Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cardiovalve Ltd. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, yet they both fall within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the technical subject matter is consistent enough to remain within the same art unit, the applicant must navigate the individual styles of different examiners.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB, who holds 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, neither assigned individual is handling multiple active matters for this company. This distribution means that the pending office actions are being evaluated independently, even though they share the same art unit environment.
For a practitioner, the concentration in 1 distinct art unit is beneficial for maintaining technical consistency in arguments. However, the presence of multiple examiners requires a strategy that accounts for potential differences in how each person interprets the prior art or applies the rules of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Managing the 2 pending office actions simultaneously requires careful coordination to ensure that responses remain aligned.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 1 | 62.1% | +23.7% |
| MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 1 | 68.5% | +23.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17797289 | SUPPORT-GUIDED STEERING OF A CATHETER | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 9d |
| 16144054 | PROSTHETIC VALVE WITH DOWNSTREAM COVERING | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17797289 | SUPPORT-GUIDED STEERING OF A CATHETER | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 16144054 | PROSTHETIC VALVE WITH DOWNSTREAM COVERING | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2018 |
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