Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Route 92 Medical Inc. has 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's medical device innovations fall into several different technical categories. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being handled by a different individual.
KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. With 6 examiners for 6 pending office actions, there is no concentration of workload with any single individual. Practitioners must manage 6 separate examiner relationships across 3 art units, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific nuances of each examiner's review process and the standards of each unit.
The distribution of 6 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property is technically diverse within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. For a practitioner, the fact that every action is with a different examiner means there is no central point of contact to streamline the portfolio. Each of the 6 pending office actions must be prosecuted as an independent matter, with no opportunity to leverage a single examiner's understanding across multiple cases.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 1 | 71.2% | +33.4% |
| LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | 1 | 62.7% | +46.3% |
| GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | 1 | 85.0% | +8.8% |
| STIGELL, THEODORE J | 1 | 78.3% | +14.9% |
| IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 1 | 78.6% | +39.8% |
| LOUIS, RICHARD G | 1 | 74.7% | +17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18350533 | DEVICES FOR ACCESSING AND TREATING VENOUS SINUSES AND METHODS OF USE | GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | 4d overdue |
| 19542501 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TREATING VASCULAR DISEASE | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | — |
| 18514518 | RAPID CLOT REMOVAL USING ASPIRATION CATHETER WITH ASPIRATION GUIDED BY MONITORING ASPIRATION PERFORMANCE | LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18323756 | ROBOTIC DRIVE SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING TREATMENTS OF THE NEUROVASCULATURE AND METHODS OF USE | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 83d |
| 19542501 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TREATING VASCULAR DISEASE | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | — |
| 18514518 | RAPID CLOT REMOVAL USING ASPIRATION CATHETER WITH ASPIRATION GUIDED BY MONITORING ASPIRATION PERFORMANCE | LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | — |
| 18297443 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | — |
| 18159491 | ANCHORING DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHODS | LOUIS, RICHARD G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 4 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19542501 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TREATING VASCULAR DISEASE | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 3771 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2026 |
| 18514518 | RAPID CLOT REMOVAL USING ASPIRATION CATHETER WITH ASPIRATION GUIDED BY MONITORING ASPIRATION PERFORMANCE | LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18350533 | DEVICES FOR ACCESSING AND TREATING VENOUS SINUSES AND METHODS OF USE | GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | 3774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18323756 | ROBOTIC DRIVE SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING TREATMENTS OF THE NEUROVASCULATURE AND METHODS OF USE | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18297443 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 18159491 | ANCHORING DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHODS | LOUIS, RICHARD G | 3771 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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