Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
57 pending office actions • 18 art units • 46 examiners • 0 of 57 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 69 patents granted in the last 365 days
Novocure GmbH has 58 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket spans 47 distinct examiners and 18 art units, showing broad examiner coverage and a wider technical distribution.
TEHRANI, DANIEL is the busiest examiner, with 5 pending matters. That assignment is the clearest examiner-level concentration in the supplied profile, but it remains one part of a much larger and distributed docket.
The number of art units indicates that prosecution management should account for varied technical group practices. Counsel may benefit from centralized issue tracking, while preserving matter-specific strategies for examiner interactions and claim amendments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 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. 23 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (2%) |
| §103 only | 24 (42%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 27 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEHRANI, DANIEL | 5 | 60.9% | +41.9% |
| KISH, JAMES M | 3 | 62.4% | +11.8% |
| DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 3 | 87.3% | +16.1% |
| SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | 2 | 83.5% | +20.2% |
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 2 | 78.0% | +23.6% |
| EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 2 | 70.4% | +34.9% |
| KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | 1 | 93.1% | +9.5% |
| HOLMES, REX R | 1 | 80.1% | +17.9% |
| KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 1 | 83.9% | +7.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738457 | Arrays for Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) with Selectively Addressable Sub-Elements | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 5d |
| 18398714 | COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER USING TUMOR TREATING FIELDS AND ANTI-VEGFR-2 ANTIBODIES | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 34d |
| 19093702 | Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) Using Implantable Transducer Arrays | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | — |
| 18980470 | Impedance Tomography Using Electrodes of a Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) System | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342303 | Methods For Treating Diabetes With Alternating Electric Fields | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 146d overdue |
| 17559228 | Methods And Compositions For Using Alternating Electric Fields In Gene Therapy | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 84d overdue |
| 18336880 | Compositions And Methods For Treating With A Combination Of Alternating Electric Fields And FGF Inhibitors | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 66d overdue |
| 18128937 | ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELD WAVEFORM FOR ELECTROSENSATION REDUCTION | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 32d overdue |
| 17953823 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TESTING ADVERSE SKIN EVENTS | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 2d overdue |
| 18680762 | Methods Of Using Alternating Electric Fields And Checkpoint Inhibitors | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | 23d |
| 18621809 | METHODS OF TREATING SPINAL CORD INJURIES WITH ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELDS | KISH, JAMES M | 23d |
| 18759109 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING WITH A COMBINATION OF ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELDS AND DNA-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342303 | Methods For Treating Diabetes With Alternating Electric Fields | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 146d overdue |
| 18071933 | Devices, Systems, And Methods For Applying Tumor-Treating Fields | TEHRANI, DANIEL | 56d overdue |
| 18617886 | Reducing Electrosensation When Treating a Subject Using a Rotating Alternating Electric Field by Gradually Increasing the Amplitude of the Field | KISH, JAMES M | 9d overdue |
| 18738457 | Arrays for Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) with Selectively Addressable Sub-Elements | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 5d |
| 17698457 | TRANSDUCER APPARATUSES FOR DELIVERING TUMOR TREATING FIELDS TO A SUBJECT'S BODY | TEHRANI, DANIEL | 7d |
| 18080026 | TRANSDUCER ARRAY WITH ADHESIVE LAYER SHAPED TO REDUCE SKIN IRRITATION | TEHRANI, DANIEL | 9d |
| 18621809 | METHODS OF TREATING SPINAL CORD INJURIES WITH ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELDS | KISH, JAMES M | 23d |
| 18398714 | COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER USING TUMOR TREATING FIELDS AND ANTI-VEGFR-2 ANTIBODIES | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 24 |
| 3796 | 11 |
| 3783 | 4 |
| 3700 | 3 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 2612 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19093702 | Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) Using Implantable Transducer Arrays | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | 3792 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19094167 | Apparatus And Method For Array Positioning | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19094487 | Electrode Assembly With Fluoroelastomer | LEE, BRYAN MCALLISTER | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19016741 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF APPLYING ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELDS TO PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19010401 | Intravenous / Intra-Spinal / Intra-Cavity / Intraventricular Delivery of TTFields (Tumor Treating Fields) for Treating Cancer and Metastases | HOLMES, REX R | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18980470 | Impedance Tomography Using Electrodes of a Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) System | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2884 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18960626 | DETERMINING TRANSDUCER LOCATIONS FOR DELIVERY OF TUMOR TREATING FIELDS USING SIMULATIONS BASED ON APPROXIMATE TUMOR LOCATION | SOHRABY, PARDIS | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18961009 | DETERMINING TRANSDUCER LOCATIONS FOR DELIVERY OF TUMOR TREATING FIELDS USING SIMULATIONS BASED ON MODELS OF HEALTHY SUBJECTS | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 2662 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18958141 | AUTOMATIC ANCHOR IMAGE SELECTION | AMIN, JWALANT B | 2612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18951176 | AMPLITUDE MODULATION FOR TUMOR TREATING FIELDS | TEHRANI, DANIEL | 3792 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18899709 | TRANSDUCER ARRAY HAVING SUBARRAYS AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF | SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18897192 | Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) to