Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Impulse Dynamics NV is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split among 3 distinct examiners, with no individual examiner overseeing multiple cases. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, concentrating the technical review more than the examiner assignments.
BERTRAM, ERIC D is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This is 1 of the 3 pending office actions in the portfolio. Because there are 3 distinct examiners but only 2 distinct art units, multiple examiners are working within the same art unit to review the company's medical device innovations. The 1 pending action for the busiest examiner shows the even workload distribution.
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 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 1 | 10.7% | +14.4% |
| BERTRAM, ERIC D | 1 | 81.2% | +12.4% |
| HOLMES, REX R | 1 | 80.2% | +17.9% |
| SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 1 | 58.1% | +58.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18795230 | IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (ICD) DEVICE WITH HIGH LONGEVITY | BERTRAM, ERIC D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285504 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANTI-TACHYCARDIA PACING | HOLMES, REX R | 1d overdue |
| 19474287 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MONITORING HEART FAILURE CONDITIONS USING A DYNAMIC PREDICTION INDEX | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | — |
| 17911676 | CARDIAC CONTRACTILITY MODULATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH RESPIRATION | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285504 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANTI-TACHYCARDIA PACING | HOLMES, REX R | 1d overdue |
| 19474287 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MONITORING HEART FAILURE CONDITIONS USING A DYNAMIC PREDICTION INDEX | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | — |
| 18795230 | IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (ICD) DEVICE WITH HIGH LONGEVITY | BERTRAM, ERIC D | — |
| 17911676 | CARDIAC CONTRACTILITY MODULATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH RESPIRATION | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3685 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19474287 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MONITORING HEART FAILURE CONDITIONS USING A DYNAMIC PREDICTION INDEX | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 3685 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 18795230 | IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (ICD) DEVICE WITH HIGH LONGEVITY | BERTRAM, ERIC D | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18285504 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANTI-TACHYCARDIA PACING | HOLMES, REX R | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 17911676 | CARDIAC CONTRACTILITY MODULATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH RESPIRATION | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
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