Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Medtronic Xomed Inc. has 12 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 12 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. The examiner count matches the pending-action count, while the art-unit count is lower, showing that multiple matters are being examined within some technical units.
GIBSON, ERIC SHANE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than that identified amount, so the portfolio does not show a dominant examiner concentration. Prosecution planning should emphasize matter-level status and art-unit patterns, with separate preparation for each examiner interaction.
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 | 5 (42%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 | 85.5% | +17.2% |
| HOLMES, REX R | 1 | 80.1% | +17.9% |
| BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 1 | 8.8% | +3.1% |
| MARCETICH, ADAM M | 1 | 72.8% | +18.8% |
| TRAN, THIEN JASON | 1 | 74.7% | +18.2% |
| TEJANI, ANKIT D | 1 | 81.0% | +16.3% |
| HENSON, DEVIN B | 1 | 65.1% | +43.4% |
| NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 1 | 46.2% | +44.4% |
| ABOUELELA, MAY A | 1 | 75.4% | +35.9% |
| GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 1 | 68.3% | +10.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19018150 | STIMULATION PROBE ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF USE | HOLMES, REX R | — |
| 18808315 | SYSTEM TO MONITOR NEURAL INTEGRITY | TEJANI, ANKIT D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19205283 | NON-ROTATIONAL BONE CUTTING TOOLS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| 18999011 | PLEDGET STIMULATION AND RECORDING ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES | BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | — |
| 18825454 | ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE APPARATUS | TRAN, THIEN JASON | — |
| 18661805 | System And Method For Omni-Directional Bipolar Stimulation Of Nerve Tissue Of A Patient Via A Bipolar Stimulation Probe | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | — |
| 18623125 | Interface Module For Use With Nerve Monitoring and Electrosurgery | 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19205283 | NON-ROTATIONAL BONE CUTTING TOOLS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| 19018150 | STIMULATION PROBE ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF USE | HOLMES, REX R | — |
| 18892192 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SHUNT | MARCETICH, ADAM M | — |
| 18825454 | ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE APPARATUS | TRAN, THIEN JASON | — |
| 18808315 | SYSTEM TO MONITOR NEURAL INTEGRITY | TEJANI, ANKIT D | — |
| 18731532 | REMOTE CONTROL MODULE FOR INSTRUMENTS | HENSON, DEVIN B | — |
| 18661805 | System And Method For Omni-Directional Bipolar Stimulation Of Nerve Tissue Of A Patient Via A Bipolar Stimulation Probe | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | — |
| 18661797 | System and Method for Motion Detection and Accounting | ABOUELELA, MAY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 3 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19205283 | NON-ROTATIONAL BONE CUTTING TOOLS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19018150 | STIMULATION PROBE ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF USE | HOLMES, REX R | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18999011 | PLEDGET STIMULATION AND RECORDING ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES | BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18892192 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SHUNT | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 3781 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18825454 | ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE APPARATUS | TRAN, THIEN JASON | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18808315 | SYSTEM TO MONITOR NEURAL INTEGRITY | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18731532 | REMOTE CONTROL MODULE FOR INSTRUMENTS | HENSON, DEVIN B | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18661805 | System And Method For Omni-Directional Bipolar Stimulation Of Nerve Tissue Of A Patient Via A Bipolar Stimulation Probe | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 3791 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18661797 | System and Method for Motion Detection and Accounting | ABOUELELA, MAY A | 3791 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18623125 | Interface Module For Use With Nerve Monitoring and Electrosurgery | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18201238 | PLEDGET STIMULATION AND RECORDING ELECTRODES ASSEMBLIES | PAHAKIS, MANOLIS Y | 3796 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18199599 | RESORBABLE, DRUG-ELUTING SUBMUCOSAL TURBINATE IMPLANT DEVICE AND METHOD | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMedtronic Xomed Inc. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 12 examiners.
Eric Shane Gibson has the most, with 1 of Medtronic Xomed Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.