Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 5 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shockwave Medical Inc. manages a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently contains 14 pending office actions distributed across 12 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that most examiners are handling a single matter, though BYRD, BRIGID K is the busiest examiner with 2 pending actions. The presence of 14 pending office actions suggests a consistent volume of ongoing prosecution within the medical device sector.
Prosecution activity spans 5 distinct art units, suggesting a breadth of technical focus within the medical and mechanical sectors. With 12 distinct examiners, the company faces a diverse set of examiner perspectives. Practitioners should note that while the workload is spread across 5 art units, the concentration of 2 pending actions with a single examiner represents the highest point of individual examiner engagement. This structure requires a strategy that accounts for varied examiner styles across the identified art units while monitoring the specific progress of the busiest examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (71%) |
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 | 68.7% | +17.8% |
| MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | 1 | 66.8% | +33.6% |
| LYNCH, ROBERT A | 1 | 80.3% | +12.9% |
| JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | 1 | 74.3% | +57.6% |
| LONG, SARAH A | 1 | 60.6% | +42.6% |
| SAHAND, SANA | 1 | 63.4% | +23.8% |
| DANG, PHONG SON H | 1 | 78.0% | +24.6% |
| ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 1 | 66.2% | +58.6% |
| EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 1 | 49.1% | +39.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680853 | LASER INTRAVASULAR LITHOTRIPSY DEVICE FOR STENOSIS CALCIFIED LESIONS | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 11d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18656108 | FLOW MODIFYING IMPLANTS | GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680853 | LASER INTRAVASULAR LITHOTRIPSY DEVICE FOR STENOSIS CALCIFIED LESIONS | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 11d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 19025844 | LOW PROFILE ELECTRODES FOR A SHOCK WAVE CATHETER | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
| 19025239 | LESION CROSSING SHOCK WAVE CATHETER | BYRD, BRIGID K | — |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 6 |
| 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 | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19025844 | LOW PROFILE ELECTRODES FOR A SHOCK WAVE CATHETER | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19025239 | LESION CROSSING SHOCK WAVE CATHETER | BYRD, BRIGID K | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19023002 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FORWARD DIRECTED SHOCK WAVES | JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | — | §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 | — | §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 |
| 18680853 | LASER INTRAVASULAR LITHOTRIPSY DEVICE FOR STENOSIS CALCIFIED LESIONS | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 3796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18656108 | FLOW MODIFYING IMPLANTS | GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | 3774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 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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