Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Endovision Foundation maintains a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions. These 2 pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art units. This concentration suggests that the company's current prosecution is focused on a specific technical field. The workload is distributed among 2 distinct examiners.
BOLER, RYNAE E is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents a portion of the total workload. The total of 2 pending office actions is handled by 2 distinct examiners, which means that each examiner is responsible for a single case. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area provides the context for these filings.
Practitioners should note that BOLER, RYNAE E is one of the officials handling the pending office actions. With 1 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy is subject to the specific standards of that unit. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions indicates a distributed examination process within the single art unit identified in the data.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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% |
| DUBOSE, LAUREN | 1 | 60.1% | +43.3% |
| DANG, ANH TIEU | 1 | 65.5% | +35.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19230591 | ENDOSCOPE CONTROL METHODS | BOLER, RYNAE E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17907002 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR AT LEAST PARTIALLY OCCLUDING A BODILY LUMEN | DUBOSE, LAUREN | — |
| 17346180 | ADJUSTABLE-SHAPE SNARE FOR ENDOSCOPIC PROCEDURES | DANG, ANH TIEU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19230591 | ENDOSCOPE CONTROL METHODS | BOLER, RYNAE E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 17907002 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR AT LEAST PARTIALLY OCCLUDING A BODILY LUMEN | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
| 17346180 | ADJUSTABLE-SHAPE SNARE FOR ENDOSCOPIC PROCEDURES | DANG, ANH TIEU | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2021 |
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