Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neptune Medical Inc. has 10 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Each matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, while the portfolio spans 7 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner dispersion with some technical-group overlap.
TRINH, HONG-VAN N is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner carries a repeated concentration in the listed workload.
The examiner distribution favors matter-specific response planning. Counsel can still use the art-unit groupings to identify recurring device issues and maintain consistent terminology, while avoiding assumptions that different examiners will treat similar claims in the same way.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 1 | 62.8% | +57.0% |
| LAU, MICHAEL J | 1 | 72.3% | +23.2% |
| WU, PAMELA F | 1 | 57.6% | +22.5% |
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.1% | +17.0% |
| MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | 1 | 53.1% | +34.8% |
| STIGELL, THEODORE J | 1 | 78.3% | +14.8% |
| WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | 1 | 46.2% | +28.0% |
| LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | 1 | 69.3% | +37.9% |
| BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 1 | 70.4% | +49.7% |
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.1% | +39.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851053 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR NAVIGATING USING A PAIR OF RIGIDIZING DEVICES | MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | — |
| 18837186 | DYNAMICALLY RIGIDIZING COMPOSITE MEDICAL STRUCTURES | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| 18727032 | RECONFIGURABLE RIGIDIZING STRUCTURES | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | — |
| 18262904 | LARGE DIAMETER HEMOSTASIS VALVES | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | — |
| 18000062 | RIGIDIZING DEVICES | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18852419 | RIGIDIZING ASPIRATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 14d |
| 19344510 | METHODS OF PERFORMING VASCULAR PROCEDURES USING A RIGIDIZING DEVICE | TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 55d |
| 19011512 | EXTERNAL WORKING CHANNELS | LAU, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18867004 | EXTERNAL WORKING CHANNELS FOR ENDOSCOPIC DEVICES | WU, PAMELA F | — |
| 18851053 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR NAVIGATING USING A PAIR OF RIGIDIZING DEVICES | MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | — |
| 18837186 | DYNAMICALLY RIGIDIZING COMPOSITE MEDICAL STRUCTURES | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| 18727032 | RECONFIGURABLE RIGIDIZING STRUCTURES | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | — |
| 18723414 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR REDUCING CURVATURE OF A COLON | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 3 |
| 3795 | 2 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19344510 | METHODS OF PERFORMING VASCULAR PROCEDURES USING A RIGIDIZING DEVICE | TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19011512 | EXTERNAL WORKING CHANNELS | LAU, MICHAEL J | 3796 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18867004 | EXTERNAL WORKING CHANNELS FOR ENDOSCOPIC DEVICES | WU, PAMELA F | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18852419 | RIGIDIZING ASPIRATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18851053 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR NAVIGATING USING A PAIR OF RIGIDIZING DEVICES | MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | 3799 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18837186 | DYNAMICALLY RIGIDIZING COMPOSITE MEDICAL STRUCTURES | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 3783 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18727032 | RECONFIGURABLE RIGIDIZING STRUCTURES | WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE | 1781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18723414 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR REDUCING CURVATURE OF A COLON | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18262904 | LARGE DIAMETER HEMOSTASIS VALVES | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18000062 | RIGIDIZING DEVICES | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNeptune Medical Inc. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 10 examiners.
Hong-Van N Trinh has the most, with 1 of Neptune Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
