Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation

16 pending office actions • 5 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
13
Medium (81%)
1
Easy (6%)
2
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (75%)
§102 only1 (6%)
§112 only1 (6%)
No statute on record2 (12%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
15
Mechanical / Eng
94% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 2 72.8% +20.0%
SAKAMOTO, COLIN T 2 66.2% +25.5%
MCDONALD, JAMES F 1 56.8% +41.8%
DAVIS, AMELIE R 1 64.3% +34.9%
FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 1 62.7% +41.1%
SHOSTAK, ANDREY 1 52.2% +63.0%
LY, TOMMY TAI 1 80.3% +22.9%
MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 1 50.8% +57.1%
SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 1 58.0% +14.9%
DELLA, JAYMI E 1 68.4% +29.5%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18574358 SENSOR HOUSING FOR INTRALUMINAL SENSING DEVICE LY, TOMMY TAI 29d

Interview Candidates (12)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18118008 DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR IMAGING AND TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION OF ABLATED TISSUE DELLA, JAYMI E 60d overdue
19056071 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTANT AND AUTOMATIC BORDER DETECTION SAKAMOTO, COLIN T 52d overdue
18983483 SENSOR INTERFACE DEVICE PROVIDING DIGITAL PROCESSING OF INTRAVASCULAR FLOW AND PRESSURE DATA MCDONALD, JAMES F 31d overdue
18242387 DETERMINATION AND VISUALIZATION OF ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS FOR INTRALUMINAL LESION ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT PLANNING SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 4d overdue
18784468 SCORING INTRAVASCULAR LESIONS AND STENT DEPLOYMENT IN MEDICAL INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 2d 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
18290166 PATHWAY MODIFICATION FOR COREGISTRATION OF EXTRALUMINAL IMAGE AND INTRALUMINAL DATA MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3797 6
3798 4
3791 3
3794 2
2666 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19055854 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE INTRALUMINAL IMAGES IN LUMINAL ASSESSMENT WITH MEDICAL IMAGING SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 3797 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Feb 18, 2025
19056071 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTANT AND AUTOMATIC BORDER DETECTION SAKAMOTO, COLIN T 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Feb 18, 2025
18983483 SENSOR INTERFACE DEVICE PROVIDING DIGITAL PROCESSING OF INTRAVASCULAR FLOW AND PRESSURE DATA MCDONALD, JAMES F 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2024
18886078 DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR IN-STENT RESTENOSIS PREDICTION DAVIS, AMELIE R 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Sep 16, 2024
18784468 SCORING INTRAVASCULAR LESIONS AND STENT DEPLOYMENT IN MEDICAL INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2024
18685369 INTRALUMINAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING ASSEMBLY WITH ELECTRICAL CONNECTION FOR MULTI-ROW TRANSDUCER ARRAY FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Feb 21, 2024
18407584 INTRAVASCULAR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS HAVING SEPARATE SECTIONS WITH ENGAGED CORE COMPONENTS SHOSTAK, ANDREY 3791 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2024
18574358 SENSOR HOUSING FOR INTRALUMINAL SENSING DEVICE LY, TOMMY TAI 3797 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18290166 PATHWAY MODIFICATION FOR COREGISTRATION OF EXTRALUMINAL IMAGE AND INTRALUMINAL DATA MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 3797 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 10, 2023
18242387 DETERMINATION AND VISUALIZATION OF ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS FOR INTRALUMINAL LESION ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT PLANNING SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Sep 05, 2023
18236015 INTRALUMINAL DEVICE REUSE PREVENTION WITH PATIENT INTERFACE MODULE AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS SAKAMOTO, COLIN T 3798 Other Non-Final OA 15d Pending Aug 21, 2023
18118008 DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR IMAGING AND TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION OF ABLATED TISSUE DELLA, JAYMI E 3794 Other Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2023
18111659 WIRELESS INTRALUMINAL DEVICE AND SYSTEM CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 3791 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2023
18082482 CALCIUM ARC OF BLOOD VESSEL WITHIN INTRAVASCULAR IMAGE AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE 2666 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2022
17671933 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RENAL NEUROMODULATION AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Feb 15, 2022
17671241 INTRAVASCULAR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS HAVING A CORE WIRE WITH MULTIPLE FLATTENED SECTIONS WEARE, MEREDITH H 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Feb 14, 2022

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