Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nuvaira, Inc. is managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is handled by 3 distinct examiners, creating a distributed point of contact for the company's current legal strategy. The prosecution is situated within 3 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse technical focus for the pending applications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WU, PAMELA F, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As there are 3 pending office actions total, this examiner manages a portion of the current activity for Nuvaira, Inc. The alignment of 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units suggests that the company is navigating multiple examination paths across different office departments.
Practitioners should note that the prosecution of the pending workload depends on the review of 3 distinct examiners. With 3 distinct art units involved, the prior art landscape is likely varied across different groups. The company's presence in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is currently represented by these interactions at the patent office.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, PAMELA F | 1 | 57.3% | +22.2% |
| COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 47.5% | +26.6% |
| LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 1 | 52.9% | +20.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873656 | STEERABLE CATHETER DEVICE WITH VIDEO CAPABILITIES AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SAME | WU, PAMELA F | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18480201 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED DELIVERY OF EXPANDABLE CATHETER ASSEMBLIES INTO BODY LUMENS | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 32d overdue |
| 18516008 | UTILIZATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY DURING LUNG DENERVATION PROCEDURES | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 83d |
| 18873656 | STEERABLE CATHETER DEVICE WITH VIDEO CAPABILITIES AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SAME | WU, PAMELA F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873656 | STEERABLE CATHETER DEVICE WITH VIDEO CAPABILITIES AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SAME | WU, PAMELA F | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18516008 | UTILIZATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY DURING LUNG DENERVATION PROCEDURES | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 83d | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18480201 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED DELIVERY OF EXPANDABLE CATHETER ASSEMBLIES INTO BODY LUMENS | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
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