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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cvrx Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each case is under the review of a different individual. Both actions are situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current prosecution is technically concentrated in one specific area.
The busiest examiner, LYNCH, ROBERT A, is responsible for 1 pending case. This distribution, where 2 distinct examiners handle 2 pending office actions, shows that the workload is evenly divided. For the practitioner, this requires managing two separate examiner relationships, although the shared context of the 1 distinct art unit may allow for some consistency in the technical arguments used in both cases within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
Having 2 pending office actions suggests a focused and manageable portfolio. The practitioner should be aware that while the technology is consistent across the 1 distinct art unit, the 2 distinct examiners may have different procedural preferences. Since the busiest examiner, LYNCH, ROBERT A, only handles 1 pending case, there is no single point of contact for the entire pending portfolio, requiring a separate approach for each of the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, ROBERT A | 1 | 80.3% | +12.9% |
| LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 1 | 65.4% | +30.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19125974 | NEEDLE DELIVERED ELECTRODE SYSTEM | LYNCH, ROBERT 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19125974 | NEEDLE DELIVERED ELECTRODE SYSTEM | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
| 18090996 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR BAROREFLEX ACTIVATION | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19125974 | NEEDLE DELIVERED ELECTRODE SYSTEM | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 18090996 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR BAROREFLEX ACTIVATION | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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