Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
18 pending office actions • 6 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation manages a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 17 pending office actions. These matters are assigned to 17 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending case. SAKAMOTO, COLIN T is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. The 17 pending office actions reflect an active phase of patent acquisition.
The prosecution effort is distributed across 6 distinct art units, showing a concentration of technical focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. Because there are 17 distinct examiners involved, the applicant must navigate 17 different individual perspectives across only 6 distinct art units. This suggests that while the technology is focused, the examiner assignments are not. Successfully managing 17 pending office actions across 6 distinct art units requires a consistent strategy that can be adapted to the 17 distinct examiners currently reviewing the company's applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 8 (44%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 1 | 66.4% | +25.4% |
| ELISCA, PIERRE E | 1 | 90.2% | +6.4% |
| KLEIN, BROOKE L | 1 | 53.7% | +55.1% |
| MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 1 | 51.8% | +56.9% |
| MCDONALD, JAMES F | 1 | 59.1% | +42.8% |
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.8% | +25.2% |
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 1 | 65.0% | +33.4% |
| ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 48.3% | +58.1% |
| FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 1 | 61.9% | +39.6% |
| SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 1 | 52.2% | +61.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19005589 | PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION (PCI) PLANNING INTERFACE WITH PRESSURE DATA AND VESSEL DATA AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | ELISCA, PIERRE E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. 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 |
| 18082482 | CALCIUM ARC OF BLOOD VESSEL WITHIN INTRAVASCULAR IMAGE AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE | 44d overdue |
| 17671241 | INTRAVASCULAR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS HAVING A CORE WIRE WITH MULTIPLE FLATTENED SECTIONS | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 7d |
| 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 | — |
| 18075561 | PLAQUE BURDEN INDICATION ON LONGITUDINAL INTRALUMINAL IMAGE AND X-RAY IMAGE | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | — |
| 17910784 | SNARE FOR REMOVAL OF IMPLANTED CARDIAC LEADS | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | — |
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 |
| 18983483 | SENSOR INTERFACE DEVICE PROVIDING DIGITAL PROCESSING OF INTRAVASCULAR FLOW AND PRESSURE DATA | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 31d 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 |
| 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 | 5 |
| 3797 | 4 |
| 3796 | 3 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 19005589 | PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION (PCI) PLANNING INTERFACE WITH PRESSURE DATA AND VESSEL DATA AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | ELISCA, PIERRE E | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 18082482 | CALCIUM ARC OF BLOOD VESSEL WITHIN INTRAVASCULAR IMAGE AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | JAMES, DOMINIQUE NICOLE | 2666 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
| 18082303 | INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING ASSESSMENT OF STENT DEPLOYMENT AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | LUONG, PETER | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 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 |
| 17910784 | SNARE FOR REMOVAL OF IMPLANTED CARDIAC LEADS | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17671933 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RENAL NEUROMODULATION | AVIGAN, ADAM JOSEPH | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Feb 15, 2022 |
| 17671241 | INTRAVASCULAR DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS HAVING A CORE WIRE WITH MULTIPLE FLATTENED SECTIONS | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Feb 14, 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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