Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Medtronic CryoCath L.P.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
2
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (50%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (50%)
No statute on record2 (50%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE 1 72.7% +11.6%
SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON 1 82.3% +20.9%
CLARK, RYAN T 1 50.2% +19.3%
DANIEL, ANTARIUS S 1 52.4% +16.4%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18847848 NEAR-CRITICAL ARGON BASED LOOP CATHETER FOR CIRCUMFERENTIAL ABLATION OF NERVE FIBERS FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE
18843503 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING CONTROL OF REFRIGERANT FLOW IN CRYOABLATION SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON
17811818 ENHANCED ELECTROPORATION OF CARDIAC TISSUE CLARK, RYAN T
17585994 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VARIABLE INJECTION FLOW DANIEL, ANTARIUS S

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3794 2
3792 1
3783 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18847848 NEAR-CRITICAL ARGON BASED LOOP CATHETER FOR CIRCUMFERENTIAL ABLATION OF NERVE FIBERS FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE 3794 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 17, 2024
18843503 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING CONTROL OF REFRIGERANT FLOW IN CRYOABLATION SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON 3792 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 03, 2024
17811818 ENHANCED ELECTROPORATION OF CARDIAC TISSUE CLARK, RYAN T 3794 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 11, 2022
17585994 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VARIABLE INJECTION FLOW DANIEL, ANTARIUS S 3783 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 27, 2022

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