Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
62 pending office actions • 13 art units • 45 examiners • 0 of 62 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 61 patents granted in the last 365 days
Insulet Corporation maintains a robust patent portfolio with 61 pending office actions concentrated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution workload is distributed among 45 distinct examiners, reflecting a broad engagement with the patent office staff. These matters span 13 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's innovations touch upon a diverse range of technical classifications within its primary sector. This distribution across 13 art units suggests a complex intellectual property strategy that requires navigating various examination standards and technical requirements across the patent office.
GOLLAMUDI, NEERAJA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 4 pending office actions. While this examiner handles the largest individual share of the company's active cases, the 4 pending actions represent a small fraction of the 61 total actions pending across the entire portfolio. This distribution suggests that the company's legal strategy involves managing many simultaneous threads across a wide variety of examining groups rather than being concentrated under a few specific individuals. Such a decentralized approach can mitigate the impact of any single examiner's tendencies on the overall portfolio's progress. The company's ability to manage 45 distinct examiners simultaneously demonstrates a significant administrative capacity in its patent prosecution efforts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 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. 17 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 only | 1 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (13%) |
| §103 only | 17 (27%) |
| §102 only | 2 (3%) |
| §112 only | 3 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 29 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLLAMUDI, NEERAJA | 4 | 72.7% | +39.9% |
| MENDEZ, MANUEL A | 3 | 86.0% | +8.5% |
| SMALE, AVERY E | 3 | 74.2% | +21.2% |
| SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3 | 65.5% | +38.3% |
| STIGELL, THEODORE J | 2 | 78.3% | +14.9% |
| VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 2 | 55.1% | +25.9% |
| KOO, BENJAMIN K | 2 | 57.1% | +49.7% |
| ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 2 | 72.9% | +17.4% |
| BOSWORTH, KAMI A | 2 | 69.1% | +28.7% |
| BARTLEY, KENNETH | 2 | 36.0% | +28.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18781693 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING INSULIN DELIVERY | MENDEZ, MANUEL A | — |
| 18661020 | METHODS TO DEMONSTRATE PROGRESS TOWARDS FULL ADAPTATION AND TO PRESENT POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENTS THROUGH BEHAVIORAL CHANGES | MENDEZ, MANUEL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18306041 | COMPRESSION DETECTION AND COMPENSATION FOR A BIOLOGICAL SENSOR SECURED TO A USER | GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 58d overdue |
| 19035537 | APPARATUS FOR GLYCEMIC CONTROL | KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE | 42d overdue |
| 18157394 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRESSURE-BASED FLUID CONTROL IN A FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 4d overdue |
| 17150461 | MEAL INSULIN DETERMINATION FOR IMPROVED POST PRANDIAL RESPONSE | BARTLEY, KENNETH | 4d overdue |
| 16859544 | FILLING ASSIST MECHANISMS AND KEYED INTERFACES FOR DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3d overdue |
| 18342951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING OCCLUSIONS IN A FLUID PATH | BOSWORTH, KAMI A | 7d |
| 17506145 | BODY CONFORMING WEARABLE DEVICE FOR PROVIDING OUTPUT AND INPUT FOR A DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM | RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN | 7d |
| 18199476 | CUSTOMIZATION OF A GLUCOSE PREDICTION MODEL FOR A USER IN AN AUTOMATED INSULIN DELIVERY (AID) DEVICE | LANGE, ERIC A | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17150461 | MEAL INSULIN DETERMINATION FOR IMPROVED POST PRANDIAL RESPONSE | BARTLEY, KENNETH | 4d overdue |
| 16859544 | FILLING ASSIST MECHANISMS AND KEYED INTERFACES FOR DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3d overdue |
| 18342951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING OCCLUSIONS IN A FLUID PATH | BOSWORTH, KAMI A | 7d |
| 18386647 | PROGRAMMATIC MEDICAMENT TITRATION WITH A MEDICAMENT DELIVERY DEVICE | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 14d |
| 16995527 | RATCHET DRIVE FOR ON BODY DELIVERY SYSTEM | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 14d |
| 19211805 | ON-BODY INTERLOCK FOR DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| 18883710 | ADHESIVE PATCH AND SYSTEM FOR WEARABLE MEDICAL DEVICE | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | — |
| 18804372 | SAFETY CONSTRAINTS FOR A CONTROL ALGORITHM BASED DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM | GOLLAMUDI, NEERAJA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 38 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3687 | 2 |
