Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kardiozis SAS manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently facing 3 pending office actions. This volume of activity indicates a more active prosecution phase than portfolios with 1 pending office action. The portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct examiners, which suggests that a variety of technical claims are being pursued simultaneously.
Despite having 3 distinct examiners, the portfolio is concentrated within 2 distinct art units. This indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, the technology remains focused within a limited set of mechanical or medical classifications. The use of 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions means that each case is being handled by a different person, providing multiple examiner perspectives.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SHARMA, YASHITA, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is spread across the examining corps. This distribution shows that no single examiner dominates the company's prosecution, as each of the 3 distinct examiners is currently handling exactly 1 pending office action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHARMA, YASHITA | 1 | 81.8% | +24.6% |
| HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | 1 | 37.6% | +42.9% |
| TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 1 | 68.4% | +18.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18317600 | DELIVERY DEVICE, DELIVERY SYSTEM, STENT GRAFT AND A SUPPORT STRUCTURE | SHARMA, YASHITA | 10d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17794659 | ENDOPROSTHESIS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ENDOPROSTHESIS | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 180d overdue |
| 17794656 | ENDOPROSTHESIS AND METHOD OF ATTACHING A FIBER TO A SURFACE | HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17794659 | ENDOPROSTHESIS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ENDOPROSTHESIS | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 180d overdue |
| 18317600 | DELIVERY DEVICE, DELIVERY SYSTEM, STENT GRAFT AND A SUPPORT STRUCTURE | SHARMA, YASHITA | 10d overdue |
| 17794656 | ENDOPROSTHESIS AND METHOD OF ATTACHING A FIBER TO A SURFACE | HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18317600 | DELIVERY DEVICE, DELIVERY SYSTEM, STENT GRAFT AND A SUPPORT STRUCTURE | SHARMA, YASHITA | 3774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 17794656 | ENDOPROSTHESIS AND METHOD OF ATTACHING A FIBER TO A SURFACE | HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
| 17794659 | ENDOPROSTHESIS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ENDOPROSTHESIS | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 180d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
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