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
Endoshape Inc. manages a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, although they are both located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while multiple examiners are involved, the technical subject matter remains concentrated within a 1 specialized group at the patent office, ensuring a consistent technical context for the company's filings.
The busiest examiner for Endoshape Inc. is MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles 1 of the active matters. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for only 2 pending actions indicates that each examiner is currently reviewing exactly 1 matter for the company. This distribution within 1 distinct art unit allows the company to engage with different perspectives while remaining within the same technical oversight group for its medical device innovations.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 1 | 60.3% | +49.8% |
| DUBOSE, LAUREN | 1 | 59.1% | +46.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17583100 | SLEEVE FOR DELIVERY OF EMBOLIC COIL | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 63d |
| 16893243 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED OCCLUSION AND DELIVERY | DUBOSE, LAUREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17583100 | SLEEVE FOR DELIVERY OF EMBOLIC COIL | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Jan 24, 2022 |
| 16893243 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED OCCLUSION AND DELIVERY | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialEndoshape Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
James Ryan Mcginnity has the most, with 1 of Endoshape Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
