Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Endologix LLC maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices and Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 6 pending office actions, which are distributed among 6 distinct examiners. This indicates that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual, providing a broad range of feedback from the patent office.
These filings are situated within 2 distinct art units. This concentration suggests that while many examiners are involved, the technical focus of the portfolio is relatively specialized. The busiest examiner is GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This shows that the workload is spread evenly, as the busiest examiner pending count is 1.
For a practitioner, managing the 6 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires balancing different examiner preferences within a limited number of technical groups. Because each of the 6 distinct examiners has only a single case, the prosecution strategy must be tailored to individual styles. Consistency across the identified art units is essential for the portfolio.
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 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | 1 | 85.0% | +8.8% |
| IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 1 | 78.6% | +39.8% |
| HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 1 | 70.4% | +18.8% |
| BARIA, DINAH N | 1 | 72.9% | +28.5% |
| LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 1 | 65.5% | +34.3% |
| ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 1 | 66.2% | +58.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18610862 | CATHETER SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USING SAME | GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18234835 | CATHETER LOCKING MECHANISMS AND METHODS FOR SAME | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 39d |
| 17279000 | STENT GRAFT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH CUFF AND LIMB | BARIA, DINAH N | — |
| 17201995 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PLACEMENT OF A GRAFT OR GRAFT SYSTEM | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | — |
| 17274754 | STENT GRAFT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH INFLATABLE FILL STRUCTURE AND FILLABLE CUFF | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18234835 | CATHETER LOCKING MECHANISMS AND METHODS FOR SAME | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 39d |
| 18410989 | INTRAVASCULAR GUIDEWIRE FILTER SYSTEM FOR PULMONARY EMBOLISM PROTECTION AND EMBOLISM REMOVAL OR MACERATION | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | — |
| 17279000 | STENT GRAFT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH CUFF AND LIMB | BARIA, DINAH N | — |
| 17201995 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PLACEMENT OF A GRAFT OR GRAFT SYSTEM | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | — |
| 17274754 | STENT GRAFT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH INFLATABLE FILL STRUCTURE AND FILLABLE CUFF | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 3 |
| 3774 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18610862 | CATHETER SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USING SAME | GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18410989 | INTRAVASCULAR GUIDEWIRE FILTER SYSTEM FOR PULMONARY EMBOLISM PROTECTION AND EMBOLISM REMOVAL OR MACERATION | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18234835 | CATHETER LOCKING MECHANISMS AND METHODS FOR SAME | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 17279000 | STENT GRAFT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH CUFF AND LIMB | BARIA, DINAH N | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2021 |
| 17201995 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PLACEMENT OF A GRAFT OR GRAFT SYSTEM | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 3774 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2021 |
| 17274754 | STENT GRAFT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH INFLATABLE FILL STRUCTURE AND FILLABLE CUFF | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2021 |
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