Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Microvention Inc.

21 pending office actions • 6 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
7
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
4
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (7)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (4)

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%)
16
Medium (76%)
1
Easy (5%)
4
Unknown (19%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (71%)
§102 only1 (5%)
§112 only1 (5%)
No statute on record4 (19%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
18
Mechanical / Eng
86% 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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 2 68.6% +17.0%
ICET, DANIEL ALLEN 2 51.2% +53.9%
RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER 1 73.3% +41.3%
RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH 1 67.9% +18.8%
YABUT, DIANE D 1 62.3% +27.9%
KHANDKER, RAIHAN R 1 63.9% +58.9%
LAUER, CHRISTINA C 1 68.4% +14.8%
SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN 1 78.5% +22.0%
NGUYEN, VI X 1 85.9% +13.3%
LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM 1 62.2% +48.5%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18747254 Implant Delivery System NGUYEN, VI X 84d

Interview Candidates (12)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18805990 FILAMENTARY DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS LAUER, CHRISTINA C 43d overdue
18895322 Implant Delivery Device YABUT, DIANE D 16d overdue
18313305 DEVICES FOR VASCULAR OCCLUSION HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 1d overdue
18886808 Implant Delivery System KHANDKER, RAIHAN R 9d
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
17550085 FILAMENTARY DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS ICET, DANIEL ALLEN 30d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3771 14
3781 2
3774 2
1612 1
1764 1
1717 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18940268 Implant Detachment RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Nov 07, 2024
18860828 DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Oct 28, 2024
18895322 Implant Delivery Device YABUT, DIANE D 3771 Other Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Sep 24, 2024
18886808 Implant Delivery System KHANDKER, RAIHAN R 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Sep 16, 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 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 05, 2024
18747254 Implant Delivery System NGUYEN, VI X 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Jun 18, 2024
18692118 ASPIRATION THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM 3781 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending Mar 14, 2024
18576356 STRETCH RESISTANT EMBOLIC COIL NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jan 03, 2024
18561684 Vascular Prosthesis With Drawn Filled Tubes EREZO, DARWIN P 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18332553 MATERIALS AND TREATMENTS USING PIEZOELECTRIC EMBOLIC MATERIALS PACKARD, BENJAMIN J 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Jun 09, 2023
18313305 DEVICES FOR VASCULAR OCCLUSION HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18023296 POLYMERIC COATINGS REDDY, KARUNA P 1764 §112 Final Rejection 82d Pending Feb 24, 2023
18062491 Stent And Stent Connection Interface GANESAN, SUBA 3774 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2022
17935882 Treatment For Hydrocephalus KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2022
17942004 MEDICAL DEVICES BOWMAN, ANDREW J 1717 Other Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 09, 2022
17820160 Obstruction Removal System JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID 3771 Other Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2022
17685631 FILAMENTARY DEVICES HAVING A FLEXIBLE JOINT FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS ICET, DANIEL ALLEN 3771 Other Final Rejection 49d Pending Mar 03, 2022
17550085 FILAMENTARY DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DEFECTS ICET, DANIEL ALLEN 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Dec 14, 2021
17179287 Devices For Vascular Occlusion HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 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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