Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cardiofocus Inc. manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This arrangement indicates that the company's current prosecution activities are spread across different specialized units within the patent office. The use of 2 distinct art units suggests that the applications involve different technical classifications within the medical device sector.
HUH, VYNN V is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 pending office action currently under review. This 1 action accounts for a portion of the 2 total pending office actions for the portfolio. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 actions, the workload is distributed, with no single examiner handling more than 1 matter. For the practitioner, this means that each pending case requires a unique approach tailored to the specific examiner and art unit involved.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUH, VYNN V | 1 | 62.2% | +44.3% |
| LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 1 | 52.9% | +20.8% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18622232 | LOCAL IMPEDANCE INDICATOR IN THE TREATMENT OF CARDIAC TISSUE | HUH, VYNN V | — |
| 18243604 | DEVICES FOR THE DELIVERY OF PULSED ELECTRIC FIELDS IN THE TREATMENT OF CARDIAC TISSUE | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18622232 | LOCAL IMPEDANCE INDICATOR IN THE TREATMENT OF CARDIAC TISSUE | HUH, VYNN V | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18243604 | DEVICES FOR THE DELIVERY OF PULSED ELECTRIC FIELDS IN THE TREATMENT OF CARDIAC TISSUE | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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