Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
21 pending office actions • 4 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kci Manufacturing Unlimited Company maintains a significant presence in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently faces 20 pending office actions. This large workload is distributed among 13 distinct examiners. Despite the high number of examiners, the actions are concentrated within only 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the applications are focused on a few specific technical domains.
TRAN, NHU is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 3 pending actions. With 20 pending office actions in total, the company has a high volume of active prosecution. The fact that 13 distinct examiners are involved across 3 distinct art units indicates that several examiners are working within the same art units. This structure requires practitioners to manage a complex docket with 20 pending office actions while coordinating with 13 different examiners. TRAN, NHU, with 3 pending actions, handles a larger portion of the workload than any other individual examiner in the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 9 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 12 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3 | 66.3% | +25.4% |
| TRAN, NHU | 2 | 68.4% | +17.5% |
| WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | 2 | 58.8% | +60.4% |
| DAKKAK, JIHAD | 2 | 49.3% | +46.0% |
| PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 2 | 59.0% | +50.4% |
| BERHANU, ETSUB D | 1 | 65.3% | +24.8% |
| CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 1 | 62.3% | +22.0% |
| WENG, KAI H | 1 | 70.2% | +17.2% |
| MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 1 | 53.3% | +65.4% |
| CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | 1 | 21.7% | +85.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274584 | PASSIVE NEGATIVE PRESSURE DRESSING | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 22d overdue |
| 18688718 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE DRESSING WITH DIFFERENTIAL COLLAPSING FORCE FOR WOUND CLOSURE | DAKKAK, JIHAD | 9d overdue |
| 17774792 | WOUND SEALING FILM | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 4d overdue |
| 18039918 | EXTENDABLE DEPTH DRESSINGS WITH TRANSPARENT CAPABILITY | RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH | 27d |
| 18717322 | BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTIVE CUFF WITH INTEGRATED BLOOD FLOW SENSOR | BERHANU, ETSUB D | — |
| 18708724 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR FLUID LEVEL DETECTION IN FLUID STORAGE CANISTERS | TRAN, NHU | — |
| 18706470 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY DRESSING WITH ISOLATED SUPER ABSORBENT | WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | — |
| 18706436 | LIQUID-COLLECTION CANISTER WITH MULTI-ORIENTATION FILTER | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274584 | PASSIVE NEGATIVE PRESSURE DRESSING | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 22d overdue |
| 18688718 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE DRESSING WITH DIFFERENTIAL COLLAPSING FORCE FOR WOUND CLOSURE | DAKKAK, JIHAD | 9d overdue |
| 18691395 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY SYSTEM | DAKKAK, JIHAD | 27d |
| 18717322 | BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTIVE CUFF WITH INTEGRATED BLOOD FLOW SENSOR | BERHANU, ETSUB D | — |
| 18708724 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR FLUID LEVEL DETECTION IN FLUID STORAGE CANISTERS | TRAN, NHU | — |
| 18706470 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY DRESSING WITH ISOLATED SUPER ABSORBENT | WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | — |
| 18706436 | LIQUID-COLLECTION CANISTER WITH MULTI-ORIENTATION FILTER | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | — |
| 18705394 | MODULAR THERAPY DEVICES AND POWERED CONSUMABLES WITH DISPOSAL FEATURES FOR REDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT | WENG, KAI H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 16 |
| 3786 | 3 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18717322 | BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTIVE CUFF WITH INTEGRATED BLOOD FLOW SENSOR | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18708724 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR FLUID LEVEL DETECTION IN FLUID STORAGE CANISTERS | TRAN, NHU | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18706470 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY DRESSING WITH ISOLATED SUPER ABSORBENT | WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18706436 | LIQUID-COLLECTION CANISTER WITH MULTI-ORIENTATION FILTER | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18705394 | MODULAR THERAPY DEVICES AND POWERED CONSUMABLES WITH DISPOSAL FEATURES FOR REDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT | WENG, KAI H | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18694361 | WEARABLE COMPRESSED FOAM GENERATED NEGATIVE PRESSURE THERAPY DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18691395 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY SYSTEM | DAKKAK, JIHAD | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18688718 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE DRESSING WITH DIFFERENTIAL COLLAPSING FORCE FOR WOUND CLOSURE | DAKKAK, JIHAD | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18032934 | LYMPHEDEMA AND SURGICAL WOUND DRESSING | MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI | 3786 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18277494 | NEGATIVE-PRESSURE DRESSING WITH SKINNED CHANNELS | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18274584 | PASSIVE NEGATIVE PRESSURE DRESSING | ARBLE, JESSICA R | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18267720 | REUSABLE SEALING MATERIAL FOR DECOMPRESSION THERAPY TREATMENT SYSTEM | CALLISON, KEIRA EILEEN | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18039918 | EXTENDABLE DEPTH DRESSINGS WITH TRANSPARENT CAPABILITY | RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18035902 | EXTENDED WEAR DRESSING WITH SLOUGH CLEANING HOLES | WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18035637 | EXTERNALLY SUPPORTED DRESSING FOR NEGATIVE-PRESSURE THERAPY | DEL PRIORE, ALESSANDRO R | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18022217 | WOUND INTERFACE SYSTEMS WITH INTEGRAL CONTACT SURFACES | MILLER, DANIEL A | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2023 |
| 18019281 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING LEAKAGE OF A REDUCE PRESSURE THERAPY SYSTEM | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2023 |
| 17916219 | TISSUE INTERFACE FOR NEGATIVE PRESSURE AND INSTILLATION THERAPY | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17774792 | WOUND SEALING FILM | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 3786 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
| 17772479 | DRESSING WITH AREA MANAGEMENT FOR EXTREMITIES | TRAN, NHU | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2022 |
| 17770123 | FLUID BRIDGE CONFIGURED FOR USE VERTICALLY AND/OR UNDER COMPRESSION | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2022 |
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