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
Silk Road Medical Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio includes 7 examiners and 3 art units, indicating distinct examiner handling across a smaller set of examination groups.
TON, MARTIN TRUYEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. No identified examiner carries a larger pending workload, so counsel should manage the matters as separate examiner relationships within the shared art-unit structure.
The art-unit concentration may support consistent technical presentations, but each response still requires attention to its examiner’s treatment of the claims. A coordinated docket process can preserve portfolio consistency while maintaining application-specific arguments and amendments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 | 72.4% | +39.2% |
| MARCETICH, ADAM M | 1 | 72.8% | +18.8% |
| DEAK, LESLIE R | 1 | 75.4% | +17.8% |
| TANNER, JOCELIN C | 1 | 72.3% | +34.7% |
| MCGRATH, ERIN E | 1 | 60.3% | +28.4% |
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.9% | +15.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868987 | TELESCOPING VASCULAR SHEATH SYSTEMS AND METHODS | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 7d |
| 18933413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFEMORAL CAROTID INTERVENTION | MARCETICH, ADAM M | — |
| 18924685 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING RETROGRADE CAROTID ARTERIAL BLOOD FLOW | DEAK, LESLIE R | — |
| 18849433 | METHODS AND DEVICES OF ACCESS SHEATH SYSTEMS | MCGRATH, ERIN E | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868987 | TELESCOPING VASCULAR SHEATH SYSTEMS AND METHODS | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 7d |
| 18933413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFEMORAL CAROTID INTERVENTION | MARCETICH, ADAM M | — |
| 18924685 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING RETROGRADE CAROTID ARTERIAL BLOOD FLOW | DEAK, LESLIE R | — |
| 18921676 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
| 18849433 | METHODS AND DEVICES OF ACCESS SHEATH SYSTEMS | MCGRATH, ERIN E | — |
| 18849441 | ASPIRATION SYSTEM INCLUDING PREFORMED NON-LINEAR DILATOR FOR ASPIRATION OF EMBOLI | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 4 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868987 | TELESCOPING VASCULAR SHEATH SYSTEMS AND METHODS | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18933413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFEMORAL CAROTID INTERVENTION | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 3781 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18924685 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING RETROGRADE CAROTID ARTERIAL BLOOD FLOW | DEAK, LESLIE R | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18921676 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 3771 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18849433 | METHODS AND DEVICES OF ACCESS SHEATH SYSTEMS | MCGRATH, ERIN E | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18849441 | ASPIRATION SYSTEM INCLUDING PREFORMED NON-LINEAR DILATOR FOR ASPIRATION OF EMBOLI | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSilk Road Medical Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Andrew Peter Restaino has the most, with 1 of Silk Road Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
