Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neochord Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These cases are distributed among 2 distinct examiners. This indicates that each pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. Additionally, the 2 distinct art units involved show that the actions are being handled in separate administrative sections.
GANESAN, SUBA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending actions and 2 examiners, the workload is split perfectly between them. No single examiner or art unit has a dominant influence over the company's current prosecution efforts.
For a practitioner, this distribution requires two separate prosecution strategies. The 2 pending office actions do not share an examiner or an art unit, so the feedback from GANESAN, SUBA will not necessarily predict the outcome of the other case. The practitioner must be prepared to navigate two different sets of examiner preferences and art unit standards within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARIA, DINAH N | 1 | 72.9% | +28.5% |
| GANESAN, SUBA | 1 | 73.8% | +13.4% |
| ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 65.4% | +26.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16745074 | TRANSCATHETER METHODS FOR HEART VALVE REPAIR | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 545d overdue |
| 17977406 | RINGLESS WEB FOR REPAIR OF HEART VALVES | GANESAN, SUBA | 15d overdue |
| 18635638 | SUTURE LENGTH ADJUSTMENT FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE HEART VALVE REPAIR | BARIA, DINAH N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16745074 | TRANSCATHETER METHODS FOR HEART VALVE REPAIR | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 545d overdue |
| 17977406 | RINGLESS WEB FOR REPAIR OF HEART VALVES | GANESAN, SUBA | 15d overdue |
| 18635638 | SUTURE LENGTH ADJUSTMENT FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE HEART VALVE REPAIR | BARIA, DINAH N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18635638 | SUTURE LENGTH ADJUSTMENT FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE HEART VALVE REPAIR | BARIA, DINAH N | 3774 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 17977406 | RINGLESS WEB FOR REPAIR OF HEART VALVES | GANESAN, SUBA | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 16745074 | TRANSCATHETER METHODS FOR HEART VALVE REPAIR | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 545d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialNeochord Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Dinah N Baria has the most, with 1 of Neochord Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
