Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Theraheart Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All 3 actions are situated within 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated technical focus for their medical device filings. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, matching the total count of active matters. This arrangement ensures that each filing is reviewed by a different official within the same technical group.
ROANE, AARON F is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, the workload is split such that each examiner handles one file. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter falls within a narrow classification. This structure ensures that the 3 pending office actions are evaluated independently, with 1 pending office action assigned to each of the assigned examiners.
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 (67%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROANE, AARON F | 1 | 73.4% | +9.7% |
| TRAN, THIEN JASON | 1 | 74.7% | +21.4% |
| BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | 1 | 48.5% | +41.8% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19059609 | EXPANDABLE ABLATION MECHANISMS FOR SHUNTING CATHETERS | TRAN, THIEN JASON | — |
| 18593832 | SHUNTING CATHETERS | BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19095399 | SLICING ELEMENTS FOR SHUNTING CATHETERS | ROANE, AARON F | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19059609 | EXPANDABLE ABLATION MECHANISMS FOR SHUNTING CATHETERS | TRAN, THIEN JASON | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18593832 | SHUNTING CATHETERS | BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
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