Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neptune Medical Inc. currently manages 9 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This indicates that most examiners are handling only a single case for the company, though the 8 distinct examiners for 9 actions shows a very slight concentration compared to a perfectly dispersed portfolio.
TRINH, HONG-VAN N is the busiest examiner, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This is the only examiner responsible for more than one of the 9 total pending actions. The 5 distinct art units suggest that the company's medical device innovations are being reviewed by several different specialized groups within the patent office. For practitioners, the work of TRINH, HONG-VAN N represents the only point of examiner-level concentration, while the rest of the portfolio requires a case-by-case strategy. The distribution across 5 distinct art units further emphasizes the need to understand the specific examination cultures of multiple administrative groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (30%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (70%) |
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 | 2 | 62.8% | +57.0% |
| LAU, MICHAEL J | 1 | 72.0% | +23.4% |
| WU, PAMELA F | 1 | 57.3% | +22.2% |
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.7% | +15.7% |
| MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | 1 | 52.7% | +35.5% |
| STIGELL, THEODORE J | 1 | 78.3% | +14.9% |
| BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 1 | 70.1% | +49.0% |
| ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 1 | 62.1% | +23.7% |
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18852419 | RIGIDIZING ASPIRATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 14d |
| 19344491 | METHODS OF PERFORMING VASCULAR PROCEDURES USING A RIGIDIZING DEVICE | TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 29d |
| 18044027 | DYNAMICALLY RIGIDIZING GUIDERAIL AND METHODS OF USE | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 39d |
| 18851053 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR NAVIGATING USING A PAIR OF RIGIDIZING DEVICES | MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | — |
| 18837186 | DYNAMICALLY RIGIDIZING COMPOSITE MEDICAL STRUCTURES | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| 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 |
| 19344491 | METHODS OF PERFORMING VASCULAR PROCEDURES USING A RIGIDIZING DEVICE | TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 29d |
| 18044027 | DYNAMICALLY RIGIDIZING GUIDERAIL AND METHODS OF USE | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 39d |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 3 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19344491 | METHODS OF PERFORMING VASCULAR PROCEDURES USING A RIGIDIZING DEVICE | TRINH, HONG-VAN N | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 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 | — | §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§112 | 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 | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18262904 | LARGE DIAMETER HEMOSTASIS VALVES | BRANDT, DAVID NELSON | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18044027 | DYNAMICALLY RIGIDIZING GUIDERAIL AND METHODS OF USE | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 18000062 | RIGIDIZING DEVICES | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
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