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
Cardiosight Inc. is pursuing patent protection in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which represents an active stage in the examination of its medical or mechanical innovations. This single action indicates a focused interaction with the patent office regarding a specific application.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current patent activity is technically specialized and falls under the jurisdiction of a single group at the patent office. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy can be streamlined to meet the specific expectations of this one examiner and art unit.
MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the sole examiner identified in the current data, their individual examination style and interpretation of medical device standards are very important. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback from this examiner to move the 1 pending action toward a successful conclusion.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, PAMELA F | 1 | 57.3% | +22.2% |
| MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 1 | 71.7% | +31.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079181 | SURGICAL ACCESS DEVICE HAVING ONBOARD BALLOON VISUALIZATION MODULE | WU, PAMELA F | 73d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079181 | SURGICAL ACCESS DEVICE HAVING ONBOARD BALLOON VISUALIZATION MODULE | WU, PAMELA F | 73d overdue |
| 16789250 | MECHANICALLY LOCKING ADJUSTABLE CARDIAC TETHER | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079181 | SURGICAL ACCESS DEVICE HAVING ONBOARD BALLOON VISUALIZATION MODULE | WU, PAMELA F | 3795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 16789250 | MECHANICALLY LOCKING ADJUSTABLE CARDIAC TETHER | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2020 |
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