Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Innavasc Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and the distinct art units involved, showing a lack of concentration in their current filings. This distribution suggests that the company is pursuing different technical aspects within the medical device sector.
The busiest examiner, FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B, is responsible for 1 pending action. Because the 2 pending office actions are split between different examiners and art units, the company must manage separate prosecution paths, each with its own technical and procedural requirements. This requires a versatile strategy to address the specific feedback from the examiners who may have different interpretations of the prior art. The presence of multiple art units further indicates that the pending applications may cover diverse sub-topics within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 1 | 75.6% | +29.5% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18428903 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CANNULATION OF VASCULAR ACCESS VESSEL | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18428903 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CANNULATION OF VASCULAR ACCESS VESSEL | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 3783 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
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