Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Insightec Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. Prosecution is therefore distributed among examiners, with at least one art unit associated with more than one current matter. Counsel can use the shared art-unit context for comparison while retaining examiner-specific response planning.
NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner handles one of the current actions rather than the full docket. A coordinated device strategy should be paired with separate analysis of the mechanical and medical-device issues raised in each examiner’s record.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 1 | 49.6% | +32.6% |
| NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 1 | 52.7% | +40.8% |
| KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | 1 | 85.7% | +100.0% |
| TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | 1 | 64.7% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865661 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 15d overdue |
| 18572954 | DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT MONITORING BASED ON BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER DISRUPTION | KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | — |
| 18176978 | Systems and Methods for Selective, Targeted Tissue Disruption | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865661 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 15d overdue |
| 18842392 | CONFORMAL PHASED-ARRAY TRANSDUCER ARRANGEMENT | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | — |
| 18572954 | DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT MONITORING BASED ON BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER DISRUPTION | KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | — |
| 18176978 | Systems and Methods for Selective, Targeted Tissue Disruption | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 2 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18865661 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 1766 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18842392 | CONFORMAL PHASED-ARRAY TRANSDUCER ARRANGEMENT | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18572954 | DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT MONITORING BASED ON BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER DISRUPTION | KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | 1681 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18176978 | Systems and Methods for Selective, Targeted Tissue Disruption | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInsightec Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Brieann R Johnston has the most, with 1 of Insightec Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
