Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Livanova Deutschland GmbH has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, indicating some concentration of the workload. Specifically, JWALANT B AMIN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 2 pending office actions. This concentration suggests that a significant portion of the company's current prosecution is being handled by a single individual.
All 5 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This total concentration in a single art unit suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent applications. While there are 4 distinct examiners involved, the shared art unit may lead to more consistent technical requirements across the 5 pending actions. Practitioners should focus on the preferences of JWALANT B AMIN, who manages 2 of the 5 pending matters.
The presence of 5 pending office actions within 1 art unit provides a unique opportunity to streamline technical arguments. Although 4 examiners are involved, the unified art unit environment should allow for a more cohesive strategy. Managing the 2 pending actions under JWALANT B AMIN will be critical to the success of this medical device portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMIN, JWALANT B | 1 | 79.3% | +15.5% |
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 71.6% | +34.4% |
| HAN, SETH | 1 | 59.6% | +28.8% |
| MENSH, ANDREW J | 1 | 64.3% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18493959 | EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM WITH BLOCKAGE DETECTION | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 17234585 | HEART LUNG MACHINE CONNECTION SYSTEM | MENSH, ANDREW 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18074165 | EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM | HAN, SETH | 19d overdue |
| 19020245 | HEART LUNG MACHINE HAVING CONTROL ASSEMBLY WITH SPACE-SAVING DISPLAY FEATURES | AMIN, JWALANT B | — |
| 18493959 | EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM WITH BLOCKAGE DETECTION | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 17234585 | HEART LUNG MACHINE CONNECTION SYSTEM | MENSH, ANDREW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19020245 | HEART LUNG MACHINE HAVING CONTROL ASSEMBLY WITH SPACE-SAVING DISPLAY FEATURES | AMIN, JWALANT B | — | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18493959 | EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM WITH BLOCKAGE DETECTION | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 3781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18074165 | EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM | HAN, SETH | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 02, 2022 |
| 17234585 | HEART LUNG MACHINE CONNECTION SYSTEM | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2021 |
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