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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nextern Innovation, LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, providing a different reviewer for each application. The prosecution is taking place across 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's medical device innovations are being evaluated in separate technical categories within the patent office.
KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 of the pending office actions. The other action is managed by the second of the 2 distinct examiners. With 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split evenly, and no single examiner has a majority influence over the company's current filings.
The 2 distinct art units involved in these 2 pending office actions show that Nextern Innovation, LLC is active in multiple specialized areas of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Because there are 2 distinct examiners, the company receives two different perspectives during prosecution. Practitioners should observe the 1 pending office action under KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM to see how it compares to the other action within these 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 77.9% | +23.9% |
| BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 1 | 80.2% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19121958 | EXPANDING TEMPORARY PACING LEAD | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — |
| 18426992 | Robotically Augmented Catheter Manipulation Handle | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19121958 | EXPANDING TEMPORARY PACING LEAD | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — |
| 18426992 | Robotically Augmented Catheter Manipulation Handle | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19121958 | EXPANDING TEMPORARY PACING LEAD | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 18426992 | Robotically Augmented Catheter Manipulation Handle | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
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