Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hangzhou Broncus Medical Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, showing examiner diversity within a shared art-unit structure.
BORSCH, NICHOLAS S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Portfolio management should coordinate the 2 art-unit contexts while keeping claim and argument strategy responsive to each examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 1 | 73.1% | +12.5% |
| STIGELL, THEODORE J | 1 | 78.3% | +14.8% |
| RHODES, NORA W | 1 | 54.9% | +24.8% |
| EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 1 | 41.6% | +46.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346028 | VAPOR ABLATION APPARATUS, AND HEATING CONTROL METHOD, CONTROLLER, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM THEREOF | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 14d |
| 18346031 | RADIO FREQUENCY OPERATION DATA CONTROL METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYRINGE PUMP | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| 17756974 | RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION CATHETER AND RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION SYSTEM | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346028 | VAPOR ABLATION APPARATUS, AND HEATING CONTROL METHOD, CONTROLLER, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM THEREOF | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 14d |
| 18346031 | RADIO FREQUENCY OPERATION DATA CONTROL METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYRINGE PUMP | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| 17953425 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING RADIO FREQUENCY PARAMETER AND RADIO FREQUENCY HOST | RHODES, NORA W | — |
| 17756974 | RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION CATHETER AND RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION SYSTEM | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 3 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18346028 | VAPOR ABLATION APPARATUS, AND HEATING CONTROL METHOD, CONTROLLER, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM THEREOF | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 3794 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18346031 | RADIO FREQUENCY OPERATION DATA CONTROL METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYRINGE PUMP | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 17953425 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING RADIO FREQUENCY PARAMETER AND RADIO FREQUENCY HOST | RHODES, NORA W | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
| 17756974 | RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION CATHETER AND RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION SYSTEM | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHangzhou Broncus Medical Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Nicholas S Borsch has the most, with 1 of Hangzhou Broncus Medical Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
