Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Senseonics Incorporated maintains 8 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 8 actions are assigned to 8 distinct examiners, resulting in a completely decentralized workload where no examiner handles more than one case. LY, TOMMY TAI is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action.
The company's prosecution activity is distributed across 4 distinct art units. This indicates that while the technology is focused on medical devices, the 8 pending office actions fall into several different specialized technical categories. The involvement of 8 distinct examiners across these 4 distinct art units suggests a variety of examination styles will be encountered.
Because each of the 8 pending office actions is handled by a different one of the 8 distinct examiners, there is no single point of contact that dominates the portfolio's current status. Practitioners must manage 8 separate prosecution tracks across the 4 distinct art units to address the company's 8 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 4 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LY, TOMMY TAI | 1 | 80.6% | +22.7% |
| MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 1 | 51.8% | +56.9% |
| TU, AURELIE H | 1 | 56.4% | +60.0% |
| STEVENS, MARK V | 1 | 65.5% | +41.6% |
| JANG, CHRISTIAN Y | 1 | 68.5% | +21.0% |
| BEHA, CAROLINE | 1 | 57.5% | +23.8% |
| KRETZER, KYLE W. | 1 | 64.8% | +41.5% |
| BAVA, JANKI MAHESH | 1 | 11.1% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165165 | REDUCTION OF IN VIVO ANALYTE SIGNAL DEGRADATION USING MULTIPLE METALS | BAVA, JANKI MAHESH | 42d overdue |
| 19232338 | IMPLANT FINDER | LY, TOMMY TAI | — |
| 18526209 | RETROSPECTIVE SMOOTHING | JANG, CHRISTIAN Y | — |
| 18314368 | APPARATUS INCLUDING HOUSING, POWER SOURCE, AND COUPLER | KRETZER, KYLE W. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165165 | REDUCTION OF IN VIVO ANALYTE SIGNAL DEGRADATION USING MULTIPLE METALS | BAVA, JANKI MAHESH | 42d overdue |
| 19046023 | SKIN SENSITIVITY OR RASH DETECTOR | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 6d |
| 18642331 | MEDIATION OF IN VIVO ANALYTE SIGNAL DEGRADATION | STEVENS, MARK V | 8d |
| 18479548 | HYDROGEL FILM ATTACH | BEHA, CAROLINE | 28d |
| 19232338 | IMPLANT FINDER | LY, TOMMY TAI | — |
| 19030365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CALCULATING ANALYTE LEVELS | TU, AURELIE H | — |
| 18526209 | RETROSPECTIVE SMOOTHING | JANG, CHRISTIAN Y | — |
| 18314368 | APPARATUS INCLUDING HOUSING, POWER SOURCE, AND COUPLER | KRETZER, KYLE W. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19232338 | IMPLANT FINDER | LY, TOMMY TAI | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19046023 | SKIN SENSITIVITY OR RASH DETECTOR | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 19030365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CALCULATING ANALYTE LEVELS | TU, AURELIE H | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18642331 | MEDIATION OF IN VIVO ANALYTE SIGNAL DEGRADATION | STEVENS, MARK V | 1613 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18526209 | RETROSPECTIVE SMOOTHING | JANG, CHRISTIAN Y | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18479548 | HYDROGEL FILM ATTACH | BEHA, CAROLINE | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18314368 | APPARATUS INCLUDING HOUSING, POWER SOURCE, AND COUPLER | KRETZER, KYLE W. | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18165165 | REDUCTION OF IN VIVO ANALYTE SIGNAL DEGRADATION USING MULTIPLE METALS | BAVA, JANKI MAHESH | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
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