Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Raydiant Oximetry Inc. has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The use of 4 distinct examiners for the active matters indicates a distributed prosecution workload, where no single individual has an outsized influence on the portfolio's progress.
Jay B Shah is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct art units involved, the company's active matters are concentrated in a limited number of technical divisions despite the variety of examiners. This structure suggests that the company's medical device innovations fall into two primary sub-categories at the patent office.
Practitioners should note that with multiple examiners, the prosecution strategy must be flexible enough to address different examination styles. However, the concentration in just two art units allows for some consistency in the technical arguments presented. The goal is to move the active actions forward by understanding the specific requirements of each assigned examiner while maintaining a cohesive narrative across the assigned units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (75%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAH, JAY B | 1 | 57.8% | +6.5% |
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
| STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 1 | 48.2% | +29.2% |
| KRETZER, KYLE W. | 1 | 64.8% | +41.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576671 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING TRANS-ABDOMINAL FETAL OXIMETRY AND/OR TRANS-ABDOMINAL FETAL PULSE OXIMETRY USING DC OXIMETRY MEASUREMENTS | KRETZER, KYLE W. | 39d |
| 19002127 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR DEVELOPING A MODEL FOR USE WHEN PERFORMING OXIMETRY AND/OR PULSE OXIMETRY AND SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR USING A FETAL OXIMETRY MODEL TO DETERMINE A FETAL OXIMETRY VALUE | SHAH, JAY B | — |
| 18875109 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN OXIMETRY VALUE USING A PERSONALIZED CALIBRATION EQUATION AND/OR TISSUE MODEL | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576671 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING TRANS-ABDOMINAL FETAL OXIMETRY AND/OR TRANS-ABDOMINAL FETAL PULSE OXIMETRY USING DC OXIMETRY MEASUREMENTS | KRETZER, KYLE W. | 39d |
| 18875109 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN OXIMETRY VALUE USING A PERSONALIZED CALIBRATION EQUATION AND/OR TISSUE MODEL | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
| 18756562 | SURGICAL DRAINS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19002127 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR DEVELOPING A MODEL FOR USE WHEN PERFORMING OXIMETRY AND/OR PULSE OXIMETRY AND SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR USING A FETAL OXIMETRY MODEL TO DETERMINE A FETAL OXIMETRY VALUE | SHAH, JAY B | — | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18875109 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN OXIMETRY VALUE USING A PERSONALIZED CALIBRATION EQUATION AND/OR TISSUE MODEL | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18756562 | SURGICAL DRAINS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18576671 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING TRANS-ABDOMINAL FETAL OXIMETRY AND/OR TRANS-ABDOMINAL FETAL PULSE OXIMETRY USING DC OXIMETRY MEASUREMENTS | KRETZER, KYLE W. | 3791 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
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