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
NuVera Medical, Inc. has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners. The workload is distributed across 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's technology is being reviewed by different specialized groups within the USPTO.
MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP is the busiest examiner, managing 2 pending office actions. The remaining pending office actions are split between the 3 distinct examiners. This concentration suggests that the outcomes for this portfolio are influenced by the review of MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP, while the 3 distinct art units provide a technical context for the 4 pending office actions. Practitioners should coordinate across the 3 art units to ensure consistency.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOO, JAE KYUN | 1 | 59.8% | +16.2% |
| MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 1 | 51.8% | +56.9% |
| KELLOGG, MICHAEL S | 1 | 43.1% | +53.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541745 | OVER-THE-WIRE MEDICAL TOOL POSITIONING DEVICES, SYSTEMS,AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE | KELLOGG, MICHAEL S | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541745 | OVER-THE-WIRE MEDICAL TOOL POSITIONING DEVICES, SYSTEMS,AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE | KELLOGG, MICHAEL S | 2d overdue |
| 19080098 | MEDICAL TOOL POSITIONING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 76d |
| 19169895 | CABLE ROUTING AND ASSEMBLIES FOR MEDICAL DEVICE HANDLES | WOO, JAE KYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19169895 | CABLE ROUTING AND ASSEMBLIES FOR MEDICAL DEVICE HANDLES | WOO, JAE KYUN | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19080098 | MEDICAL TOOL POSITIONING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18541745 | OVER-THE-WIRE MEDICAL TOOL POSITIONING DEVICES, SYSTEMS,AND METHODS OF USE AND MANUFACTURE | KELLOGG, MICHAEL S | 3798 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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