Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Surmodics Inc. currently has 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are spread across 6 distinct examiners, yet they are contained within 2 distinct art units. This indicates examiner-specific interactions within the administrative scope of the USPTO, where examiners are reviewing applications in the same technical fields.
RWEGO, KANKINDI is identified as the busiest examiner, though they hold 1 busiest examiner pending office action. There are 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners involved in the current workload. The focus of the prosecution strategy should be on the 2 distinct art units where these 6 examiners are situated. This structure suggests that while the company faces 6 distinct examiners, the technical focus remains within 2 distinct art units at the office.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RWEGO, KANKINDI | 1 | 74.9% | +33.9% |
| MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE | 1 | 23.5% | +92.9% |
| ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 53.2% | +62.4% |
| FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 1 | 78.6% | +15.5% |
| DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 1 | 76.9% | +26.4% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643329 | THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM | RWEGO, KANKINDI | 35d overdue |
| 17145092 | CATHETER WITH BRAID AND RADIOPAQUE SECTION | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 7d |
| 18612034 | BIOFOULING RESISTANT COATINGS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES | MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE | — |
| 18405604 | LUBRICIOUS COATINGS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES WITH ENHANCED DURABILITY | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16414597 | CATHETERS WITH STRUCTURALLY SUPPORTED EXPANDABLE ELEMENTS AND METHODS FOR SAME | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 97d overdue |
| 18643329 | THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM | RWEGO, KANKINDI | 35d overdue |
| 17145092 | CATHETER WITH BRAID AND RADIOPAQUE SECTION | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 7d |
| 18612034 | BIOFOULING RESISTANT COATINGS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES | MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE | — |
| 18412843 | LUBRICIOUS MEDICAL DEVICE COATING WITH LOW PARTICULATES | ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18405604 | LUBRICIOUS COATINGS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES WITH ENHANCED DURABILITY | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 3 |
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18643329 | THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM | RWEGO, KANKINDI | 3771 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18612034 | BIOFOULING RESISTANT COATINGS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES | MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18412843 | LUBRICIOUS MEDICAL DEVICE COATING WITH LOW PARTICULATES | ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C | 3783 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18405604 | LUBRICIOUS COATINGS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES WITH ENHANCED DURABILITY | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 17145092 | CATHETER WITH BRAID AND RADIOPAQUE SECTION | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jan 08, 2021 |
| 16414597 | CATHETERS WITH STRUCTURALLY SUPPORTED EXPANDABLE ELEMENTS AND METHODS FOR SAME | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2019 |
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