Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 5 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation has 16 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters span 15 distinct examiners and 5 art units, showing broad examiner distribution within a defined set of technical units.
FANG, MICHAEL YIMING is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. The limited concentration means counsel should monitor that examiner’s matters for recurring themes without assuming that one prosecution approach will apply throughout the docket.
The portfolio benefits from coordinated review of claim construction, device terminology, and disclosure support. At the same time, the spread across examiners calls for matter-specific analysis of cited art, interview opportunities, and amendment consequences.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 (7%) |
| §103 only | 7 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 2 | 62.1% | +36.7% |
| SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 1 | 66.7% | +25.0% |
| KLEIN, BROOKE L | 1 | 54.2% | +54.2% |
| MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 1 | 51.7% | +56.9% |
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.9% | +25.0% |
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 1 | 65.1% | +33.2% |
| ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 48.4% | +55.0% |
| SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 1 | 52.4% | +61.8% |
| HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 1 | 40.6% | +50.8% |
| DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 1 | 53.3% | +36.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19056071 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTANT AND AUTOMATIC BORDER DETECTION | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 52d overdue |
| 17671933 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RENAL NEUROMODULATION | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | 9d |
| 18886078 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR IN-STENT RESTENOSIS PREDICTION | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 35d |
| 18630590 | CLUTTER REDUCTION FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGES AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18076459 | AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION AND TREATMENT PLANNING FOR A VESSEL WITH COREGISTRATION OF PHYSIOLOGY DATA AND EXTRALUMINAL DATA | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | — |
| 18075561 | PLAQUE BURDEN INDICATION ON LONGITUDINAL INTRALUMINAL IMAGE AND X-RAY IMAGE | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19056071 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTANT AND AUTOMATIC BORDER DETECTION | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 52d overdue |
| 18407584 | INTRAVASCULAR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS HAVING SEPARATE SECTIONS WITH ENGAGED CORE COMPONENTS | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 1d overdue |
| 18685369 | INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING ASSEMBLY WITH ELECTRICAL CONNECTION FOR MULTI-ROW TRANSDUCER ARRAY | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 8d |
| 18886078 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR IN-STENT RESTENOSIS PREDICTION | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 35d |
| 19062452 | INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND NAVIGATION GUIDANCE AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | — |
| 19002875 | DISEASE SPECIFIC AND TREATMENT TYPE SPECIFIC CONTROL OF INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING | KLEIN, BROOKE L | — |
| 18990449 | VARIABLE INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND TRANSMIT PULSE GENERATION AND CONTROL DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | — |
| 18909060 | INTRAVASCULAR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS HAVING A CORE WIRE WITH EMBEDDED CONDUCTORS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 6 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19062452 | INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND NAVIGATION GUIDANCE AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19056071 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTANT AND AUTOMATIC BORDER DETECTION | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19002875 | DISEASE SPECIFIC AND TREATMENT TYPE SPECIFIC CONTROL OF INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18990449 | VARIABLE INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND TRANSMIT PULSE GENERATION AND CONTROL DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18909060 | INTRAVASCULAR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS HAVING A CORE WIRE WITH EMBEDDED CONDUCTORS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18886078 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR IN-STENT RESTENOSIS PREDICTION | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18630590 | CLUTTER REDUCTION FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGES AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18685369 | INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING ASSEMBLY WITH ELECTRICAL CONNECTION FOR MULTI-ROW TRANSDUCER ARRAY | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18407584 | INTRAVASCULAR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS HAVING SEPARATE SECTIONS WITH ENGAGED CORE COMPONENTS | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18076459 | AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION AND TREATMENT PLANNING FOR A VESSEL WITH COREGISTRATION OF PHYSIOLOGY DATA AND EXTRALUMINAL DATA | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 18075561 | PLAQUE BURDEN INDICATION ON LONGITUDINAL INTRALUMINAL IMAGE AND X-RAY IMAGE | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 17671933 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RENAL NEUROMODULATION | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Feb 15, 2022 |
| 17478205 | AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF INTRAVASCULAR LESIONS | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2021 |
| 17064479 | INTRAVASCULAR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | WU, TONG E | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialPhilips Image Guided Therapy Corporation has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 13 examiners.
Michael Yiming Fang has the most, with 2 of Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
