Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
19 pending office actions • 6 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gambro Lundia AB currently has 15 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 15 distinct examiners, which indicates a broad distribution of the workload across different individuals at the patent office. The portfolio spans 6 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's filings in Chemistry & Materials cover a variety of specific technical classifications.
The examiner SPAMER, DONALD R is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This figure of 1 pending action for the busiest examiner is small relative to the total of 15 pending office actions across the entire company. This distribution shows that no single examiner, including SPAMER, DONALD R, holds a large portion of the company's pending cases. Practitioners can expect to interact with a wide range of 15 distinct examiners across 6 distinct art units. The prosecution strategy for Gambro Lundia AB involves navigating multiple different perspectives within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (11%) |
| §103 only | 4 (21%) |
| §102 only | 2 (11%) |
| §112 only | 3 (16%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (16%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (16%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, QUYNH DAO | 2 | 34.8% | +10.1% |
| KONVES, ADRIANNA N | 1 | 76.2% | +14.8% |
| SHIBEROU, MAHELET | 1 | 73.6% | +26.5% |
| SPAMER, DONALD R | 1 | 59.2% | +32.1% |
| LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 1 | 78.4% | +9.4% |
| TRAN, NHU | 1 | 68.4% | +17.5% |
| COLEMAN, CHARLES P. | 1 | 16.0% | +19.3% |
| KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 1 | 62.9% | +27.3% |
| CHIU, TAK LIANG | 1 | 48.8% | +20.7% |
| WIEST, PHILIP R | 1 | 81.3% | +16.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18717278 | DISPOSABLE SET AND EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING DEGASSING IN AN INFUSION FLUID LINE | WIEST, PHILIP R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17421757 | MEMBRANE WITH IMMOBILIZED ANTICOAGULANT AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME | ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G | 22d |
| 18757695 | EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT RESERVOIR CHANGE DETERMINATION | COLEMAN, CHARLES P. | 27d |
| 18030116 | ESTIMATING RESIDUAL RENAL FUNCTION | NEWTON, CHAD A | 29d |
| 18711827 | DIALYSIS FLUID COMPRISING KETONE BODIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | BARSKY, JARED | — |
| 18572121 | ACIDIC AND ALKALINE CLEANING OF ION EXCHANGE SYSTEMS, SUCH AS WATER PURIFIERS, BY ION EXCHANGE RESIN | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | — |
| 18554418 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF DIALYSIS FLUID USING FORWARD OSMOSIS | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757695 | EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT RESERVOIR CHANGE DETERMINATION | COLEMAN, CHARLES P. | 27d |
| 19106504 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE BUNDLES | KONVES, ADRIANNA N | — |
| 18974051 | EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT FLOW RATE ADJUSTMENT | SHIBEROU, MAHELET | — |
| 18872148 | DEVICE FOR DISINFECTING AND CLEANING A CATHETER, AND A METHOD THEREOF | SPAMER, DONALD R | — |
| 18820761 | EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT ALARM DOCKING | TRAN, NHU | — |
| 18722260 | APPARATUS FOR EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | — |
| 18719692 | PROCESS FOR MAKING A FILTRATION AND/OR DIFFUSION DEVICE | CHIU, TAK LIANG | — |
| 18717278 | DISPOSABLE SET AND EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING DEGASSING IN AN INFUSION FLUID LINE | WIEST, PHILIP R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 4 |
| 1773 | 3 |
| 1779 | 2 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 3681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19106504 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE BUNDLES | KONVES, ADRIANNA N | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18974051 | EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT FLOW RATE ADJUSTMENT | SHIBEROU, MAHELET | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18872148 | DEVICE FOR DISINFECTING AND CLEANING A CATHETER, AND A METHOD THEREOF | SPAMER, DONALD R | 1799 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18844270 | GENERATING MEDICAL FLUID FOR RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18820761 | EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT ALARM DOCKING | TRAN, NHU | — | §112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18757695 | EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT RESERVOIR CHANGE DETERMINATION | COLEMAN, CHARLES P. | 3683 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18722260 | APPARATUS FOR EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 3781 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18719692 | PROCESS FOR MAKING A FILTRATION AND/OR DIFFUSION DEVICE | CHIU, TAK LIANG | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18717278 | DISPOSABLE SET AND EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING DEGASSING IN AN INFUSION FLUID LINE | WIEST, PHILIP R | 3781 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18711827 | DIALYSIS FLUID COMPRISING KETONE BODIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | BARSKY, JARED | — | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18612526 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERITONEAL DIALYSIS HAVING POINT OF USE DIALYSIS FLUID PREPARATION INCLUDING MIXING AND HEATING THEREFORE | OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18608304 | PREPARING AN EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT APPARATUS | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1779 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18572121 | ACIDIC AND ALKALINE CLEANING OF ION EXCHANGE SYSTEMS, SUCH AS WATER PURIFIERS, BY ION EXCHANGE RESIN | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18554418 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF DIALYSIS FLUID USING FORWARD OSMOSIS | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18030116 | ESTIMATING RESIDUAL RENAL FUNCTION | NEWTON, CHAD A | 3681 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 18108091 | PACKAGE FOR AN ACIDIC DIALYSIS FLUID CONCENTRATE CONTAINING CITRATE AND GLUCOSE | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 17635029 | METHOD FOR PRIMING AN EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD CIRCUIT OF AN APPARATUS FOR EXTRACORPOREAL TREATMENT OF BLOOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACORPOREAL TREATMENT OF BLOOD | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2022 |
| 17634855 | NON-REMOVABLE CONNECTION SYSTEM | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
| 17421757 | MEMBRANE WITH IMMOBILIZED ANTICOAGULANT AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME | ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G | 1773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jul 09, 2021 |
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