Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 1 | 72.6% | +12.3% |
| STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 1 | 53.3% | +43.1% |
| PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 1 | 28.0% | +43.1% |
| CLARK, RYAN T | 1 | 50.4% | +18.2% |
| DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 1 | 51.8% | +16.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716187 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION OF COOLING POWER FOR CRYOABLATION | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 31d overdue |
| 18408299 | ABLATION DEVICE FOR CONTROLLED TEAR PROPAGATION IN GENERATION OF MULTI-LEAFLET INTERATRIAL SHUNT | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 27d |
| 18847848 | NEAR-CRITICAL ARGON BASED LOOP CATHETER FOR CIRCUMFERENTIAL ABLATION OF NERVE FIBERS | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | — |
| 17585994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VARIABLE INJECTION FLOW | DANIEL, ANTARIUS 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716187 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION OF COOLING POWER FOR CRYOABLATION | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 31d overdue |
| 18408299 | ABLATION DEVICE FOR CONTROLLED TEAR PROPAGATION IN GENERATION OF MULTI-LEAFLET INTERATRIAL SHUNT | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 27d |
| 18847848 | NEAR-CRITICAL ARGON BASED LOOP CATHETER FOR CIRCUMFERENTIAL ABLATION OF NERVE FIBERS | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | — |
| 17811818 | ENHANCED ELECTROPORATION OF CARDIAC TISSUE | CLARK, RYAN T | — |
| 17585994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VARIABLE INJECTION FLOW | DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 4 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18847848 | NEAR-CRITICAL ARGON BASED LOOP CATHETER FOR CIRCUMFERENTIAL ABLATION OF NERVE FIBERS | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18716187 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION OF COOLING POWER FOR CRYOABLATION | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 3794 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18408299 | ABLATION DEVICE FOR CONTROLLED TEAR PROPAGATION IN GENERATION OF MULTI-LEAFLET INTERATRIAL SHUNT | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 09, 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 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2022 |
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