Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Endoron Medical Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. Both examiners are located within 1 distinct art unit, which provides a centralized administrative environment for the company patent portfolio.
MELANIE RUANO TYSON is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is split between them. However, because they both operate within the same 1 distinct art unit, they likely follow similar unit-level guidelines and practices.
The 1 pending action under Tyson accounts for one of the 2 current active office actions for Endoron Medical Ltd. Practitioners can benefit from the consistency of working within 1 distinct art unit while managing the individual nuances of 2 distinct examiners. This concentration in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering allows for a focused prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 1 | 68.4% | +18.9% |
| RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | 1 | 65.4% | +34.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18408651 | TISSUE ANCHORING DEVICE | RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | 15d |
| 18687907 | STEERABLE CATHETER SYSTEM | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18408651 | TISSUE ANCHORING DEVICE | RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | 15d |
| 18687907 | STEERABLE CATHETER SYSTEM | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18687907 | STEERABLE CATHETER SYSTEM | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18408651 | TISSUE ANCHORING DEVICE | RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
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