Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Crossbay Medical Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's active patent applications are being reviewed by different specialized groups. This spread suggests that the company's innovations in the medical device sector are diverse enough to fall under the jurisdiction of multiple examination units.
The busiest examiner for Crossbay Medical Inc. is DANG, ANH TIEU, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count of 1 is 1 out of a total of 2 pending office actions, the workload is evenly divided between the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution allows the company to engage with different examination styles, which can be beneficial for gathering varied feedback on their medical device and mechanical claims.
Practitioners should note that the presence of 2 distinct art units requires a versatile approach to prosecution, as each unit may have its own specific procedural nuances. With 2 pending office actions in play, the company must ensure consistent messaging across different examiners while addressing the unique concerns of each. This balanced distribution of matters helps to mitigate the risk of a single examiner's bottleneck affecting the entire active portfolio.
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%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, ANH TIEU | 1 | 65.7% | +34.8% |
| VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 1 | 59.1% | +50.7% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823379 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING AND SEALING BODILY VESSELS AND CAVITIES | DANG, ANH TIEU | 44d overdue |
| 18628379 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR EVERTING CATHETERS WITH EXPANDABLE LUMENS | VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18823379 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING AND SEALING BODILY VESSELS AND CAVITIES | DANG, ANH TIEU | 3771 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18628379 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR EVERTING CATHETERS WITH EXPANDABLE LUMENS | VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCrossbay Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Anh Tieu Dang has the most, with 1 of Crossbay Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
