| PRICE, NATHAN R | 1 | 53.4% | +38.7% |
| NGO, MEAGAN N | 1 | 58.3% | +33.7% |
| CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 1 | 62.0% | +22.3% |
| LE, QUYNH DAO | 1 | 33.3% | +12.1% |
| ARBLE, JESSICA R | 1 | 66.6% | +25.0% |
| DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 1 | 52.0% | +14.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18224498 | PURGE SYRINGE | PRICE, NATHAN R | — |
| 18204739 | OXYGENATOR WITH CIRCUMFERENTIALLY CONSTRICTING HOUSING | NGO, MEAGAN N | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17706304 | OXYGENATOR WITH WOUND FILTER MEMBRANE AND FLOW DIFFUSER | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 73d overdue |
| 17686122 | DUAL LUMEN DRAINAGE CANNULA WITH SINGLE OUTLET | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3d overdue |
| 17686270 | OXYGENATOR FIBER MEMBRANE WITH MODIFIED SURFACE PROPERTIES | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 7d |
| 18435343 | DUAL LUMEN CANNULA | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 19d |
| 16951523 | DUAL LUMEN CANNULA WITH FLEXIBLE DISTAL END | DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 23d |
| 18224498 | PURGE SYRINGE | PRICE, NATHAN R | — |
| 18204739 | OXYGENATOR WITH CIRCUMFERENTIALLY CONSTRICTING HOUSING | NGO, MEAGAN N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 4 |
| 3783 | 2 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18435343 | DUAL LUMEN CANNULA | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 3796 | Other | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18224498 | PURGE SYRINGE | PRICE, NATHAN R | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18204739 | OXYGENATOR WITH CIRCUMFERENTIALLY CONSTRICTING HOUSING | NGO, MEAGAN N | 3781 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 17706304 | OXYGENATOR WITH WOUND FILTER MEMBRANE AND FLOW DIFFUSER | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2022 |
| 17686122 | DUAL LUMEN DRAINAGE CANNULA WITH SINGLE OUTLET | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
| 17686270 | OXYGENATOR FIBER MEMBRANE WITH MODIFIED SURFACE PROPERTIES | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
| 16951523 | DUAL LUMEN CANNULA WITH FLEXIBLE DISTAL END | DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Nov 18, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialCardiacassist Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 7 examiners.
Ankit D Tejani has the most, with 1 of Cardiacassist Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
