Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cardiovascular Systems Inc.

6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE 2 58.8% +33.8%
TANNER, JOCELIN C 1 71.8% +35.5%
NGUYEN, TUAN VAN 1 81.6% +19.4%
TON, MARTIN TRUYEN 1 61.7% +35.0%
NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD 1 64.9% +53.8%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18659770 DRIVE SHAFT DESIGN, CONDITIONING AND STABILIZATION METHODS FOR ROTATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICES NGUYEN, TUAN VAN 44d overdue
18506429 CONTROL OF IVL SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS THEREOF NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD 44d overdue
18906647 REDUCER FOR CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA AND CRITICAL HAND ISCHEMIA TANNER, JOCELIN C 35d overdue
17938490 ROTATIONAL DRIVE SHAFTS AND INTRAVASCULAR MEDICAL DEVICES THEREOF POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE 20d
18866415 MANAGEMENT OF STORED ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN STALLED INTRAVASCULAR ROTATIONAL DRIVE SHAFTS FOR ATHERECTOMY POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE 35d
18690570 SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ADAPTIVE ANGIOPLASTY BALLOON INFLATION AND DEFLATION TON, MARTIN TRUYEN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3771 6

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18866415 MANAGEMENT OF STORED ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN STALLED INTRAVASCULAR ROTATIONAL DRIVE SHAFTS FOR ATHERECTOMY POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Nov 15, 2024
18906647 REDUCER FOR CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA AND CRITICAL HAND ISCHEMIA TANNER, JOCELIN C 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Oct 04, 2024
18659770 DRIVE SHAFT DESIGN, CONDITIONING AND STABILIZATION METHODS FOR ROTATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICES NGUYEN, TUAN VAN 3771 Other Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending May 09, 2024
18690570 SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ADAPTIVE ANGIOPLASTY BALLOON INFLATION AND DEFLATION TON, MARTIN TRUYEN 3771 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 08, 2024
18506429 CONTROL OF IVL SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS THEREOF NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Nov 10, 2023
17938490 ROTATIONAL DRIVE SHAFTS AND INTRAVASCULAR MEDICAL DEVICES THEREOF POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Oct 06, 2022

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