Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Terumo Corporation

7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
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
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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 later (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%)
5
Medium (71%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (29%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (57%)
§102 only1 (14%)
No statute on record2 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
86% 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
FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN 1 80.1% +21.7%
ORKIN, ALEXANDER J 1 65.4% +27.0%
NGUYEN, VI X 1 85.9% +13.3%
DORNBUSCH, DIANNE 1 73.6% +35.3%
HUHN, RICHARD A 1 66.7% +5.6%
CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 1 54.5% +53.1%
DUBOSE, LAUREN 1 60.0% +46.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18871418 Vascular Occlusion Device FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN 16d overdue
18658904 ADHESIVE OCCLUSION SYSTEMS NGUYEN, VI X 11d 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
17499711 Pulmonary Embolism Removal System DUBOSE, LAUREN 112d overdue
18310275 Drive Mechanism for a Drug Delivery Device CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 96d overdue
18871418 Vascular Occlusion Device FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN 16d overdue
18790876 System And Method For Implant Delivery ORKIN, ALEXANDER J 15d overdue
18658904 ADHESIVE OCCLUSION SYSTEMS NGUYEN, VI X 11d overdue
18496259 Vascular Occlusion DORNBUSCH, DIANNE 21d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3771 5
1764 1
3783 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18871418 Vascular Occlusion Device FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 03, 2024
18790876 System And Method For Implant Delivery ORKIN, ALEXANDER J 3771 Other Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18658904 ADHESIVE OCCLUSION SYSTEMS NGUYEN, VI X 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending May 08, 2024
18496259 Vascular Occlusion DORNBUSCH, DIANNE 3771 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18485982 POLYMER PARTICLES HUHN, RICHARD A 1764 §102 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Oct 12, 2023
18310275 Drive Mechanism for a Drug Delivery Device CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 3783 Other Non-Final OA 96d overdue Pending May 01, 2023
17499711 Pulmonary Embolism Removal System DUBOSE, LAUREN 3771 §103 Final Rejection 112d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2021

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