Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inspire Medical Systems Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating that every pending matter has a separate examiner while some matters share an examination group. The portfolio therefore requires both individual examiner monitoring and art-unit issue tracking.
TEJANI, ANKIT D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner carries a larger identified assignment, so the docket is broadly distributed rather than centered on one relationship. Counsel should use a common claim and disclosure framework, then tailor responses to the examiner and art unit handling each matter.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEJANI, ANKIT D | 1 | 81.0% | +16.3% |
| MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 1 | 66.7% | +50.0% |
| HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 1 | 49.2% | +40.6% |
| LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 1 | 65.4% | +29.7% |
| PATEL, HARESH N | 1 | 77.7% | +21.2% |
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.9% | +25.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281087 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING BLADDER AND/OR BOWEL DYSFUNCTION | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 43d overdue |
| 19039312 | IMPLANT-ACCESS INCISION AND SENSING FOR SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING (SDB) CARE | TEJANI, ANKIT D | — |
| 18943454 | METHOD OF TREATING SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | — |
| 18834549 | IMPLANTABLE STIMULATION ELEMENTS AND METHODS FOR SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING (SDB) CARE | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | — |
| 18482436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURED SHARING OF MEDICAL DATA GENERATED BY A PATIENT MEDICAL DEVICE | PATEL, HARESH N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281087 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING BLADDER AND/OR BOWEL DYSFUNCTION | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 43d overdue |
| 19039312 | IMPLANT-ACCESS INCISION AND SENSING FOR SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING (SDB) CARE | TEJANI, ANKIT D | — |
| 18943454 | METHOD OF TREATING SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | — |
| 18796443 | SLEEP DETECTION FOR SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING (SDB) CARE | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | — |
| 18834549 | IMPLANTABLE STIMULATION ELEMENTS AND METHODS FOR SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING (SDB) CARE | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | — |
| 18482436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURED SHARING OF MEDICAL DATA GENERATED BY A PATIENT MEDICAL DEVICE | PATEL, HARESH N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 3 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| 2496 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19039312 | IMPLANT-ACCESS INCISION AND SENSING FOR SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING (SDB) CARE | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 3796 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18943454 | METHOD OF TREATING SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 3796 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18796443 | SLEEP DETECTION FOR SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING (SDB) CARE | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18834549 | IMPLANTABLE STIMULATION ELEMENTS AND METHODS FOR SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING (SDB) CARE | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3700 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18482436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURED SHARING OF MEDICAL DATA GENERATED BY A PATIENT MEDICAL DEVICE | PATEL, HARESH N | 2496 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18281087 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING BLADDER AND/OR BOWEL DYSFUNCTION | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInspire Medical Systems Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Ankit D Tejani has the most, with 1 of Inspire Medical Systems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
