Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Conformal Medical Inc. maintains a patent portfolio with 6 pending office actions. These actions are primarily situated within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution workload is distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests a range of technical examinations within the specified technology area.
KHANDKER, RAIHAN R is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This examiner's workload is part of the total volume of outstanding matters. The remaining actions are spread among the other distinct examiners, indicating that the workload is not concentrated under the busiest examiner alone. This variety in examiners requires the company to adapt to multiple individual review styles.
The presence of 2 distinct art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field shows that the portfolio spans different specialized groups at the patent office. With 6 pending office actions in total, the company has a significant volume of active prosecution. The 5 distinct examiners involved in these cases will each provide unique feedback, though the busiest examiner, KHANDKER, RAIHAN R, holds a larger share of the pending matters with 2 pending office actions.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 2 | 64.2% | +57.2% |
| SCHERBEL, TODD J | 1 | 76.2% | +52.3% |
| TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | 1 | 64.7% | +29.6% |
| LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 1 | 68.6% | +14.7% |
| RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 1 | 64.1% | +56.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 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 | — |
| 18775764 | FACILITATING WIRE TRACKING ACROSS ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | — |
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 # | 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 | — |
| 18775764 | FACILITATING WIRE TRACKING ACROSS ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 4 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 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 | — | 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 |
| 18775764 | FACILITATING WIRE TRACKING ACROSS ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 17, 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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