Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
19 pending office actions • 6 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Teleflex Life Sciences LLC has 17 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 13 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner coverage with greater concentration in technical groupings.
ORKIN, ALEXANDER J is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That assignment is the principal examiner concentration in the profile and warrants focused review for recurring issues. Counsel should also coordinate device claim strategy across the 6 art units while preserving matter-specific responses.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 9 (47%) |
| §102 only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (32%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3 | 65.4% | +26.9% |
| WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 3 | 63.0% | +29.1% |
| SCHERBEL, TODD J | 1 | 76.3% | +52.0% |
| RWEGO, KANKINDI | 1 | 74.7% | +34.5% |
| DAVID, SHAUN L | 1 | 72.7% | +18.5% |
| JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | 1 | 74.4% | +57.6% |
| SHAH, NILAY J | 1 | 76.3% | +46.9% |
| AMAR, MARC J | 1 | 75.2% | +37.9% |
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 1 | 65.7% | +27.8% |
| MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 1 | 68.3% | +24.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715641 | LOW FRICTION AND FLEXIBLE CATHETER LINER | SHAH, NILAY J | — |
| 18412217 | GUIDE EXTENSION CATHETER | AMAR, MARC J | — |
| 18390149 | FREEZE-DRYING TRAY ASSEMBLY | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | — |
| 17930812 | DEPTH GAUGE SYSTEM | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | — |
| 16220975 | COAXIAL GUIDE CATHETER FOR INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY PROCEDURES | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | — |
| 16184706 | COAXIAL GUIDE CATHETER FOR INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY PROCEDURES | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18766028 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA AND OTHER CONDITIONS | DAVID, SHAUN L | 30d overdue |
| 18159743 | VESSEL LINING DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 25d overdue |
| 18914997 | EXPANDABLE TISSUE ENGAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD | RWEGO, KANKINDI | 9d overdue |
| 18828807 | AORTIC CLOSURE SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 12d |
| 19000951 | APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING DEVICE DEPLOYMENT FAILURE | SCHERBEL, TODD J | — |
| 18742624 | VASCULAR CLOSURE SYSTEM WITH INTRODUCER FOR SHEATH TRANSFER | JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | — |
| 18715641 | LOW FRICTION AND FLEXIBLE CATHETER LINER | SHAH, NILAY J | — |
| 18412217 | GUIDE EXTENSION CATHETER | AMAR, MARC J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 10 |
| 3783 | 3 |
| 3993 | 3 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000951 | APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING DEVICE DEPLOYMENT FAILURE | SCHERBEL, TODD J | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18914997 | EXPANDABLE TISSUE ENGAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD | RWEGO, KANKINDI | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18828807 | AORTIC CLOSURE SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18766028 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA AND OTHER CONDITIONS | DAVID, SHAUN L | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18742624 | VASCULAR CLOSURE SYSTEM WITH INTRODUCER FOR SHEATH TRANSFER | JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18715641 | LOW FRICTION AND FLEXIBLE CATHETER LINER | SHAH, NILAY J | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18412217 | GUIDE EXTENSION CATHETER | AMAR, MARC J | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18393787 | BIOABSORBABLE OCCLUSION SYSTEM | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18390149 | FREEZE-DRYING TRAY ASSEMBLY | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18159743 | VESSEL LINING DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 18154457 | Vascular Closure Device with Removable Guide Member | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17930812 | DEPTH GAUGE SYSTEM | ALVARADO JR, NELSON LOUIS | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17662496 | CONCENTRIC CORE PUNCTURE LOCATING SYSTEM | MILLER, SERENITY A | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2022 |
| 17721406 | PUNCTURE LOCATING SYSTEM WITH BLOOD PULSATION INDICATOR | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2022 |
| 17524060 | WIRE ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS FOR OCCLUSION | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Nov 11, 2021 |
| 17061025 | CATHETER | VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2020 |
| 16220975 | COAXIAL GUIDE CATHETER FOR INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY PROCEDURES | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 3993 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2018 |
| 16220951 | COAXIAL GUIDE CATHETER FOR INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY PROCEDURES | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 3993 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2018 |
| 16184706 | COAXIAL GUIDE CATHETER FOR INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY PROCEDURES | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 3993 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialTeleflex Life Sciences LLC has 19 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 15 examiners.
Alexander J Orkin has the most, with 3 of Teleflex Life Sciences LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
