Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Credence Medsystems Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners across 2 art units, showing examiner-level dispersion alongside repeated art-unit placement.
PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The shared art-unit context may support coordinated review of device terminology and recurring claim issues, while the separate examiner assignments call for individualized response planning.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 1 | 58.1% | +27.7% |
| DAVISON, LAURA L | 1 | 32.5% | +37.0% |
| BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 1 | 70.4% | +49.7% |
| BOSWORTH, KAMI A | 1 | 69.1% | +28.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653043 | POLYMERIC INJECTION SYSTEMS | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 9d |
| 18608551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAFETY SYRINGE | DAVISON, LAURA L | — |
| 18428979 | INJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | — |
| 18447435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAFETY SYRINGE | BOSWORTH, KAMI A | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653043 | POLYMERIC INJECTION SYSTEMS | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 9d |
| 18608551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAFETY SYRINGE | DAVISON, LAURA L | — |
| 18428979 | INJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | — |
| 18447435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAFETY SYRINGE | BOSWORTH, KAMI A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 3 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18653043 | POLYMERIC INJECTION SYSTEMS | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 3783 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18608551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAFETY SYRINGE | DAVISON, LAURA L | 3993 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18428979 | INJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18447435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAFETY SYRINGE | BOSWORTH, KAMI A | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCredence Medsystems Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Shefali Dilip Patel has the most, with 1 of Credence Medsystems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
