Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Devicor Medical Products Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket spans 6 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing that most matters have separate examiner handling while several matters share broader organizational settings. This supports centralized docket management with art-unit-specific review.
TOWA, RENE T is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Those applications should be checked for common claim language, related disclosures, and consistent response positions. The remaining examiner assignments prevent the portfolio from being treated as a single examiner workstream.
Counsel can use the repeated art-unit assignments to look for recurring examination concerns, while preserving separate analysis of the underlying prior-art and claim records.
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 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOWA, RENE T | 2 | 49.5% | +17.5% |
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 1 | 65.1% | +33.2% |
| BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 1 | 51.9% | +30.5% |
| CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 31.7% | +30.6% |
| SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 1 | 52.4% | +61.8% |
| COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 47.5% | +25.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19171629 | BIOPSY DEVICE WITH END DEPLOYMENT FOR MARKER DELIVERY | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 36d |
| 18934643 | BIOPSY SITE MARKER WITH EXPANDABLE MESH | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | — |
| 18908936 | BIOPSY DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED DITHER FEATURE | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| 18400387 | USER INTERFACE WITH SINGLE INPUT FOR BIOPSY DEVICE | TOWA, RENE T | — |
| 17943363 | NON-MIGRATING BIOPSY SITE IDENTIFIERS | TOWA, RENE T | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19171629 | BIOPSY DEVICE WITH END DEPLOYMENT FOR MARKER DELIVERY | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 36d |
| 18934643 | BIOPSY SITE MARKER WITH EXPANDABLE MESH | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | — |
| 18908936 | BIOPSY DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED DITHER FEATURE | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| 18647432 | TISSUE SAMPLE HOLDER WITH ENHANCED FEATURES | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | — |
| 18400387 | USER INTERFACE WITH SINGLE INPUT FOR BIOPSY DEVICE | TOWA, RENE T | — |
| 18397048 | BIOPSY SYSTEM FOR USE IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SUITE | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 17943363 | NON-MIGRATING BIOPSY SITE IDENTIFIERS | TOWA, RENE T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 4 |
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19171629 | BIOPSY DEVICE WITH END DEPLOYMENT FOR MARKER DELIVERY | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 18934643 | BIOPSY SITE MARKER WITH EXPANDABLE MESH | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18908936 | BIOPSY DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED DITHER FEATURE | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18647432 | TISSUE SAMPLE HOLDER WITH ENHANCED FEATURES | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 3791 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18400387 | USER INTERFACE WITH SINGLE INPUT FOR BIOPSY DEVICE | TOWA, RENE T | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18397048 | BIOPSY SYSTEM FOR USE IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SUITE | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 17943363 | NON-MIGRATING BIOPSY SITE IDENTIFIERS | TOWA, RENE T | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialDevicor Medical Products Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Rene T Towa has the most, with 2 of Devicor Medical Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
