Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pulse Biosciences Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 8 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution with multiple matters situated in the same technical groups.
BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A useful management approach is to combine examiner-specific review with art-unit grouping, allowing counsel to identify technical themes without treating the separate examination records as interchangeable.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 5 (62%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 60.5% | +31.4% |
| LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 1 | 65.4% | +29.7% |
| COLLINS, SEAN W | 1 | 74.7% | +26.2% |
| VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A | 1 | 79.6% | +20.0% |
| MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | 1 | 57.3% | +53.0% |
| FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 1 | 72.6% | +12.0% |
| DUBOSE, LAUREN | 1 | 59.1% | +46.2% |
| GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 1 | 45.2% | +46.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18875102 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TARGETED TUMOR-SPECIFIC ABLATION | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18704452 | BIPOLAR ELECTRODE CIRCUITS, DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A | — |
| 18632000 | ZERO OVERTRAVEL PUSH-PUSH MECHANISM | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569206 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD THERAPY | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 29d |
| 18875102 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TARGETED TUMOR-SPECIFIC ABLATION | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18951306 | PULSE GENERATOR WITH INDEPENDENT PANEL TRIGGERING | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | — |
| 18789486 | HIGH-VOLTAGE CIRCUIT PULSER | COLLINS, SEAN W | — |
| 18704452 | BIPOLAR ELECTRODE CIRCUITS, DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A | — |
| 18632000 | ZERO OVERTRAVEL PUSH-PUSH MECHANISM | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18336907 | TREATMENT TEMPLATES | DUBOSE, LAUREN | — |
| 18252812 | NANOSECOND PULSING TO TREAT A BODY LUMEN | GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 5 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18875102 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TARGETED TUMOR-SPECIFIC ABLATION | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18951306 | PULSE GENERATOR WITH INDEPENDENT PANEL TRIGGERING | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18789486 | HIGH-VOLTAGE CIRCUIT PULSER | COLLINS, SEAN W | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18704452 | BIPOLAR ELECTRODE CIRCUITS, DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | VAHDAT, KHADIJEH A | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18632000 | ZERO OVERTRAVEL PUSH-PUSH MECHANISM | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | 3678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18569206 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD THERAPY | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18336907 | TREATMENT TEMPLATES | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18252812 | NANOSECOND PULSING TO TREAT A BODY LUMEN | GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPulse Biosciences Inc. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 8 examiners.
Bradford Christopher Blaise has the most, with 1 of Pulse Biosciences Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
