Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 clients • 6 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
ALG Intellectual Property | AB has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The profile also records 1978 career applications, giving the current activity a substantial historical context within the firm’s prosecution record.
The resolved allowance rate is 91.82%, with an average of 3.43 office actions per allowance. The figures describe frequent allowance outcomes alongside several examination exchanges, a combination relevant to planning amendment rounds and preparing technical support for device claims.
Practitioners can use the pending docket and career measures for different purposes: the former identifies active examination work, while the latter informs expectations from resolved matters. The profile does not show whether a particular device category or claim strategy drives those results.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 1 | 83.7% | +8.2% |
| EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 1 | 70.4% | +34.9% |
| WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 1 | 55.6% | +46.6% |
| BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 1 | 36.0% | +30.0% |
| FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 1 | 27.8% | +40.4% |
| PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 1 | 56.6% | +46.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718210 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COCHLEAR TRAUMA MANAGEMENT DURING AN ELECTRODE LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17853281 | HEARING PROSTHESIS SYSTEM | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 12d |
| 17870353 | ELECTRODE LOCATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE DURING A COCHLEAR IMPLANT LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 21d |
| 18622075 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING STIMULUS FREQUENCIES TO USE DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — |
| 17620002 | SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING WHEN AN ELECTRODE LEAD REACHES A COCHLEAR BASAL TURN DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17853281 | HEARING PROSTHESIS SYSTEM | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 12d |
| 17870353 | ELECTRODE LOCATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE DURING A COCHLEAR IMPLANT LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 21d |
| 18678686 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE DURING A PROCEDURE ASSOCIATED WITH A COCHLEAR IMPLANT | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | — |
| 18622075 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING STIMULUS FREQUENCIES TO USE DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — |
| 17620002 | SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING WHEN AN ELECTRODE LEAD REACHES A COCHLEAR BASAL TURN DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Advanced Bionics | 4 |
| ADVANCED BIONICS AG | 2 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 3 |
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18718210 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COCHLEAR TRAUMA MANAGEMENT DURING AN ELECTRODE LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | Advanced Bionics LLC | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 3796 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18678686 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE DURING A PROCEDURE ASSOCIATED WITH A COCHLEAR IMPLANT | Advanced Bionics AG | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18622075 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING STIMULUS FREQUENCIES TO USE DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | Advanced Bionics LLC | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 17870353 | ELECTRODE LOCATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE DURING A COCHLEAR IMPLANT LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | Advanced Bionics AG | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 3796 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
| 17853281 | HEARING PROSTHESIS SYSTEM | Advanced Bionics AG | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 29, 2022 |
| 17620002 | SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING WHEN AN ELECTRODE LEAD REACHES A COCHLEAR BASAL TURN DURING A LEAD INSERTION PROCEDURE | Advanced Bionics AG | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3794 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial91.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Alg Intellectual Property | AB were allowed, across 1,978 applications in USPTO records.
3.43 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 6 examiners in 3 art units.
