Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Serenity Medical Inc. maintains 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ANDREW PETER RESTAINO, who serves as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The portfolio is currently situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a narrow administrative footprint for the company's pending intellectual property.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending office action means that the company's current prosecution resources are focused on a single examiner's review. ANDREW PETER RESTAINO is responsible for the entirety of the pending workload. This concentration within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests that the company is currently navigating a specific technical path rather than a broad array of simultaneous filings across different examination groups. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company can dedicate its full attention to the requirements of 1 distinct examiner.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 1 | 72.5% | +39.5% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19276638 | BALLOON CATHETER AND METHOD OF USE FOR DELIVERING A STENT TO THE VENOUS SINUSES | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19276638 | BALLOON CATHETER AND METHOD OF USE FOR DELIVERING A STENT TO THE VENOUS SINUSES | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
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