Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
25 pending office actions • 9 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Microvention Inc. has 27 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 24 distinct examiners across 9 distinct art units. The workload is broadly distributed among examiners, while the smaller art-unit set creates opportunities to identify recurring technical examination issues.
KHANDKER, RAIHAN R is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That repeated assignment is limited within the overall portfolio, so it supports targeted examiner monitoring rather than a portfolio-wide assumption. Counsel should pair art-unit issue tracking with application-specific claim and amendment strategies.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 14 (56%) |
| §102 only | 1 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (32%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 2 | 64.4% | +55.6% |
| RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 2 | 72.4% | +39.2% |
| HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 2 | 68.8% | +17.6% |
| YABUT, DIANE D | 1 | 62.6% | +27.4% |
| TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1 | 59.2% | +30.9% |
| VASISTH, VISHAL V | 1 | 72.5% | +33.4% |
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.9% | +15.0% |
| LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 1 | 68.6% | +14.2% |
| SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 1 | 78.3% | +21.8% |
| GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 1 | 80.6% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18785138 | FILAMENTARY DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18313305 | DEVICES FOR VASCULAR OCCLUSION | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 1d overdue |
| 18860828 | DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 13d |
| 18940268 | Implant Detachment | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 29d |
| 17179287 | Devices For Vascular Occlusion | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 76d |
| 18436487 | Releasable Delivery System | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | — |
| 18525657 | Inner Support Catheter | AHMED, TASNIM M | — |
| 18350641 | Clot Retrieval | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | — |
| 17455648 | FUSIFORM ANEURYSM TREATMENT | MCEVOY, THOMAS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805990 | FILAMENTARY DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 43d overdue |
| 18313305 | DEVICES FOR VASCULAR OCCLUSION | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 1d overdue |
| 18860828 | DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 13d |
| 18795018 | Method And Apparatus For Stent Delivery | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 15d |
| 18940268 | Implant Detachment | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 29d |
| 17179287 | Devices For Vascular Occlusion | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 76d |
| 19150523 | EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICE | YABUT, DIANE D | — |
| 19087251 | COATINGS | TALBOT, BRIAN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 17 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19150523 | EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICE | YABUT, DIANE D | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19087251 | COATINGS | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19080126 | DURABLE SURFACE COATINGS | VASISTH, VISHAL V | 1771 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19013653 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18940268 | Implant Detachment | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18860828 | DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18805990 | FILAMENTARY DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18795018 | Method And Apparatus For Stent Delivery | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 3771 | §102 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18785138 | FILAMENTARY DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18732459 | POLYMERIC TREATMENT COMPOSITIONS | SONG, JIANFENG | 1613 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18648963 | DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18436487 | Releasable Delivery System | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18294911 | COMPOUNDS | BAEK, JONGHWAN NMN | 1618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18292285 | OBSTRUCTION REMOVAL SYSTEM | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18576356 | STRETCH RESISTANT EMBOLIC COIL | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18525657 | Inner Support Catheter | AHMED, TASNIM M | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18561684 | Vascular Prosthesis With Drawn Filled Tubes | EREZO, DARWIN P | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18482688 | POLYMERIC TREATMENT COMPOSITIONS | YOON, TAE H | 1762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18350641 | Clot Retrieval | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18338587 | Stent Delivery System And Method | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18313305 | DEVICES FOR VASCULAR OCCLUSION | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 17935882 | Treatment For Hydrocephalus | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
| 17455648 | FUSIFORM ANEURYSM TREATMENT | MCEVOY, THOMAS M | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2021 |
| 17179287 | Devices For Vascular Occlusion | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Feb 18, 2021 |
| 16685995 | Radiopaque Vascular Prosthesis | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialMicrovention Inc. has 25 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 22 examiners.
Raihan R Khandker has the most, with 2 of Microvention Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
