Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
16 pending office actions • 6 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hollister Incorporated has 17 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket involves 16 distinct examiners across 7 distinct art units, showing broad examiner dispersion within a comparatively smaller set of technical examination groups.
PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Examiner-specific strategy can therefore inform only a limited part of the docket, while art-unit grouping may provide a more useful basis for identifying recurring claim and prior-art issues. Counsel should still review each matter independently because the assignment figures do not establish common inventions or rejection grounds.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 9 (56%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 2 | 49.6% | +31.5% |
| VETERE, ROBERT A | 1 | 61.5% | +12.8% |
| KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 1 | 63.9% | +18.8% |
| WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 1 | 71.6% | +11.7% |
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 70.7% | +35.4% |
| BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 1 | 54.9% | +32.1% |
| LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1 | 71.5% | +26.3% |
| PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 1 | 59.8% | +49.7% |
| LE, QUYNH DAO | 1 | 33.3% | +12.1% |
| TRAN, NHU | 1 | 68.7% | +17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19189874 | HYDROPHILIC COATINGS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES | VETERE, ROBERT A | — |
| 18881939 | OUTLET CLOSURE AND DRAINING AND SECUREMENT SYSTEM FOR DRAINABLE POUCH | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 18881184 | OSTOMY BARRIER APPLIANCE WITH LOCALIZED ADJUSTABLE CONVEXITY | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | — |
| 18874621 | Devices and Methods for Forming Eyelets in Urinary Catheters | LUK, EMMANUEL S | — |
| 18849214 | OSTOMY BARRIER APPLIANCE WITH SELF-ACTIVATING ADJUSTABLE CONVEXITY | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
| 18744089 | ADJUSTABLE CONVEXITY OSTOMY BARRIER | TRAN, NHU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698535 | ASYMMETRIC ADHESIVE PACKAGING ENCLOSURE FOR EASE OF MATERIAL REMOVAL | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 3d overdue |
| 19036287 | Urinary Catheters with Improved Shape Recovery and Ease of Use | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 26d |
| 19189874 | HYDROPHILIC COATINGS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES | VETERE, ROBERT A | — |
| 19116595 | OSTOMY FILTER PROTECTION | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | — |
| 19106353 | DRAINABLE OSTOMY POUCH OUTLET | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | — |
| 18881939 | OUTLET CLOSURE AND DRAINING AND SECUREMENT SYSTEM FOR DRAINABLE POUCH | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 18881184 | OSTOMY BARRIER APPLIANCE WITH LOCALIZED ADJUSTABLE CONVEXITY | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | — |
| 18874621 | Devices and Methods for Forming Eyelets in Urinary Catheters | LUK, EMMANUEL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 9 |
| 1615 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19189874 | HYDROPHILIC COATINGS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES | VETERE, ROBERT A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19116595 | OSTOMY FILTER PROTECTION | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19106353 | DRAINABLE OSTOMY POUCH OUTLET | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19036287 | Urinary Catheters with Improved Shape Recovery and Ease of Use | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18881939 | OUTLET CLOSURE AND DRAINING AND SECUREMENT SYSTEM FOR DRAINABLE POUCH | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18881184 | OSTOMY BARRIER APPLIANCE WITH LOCALIZED ADJUSTABLE CONVEXITY | BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E | 3781 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18874621 | Devices and Methods for Forming Eyelets in Urinary Catheters | LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1744 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18849214 | OSTOMY BARRIER APPLIANCE WITH SELF-ACTIVATING ADJUSTABLE CONVEXITY | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18834093 | OSTOMY POUCH WITH VIEWING OPTION WINDOW | LE, QUYNH DAO | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18744089 | ADJUSTABLE CONVEXITY OSTOMY BARRIER | TRAN, NHU | 3781 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18698535 | ASYMMETRIC ADHESIVE PACKAGING ENCLOSURE FOR EASE OF MATERIAL REMOVAL | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18381401 | BUFFERED ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR SKIN-ADHERING MEDICAL PRODUCTS | CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18378720 | BUFFERED ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR SKIN-ADHERING MEDICAL PRODUCTS | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 1613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18263215 | STOMA AND PERISTOMAL IMAGING AND QUANTIFICATION OF SIZE, SHAPE, AND COLOR | RODRIGUEZ, ANTHONY JASON | 2672 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18005240 | MEDICAL DEVICES HAVING ANTI-MICROBIAL PROPERTIES AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | WORSHAM, JESSICA N | 1615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 17771126 | URINARY CATHETERS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING BACTERIAL INFECTIONS | WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | 3781 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHollister Incorporated has 16 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 15 examiners.
Kate Elizabeth Strachan has the most, with 2 of Hollister Incorporated's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
