Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neochord Inc. currently faces 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing some technical overlap in the portfolio's current prosecution. The company interacts with 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each of the 3 pending actions is handled by a separate individual. This variety of examiners suggests that the company must manage different procedural expectations across its active medical device applications.
BARIA, DINAH N is the busiest examiner for Neochord Inc., with 1 pending office action currently assigned. This examiner manages a portion of the 3 total pending office actions for the company. The distribution of 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units implies that at least one art unit contains multiple examiners working on these medical device and mechanical engineering applications. Such a spread requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for both the specific art unit standards and the individual tendencies of the 3 examiners.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GANESAN, SUBA | 1 | 73.8% | +13.4% |
| ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 65.4% | +26.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16745074 | TRANSCATHETER METHODS FOR HEART VALVE REPAIR | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 545d overdue |
| 17977406 | RINGLESS WEB FOR REPAIR OF HEART VALVES | GANESAN, SUBA | 15d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16745074 | TRANSCATHETER METHODS FOR HEART VALVE REPAIR | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 545d overdue |
| 17977406 | RINGLESS WEB FOR REPAIR OF HEART VALVES | GANESAN, SUBA | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Final Rejection | 545d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2020 |
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