Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hollister Incorporated is currently prosecuting 18 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is spread across 17 distinct examiners, indicating that almost every pending action is being handled by a different individual. The portfolio's activity is distributed among 7 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of medical and mechanical technologies under review. This distribution requires a versatile approach to prosecution across multiple specialized groups.
PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 2 pending office actions. With 18 total pending actions and 17 distinct examiners, the prosecution is highly decentralized. For practitioners, the presence of 17 distinct examiners means that prosecution strategies must be highly individualized for each application. The 7 distinct art units further complicate this by introducing various unit-specific practices. Because the busiest examiner only handles 2 pending actions, no single examiner's tendencies will dominate the outcome of the 18 pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 10 (62%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (31%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 2 | 59.0% | +50.4% |
| ALLEN, ROBERT F | 1 | 73.2% | +61.9% |
| KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 1 | 63.9% | +18.8% |
| STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 1 | 48.2% | +29.2% |
| WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 1 | 71.5% | +11.8% |
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 71.6% | +34.4% |
| LUK, EMMANUEL S | 1 | 71.5% | +26.3% |
| TRAN, NHU | 1 | 68.4% | +17.5% |
| CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | 1 | 49.2% | +38.2% |
| CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 1 | 60.4% | +40.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881939 | OUTLET CLOSURE AND DRAINING AND SECUREMENT SYSTEM FOR DRAINABLE POUCH | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18554779 | URINARY CATHETER WITH PATTERNED DRAINAGE HOLES TO PROVIDE TIP FLEXIBILITY | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18378720 | BUFFERED ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR SKIN-ADHERING MEDICAL PRODUCTS | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 29d overdue |
| 19036287 | Urinary Catheters with Improved Shape Recovery and Ease of Use | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 26d |
| 19119559 | OSTOMY BARRIER RELEASE LINER SYSTEM | ALLEN, ROBERT F | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 8 |
| 1615 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19119559 | OSTOMY BARRIER RELEASE LINER SYSTEM | ALLEN, ROBERT F | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 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 |
| 18874621 | Devices and Methods for Forming Eyelets in Urinary Catheters | LUK, EMMANUEL S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18849214 | OSTOMY BARRIER APPLIANCE WITH SELF-ACTIVATING ADJUSTABLE CONVEXITY | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18744089 | ADJUSTABLE CONVEXITY OSTOMY BARRIER | TRAN, NHU | 3781 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 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 |
| 18554779 | URINARY CATHETER WITH PATTERNED DRAINAGE HOLES TO PROVIDE TIP FLEXIBILITY | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 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 |
| 18005231 | HYDROPHILIC MEDICAL PRODUCTS AND HYDRATION MEDIUMS FOR HYDRATING THE SAME | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 17778976 | EASY EMPTY URINE COLLECTION BAGS | DAKKAK, JIHAD | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2022 |
| 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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