Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Excision Medical Inc.

4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

4
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JAFFRI, ZEHRA 1 60.5% +46.7%
LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN 1 55.0% +25.6%
HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 1 68.6% +17.6%
YABUT, DIANE D 1 62.5% +27.9%

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18202346 SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BLOOD FLOW DURING A SURGICAL PROCEDURE HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 121d overdue
18379390 SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR AN AORTIC VALVE JAFFRI, ZEHRA 13d
18285764 EXCISION CATHETER SYSTEM FOR AN AORTIC VALVE LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN 20d
18127428 SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR EXCISING A VALVE YABUT, DIANE D

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18202346 SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BLOOD FLOW DURING A SURGICAL PROCEDURE HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 121d overdue
18379390 SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR AN AORTIC VALVE JAFFRI, ZEHRA 13d
18285764 EXCISION CATHETER SYSTEM FOR AN AORTIC VALVE LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN 20d
18127428 SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR EXCISING A VALVE YABUT, DIANE D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3771 3
3794 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18379390 SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR AN AORTIC VALVE JAFFRI, ZEHRA 3771 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 13d Pending Oct 12, 2023
18285764 EXCISION CATHETER SYSTEM FOR AN AORTIC VALVE LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN 3794 §102§103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Oct 05, 2023
18202346 SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BLOOD FLOW DURING A SURGICAL PROCEDURE HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 3771 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 121d overdue Pending May 26, 2023
18127428 SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR EXCISING A VALVE YABUT, DIANE D 3771 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2023

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