Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Meditrina Inc. has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. LOUIS, RICHARD G is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. The 4 pending office actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's medical device technology is being reviewed by several different specialized groups within the USPTO.
With 4 distinct examiners involved, each of the 4 pending office actions is subject to a different individual's examination style. LOUIS, RICHARD G's responsibility for 1 pending office action is typical for this portfolio, where the workload is distributed among the 4 distinct examiners. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate the 3 distinct art units to ensure a consistent prosecution strategy across the 4 pending office actions. This distribution reflects a diverse set of medical and mechanical innovations currently under review. The 4 pending office actions represent the current active matters for Meditrina Inc. in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 2 (40%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIS, RICHARD G | 1 | 74.7% | +17.2% |
| FREHE, WILLIAM R | 1 | 59.9% | +42.5% |
| PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 1 | 56.5% | +48.6% |
| FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 1 | 40.5% | +38.1% |
| LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | 1 | 69.4% | +38.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18455872 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERMANENT FEMALE CONTRACEPTION | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 84d overdue |
| 18390702 | ELECTROSURGICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 21d |
| 18050132 | ENDOSCOPIC IMAGING AND CONTROL SYSTEM | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18455872 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERMANENT FEMALE CONTRACEPTION | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 84d overdue |
| 18390702 | ELECTROSURGICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 21d |
| 19044139 | ELECTROSURGICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 40d |
| 19248301 | MEDICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | LOUIS, RICHARD G | — |
| 18050132 | ENDOSCOPIC IMAGING AND CONTROL SYSTEM | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19248301 | MEDICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | LOUIS, RICHARD G | 3795 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19044139 | ELECTROSURGICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18390702 | ELECTROSURGICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18455872 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERMANENT FEMALE CONTRACEPTION | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 3786 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 84d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18050132 | ENDOSCOPIC IMAGING AND CONTROL SYSTEM | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
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