Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Montra Medical LLC operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a portfolio that touches on different technical specialties within the medical device field. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners means that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual.
YABUT, DIANE D is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. This distribution requires the company to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously. The presence of 2 distinct art units further indicates that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific procedural nuances of each unit. Practitioners should monitor the art units for variations in examination trends.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YABUT, DIANE D | 1 | 62.5% | +27.9% |
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.5% | +15.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18829022 | THERMAL THROMBECTOMY AND ATHERECTOMY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 45d overdue |
| 18956917 | DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS TO TREAT CHRONIC OCCLUSIVE DVT | YABUT, DIANE D | 14d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18829022 | THERMAL THROMBECTOMY AND ATHERECTOMY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 45d overdue |
| 18956917 | DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS TO TREAT CHRONIC OCCLUSIVE DVT | YABUT, DIANE D | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18956917 | DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS TO TREAT CHRONIC OCCLUSIVE DVT | YABUT, DIANE D | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18829022 | THERMAL THROMBECTOMY AND ATHERECTOMY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
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