Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Conformal Medical Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 1 art unit, indicating a common organizational setting with some repeated examiner handling.
KHANDKER, RAIHAN R is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Those matters warrant coordinated review for consistent claim treatment and response positions, while the other examiner assignments should be handled as separate workstreams within the same art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 2 | 64.4% | +55.6% |
| SCHERBEL, TODD J | 1 | 76.3% | +52.0% |
| LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 1 | 68.6% | +14.2% |
| RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 1 | 63.5% | +59.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18664100 | SURGICAL LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE CLOSURE DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 3d overdue |
| 19172105 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR EXCLUDING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17675779 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE (LAA) OCCLUDER | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 32d overdue |
| 18664100 | SURGICAL LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE CLOSURE DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 3d overdue |
| 19172105 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR EXCLUDING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | — |
| 19088763 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR EXCLUDING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | SCHERBEL, TODD J | — |
| 18950925 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR EXCLUDING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19172105 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR EXCLUDING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19088763 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR EXCLUDING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | SCHERBEL, TODD J | 3771 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 18950925 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR EXCLUDING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18664100 | SURGICAL LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE CLOSURE DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 17675779 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE (LAA) OCCLUDER | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Feb 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialConformal Medical Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 4 examiners.
Raihan R Khandker has the most, with 2 of Conformal Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
