Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Robocath has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 4 examiners and 4 art units, creating a fully distributed examination profile. Centralized docketing and common technical terminology can improve portfolio control, but the available assignment pattern calls for separate substantive preparation for each action.
LANGE, ERIC A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. This examiner handles one identified file, while the other matters are distributed elsewhere. Counsel should compare claim themes across the portfolio, but should tailor each response to the particular device issues, cited references, and examination context in the corresponding application.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGE, ERIC A | 1 | 77.6% | +12.7% |
| JAHAN, ISRAT | 1 | — | — |
| CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 1 | 64.3% | +28.0% |
| SAHAND, SANA | 1 | 63.5% | +24.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692856 | CATHETERIZATION ROBOT | LANGE, ERIC A | — |
| 18692177 | MODULE FOR TRANSLATING A PLURALITY OF ELONGATE FLEXIBLE MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS, COMPRISING A DEVICE FOR CONVERGENCE TOWARDS A COMMON TRACK | JAHAN, ISRAT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18259558 | CATHETER ROBOT COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO TRANSLATION MODULES FOR LONG FLEXIBLE MEDICAL INSTRUMENT | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 14d |
| 18692856 | CATHETERIZATION ROBOT | LANGE, ERIC A | — |
| 18259207 | CATHETER ROBOT MODULE FOR TRANSLATION AND ROTATION OF A FLEXIBLE ELONGATED MEDICAL ELEMENT | SAHAND, SANA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692856 | CATHETERIZATION ROBOT | LANGE, ERIC A | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18692177 | MODULE FOR TRANSLATING A PLURALITY OF ELONGATE FLEXIBLE MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS, COMPRISING A DEVICE FOR CONVERGENCE TOWARDS A COMMON TRACK | JAHAN, ISRAT | 3792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18259558 | CATHETER ROBOT COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO TRANSLATION MODULES FOR LONG FLEXIBLE MEDICAL INSTRUMENT | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 3791 | §112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18259207 | CATHETER ROBOT MODULE FOR TRANSLATION AND ROTATION OF A FLEXIBLE ELONGATED MEDICAL ELEMENT | SAHAND, SANA | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRobocath has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Eric A Lange has the most, with 1 of Robocath's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
