Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Incept LLC has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing examiner-level dispersion with one art unit supporting more than one examination matter.
BOUCHELLE, LAURA A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data supports a coordinated portfolio process, while the distinct examiner assignments require separate assessment of objections, claim scope, and response posture.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 1 | 80.2% | +10.3% |
| HAGOPIAN, CASEY SHEA | 1 | 54.3% | +33.4% |
| PATEL, AREN | 1 | 77.6% | +17.2% |
| GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 1 | 80.6% | +21.9% |
| RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 1 | 63.5% | +59.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18317686 | RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 30d overdue |
| 18757118 | CATHETER HAVING ANGLED TIP | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17036258 | EMBOLIC RETRIEVAL CATHETER | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 89d overdue |
| 18317686 | RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 30d overdue |
| 18479324 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING NEUROVASCULAR VENOUS OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION | PATEL, AREN | 10d overdue |
| 18757118 | CATHETER HAVING ANGLED TIP | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
| 18617246 | DEVICES FOR IN SITU FORMED NERVE CAPS AND/OR NERVE WRAPS | HAGOPIAN, CASEY SHEA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18757118 | CATHETER HAVING ANGLED TIP | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 3783 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18617246 | DEVICES FOR IN SITU FORMED NERVE CAPS AND/OR NERVE WRAPS | HAGOPIAN, CASEY SHEA | 1617 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18479324 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING NEUROVASCULAR VENOUS OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION | PATEL, AREN | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18317686 | RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 17036258 | EMBOLIC RETRIEVAL CATHETER | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialIncept LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Laura A Bouchelle has the most, with 1 of Incept LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
