Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Crc Ep Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Both matters are being prosecuted in 1 distinct art unit.
Examiner BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE is the busiest with 1 pending office action. The concentration of both actions in 1 art unit provides a unified administrative framework for the company's current filings. Practitioners can focus on the specific requirements of this single art unit while addressing the 2 distinct examiners. With 2 pending office actions, the portfolio is streamlined, and the lack of art unit diversity suggests a very specific technical application for the inventions. This focus allows for a more efficient allocation of resources when responding to the 2 different examiners within the same technical division.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 1 | 91.0% | +7.3% |
| GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 1 | 45.8% | +49.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859962 | MAPPING AND ABLATION SYSTEM SUITABLE FOR LINEAR PULSED-FIELD CARDIAC ABLATION | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17563620 | Ablation Catheter for Pulsed-Field Ablation and Method for Electrode Position Assessment for Such Catheter | GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 161d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17563620 | Ablation Catheter for Pulsed-Field Ablation and Method for Electrode Position Assessment for Such Catheter | GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 161d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859962 | MAPPING AND ABLATION SYSTEM SUITABLE FOR LINEAR PULSED-FIELD CARDIAC ABLATION | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 17563620 | Ablation Catheter for Pulsed-Field Ablation and Method for Electrode Position Assessment for Such Catheter | GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 161d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2021 |
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