Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Japan Lifeline Co. Ltd. is currently managing 11 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners, indicating that almost every case has a unique reviewer. The portfolio is also spread across 5 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of medical device technologies.
RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. These actions represent a small portion of the 11 pending office actions currently active. With 10 distinct examiners working across 5 art units, the applicant must navigate multiple examiner preferences while also accounting for the specific standards of different administrative groups.
This distribution requires a coordinated prosecution strategy to ensure consistency across the pending matters. The presence of 5 distinct art units suggests that the company's mechanical innovations are categorized into several different technical specialties. Practitioners should monitor for divergent examiner behaviors within the same art unit to optimize their response strategies. This focus ensures that the applicant can provide a comprehensive and detailed response to the examiner's findings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 (9%) |
| §103 only | 6 (55%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (27%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 2 | 72.5% | +39.5% |
| ROBERTS, ANNA L | 1 | 56.7% | +38.5% |
| PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 1 | 55.2% | +35.6% |
| PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 1 | 53.5% | +31.1% |
| LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 1 | 69.4% | +29.7% |
| HU, ANN M | 1 | 67.8% | +21.6% |
| BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 1 | 9.1% | +2.8% |
| PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 1 | 28.0% | +43.1% |
| ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 1 | 46.3% | +49.1% |
| FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 1 | 73.0% | +20.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18179849 | CATHETER | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 31d overdue |
| 18538322 | MONITORING DEVICE AND DEFIBRILLATION CONTROL DEVICE | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 15d |
| 18739972 | STENT GRAFT | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | — |
| 18250958 | ELECTRODE CATHETER | BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | — |
| 18186014 | CATHETER | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18179849 | CATHETER | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 31d overdue |
| 18436204 | ELECTRODE CATHETER, POTENTIAL DETECTION DEVICE, AND POTENTIAL DETECTION METHOD | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 4d overdue |
| 18538322 | MONITORING DEVICE AND DEFIBRILLATION CONTROL DEVICE | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 15d |
| 18086142 | CATHETER, BALLOON EXPANSION METHOD, BALLOON COMPRESSION METHOD | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 22d |
| 18069440 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLY METHOD | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 36d |
| 18483659 | BALLOON CATHETER AND BALLOON DILATATION METHOD | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 40d |
| 18788593 | BRAIDED STRUCTURE, TUBE STRUCTURE, TUBE STRUCTURE FOR CATHETER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BRAIDED STRUCTURE | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 48d |
| 18739972 | STENT GRAFT | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 4 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18788593 | BRAIDED STRUCTURE, TUBE STRUCTURE, TUBE STRUCTURE FOR CATHETER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BRAIDED STRUCTURE | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18739972 | STENT GRAFT | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18436204 | ELECTRODE CATHETER, POTENTIAL DETECTION DEVICE, AND POTENTIAL DETECTION METHOD | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18538322 | MONITORING DEVICE AND DEFIBRILLATION CONTROL DEVICE | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 3796 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18483659 | BALLOON CATHETER AND BALLOON DILATATION METHOD | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18363238 | STENT | HU, ANN M | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18250958 | ELECTRODE CATHETER | BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18186014 | CATHETER | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 18179849 | CATHETER | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 18069440 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLY METHOD | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 18086142 | CATHETER, BALLOON EXPANSION METHOD, BALLOON COMPRESSION METHOD | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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