Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cephea Valve Technologies Inc. maintains 8 pending office actions concentrated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, which suggests the portfolio covers several specialized sub-sectors within the mechanical and medical fields. The prosecution involves 8 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 8 pending office actions is currently being reviewed by a different individual.
The busiest examiner for the company is KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM, who is responsible for 1 pending action. With 8 distinct examiners for the active cases, the workload is spread across many individuals with no examiner concentration. This requires the company to manage 8 separate examiner relationships across the 3 distinct art units.
Navigating the active portfolio indicates a broad exposure to different examination perspectives. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is maintained across the USPTO, where the busiest examiner pending count remains at 1.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 1 (12%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 77.9% | +23.9% |
| RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 1 | 72.5% | +39.5% |
| MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 1 | 68.5% | +23.5% |
| MATHEW, SEEMA | 1 | 71.4% | +26.1% |
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 1 | 16.0% | +0.0% |
| SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 1 | 58.4% | +36.7% |
| WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 1 | 49.8% | +26.0% |
| BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 1 | 54.5% | +39.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17712290 | Frame Features for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement Device | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 10d overdue |
| 18303198 | Advanced 3-Way Steering | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 9d |
| 18468946 | Feature to Improve Fatigue Life and Manage Thrombus in Prosthetic Heart Valves | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 23d |
| 18884228 | Cardiac Valve Loading Devices and Systems | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 42d |
| 18678856 | DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | — |
| 18396979 | Positional Markers for Medical Device | MATHEW, SEEMA | — |
| 18060644 | Flexible Heart Valve with Arm Attachment to Outside Structure | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17712290 | Frame Features for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement Device | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 10d overdue |
| 18303198 | Advanced 3-Way Steering | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 9d |
| 18884228 | Cardiac Valve Loading Devices and Systems | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 42d |
| 18915658 | Adjustable Tensioning Spool for Steerable Catheters | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — |
| 18678856 | DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | — |
| 18396979 | Positional Markers for Medical Device | MATHEW, SEEMA | — |
| 18060644 | Flexible Heart Valve with Arm Attachment to Outside Structure | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 5 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18915658 | Adjustable Tensioning Spool for Steerable Catheters | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18884228 | Cardiac Valve Loading Devices and Systems | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18678856 | DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18396979 | Positional Markers for Medical Device | MATHEW, SEEMA | 3774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18468946 | Feature to Improve Fatigue Life and Manage Thrombus in Prosthetic Heart Valves | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18303198 | Advanced 3-Way Steering | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18060644 | Flexible Heart Valve with Arm Attachment to Outside Structure | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
| 17712290 | Frame Features for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement Device | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2022 |
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