Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
33 pending office actions • 14 art units • 28 examiners • 0 of 33 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cook Medical Technologies LLC manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently featuring 33 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 28 distinct examiners, which suggests that most examiners are handling a single matter, while a few are responsible for multiple cases. The prosecution is spread across 15 distinct art units, indicating a significant degree of technical diversity within the company's medical device filings.
DELLA, JAYMI E is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 3 busiest examiner pending office actions. These 3 actions represent a small portion of the 33 total pending office actions, highlighting that the workload is broadly distributed across the 28 distinct examiners. The influence of this busiest examiner is limited given the overall size and variety of the portfolio.
Practitioners should be prepared for a decentralized prosecution environment, as the 33 pending office actions are spread across 15 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's filings span many different technical classifications at the patent office. With 28 distinct examiners involved, there is limited opportunity to leverage examiner-specific insights across multiple applications, requiring a unique approach for the majority of the 33 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (9%) |
| §103 only | 11 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 14 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELLA, JAYMI E | 3 | 68.8% | +29.9% |
| NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 2 | 66.0% | +51.2% |
| COCHRAN, KARI LEE | 2 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 2 | 62.1% | +23.7% |
| FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 1 | 77.9% | +11.6% |
| CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 1 | 46.0% | +38.4% |
| THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | 1 | 58.0% | +14.4% |
| WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 1 | 63.0% | +29.1% |
| NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 1 | 77.8% | +13.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18118805 | REINFORCED SHEATH AND WIRE ASSEMBLY AND VASCULAR INTERVENTION DEVICE DELIVERY SYSTEM USING SAME | COCHRAN, KARI LEE | 49d |
| 18827361 | CONSTRAINT ARRANGEMENT FOR A STENT-GRAFT LOADED ONTO A DELIVERY SYSTEM | COCHRAN, KARI LEE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698986 | DEVICE FOR COVERING AN AREA OF THE BODY OF A PATIENT | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 53d overdue |
| 18479456 | EXPANDABLE MESH WITH LOCKING FEATURE | MCEVOY, THOMAS M | 30d overdue |
| 18679440 | METHOD OF MARKING LESIONS | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 29d overdue |
| 18338819 | EMBOLIC COIL DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 15d overdue |
| 18385698 | BIPOLAR SPHINCTEROTOME | DELLA, JAYMI E | 23d |
| 18497767 | BIPOLAR SPHINCTEROTOME | DELLA, JAYMI E | 23d |
| 18242110 | MEDICAL BALLOON ASSEMBLY, USE THEREOF, AND METHOD OF DEPLOYING A MEDICAL BALLOON ASSEMBLY | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 84d |
| 19247613 | ENDOSCOPE LIGHTING CONTROL WITH CAMERA EXTENSION | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698986 | DEVICE FOR COVERING AN AREA OF THE BODY OF A PATIENT | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 53d overdue |
| 18338819 | EMBOLIC COIL DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 15d overdue |
| 17558905 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE INCLUDING VALVE MEMBER | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 16d |
| 18385698 | BIPOLAR SPHINCTEROTOME | DELLA, JAYMI E | 23d |
| 18385728 | BIPOLAR SPHINCTEROTOME | DELLA, JAYMI E | 23d |
| 18497767 | BIPOLAR SPHINCTEROTOME | DELLA, JAYMI E | 23d |
| 19247613 | ENDOSCOPE LIGHTING CONTROL WITH CAMERA EXTENSION | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | — |
| 19095338 | SELF EXPANDING STENTS AND METHODS | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 6 |
| 3783 | 4 |
| 3795 | 3 |
| 3771 | 3 |
| 3794 | 3 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19247613 | ENDOSCOPE LIGHTING CONTROL WITH CAMERA EXTENSION | FINDLEY, CHRISTOPHER G | 2482 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19095338 | SELF EXPANDING STENTS AND METHODS | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 18698986 | DEVICE FOR COVERING AN AREA OF THE BODY OF A PATIENT | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 3786 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18904285 | MEDICAL SCOPES FOR DELIVERING THERAPEUTIC AGENTS | THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18898816 | MEDICAL SCOPE DEVICE, STEERING SYSTEM, AND RELATED METHODS | MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18890385 | PROSTHESIS WITH SIDE BRANCH AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 3993 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18827361 | CONSTRAINT ARRANGEMENT FOR A STENT-GRAFT LOADED ONTO A DELIVERY SYSTEM | COCHRAN, KARI LEE | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18808622 | SYSTEM FOR TELESCOPING MEMBERS THROUGH AN ELONGATE TUBE | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 3795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18679440 | METHOD OF MARKING LESIONS | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18651029 | CATHETER HUB WITH SEALED ACCESS PORT | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18613673 | MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEM | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18589015 | ENDOSCOPE HANDLE STEERING CONTROLS | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | 3795 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18437509 | COMPOSITIONS AND DEVICES INCORPORATING WATER-INSOLUBLE THERAPEUTIC AGENTS AND METHODS OF THE USE THEREOF | MERCIER, MELISSA S | 1615 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18540174 | DELIVERY DEVICE WITH AN ACTUATOR HAVING A HARD STOP AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18540229 | DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE FOR LOCAL INTRAVENOUS BIOMARKER MEASUREMENTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18538827 | INTRODUCER ASSEMBLY HAVING A LOW-PROFILE ACCESS SHEATH AND A HUB ASSEMBLY | TURKOWSKI, KAYLA MARIE | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18529664 | DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH GUIDED RETRACTION MECHANISM OF A DELIVERY SYSTEM TIP | SHARMA, YASHITA | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18385698 | BIPOLAR SPHINCTEROTOME | DELLA, JAYMI E | 3794 | §101§102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18385728 | BIPOLAR SPHINCTEROTOME | DELLA, JAYMI E | 3794 | §112DP | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18497767 | BIPOLAR SPHINCTEROTOME | DELLA, JAYMI E | 3794 | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18480258 | VARIABLE DUROMETER DILATOR FOR INTRAVASCULAR ACCESS DEVICES | SHAH, NILAY J | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18479456 | EXPANDABLE MESH WITH LOCKING FEATURE | MCEVOY, THOMAS M | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18242110 | MEDICAL BALLOON ASSEMBLY, USE THEREOF, AND METHOD OF DEPLOYING A MEDICAL BALLOON ASSEMBLY | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18238747 | Medical Devices for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Related Methods | BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18364159 | BIOACTIVE AGENT COATED MEDICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF COATING SUCH A DEVICE | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18338819 | EMBOLIC COIL DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18118805 | REINFORCED SHEATH AND WIRE ASSEMBLY AND VASCULAR INTERVENTION DEVICE DELIVERY SYSTEM USING SAME | COCHRAN, KARI LEE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 18159970 | REMOVABLE DUAL FUNCTION LOADING TOOL & PROTECTOR FOR DRUG COATED MEDICAL DEVICES | GRAY, PHILLIP A | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 18066698 | ENDOGRAFT SYSTEM HAVING A DEPLOYMENT DEVICE AND A STENT-GRAFT ASSEMBLY | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
| 18063828 | PLEURAL DRAINAGE CATHETER | HAN, SETH | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
| 17943867 | MODULAR HANDLE FOR A PROSTHESIS DELIVERY DEVICE | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 3774 | §102 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Sep 13, 2022 |
| 17558905 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE INCLUDING VALVE MEMBER | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
| 17488994 | DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR A SELF-EXPANDING MEDICAL DEVICE | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2021 |
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