Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hocor Cardiovascular Technologies LLC maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by a distinct examiner within a distinct art unit. LABRANCHE, BROOKE N is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for the 1 pending office action currently on file. This singular focus indicates a streamlined prosecution presence at the USPTO for the company's current intellectual property.
The data shows that a distinct examiner is managing the entirety of the company's pending workload, which consists of 1 pending office action. LABRANCHE, BROOKE N's assignment to this matter within the art unit suggests a highly specific technical review process. For practitioners, this profile represents a minimal administrative footprint with no current complexity arising from multiple examiners or diverse art units. The concentration of the portfolio into a single pending action simplifies the management of the company's patent interests.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.7% | +15.7% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18672434 | PERCUTANEUOUS TEMPORARY AORTIC VALVE | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 66d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18672434 | PERCUTANEUOUS TEMPORARY AORTIC VALVE | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §102DP | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
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