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
Crossbay Medical Inc. holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 2 pending office actions. This reflects active prosecution within the company's medical and mechanical engineering research fields, showing a commitment to protecting its medical device innovations.
The examination process involves 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. This means that while the company's applications are being reviewed by different individuals, they are all concentrated within the same technical art unit. This suggests a consistent technical focus for the company's current patent filings, which can help in maintaining a unified prosecution strategy across different applications within that unit.
ANH TIEU DANG is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents 1 of the 2 pending office actions for the portfolio. The remaining action is handled by the other of the 2 distinct examiners, indicating that the company's current prosecution workload is split between the examiners. This distribution ensures that the company's patent prospects are not solely reliant on a single examiner's interpretation of their technology.
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 | 65.5% | +35.5% |
| VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 1 | 58.5% | +50.2% |
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 |
| 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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