Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Incept LLC currently manages 7 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating a portfolio that spans several specialized technical classifications. The involvement of 6 distinct examiners suggests that the company's prosecution strategy requires navigating a variety of individual examiner preferences and styles across these different units.
BOUCHELLE, LAURA A is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 2 pending office actions. This concentration represents a portion of the 7 total actions, making her specific examination patterns influential for the portfolio's overall progress. The remaining actions are spread among 6 distinct examiners, requiring a broad approach to examiner engagement across the 4 art units. Practitioners should consider the specific technical requirements of the art units when drafting responses, as the standards for patentability may vary across these specialized mechanical and medical fields.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 | 2 | 80.2% | +10.7% |
| HAGOPIAN, CASEY SHEA | 1 | 54.4% | +33.3% |
| PATEL, AREN | 1 | 77.6% | +17.2% |
| GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 1 | 80.5% | +21.9% |
| RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 1 | 64.1% | +56.9% |
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 | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18584895 | EMBOLIZATION WITH TRANSIENT MATERIALS | 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 6 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 | — |
| 18584895 | EMBOLIZATION WITH TRANSIENT MATERIALS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18757118 | CATHETER HAVING ANGLED TIP | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — | §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 |
| 18584895 | EMBOLIZATION WITH TRANSIENT MATERIALS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 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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