Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Otsuka Medical Devices Co. Ltd. has 10 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio spans 10 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. REMALY, MARK DONALD is the named busiest examiner, with 1 pending action.
The breadth of assignments requires structured portfolio coordination. Counsel should track each examiner’s issues independently while preserving consistent technical terminology and claim strategy across the six art-unit settings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REMALY, MARK DONALD | 1 | 70.5% | +15.9% |
| HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | 1 | 67.7% | +28.1% |
| CWERN, JONATHAN | 1 | 51.0% | +33.1% |
| FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 1 | 75.4% | +29.6% |
| LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 1 | 53.3% | +21.5% |
| HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 1 | 61.7% | +19.5% |
| BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 60.5% | +31.4% |
| ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 1 | 47.3% | +46.7% |
| PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 1 | 26.9% | +37.5% |
| MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 1 | 60.3% | +49.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18182821 | USING CHARACTERISTICS OF NATIVE OR EVOKED SENSED NEURAL ACTIVITY TO SELECT DENERVATION PARAMETERS | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 66d overdue |
| 17208378 | WIRE-EQUIPPED STENT, CATHETER, AND CATHETER-STENT SYSTEM | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 28d overdue |
| 18327280 | METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS THAT USE ONE OR MORE TRANSDUCERS TO HEAT NERVES TO EVOKE NEURAL RESPONSE WITHOUT DENERVATING NERVES, AS WELL AS TO DENERVATE NERVES | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 17d overdue |
| 17812696 | TREATMENT SYSTEM HAVING GENERATOR AND FLUID TRANSFER CARTRIDGE | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 28d |
| 18490499 | ROTARY PINCH VALVE FOR FLUID CONTROL | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18182821 | USING CHARACTERISTICS OF NATIVE OR EVOKED SENSED NEURAL ACTIVITY TO SELECT DENERVATION PARAMETERS | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 66d overdue |
| 17208378 | WIRE-EQUIPPED STENT, CATHETER, AND CATHETER-STENT SYSTEM | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 28d overdue |
| 18327280 | METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS THAT USE ONE OR MORE TRANSDUCERS TO HEAT NERVES TO EVOKE NEURAL RESPONSE WITHOUT DENERVATING NERVES, AS WELL AS TO DENERVATE NERVES | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 17d overdue |
| 18481220 | DEVICES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RENAL DENERVATION | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 15d |
| 17812696 | TREATMENT SYSTEM HAVING GENERATOR AND FLUID TRANSFER CARTRIDGE | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 28d |
| 18340241 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING RENAL NEURAL ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY BY ELECTRICALLY STIMULATING IN ABDOMINAL AORTA AND SENSING EVOKED NEURAL ELECTRICAL RESPONSE IN RENAL ARTERY | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 42d |
| 18659628 | TISSUE TREATMENT CATHETER HAVING PORT BRACE | CWERN, JONATHAN | 70d |
| 18664215 | INTRAVASCULAR ENERGY DELIVERY | REMALY, MARK DONALD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 4 |
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18664215 | INTRAVASCULAR ENERGY DELIVERY | REMALY, MARK DONALD | 3797 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18662757 | TISSUE TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH ACOUSTIC DOSE MANAGEMENT | HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18659628 | TISSUE TREATMENT CATHETER HAVING PORT BRACE | CWERN, JONATHAN | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18490499 | ROTARY PINCH VALVE FOR FLUID CONTROL | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18481220 | DEVICES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RENAL DENERVATION | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18340241 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING RENAL NEURAL ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY BY ELECTRICALLY STIMULATING IN ABDOMINAL AORTA AND SENSING EVOKED NEURAL ELECTRICAL RESPONSE IN RENAL ARTERY | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18327280 | METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS THAT USE ONE OR MORE TRANSDUCERS TO HEAT NERVES TO EVOKE NEURAL RESPONSE WITHOUT DENERVATING NERVES, AS WELL AS TO DENERVATE NERVES | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18182821 | USING CHARACTERISTICS OF NATIVE OR EVOKED SENSED NEURAL ACTIVITY TO SELECT DENERVATION PARAMETERS | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2023 |
| 17812696 | TREATMENT SYSTEM HAVING GENERATOR AND FLUID TRANSFER CARTRIDGE | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 14, 2022 |
| 17208378 | WIRE-EQUIPPED STENT, CATHETER, AND CATHETER-STENT SYSTEM | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Mar 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialOtsuka Medical Devices Co. Ltd. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 10 examiners.
Mark Donald Remaly has the most, with 1 of Otsuka Medical Devices Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
