Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Emboline Inc. is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being handled by 5 distinct examiners, resulting in a distribution where each examiner is responsible for exactly one matter. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, all these pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the technical focus is highly unified, the company must navigate the individual preferences of different people within that art unit.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is TANNER, JOCELIN C, who is assigned 1 pending office action. Because there are distinct examiners for every pending office action, no examiner holds a larger share of the workload than TANNER, JOCELIN C. The concentration of all activity in the distinct art unit suggests that while examiner perspectives vary, the technical focus remains consistent across the portfolio. For a practitioner, this situation requires a strategy that accounts for different examiner styles while maintaining technical consistency across the pending office actions. The lack of examiner overlap means that no examiner relationship can be leveraged to influence multiple pending matters.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TANNER, JOCELIN C | 1 | 72.2% | +34.8% |
| POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 1 | 59.5% | +33.3% |
| YABUT, DIANE D | 1 | 62.5% | +27.9% |
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.7% | +15.7% |
| TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 1 | 62.3% | +34.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037061 | CATHETER WITH INTEGRATED EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037061 | CATHETER WITH INTEGRATED EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
| 18857805 | EMBOLIC PROTECTION FOR MITRAL AND TRICUSPID VALVE PROCEDURES | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | — |
| 18658983 | INTEGRATED EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICES | YABUT, DIANE D | — |
| 18325163 | EMBOLIC PROTECTION METHODS | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — |
| 16803901 | Temporary Embolic Protection Device And Medical Procedure For Delivery Thereof | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037061 | CATHETER WITH INTEGRATED EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18857805 | EMBOLIC PROTECTION FOR MITRAL AND TRICUSPID VALVE PROCEDURES | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18658983 | INTEGRATED EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICES | YABUT, DIANE D | 3771 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18325163 | EMBOLIC PROTECTION METHODS | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 16803901 | Temporary Embolic Protection Device And Medical Procedure For Delivery Thereof | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2020 |
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