Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd. has 8 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 7 distinct examiners, showing that most examiners are handling a single case for the company. This distribution requires the applicant to navigate the specific tendencies of 7 different individuals across their active portfolio. The variety of examiners suggests that the company's prosecution experience is broad and not tied to a single individual's preferences across the 8 total actions.
The pending actions are located within 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the technical focus is relatively narrow despite the number of examiners involved. RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO is the busiest examiner for this entity, with 2 pending office actions under their review. Because this examiner holds 2 of the pending actions, their specific prosecution history and allowance rates may have a more pronounced impact on the portfolio's overall progress than other examiners. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the tendencies of this busiest examiner while maintaining flexible strategies for the other 3 art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (44%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 2 | 15.4% | +0.0% |
| LE, KHOA TAN | 1 | 75.4% | +41.7% |
| FLORES, ADRIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SHAH, NILAY J | 1 | 76.3% | +46.9% |
| PATEL, AREN | 1 | 77.6% | +17.2% |
| NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 1 | 63.6% | +15.0% |
| WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 1 | 61.0% | +39.1% |
| WILLSE, DAVID H | 1 | 67.3% | +14.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18622096 | PROTECTION OF CORONARY BLOOD VESSELS DURING CARDIAC PROCEDURES | FLORES, ADRIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18352924 | INTERCOMMISSURAL LEAFLET SUPPORT | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 4d overdue |
| 18354872 | FASTENERS FOR PERCUTANEOUS DEVICES | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 16d |
| 18472162 | TISSUE-CONTRACTING IMPLANTS | PATEL, AREN | 26d |
| 18491737 | CATHETER STABILIZATION DEVICES | SHAH, NILAY J | — |
| 17990570 | STEERABLE CATHETER | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472162 | TISSUE-CONTRACTING IMPLANTS | PATEL, AREN | 26d |
| 17843495 | IMPLANT-ADHERING TECHNIQUES | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 26d |
| 18981509 | TISSUE ANCHOR HANDLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LE, KHOA TAN | — |
| 18491737 | CATHETER STABILIZATION DEVICES | SHAH, NILAY J | — |
| 17990570 | STEERABLE CATHETER | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | — |
| 17385749 | LEAFLET-RESTRAINING TECHNIQUES | WILLSE, DAVID H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 6 |
| 3783 | 2 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981509 | TISSUE ANCHOR HANDLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LE, KHOA TAN | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2024 |
| 18622096 | PROTECTION OF CORONARY BLOOD VESSELS DURING CARDIAC PROCEDURES | FLORES, ADRIAN | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18491737 | CATHETER STABILIZATION DEVICES | SHAH, NILAY J | 3783 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18472162 | TISSUE-CONTRACTING IMPLANTS | PATEL, AREN | 3774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18354872 | FASTENERS FOR PERCUTANEOUS DEVICES | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18352924 | INTERCOMMISSURAL LEAFLET SUPPORT | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 17990570 | STEERABLE CATHETER | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 17843495 | IMPLANT-ADHERING TECHNIQUES | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 3774 | §112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17385749 | LEAFLET-RESTRAINING TECHNIQUES | WILLSE, DAVID H | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialEdwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 8 examiners.
Gabriella Giselle Bono Rios has the most, with 2 of Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
