Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Medtronic Ps Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit but are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a unified technical focus for the company's medical device filings. The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners means that each examiner is currently reviewing one application. This provides the company with feedback from 2 distinct examiners within a single technical field.
GIBSON, ERIC SHANE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, representing 1 of the company's 2 pending office actions. Since both actions are within 1 distinct art unit, the company may benefit from consistent technical standards even though 2 distinct examiners are involved. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination practices of this 1 distinct art unit while addressing the individual feedback from GIBSON, ERIC SHANE and the other assigned examiner. This profile reflects a narrow but examiner-split prosecution path that requires attention to the preferences of 2 distinct examiners within the 1 distinct art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 1 | 85.4% | +17.2% |
| SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 1 | 73.6% | +19.0% |
| LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 73.7% | +29.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088112 | SURGICAL BURS | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18086505 | IRRIGATED ULTRASONIC DEVICE WITH FEATURES FOR DISSECTING DENSE TISSUE | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18086505 | IRRIGATED ULTRASONIC DEVICE WITH FEATURES FOR DISSECTING DENSE TISSUE | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 28d |
| 19088112 | SURGICAL BURS | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| 18673448 | SURGICAL DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING WEAR | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19088112 | SURGICAL BURS | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 18673448 | SURGICAL DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING WEAR | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18086505 | IRRIGATED ULTRASONIC DEVICE WITH FEATURES FOR DISSECTING DENSE TISSUE | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 3619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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