Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Teleflex Incorporated manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 5 pending office actions. These 5 pending office actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling a single pending case. The prosecution activity is spread across 4 distinct art units. MARTIN TRUYEN TON is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action.
This workload for MARTIN TRUYEN TON represents 1 of the 5 pending office actions for Teleflex Incorporated. The distribution across 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's current filings cover several technical sub-sectors within the medical device field. For practitioners, this indicates an approach where the portfolio's success is not tied to a single examiner or art unit. With MARTIN TRUYEN TON and the other 5 distinct examiners each managing 1 pending office action, the prosecution risk is distributed across different examination groups.
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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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% |
| YABUT, DIANE D | 1 | 62.5% | +27.9% |
| HALL, DEANNA K | 1 | 75.7% | +15.7% |
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 48.7% | +70.4% |
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18135302 | EXCHANGER SURGICAL ACCESS PORT AND METHODS OF USE | HALL, DEANNA K | 59d overdue |
| 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18135302 | EXCHANGER SURGICAL ACCESS PORT AND METHODS OF USE | HALL, DEANNA K | 59d overdue |
| 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 |
| 18760720 | CLIP APPLIER | YABUT, DIANE D | — |
| 16220925 | COAXIAL GUIDE CATHETER FOR INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY PROCEDURES | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18901114 | CLIP APPLIER WITH STABILIZING MEMBER | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 3771 | §102 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18760720 | CLIP APPLIER | YABUT, DIANE D | 3771 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18135302 | EXCHANGER SURGICAL ACCESS PORT AND METHODS OF USE | HALL, DEANNA K | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
| 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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