| 3681 | 2 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19211805 | ON-BODY INTERLOCK FOR DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 3783 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19180988 | EARLY MEAL DETECTION AND CALORIE INTAKE DETECTION | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 3686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 19081669 | INITIAL TOTAL DAILY INSULIN SETTING FOR USER ONBOARDING | PHAM, TOAN NGOC | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19035537 | APPARATUS FOR GLYCEMIC CONTROL | KOLOSOWSKI-GAGER, KATHERINE | 3687 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18883710 | ADHESIVE PATCH AND SYSTEM FOR WEARABLE MEDICAL DEVICE | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18804372 | SAFETY CONSTRAINTS FOR A CONTROL ALGORITHM BASED DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM | GOLLAMUDI, NEERAJA | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18781693 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING INSULIN DELIVERY | MENDEZ, MANUEL A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18675900 | PREDICTION OF MEAL AND/OR EXERCISE EVENTS BASED ON PERSISTENT RESIDUALS | SMALE, AVERY E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18667929 | INFUSION PUMP SYSTEM AND METHOD | FREHE, WILLIAM R | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18661020 | METHODS TO DEMONSTRATE PROGRESS TOWARDS FULL ADAPTATION AND TO PRESENT POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENTS THROUGH BEHAVIORAL CHANGES | MENDEZ, MANUEL A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18655166 | Systems and Methods for Monitoring Operations of an Infusion Delivery Device Using a Pressure Sensor | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18638195 | INSULIN DELIVERY METHODS, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES | MENDEZ, MANUEL A | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18694103 | GLUCOSE MONITOR INJECTION PORT | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18601141 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TAGS TO ENHANCE AID SYSTEM PERFORMANCE | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 3685 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18437595 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING CGM WARM-UP TIME BY APPLICATION OF OPTICAL ENERGY | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18390450 | CONTAINMENT, ACTIVATION, DEPLOYMENT, AND INTEGRATED FUNCTIONS OF FLEXIBLE, SLENDER ELEMENTS | SMALE, AVERY E | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18539009 | ADJUSTING INSULIN DELIVERY RATES | KOO, BENJAMIN K | 3783 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18523044 | LEAD SCREW WITHIN RESERVOIR | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 3783 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18386647 | PROGRAMMATIC MEDICAMENT TITRATION WITH A MEDICAMENT DELIVERY DEVICE | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18498275 | USE OF NON-INVASIVE GLUCOSE SENSORS AND GLUCOSE RATE OF CHANGE DATA IN AN INSULIN DELIVERY SYSTEM | GOLLAMUDI, NEERAJA | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18490413 | COMPACT RATCHET MECHANISM | KASHYAP, ESHA PRAKASH | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18466217 | MECHANISM PROVIDING VARIABLE FILL CAPABILITY FOR A LIQUID RESERVOIR AND PUMP | LAZO, THOMAS E | 3745 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18451530 | USE OF LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORM/FILTER TO IMPROVE OPERATION OF MEDICAMENT DELIVERY DEVICE | NEWTON, CHAD A | 3681 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18450238 | SAFETY AND ACCURACY MEASURES FOR MEDICAMENT BOLUS DELIVERY | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18450081 | ADHESIVE LAYER WITH MULTIPLE STRENGTHS OF ADHESIVES FOR SECURING AN ON-BODY MEDICAL DEVICE TO A USER | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18342951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING OCCLUSIONS IN A FLUID PATH | BOSWORTH, KAMI A | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18340339 | WEARABLE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE WITH INCORPORATED FILTRATION | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18337683 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTICAL-BASED FLUID CONTROL IN A FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18323538 | ASSESSMENT OF PAST INSULIN DELIVERY OUTCOMES TO AUTOMATICALLY TUNE MDA SYSTEMS | BARTLEY, KENNETH | 3783 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18199476 | CUSTOMIZATION OF A GLUCOSE PREDICTION MODEL FOR A USER IN AN AUTOMATED INSULIN DELIVERY (AID) DEVICE | LANGE, ERIC A | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18199638 | SWITCHING AND CUSTOMIZATION OF GLUCOSE PREDICTION MODELS IN MEDICAMENT DELIVERY DEVICES | SHAH, NILAY J | 3783 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18313767 | INSTRUMENT FOR A MEDICAMENT DELIVERY DEVICE THAT ACTS AS NEEDLE AND CANNULA | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 86d | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18306041 | COMPRESSION DETECTION AND COMPENSATION FOR A BIOLOGICAL SENSOR SECURED TO A USER | GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 18190572 | AUTONOMOUS ADAPTIVITY AND SET POINT CONTROL FOR A DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 18176969 | SINGLE PACKAGE AUTOMATED DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM | WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18160724 | EVENT DETECTION FOR DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM | GOLLAMUDI, NEERAJA | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2023 |
