Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Vascular Technology Incorporated currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to a single examiner, COURTNEY B FREDRICKSON. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit and under 1 distinct examiner means that the company's immediate prosecution success depends entirely on a single official's review.
Having 2 pending office actions with 1 distinct examiner allows for a highly consistent prosecution strategy. The company can apply lessons learned from one of the cases directly to the other, as both are in the same 1 distinct art unit. COURTNEY B FREDRICKSON's role as the busiest examiner with 2 pending office actions gives this official total control over the company's current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio. This structure simplifies the administrative burden of managing multiple matters by centralizing them under one person.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 2 | 75.6% | +29.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496164 | GRASPABLE SURGICAL DEVICE | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496164 | GRASPABLE SURGICAL DEVICE | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 22d |
| 19656664 | GRASPABLE SURGICAL DEVICE | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19656664 | GRASPABLE SURGICAL DEVICE | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 3783 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2026 |
| 18496164 | GRASPABLE SURGICAL DEVICE | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
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