Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vygon is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions currently under review. This level of activity indicates a focused approach to securing intellectual property in the medical and mechanical sectors. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being handled by a different individual.
The portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's innovations are technically related and fall under a single specialized division of the patent office. The busiest examiner, FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B, is responsible for 1 pending office action.
Since the busiest examiner handles 1 of the 2 pending actions, the workload is distributed among the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution requires the company to manage 2 separate prosecution tracks within the same art unit. Practitioners should focus on the specific guidelines of the 1 distinct art unit while tailoring their arguments to the individual preferences of the examiners involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 | 1 | 75.6% | +29.5% |
| RADOMSKI, MARTIN ADAM | 1 | 32.3% | +55.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472208 | BLOOD CONTROL VALVES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 11d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17856831 | COUPLER DEVICE FOR VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR USE WITH MEDICAL INFUSION DEVICE | RADOMSKI, MARTIN ADAM | 31d overdue |
| 18472208 | BLOOD CONTROL VALVES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18472208 | BLOOD CONTROL VALVES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 17856831 | COUPLER DEVICE FOR VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR USE WITH MEDICAL INFUSION DEVICE | RADOMSKI, MARTIN ADAM | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jul 01, 2022 |
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