Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tau Medical Inc. has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner, requiring a broad approach to managing individual examiner preferences. The presence of 3 art units for the 4 actions suggests that the company's medical device innovations are categorized into a few closely related technical sub-groups.
Abigail Marie Bock is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. With the examiners spread across the different art units, the company must address a variety of examiner styles while operating within a relatively small number of technical departments. This requires tailoring prosecution strategies to the specific nuances of each of the 4 examiners involved. Because each examiner is responsible for only 1 pending action, the workload is evenly distributed. Abigail Marie Bock is one of the individuals whose specific feedback must be addressed to advance the company's interests.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 1 | 91.0% | +7.3% |
| TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 1 | 68.4% | +18.9% |
| LE, KHOA TAN | 1 | 78.0% | +38.2% |
| GANESAN, SUBA | 1 | 73.8% | +13.4% |
| ZHANG, LEI | 1 | 15.4% | +100.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977761 | RF ABLATION CATHETER FOR SEPTAL REDUCTION THERAPY HAVING COOLING EFFECT | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18074473 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING LUNG TUMORS | ZHANG, LEI | 30d overdue |
| 18035509 | TRANSCATHETER DEVICE FOR TREATING TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION | GANESAN, SUBA | 10d overdue |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18074473 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING LUNG TUMORS | ZHANG, LEI | 30d overdue |
| 18568537 | ACCESS INTO INTERVENTRICULAR SEPTUM USING A PUNCTURE CATHETER DEVICE | LE, KHOA TAN | 17d overdue |
| 18035509 | TRANSCATHETER DEVICE FOR TREATING TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION | GANESAN, SUBA | 10d overdue |
| 18392344 | TRANSCATHETER DEVICE FOR TREATING TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18977761 | RF ABLATION CATHETER FOR SEPTAL REDUCTION THERAPY HAVING COOLING EFFECT | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18392344 | TRANSCATHETER DEVICE FOR TREATING TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18568537 | ACCESS INTO INTERVENTRICULAR SEPTUM USING A PUNCTURE CATHETER DEVICE | LE, KHOA TAN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18035509 | TRANSCATHETER DEVICE FOR TREATING TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION | GANESAN, SUBA | 3774 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18074473 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING LUNG TUMORS | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 03, 2022 |
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