Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Teleflex Life Sciences LLC

7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
§102 only2 (29%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RWEGO, KANKINDI 1 74.5% +35.1%
ORKIN, ALEXANDER J 1 65.4% +27.0%
DAVID, SHAUN L 1 73.0% +19.3%
MANNAN, MIKAIL A 1 68.7% +22.9%
RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN 1 20.0% +9.8%
ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL 1 66.3% +56.1%
ISMAIL, TANIA M 1 66.7% +17.8%

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17936907 ELUTING PERFUSION CATHETERS AND RELATED METHODS RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN 52d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue 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
17425068 GUIDE EXTENSION CATHETER ISMAIL, TANIA M 16d overdue
18914997 EXPANDABLE TISSUE ENGAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD RWEGO, KANKINDI 9d overdue
18828807 AORTIC CLOSURE SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS ORKIN, ALEXANDER J 12d
17524060 WIRE ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS FOR OCCLUSION ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL 48d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3771 4
3783 2
3774 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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 Other 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 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2024
18159743 VESSEL LINING DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS MANNAN, MIKAIL A 3774 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2023
17936907 ELUTING PERFUSION CATHETERS AND RELATED METHODS RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17524060 WIRE ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS FOR OCCLUSION ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 48d Pending Nov 11, 2021
17425068 GUIDE EXTENSION CATHETER ISMAIL, TANIA M 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2021

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