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
Excision Medical Inc. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This suggests a portfolio with multiple ongoing developments that are being scrutinized by the patent office. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that the company's innovations are being evaluated from different perspectives. This distribution requires a flexible prosecution strategy that can address the different standards and expectations of the examiners within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector to ensure that both applications move toward allowance.
HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending action. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit means that the company's technological focus remains somewhat clustered despite the different examiners. The 2 pending office actions represent the current challenges the company must navigate to secure its intellectual property in this field. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback from HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT and the other examiner to maintain a cohesive strategy across the entire Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio, as the resolution of these cases will significantly impact the company's protected status.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 1 | 68.7% | +17.8% |
| YABUT, DIANE D | 1 | 62.5% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18202346 | SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BLOOD FLOW DURING A SURGICAL PROCEDURE | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 121d overdue |
| 18127428 | SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR EXCISING A VALVE | YABUT, DIANE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18202346 | SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BLOOD FLOW DURING A SURGICAL PROCEDURE | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 121d overdue |
| 18127428 | SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR EXCISING A VALVE | YABUT, DIANE D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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