Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
NIPRO Corporation has 14 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Each action is associated with a distinct examiner, while the matters span 9 distinct art units. This indicates examiner-level dispersion alongside repeated placement in some art units.
VARGAS MONTALVO, DIXOMARA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No single examiner holds multiple pending matters in the supplied profile. Prosecution management should emphasize individual application histories and art-unit patterns, with consistency checks across related medical-device claim issues where appropriate.
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 | 5 (36%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VARGAS MONTALVO, DIXOMARA | 1 | 92.6% | +8.4% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.3% |
| KIM, ERIN ASA | 1 | 69.0% | +34.3% |
| CASLER, BRIAN L | 1 | 79.2% | +21.4% |
| CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1 | 43.3% | +26.1% |
| JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 1 | 34.8% | +41.2% |
| ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 1 | 67.3% | +24.4% |
| FREHE, WILLIAM R | 1 | 59.7% | +42.2% |
| OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | 1 | 78.5% | +10.9% |
| WEARE, MEREDITH H | 1 | 50.5% | +31.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17789314 | Method for Producing Serum for Culturing Mammalian Cells | RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO | 5d overdue |
| 19479026 | ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION DEVICE AND CATHETER FOR INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION | VARGAS MONTALVO, DIXOMARA | — |
| 18856133 | AIR TRAP CHAMBER | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| 18850268 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOOD VESSEL NEEDLE DISLODGMENT DETECTION | KIM, ERIN ASA | — |
| 18839179 | MEDICAL APPARATUS | CASLER, BRIAN L | — |
| 18713779 | Pipette | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | — |
| 18550494 | GUIDE EXTENSION CATHETER | FREHE, WILLIAM R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18020474 | Guide Wire and Method for Manufacturing Living Body Sensor | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 5d overdue |
| 18682898 | HYPOCHLOROUS ACID WATER SPRAY DEVICE | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 42d |
| 18856133 | AIR TRAP CHAMBER | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| 18850268 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOOD VESSEL NEEDLE DISLODGMENT DETECTION | KIM, ERIN ASA | — |
| 18839179 | MEDICAL APPARATUS | CASLER, BRIAN L | — |
| 18713779 | Pipette | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | — |
| 18694584 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CONICAL HOLLOW NEEDLE | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | — |
| 18550494 | GUIDE EXTENSION CATHETER | FREHE, WILLIAM R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 4 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19479026 | ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION DEVICE AND CATHETER FOR INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION | VARGAS MONTALVO, DIXOMARA | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
| 18856133 | AIR TRAP CHAMBER | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18850268 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOOD VESSEL NEEDLE DISLODGMENT DETECTION | KIM, ERIN ASA | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18839179 | MEDICAL APPARATUS | CASLER, BRIAN L | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18713779 | Pipette | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1758 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18694584 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CONICAL HOLLOW NEEDLE | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18682898 | HYPOCHLOROUS ACID WATER SPRAY DEVICE | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Feb 10, 2024 |
| 18550494 | GUIDE EXTENSION CATHETER | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18025698 | PRE-FILLED SYRINGE | OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | 3783 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 18020474 | Guide Wire and Method for Manufacturing Living Body Sensor | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
| 17916075 | INDWELLING NEEDLE | RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN | 3783 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17789314 | Method for Producing Serum for Culturing Mammalian Cells | RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO | 1634 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2022 |
| 17628996 | DRUG SOLUTION INJECTION CONTROLLER | GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2022 |
| 17429215 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING IN-STENT RESTENOSIS | REGLAS, GILLIAN CHELSEA | 1632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 06, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialNIPRO Corporation has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 14 examiners.
Dixomara Vargas Montalvo has the most, with 1 of NIPRO Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
