Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
EndoChoice Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 5 examiners and 2 art units. The examiner count indicates separate examiner attention for each matter, while the smaller art-unit count creates a basis for technical coordination.
BOLER, RYNAE E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should preserve matter-specific examiner analysis while using the 2 art units to identify recurring technical issues and align claim-support positions where appropriate.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLER, RYNAE E | 1 | 62.4% | +8.8% |
| CHOU, WILLIAM B | 1 | 72.7% | +20.6% |
| NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 1 | 78.0% | +13.2% |
| WOO, JAE KYUN | 1 | 59.3% | +16.6% |
| NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | 1 | 74.6% | +18.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463783 | CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY FOR A MULTIPLE VIEWING ELEMENTS ENDOSCOPE USING CMOS SENSORS | NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | 96d overdue |
| 19081753 | DISPOSABLE AIR/WATER AND SUCTION VALVES FOR AN ENDOSCOPE | BOLER, RYNAE E | — |
| 19021577 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRACKING THE POSITION OF AN ENDOSCOPE WITHIN A PATIENT'S BODY | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | — |
| 18978685 | OPTICAL SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-SENSOR ENDOSCOPES | WOO, JAE KYUN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463783 | CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY FOR A MULTIPLE VIEWING ELEMENTS ENDOSCOPE USING CMOS SENSORS | NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | 96d overdue |
| 19028099 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THE LOCATION OF AN ENDOSCOPIC DEVICE DURING A MEDICAL PROCEDURE | CHOU, WILLIAM B | — |
| 19021577 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRACKING THE POSITION OF AN ENDOSCOPE WITHIN A PATIENT'S BODY | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | — |
| 18978685 | OPTICAL SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-SENSOR ENDOSCOPES | WOO, JAE KYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 4 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19081753 | DISPOSABLE AIR/WATER AND SUCTION VALVES FOR AN ENDOSCOPE | BOLER, RYNAE E | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19028099 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THE LOCATION OF AN ENDOSCOPIC DEVICE DURING A MEDICAL PROCEDURE | CHOU, WILLIAM B | 3795 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19021577 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRACKING THE POSITION OF AN ENDOSCOPE WITHIN A PATIENT'S BODY | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 3795 | §101§102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18978685 | OPTICAL SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-SENSOR ENDOSCOPES | WOO, JAE KYUN | 3795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18463783 | CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY FOR A MULTIPLE VIEWING ELEMENTS ENDOSCOPE USING CMOS SENSORS | NIRJHAR, NASIM NAZRUL | 2896 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 96d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEndoChoice Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Rynae E Boler has the most, with 1 of EndoChoice Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
