Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lungpacer Medical Inc. has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, with GEDEON, BRIAN T serving as the busiest examiner. This individual is responsible for 2 pending office actions, while the remaining matters are split among the other distinct examiners.
The portfolio's current activity is situated within 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused technical scope for the company's medical device innovations. With 5 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the company faces a relatively concentrated group of USPTO personnel. The busiest examiner, GEDEON, BRIAN T, handles 2 of these actions, making his decisions particularly influential for the portfolio.
Practitioners should account for the 2 distinct art units when developing prosecution strategies for the 5 pending office actions. Because there are 4 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage several different examination approaches within a narrow technical field defined by the 2 distinct art units.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 | 86.9% | +7.2% |
| MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 1 | 66.7% | +50.0% |
| GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 1 | 60.5% | +27.8% |
| EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 1 | 85.1% | +15.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19237863 | TRANSVASCULAR DIAPHRAGM PACING SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605386 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANS-ESOPHAGEAL SYMPATHETIC GANGLION RECRUITMENT | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 3d overdue |
| 18736214 | Systems and methods for intravascular catheter positioning and/or nerve stimulation | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — |
| 17663064 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENSING AND STIMULATION | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605386 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANS-ESOPHAGEAL SYMPATHETIC GANGLION RECRUITMENT | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 3d overdue |
| 19029261 | TRANSVASCULAR NERVE STIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHODS | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | — |
| 17663064 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENSING AND STIMULATION | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19237863 | TRANSVASCULAR DIAPHRAGM PACING SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE | GEDEON, BRIAN T | 3796 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19029261 | TRANSVASCULAR NERVE STIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHODS | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18736214 | Systems and methods for intravascular catheter positioning and/or nerve stimulation | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18605386 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANS-ESOPHAGEAL SYMPATHETIC GANGLION RECRUITMENT | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 3796 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 17663064 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENSING AND STIMULATION | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
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