| 18157394 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRESSURE-BASED FLUID CONTROL IN A FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 18014862 | INFUSION PUMP DEPLOYMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | PONTON, JAMES D | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 18059170 | CAPACITANCE SENSING FOR COMPONENT POSITIONING DETECTION | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17821989 | COMPENSATING FOR CHANGES IN POTENCY OF A MEDICAMENT IN A MEDICAMENT DELIVERY DEVICE | BOSWORTH, KAMI A | 3783 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2022 |
| 17839647 | METHOD FOR MODIFICATION OF MAXIMUM DELIVERY LIMITS IN AUTOMATIC DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS | PRICE, NATHAN R | 3783 | §101§102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2022 |
| 17839645 | HYBRID INJECTION-PUMP INSULIN DELIVERY | PRICE, NATHAN R | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2022 |
| 17742998 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DETERMINING FLUID DELIVERY PUMP INFORMATION | SMALE, AVERY E | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
| 17736380 | USING MACRONUTRIENT INFORMATION TO OPTIMIZE INSULIN DOSING | STANEK, KELSEY L | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 04, 2022 |
| 17718663 | COMPENSATION FOR CALIBRATION OFFSETS IN AGENT DELIVERY DEVICES | KOO, BENJAMIN K | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2022 |
| 17674093 | DRIVE MECHANISMS FOR POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT PUMPS | DESANTO, MATTHEW F | 3700 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2022 |
| 17668124 | INTEGRATION OF SENSORS FOR DRUG DELIVERY COMPENSATION IN AUTOMATED MEDICATION DELIVERY (AMD) SYSTEMS | TAYLOR, MARISSA ENVENESIA | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2022 |
| 17665165 | TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES FOR ADAPTATION OF MAXIMUM DRUG DELIVERY LIMITS | DIOP, FATIMATA SAHRA | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
| 17580249 | CONDUCTIVE ELEMENT IN ADHESIVE PATCH OF ON-BODY DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE FOR BODY CHANNEL COMMUNICATION | GOLLAMUDI, NEERAJA | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2022 |
| 17554514 | INTEGRATION OF A MEDICAMENT DELIVERY DEVICE WITH A SMARTWATCH AND A VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM | PONTON, JAMES D | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
| 17506145 | BODY CONFORMING WEARABLE DEVICE FOR PROVIDING OUTPUT AND INPUT FOR A DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM | RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Oct 20, 2021 |
| 17505883 | TECHNIQUES AND INSULIN PUMP FOR ENHANCED SITE HEALTH AND BLOOD GLUCOSE CONTROL FOR AID SYSTEMS | GONG, KRIS HANYU | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2021 |
| 17412684 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVATING DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Aug 26, 2021 |
| 17446084 | REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF A MEDICAMENT DELIVERY DEVICE USING DATA ANALYTICS | VANDER WOUDE, KIMBERLY ELAINE | 3681 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2021 |
| 17150372 | INTELLIGENT SITUATIONAL ALARMS AND NOTIFICATIONS FOR DIABETES MANAGEMENT DEVICES | COBANOGLU, DILEK B | 3687 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2021 |
| 17150461 | MEAL INSULIN DETERMINATION FOR IMPROVED POST PRANDIAL RESPONSE | BARTLEY, KENNETH | 3684 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2021 |
| 17096565 | ADAPTIVE DURATION OF INSULIN ACTION FOR USE IN INSULIN ON BOARD CALCULATIONS | JANG, CHRISTIAN Y | 3791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2020 |
| 17085344 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING PLACEMENT OF WEARABLE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES | TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2020 |
| 17008101 | ADJUSTING SETTINGS TO DIFFERENT DEGREES OF AGGRESSIVENESS IN AN AUTOMATED INSULIN DELIVERY SYSTEM BASED ON QUALITY OF BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVEL CONTROL BY A USER | KRETZER, KYLE W. | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Aug 31, 2020 |
| 16995527 | RATCHET DRIVE FOR ON BODY DELIVERY SYSTEM | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 17, 2020 |
| 16859544 | FILLING ASSIST MECHANISMS AND KEYED INTERFACES FOR DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2020 |
| 16577719 | METHOD TO DETERMINE INDIVIDUALIZED INSULIN SENSITIVITY AND OPTIMAL INSULIN DOSE BY LINEAR REGRESSION, AND RELATED SYSTEMS | RAPILLO, KRISTINE K | 3682 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2019 |
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