Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kardium Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio involves 5 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, indicating that several examiners are working within a relatively concentrated examination-group structure.
GEDEON, BRIAN T is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment provides some examiner continuity, although the remaining applications require coordination across other examiners.
The limited art-unit spread may support technical alignment across applications, especially where claim themes overlap. Counsel should still distinguish examiner-specific objections and preserve a clear record explaining why related amendments are appropriate in each matter.
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 only | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEDEON, BRIAN T | 2 | 87.0% | +7.2% |
| BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 1 | 91.0% | +7.3% |
| GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 1 | 68.3% | +10.9% |
| BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 1 | 73.1% | +12.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19058354 | MEDICAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAULT-TOLERANT TISSUE ABLATION | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | — |
| 18982381 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING, ACTIVATING, OR SELECTING AND ACTIVATING TRANSDUCERS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982251 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING, ACTIVATING, OR SELECTING AND ACTIVATING TRANSDUCERS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — |
| 17885990 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING TISSUE BASED ON NAVIGATION INFORMATION | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18308000 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS THAT FACILITATE TISSUE TREATMENT BASED ON PROXIMITY INFORMATION | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 20d |
| 17885990 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING TISSUE BASED ON NAVIGATION INFORMATION | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 3 |
| 3796 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19058354 | MEDICAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAULT-TOLERANT TISSUE ABLATION | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 18982381 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING, ACTIVATING, OR SELECTING AND ACTIVATING TRANSDUCERS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | 3796 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18982251 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING, ACTIVATING, OR SELECTING AND ACTIVATING TRANSDUCERS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | 3796 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18308000 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS THAT FACILITATE TISSUE TREATMENT BASED ON PROXIMITY INFORMATION | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 3794 | §112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 17885990 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING TISSUE BASED ON NAVIGATION INFORMATION | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialKardium Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Brian T Gedeon has the most, with 2 of Kardium Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
