Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC is currently navigating 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners. Despite the multiple examiners, all activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a consistent technical classification for the portfolio. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit can streamline the prosecution strategy by ensuring all cases are subject to the same art unit-level policies and practices, which may lead to more predictable outcomes.
BORSCH, NICHOLAS S serves as the busiest examiner, holding 2 pending office actions. This concentration means one individual manages more than one of the 3 total pending actions. The remaining 1 action is assigned to the other of the 2 distinct examiners involved in the company's current prosecution. Having 2 pending office actions with BORSCH, NICHOLAS S provides an opportunity to apply insights from one case to the other, potentially increasing efficiency across the active docket. Practitioners should leverage this examiner overlap to ensure consistent arguments are presented across the majority of the company's pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 2 | 72.9% | +12.1% |
| GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 1 | 76.5% | +37.3% |
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 |
| 17849262 | PLASMA CORING TOOL WITH ENDPOINT DETECTION | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737669 | HEMOSTATIC THERMAL SEALER | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 4d overdue |
| 18500809 | FLUID-ENHANCED ELECTROSURGERY WITH INTEGRATED IRRIGATION AND ASPIRATION | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 14d |
| 17849262 | PLASMA CORING TOOL WITH ENDPOINT DETECTION | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18737669 | HEMOSTATIC THERMAL SEALER | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 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 |
| 17849262 | PLASMA CORING TOOL WITH ENDPOINT DETECTION | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2022 |
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