Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Johnson & Johnson Enterprise Innovation Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These are assigned to 3 distinct examiners across several art units. This distribution indicates that each of the active actions is being handled by a different examiner in a different group. The 3 distinct art units show a high level of technical variety relative to the small number of actions.
SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because there are many distinct examiners for the total pending actions, the workload is perfectly spread out. Practitioners should be prepared to adapt to separate examination styles across the various groups. This lack of concentration across the active office actions means that the outcome of each case will likely be independent of the others. The technical groups involved represent the diverse technical focus of the company's current active filings. Each case is assigned to a different individual among the examiners.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 1 | 73.8% | +20.3% |
| WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 1 | 5.0% | +25.0% |
| STIGELL, THEODORE J | 1 | 78.3% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18495674 | SENSING BIOPSY NEEDLE | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 40d |
| 19117843 | ELECTRONICALLY GUIDED PRECISION MEDICAL TARGETING USING NEAR INFRARED FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | — |
| 18454998 | TISSUE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR DETECTING CANCEROUS CELLS | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18495674 | SENSING BIOPSY NEEDLE | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 40d |
| 19117843 | ELECTRONICALLY GUIDED PRECISION MEDICAL TARGETING USING NEAR INFRARED FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | — |
| 18454998 | TISSUE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR DETECTING CANCEROUS CELLS | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19117843 | ELECTRONICALLY GUIDED PRECISION MEDICAL TARGETING USING NEAR INFRARED FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 3797 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 18495674 | SENSING BIOPSY NEEDLE | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18454998 | TISSUE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR DETECTING CANCEROUS CELLS | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialJohnson & Johnson Enterprise Innovation Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Kaitlyn E Sebastian has the most, with 1 of Johnson & Johnson Enterprise Innovation Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
