Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Silk Road Medical Inc. operates a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 6 pending office actions. All 6 of these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art units. This level of concentration suggests that the company's current technical focus is very specific and consistently falls under the same administrative group. The focus on 1 distinct art units provides a stable regulatory environment for the company's intellectual property.
The prosecution of these matters involves 6 distinct examiners. This creates a situation where every single one of the 6 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual, despite all being in the same art unit. This variety of examiners within 1 distinct art units means the company must manage six different sets of examiner preferences simultaneously. Practitioners should look for patterns in how these different examiners interpret the company's core technology.
TON, MARTIN TRUYEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents one sixth of the total 6 pending office actions. While TON, MARTIN TRUYEN is the busiest, the workload is actually evenly distributed across the 6 distinct examiners. This distribution minimizes the impact that any single examiner can have on the overall portfolio.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 1 | 62.3% | +34.3% |
| RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 1 | 72.5% | +39.5% |
| MARCETICH, ADAM M | 1 | 72.7% | +18.8% |
| MCGRATH, ERIN E | 1 | 60.1% | +28.6% |
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.5% | +15.9% |
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 |
| 18992667 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CREATING CENTERED ARTERIOTOMY THROUGH CONDUIT | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | — |
| 18933413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFEMORAL CAROTID INTERVENTION | MARCETICH, ADAM M | — |
| 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868987 | TELESCOPING VASCULAR SHEATH SYSTEMS AND METHODS | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 7d |
| 18992667 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CREATING CENTERED ARTERIOTOMY THROUGH CONDUIT | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | — |
| 18933413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFEMORAL CAROTID INTERVENTION | MARCETICH, ADAM M | — |
| 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 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992667 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CREATING CENTERED ARTERIOTOMY THROUGH CONDUIT | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 3771 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 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 | — | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 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 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
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