a Subject's Brain Using Electrodes Installed in Through-Holes in the Subject's Skull | KISH, JAMES M | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18894349 | LOW FREQUENCY RF ABLATION SYSTEM | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18885370 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR MANAGING TEMPERATURES INDUCED BY ALTERNATING FIELDS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18885275 | THERMAL MAPPING FOR TREATMENT PLANNING FOR TUMOR TREATING FIELDS | ADEDIRAN, ABDUL -SAMAD A | 2621 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18799594 | Compositions And Methods Of Altering The Electric Impedance To An Alternating Electric Field | FAIRCHILD, MALLIKA DIPAYAN | 3792 | §102DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18770132 | APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING SPINAL TUMORS WITH TUMOR TREATING FIELDS | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 3792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18759109 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING WITH A COMBINATION OF ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELDS AND DNA-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18759154 | Apparatus Having Electrode Array Subassemblies Coupled Together By A Flexible Coupling | ROBLES, EILEEN | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18757028 | TRANSDUCERS FOR DELIVERY OF TUMOR TREATING FIELDS AND CAPABLE OF REDUCING CREASING | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 3792 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18750190 | USER TOOLS FOR TREATMENT PLANNING FOR TUMOR TREATING FIELDS | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18745184 | DETERMINING CONDUCTIVITIES OF MEDICAL IMAGES BASED ON MEASURED RESISTANCES | ABDI, AMARA | 2668 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18738457 | Arrays for Delivering Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) with Selectively Addressable Sub-Elements | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 3796 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18680762 | Methods Of Using Alternating Electric Fields And Checkpoint Inhibitors | HOLTZCLAW, MICHAEL T. | 3796 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18621869 | METHODS OF TREATING CARTILAGE GRAFTS WITH ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELDS | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18621809 | METHODS OF TREATING SPINAL CORD INJURIES WITH ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELDS | KISH, JAMES M | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18619957 | COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER USING TUMOR TREATING FIELDS AND KILLER CELLS | SOLOMON, JOSHUA BRENDON | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18617886 | Reducing Electrosensation When Treating a Subject Using a Rotating Alternating Electric Field by Gradually Increasing the Amplitude of the Field | KISH, JAMES M | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18428639 | Methods for Restoring Sensitivity to TTFields in TTFields-Resistant Cancer Cells with PTGER3 Inhibitors | COPPINS, JANET L | 1628 | DP | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18398714 | COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER USING TUMOR TREATING FIELDS AND ANTI-VEGFR-2 ANTIBODIES | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18398557 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INHIBITING FIBROBLAST ACTIVATION | DONOHUE, SEAN R | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18392835 | Systems And Method For Array Positioning | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18476536 | Cover For Cell Culture Apparatus | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18477010 | COMPOSITIONS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER USING ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELDS AND DENDRITIC CELLS | DEBERRY, REGINA M | 1647 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18373102 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL GENERATION FOR TUMOR TREATING FIELDS TRANSDUCER LAYOUT | WELCH, DAVID T | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18216258 | ADHESIVE LAYER WITH PROTECTIVE BORDER FOR USE IN A TUMOR TREATING FIELDS TRANSDUCER | ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18342303 | Methods For Treating Diabetes With Alternating Electric Fields | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 146d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18336880 | Compositions And Methods For Treating With A Combination Of Alternating Electric Fields And FGF Inhibitors | PATEL, SHEFALI DILIP | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18333906 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING INTESTINAL ABSORPTION OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 3792 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18128937 | ALTERNATING ELECTRIC FIELD WAVEFORM FOR ELECTROSENSATION REDUCTION | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18115363 | Electrode Assembly with a Skin Contact Layer Comprising a Conductive Adhesive Composite, and Systems and Methods of Applying Tumor Treating Fields Using Same | STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A | 3700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 18080026 | TRANSDUCER ARRAY WITH ADHESIVE LAYER SHAPED TO REDUCE SKIN IRRITATION | TEHRANI, DANIEL | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 18063464 | COMPRESSION GARMENT ASSEMBLY FOR APPLYING TTFIELDS AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 18062372 | GARMENT PROVIDING A BIASING FORCE ON A TRANSDUCER ARRAY | SAHAND, SANA | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 18062161 | COMPACT DC SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING A SQUARE WAVE AC SIGNAL | TEHRANI, DANIEL | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 18071933 | Devices, Systems, And Methods For Applying Tumor-Treating Fields | TEHRANI, DANIEL | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17953823 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TESTING ADVERSE SKIN EVENTS | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
| 17880937 | Electrode Assembly for Applying Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) with a Sheet of Anisotropic Material | GEDEON, BRIAN T | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2022 |
| 17880947 | Electrode Assembly for Applying Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) that Include a Sheet of Graphite | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 3700 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2022 |
| 17813837 | CONDUCTIVE PAD GENERATING TUMOR TREATING FIELD AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF | MOSS, JAMES R | 3700 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNovocure GmbH has 57 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 18 art units and 46 examiners.
Daniel Tehrani has the most, with 5 of Novocure GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
