Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Teleflex Incorporated has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 4 examiners across 3 art units, indicating that prosecution is distributed among examiners with some shared art-unit coverage.
CHOU, WILLIAM B is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. Counsel should prepare examiner-specific responses while preserving a consistent treatment of device architecture and mechanical interactions where the applications occupy related art-unit territory.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOU, WILLIAM B | 1 | 72.7% | +20.6% |
| TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 1 | 62.3% | +34.4% |
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 49.2% | +69.8% |
| WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 1 | 63.0% | +29.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17054385 | INTRAOSSEOUS ACCESS DEVICE AND METHOD TO ACCESS BONE MARROW | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18901114 | CLIP APPLIER WITH STABILIZING MEMBER | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 36d overdue |
| 17054385 | INTRAOSSEOUS ACCESS DEVICE AND METHOD TO ACCESS BONE MARROW | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 27d |
| 19010462 | UNIVERSAL LARYNGOSCOPE BLADE | CHOU, WILLIAM B | — |
| 16220925 | COAXIAL GUIDE CATHETER FOR INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY PROCEDURES | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19010462 | UNIVERSAL LARYNGOSCOPE BLADE | CHOU, WILLIAM B | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18901114 | CLIP APPLIER WITH STABILIZING MEMBER | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 3771 | §102 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 17054385 | INTRAOSSEOUS ACCESS DEVICE AND METHOD TO ACCESS BONE MARROW | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 10, 2020 |
| 16220925 | COAXIAL GUIDE CATHETER FOR INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY PROCEDURES | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 3993 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialTeleflex Incorporated has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
William B Chou has the most, with 1 of Teleflex Incorporated's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
