Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners but are handled within 1 distinct art unit, creating a concentrated technical setting with some examiner variation. A common art-unit strategy may therefore be useful, while response drafting should still account for differences among the assigned examiners.
BORSCH, NICHOLAS S is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner handles a substantial part of the docket, making the treatment of recurring claim elements and prior-art positions worth monitoring across applications. Counsel can use that pattern to identify consistent arguments, but should preserve application-specific distinctions where device architecture or energy-delivery features differ.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 2 | 76.5% | +37.3% |
| GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 1 | 68.3% | +10.9% |
| BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 1 | 73.1% | +12.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737669 | HEMOSTATIC THERMAL SEALER | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 4d overdue |
| 18829491 | ELECTROSURGICAL HANDPIECE WITH ACCURATE TISSUE SENSING | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737669 | HEMOSTATIC THERMAL SEALER | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 4d overdue |
| 18500809 | FLUID-ENHANCED ELECTROSURGERY WITH INTEGRATED IRRIGATION AND ASPIRATION | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 14d |
| 18363117 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND SYSTEM | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 84d |
| 18829491 | ELECTROSURGICAL HANDPIECE WITH ACCURATE TISSUE SENSING | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18829491 | ELECTROSURGICAL HANDPIECE WITH ACCURATE TISSUE SENSING | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18737669 | HEMOSTATIC THERMAL SEALER | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18500809 | FLUID-ENHANCED ELECTROSURGERY WITH INTEGRATED IRRIGATION AND ASPIRATION | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18363117 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND SYSTEM | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 3794 | §102 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMedtronic Advanced Energy LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Thomas Anthony Giuliani has the most, with 2 of Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
