Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shockwave Medical Inc. has 13 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters involve 11 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, indicating meaningful examiner diversity alongside a more concentrated art-unit structure.
BYRD, BRIGID K is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner-specific concentration is limited, while the five-art-unit footprint may support targeted art-unit monitoring and coordinated technical positions. Counsel should distinguish art-unit trends from examiner-specific handling, especially when evaluating amendments or interview objectives. The figures do not reveal whether the matters involve a common device platform.
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 (23%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYRD, BRIGID K | 2 | 71.4% | +46.4% |
| HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 2 | 68.8% | +17.6% |
| MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | 1 | 66.8% | +33.7% |
| LYNCH, ROBERT A | 1 | 80.3% | +12.9% |
| JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | 1 | 74.4% | +57.6% |
| LONG, SARAH A | 1 | 60.7% | +42.4% |
| SAHAND, SANA | 1 | 63.5% | +24.0% |
| DANG, PHONG SON H | 1 | 78.0% | +24.4% |
| ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 1 | 66.8% | +57.5% |
| ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 1 | 62.2% | +23.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18428976 | INTRAVASCULAR LITHOTRIPSY CATHETER WITH MOVABLE EMITTERS | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 12d |
| 19025844 | LOW PROFILE ELECTRODES FOR A SHOCK WAVE CATHETER | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
| 19023002 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FORWARD DIRECTED SHOCK WAVES | JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | — |
| 18967289 | CATHETER SYSTEM WITH INDEPENDENTLY CONTROLLABLE BUBBLE AND ARC GENERATION | BYRD, BRIGID K | — |
| 18949806 | Low-profile shock wave catheters | LONG, SARAH A | — |
| 18791224 | INTRAVASCULAR LITHOTRIPSY CATHETER WITH OMNI-DIRECTIONAL SHOCK WAVE EMITTERS | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | — |
| 18428752 | INTRAVASCULAR LITHOTRIPSY CATHETER WITH MOVABLE EMITTERS | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | — |
| 18523630 | ELECTRODE AND CATHETER DESIGN FOR DIRECTIONAL LITHOTRIPSY CATHETERS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806284 | AORTIC LEAFLET REPAIR USING SHOCK WAVE APPLICATORS | DANG, PHONG SON H | 9d |
| 18428976 | INTRAVASCULAR LITHOTRIPSY CATHETER WITH MOVABLE EMITTERS | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 12d |
| 19191403 | SHOCK WAVE VALVULOPLASTY WITH MULTIPLE BALLOONS | MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | — |
| 19025239 | LESION CROSSING SHOCK WAVE CATHETER | BYRD, BRIGID K | — |
| 19025844 | LOW PROFILE ELECTRODES FOR A SHOCK WAVE CATHETER | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
| 19023002 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FORWARD DIRECTED SHOCK WAVES | JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | — |
| 18967289 | CATHETER SYSTEM WITH INDEPENDENTLY CONTROLLABLE BUBBLE AND ARC GENERATION | BYRD, BRIGID K | — |
| 18949806 | Low-profile shock wave catheters | LONG, SARAH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 9 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19191403 | SHOCK WAVE VALVULOPLASTY WITH MULTIPLE BALLOONS | MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | 3771 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19025239 | LESION CROSSING SHOCK WAVE CATHETER | BYRD, BRIGID K | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19025844 | LOW PROFILE ELECTRODES FOR A SHOCK WAVE CATHETER | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19023002 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FORWARD DIRECTED SHOCK WAVES | JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18967289 | CATHETER SYSTEM WITH INDEPENDENTLY CONTROLLABLE BUBBLE AND ARC GENERATION | BYRD, BRIGID K | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18949806 | Low-profile shock wave catheters | LONG, SARAH A | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18948025 | GUIDEWIRELESS SHOCK WAVE CATHETERS | SAHAND, SANA | 3796 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18806284 | AORTIC LEAFLET REPAIR USING SHOCK WAVE APPLICATORS | DANG, PHONG SON H | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18791224 | INTRAVASCULAR LITHOTRIPSY CATHETER WITH OMNI-DIRECTIONAL SHOCK WAVE EMITTERS | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18646290 | INTRAVASCULAR LITHOTRIPSY CATHETER WITH SLOTTED EMITTER BANDS | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18428976 | INTRAVASCULAR LITHOTRIPSY CATHETER WITH MOVABLE EMITTERS | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18428752 | INTRAVASCULAR LITHOTRIPSY CATHETER WITH MOVABLE EMITTERS | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 4100 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18523630 | ELECTRODE AND CATHETER DESIGN FOR DIRECTIONAL LITHOTRIPSY CATHETERS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShockwave Medical Inc. has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 11 examiners.
Brigid K Byrd has the most, with 2 of Shockwave Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
