Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trice Medical, Inc. is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, indicating a diverse range of active matters within the portfolio. This distribution suggests that the company is pursuing multiple patent applications simultaneously.
The prosecution activity is spread across 4 distinct art units, which reflects the breadth of the company's technical focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This indicates that the workload is evenly distributed across the involved personnel, as no single examiner handles more than one pending matter.
Practitioners should observe that with the current count of 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, the company's prosecution strategy is decentralized. Each pending office action is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit. This requires a multifaceted approach to prosecution, as each matter may be subject to different examiner preferences and art unit standards across the medical engineering field.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 1 | 62.9% | +50.0% |
| FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 1 | 78.6% | +15.5% |
| HENDERSON, RYAN N | 1 | 63.9% | +18.3% |
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 1 | 70.1% | +24.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18347454 | PUMPING CASSETTE FOR TISSUE TREATMENT DEVICES | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 44d overdue |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18046631 | FULLY INTEGRATED, DISPOSABLE TISSUE VISUALIZATION DEVICE | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 72d overdue |
| 18347454 | PUMPING CASSETTE FOR TISSUE TREATMENT DEVICES | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 44d overdue |
| 18756852 | TISSUE MODIFICATION DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 30d overdue |
| 17445252 | TISSUE VISUALIZATION AND MODIFICATION DEVICES AND METHODS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18756852 | TISSUE MODIFICATION DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18347454 | PUMPING CASSETTE FOR TISSUE TREATMENT DEVICES | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18046631 | FULLY INTEGRATED, DISPOSABLE TISSUE VISUALIZATION DEVICE | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17445252 | TISSUE VISUALIZATION AND MODIFICATION DEVICES AND METHODS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2021 |
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