Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tandem Diabetes Care Inc.

16 pending office actions • 6 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
14
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (6%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (75%)
§102 only1 (6%)
§112 only1 (6%)
Double-patenting + other1 (6%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
6% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
14
Mechanical / Eng
88% of docket
1
Business / Other
6% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DARB, HAMZA A. 2 75.0% +31.4%
DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE 2 52.4% +67.7%
OLYNICK, DAVID 1 77.8% +25.6%
NG, JONATHAN K 1 34.9% +13.5%
FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B 1 75.6% +30.7%
MEDWAY, SCOTT J 1 67.1% +23.2%
RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW 1 72.6% +34.6%
NGUYEN, KENNY 1 50.0% +45.4%
SUNG, GERALD LUTHER 1 79.6% +28.6%
GOLOVAN, MARK 1 100.0% +0.0%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18115316 INSULIN INFUSION SET GOLOVAN, MARK 33d

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18477369 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING DATA RELEVANT TO DIABETES MANAGEMENT USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS NG, JONATHAN K 60d overdue
17395289 METHODS OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN AN INFUSION PUMP SYSTEM DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE 4d overdue
18475916 INFUSION SET WITH ADHESIVE PATCH LINER DARB, HAMZA A. 2d overdue
18474839 ZERO GAP AUTOMATED INSULIN DELIVERY TREATMENT SYSTEM DARB, HAMZA A. 2d overdue
18215492 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING THERAPEUTIC PARAMETERS FOR AN INFUSION DEVICE MEDWAY, SCOTT J 8d
18478552 INFUSION PUMP WITH MULTI-CGM COMPATIBILITY OLYNICK, DAVID 12d
17587468 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED INSULIN DELIVERY FOR DIABETES THERAPY DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE 22d
18207094 INFUSION PUMP SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH INSULIN PRESERVATIVE LOW THRESHOLD ALERT RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW 33d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3783 10
3741 2
3619 1
2171 1
3992 1
3682 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18478552 INFUSION PUMP WITH MULTI-CGM COMPATIBILITY OLYNICK, DAVID 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18477369 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING DATA RELEVANT TO DIABETES MANAGEMENT USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS NG, JONATHAN K 3619 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18475916 INFUSION SET WITH ADHESIVE PATCH LINER DARB, HAMZA A. 3783 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2023
18474839 ZERO GAP AUTOMATED INSULIN DELIVERY TREATMENT SYSTEM DARB, HAMZA A. 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18220156 INSULIN PUMP WITH INTEGRATED CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITOR FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B 3783 §103 Final Rejection 50d Pending Jul 10, 2023
18215492 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING THERAPEUTIC PARAMETERS FOR AN INFUSION DEVICE MEDWAY, SCOTT J 3783 §112 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18207094 INFUSION PUMP SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH INSULIN PRESERVATIVE LOW THRESHOLD ALERT RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jun 07, 2023
18202172 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF INADVERTENT ACTIVATION OF MEDICAL DEVICE DURING MANIPULATION NGUYEN, KENNY 2171 DPOther Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 25, 2023
18139391 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEAL BOLUSES IN DIABETES THERAPY SUNG, GERALD LUTHER 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Apr 26, 2023
18115316 INSULIN INFUSION SET GOLOVAN, MARK 3783 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Feb 28, 2023
17743652 METHOD OF PAIRING AN INFUSION PUMP WITH A REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE ESCALANTE, OVIDIO 3992 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending May 13, 2022
17715727 PUMP WITH THERAPY COACHING VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Apr 07, 2022
17587468 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED INSULIN DELIVERY FOR DIABETES THERAPY DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE 3783 Other Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jan 28, 2022
17395289 METHODS OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN AN INFUSION PUMP SYSTEM DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2021
16879927 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PAIRING DEVICES IN AN AMBULATORY INFUSION PUMP SYSTEM RAPILLO, KRISTINE K 3682 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending May 21, 2020
16502196 ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNAL-BASED INFUSION PUMP CONTROL CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Jul 03, 2019

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