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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Scientia Vascular Inc. has 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 6 distinct examiners, meaning every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. These examiners are situated within 3 distinct art units, suggesting the company's medical device innovations are being evaluated across several specialized technical groups. This distribution requires a versatile prosecution strategy that can address the specific technical requirements of 3 different art units while managing relationships with 6 different examiners.
MILLER, SERENITY A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action, which is 1 of the 6 total actions currently pending for the company. Because the 6 pending actions are evenly distributed among 6 distinct examiners, no single examiner holds a majority of the company's active cases. This decentralized structure reduces the company's reliance on any one examiner's discretion. The company's progress in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector is therefore dependent on the individual outcomes of 6 independent prosecution tracks.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, SERENITY A | 1 | 68.0% | +36.9% |
| LONG, SARAH A | 1 | 60.6% | +42.6% |
| SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | 1 | 58.4% | +36.7% |
| EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | 1 | 55.1% | +27.1% |
| THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 1 | 68.5% | +27.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842983 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PULMONARY EMBOLI REMOVAL | LONG, SARAH A | 1d overdue |
| 18218974 | EXTENDABLE LUMEN CATHETER DEVICE | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 22d |
| 19130637 | THROMBUS RETRIEVER INTRAVASCULAR DEVICE | MILLER, SERENITY A | — |
| 18374564 | MICROFABRICATED INTRAVASCULAR DEVICE FOR ASPIRATION PROCEDURES | THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842983 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PULMONARY EMBOLI REMOVAL | LONG, SARAH A | 1d overdue |
| 18218974 | EXTENDABLE LUMEN CATHETER DEVICE | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 22d |
| 19130637 | THROMBUS RETRIEVER INTRAVASCULAR DEVICE | MILLER, SERENITY A | — |
| 18633424 | INTERLOCK ASSEMBLY FOR A MICROCATHETER DEVICE | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | — |
| 18391432 | INTRAVASCULAR DEVICE WITH A MATCHED DIAMETER CORE WIRE JOINT | EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3783 | 2 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19130637 | THROMBUS RETRIEVER INTRAVASCULAR DEVICE | MILLER, SERENITY A | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 18842983 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PULMONARY EMBOLI REMOVAL | LONG, SARAH A | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18633424 | INTERLOCK ASSEMBLY FOR A MICROCATHETER DEVICE | SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18391432 | INTRAVASCULAR DEVICE WITH A MATCHED DIAMETER CORE WIRE JOINT | EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18374564 | MICROFABRICATED INTRAVASCULAR DEVICE FOR ASPIRATION PROCEDURES | THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18218974 | EXTENDABLE LUMEN CATHETER DEVICE | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
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