Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (70%) |
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% | +16.9% |
| CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 1 | 25.0% | +0.0% |
| MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 1 | 66.7% | +50.0% |
| HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 1 | 49.2% | +39.6% |
| LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 1 | 65.4% | +30.1% |
| FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 1 | 79.4% | +18.4% |
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.8% | +25.2% |
| ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 1 | 66.2% | +58.6% |
| WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 1 | 68.0% | +28.7% |
| WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1 | 62.1% | +29.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 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 |
| 18394963 | STIMULATING A GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL-RELATED TISSUE FOR UPPER AIRWAY PATENCY | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 22d overdue |
| 18236784 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 40d |
| 19039312 | IMPLANT-ACCESS INCISION AND SENSING FOR SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING (SDB) CARE | TEJANI, ANKIT D | — |
| 18867857 | SENSING AND APPLYING STIMULATION IN TIMED RELATIONSHIP | CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18239907 | METHODS OF MANEUVERING STIMULATION ELEMENTS WITHIN VESSELS VIA A GUIDE TOOL | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | — |
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 8 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 |
| 18394963 | STIMULATING A GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL-RELATED TISSUE FOR UPPER AIRWAY PATENCY | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 22d overdue |
| 18236784 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 40d |
| 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 | — |
| 18239907 | METHODS OF MANEUVERING STIMULATION ELEMENTS WITHIN VESSELS VIA A GUIDE TOOL | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 4 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 1742 | 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 | — | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18867857 | SENSING AND APPLYING STIMULATION IN TIMED RELATIONSHIP | CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 3792 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18943454 | METHOD OF TREATING SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | — | §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 |
| 18394963 | STIMULATING A GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL-RELATED TISSUE FOR UPPER AIRWAY PATENCY | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 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 |
| 18239907 | METHODS OF MANEUVERING STIMULATION ELEMENTS WITHIN VESSELS VIA A GUIDE TOOL | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18236784 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18275277 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES AT LEAST PARTIALLY FORMED FROM A THERMOSET MATERIAL | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
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