Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
19 pending office actions • 2 clients • 16 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 77 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 19 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. 19 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 | 15 (79%) |
| §102 only | 2 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (5%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 2 | 60.4% | +28.3% |
| D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 2 | 67.0% | +22.1% |
| WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 2 | 49.7% | +27.0% |
| PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 70.9% | +39.3% |
| KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 1 | — | — |
| STEWART, ALVIN J | 1 | 82.4% | +0.1% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.7% | +17.7% |
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1 | 28.6% | +27.8% |
| LANGE, ERIC A | 1 | 78.8% | +9.6% |
| RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN | 1 | 20.0% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18387872 | BLOOD PUMP FOR THE INVASIVE APPLICATION WITHIN A BODY OF A PATIENT | STEWART, ALVIN J | 12d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18224644 | METHOD TO LAMINATE ePTFE TO A NITINOL BRAID WITH A SMOOTH OUTER DIAMETER | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 146d overdue |
| 18142227 | INTRODUCER SHEATH WITH PEEL AWAY PERFUSION APERTURE | RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN | 6d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18224644 | METHOD TO LAMINATE ePTFE TO A NITINOL BRAID WITH A SMOOTH OUTER DIAMETER | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 146d overdue |
| 17430508 | CATHETER DEVICE WITH A DRIVE SHAFT COVER | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 128d overdue |
| 17435256 | BLOOD PUMP | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 111d overdue |
| 18370170 | PEEL-AWAY SHEATH ASSEMBLY | KOCH, GEORGE R | 3d overdue |
| 17793578 | INTRAVASCULAR BLOOD PUMP | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 9d |
| 17975929 | CONTROLLED PURGE RECOVERY USING TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR (tPA) | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 16d |
| 18025761 | BLOOD PUMP | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 19d |
| 16913040 | OPTICAL SENSOR ASSEMBLY IN CATHETER-BASED MEDICAL DEVICES | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 19d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Abiomed | 15 |
| ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH | 4 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 6 |
| 3783 | 4 |
| 3774 | 3 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19196458 | INTRODUCER SHEATH HAVING A MULTI-LAYER HUB | Abiomed, Inc. | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 3773 | Other | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 18717826 | PUMP HOUSING FOR A BLOOD PUMP AND BLOOD PUMP | Abiomed Europe GmbH | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18387872 | BLOOD PUMP FOR THE INVASIVE APPLICATION WITHIN A BODY OF A PATIENT | Ecp Entwicklungsgesellschaft Mbh | STEWART, ALVIN J | 3799 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18370170 | PEEL-AWAY SHEATH ASSEMBLY | Abiomed, Inc. | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18224644 | METHOD TO LAMINATE ePTFE TO A NITINOL BRAID WITH A SMOOTH OUTER DIAMETER | Abiomed, Inc. | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 146d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18195617 | EXPANDABLE SHEATH AND LINER THEREFOR | Abiomed, Inc. | LANGE, ERIC A | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18142227 | INTRODUCER SHEATH WITH PEEL AWAY PERFUSION APERTURE | Abiomed, Inc. | RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18025761 | BLOOD PUMP | Abiomed Europe GmbH | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 17975929 | CONTROLLED PURGE RECOVERY USING TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR (tPA) | Abiomed, Inc. | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
| 17974131 | EXPANDABLE INTRODUCER SHEATH FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | Abiomed, Inc. | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 3774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
| 17888712 | USE OF INTRACARDIAC BLOOD PUMPS AS A BRIDGE TO HIGH-RISK MEDICAL PROCEDURES | Abiomed, Inc. | LAU, MICHAEL J | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2022 |
| 17793578 | INTRAVASCULAR BLOOD PUMP | Abiomed Europe GmbH | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jul 18, 2022 |
| 17559697 | PUSH DEVICE FOR THE AXIAL INSERTION OF AN ELONGATE, FLEXIBLE BODY | Ecp Entwicklungsgesellschaft Mbh | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
| 17507500 | VASCULAR ACCESS | Abiomed Europe GmbH | RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 103d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2021 |
| 17476031 | SHEATH DEVICE FOR INSERTING A CATHETER | Ecp Entwicklungsgesellschaft Mbh | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2021 |
| 17435256 | BLOOD PUMP | Abiomed Europe GmbH | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 111d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2021 |
| 17430508 | CATHETER DEVICE WITH A DRIVE SHAFT COVER | Ecp Entwicklungsgesellschaft Mbh | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 128d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2021 |
| 17079754 | THERMOFORM CANNULA WITH VARIABLE CANNULA BODY STIFFNESS | Abiomed, Inc. | LEE, ERICA SHENGKAI | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Oct 26, 2020 |
| 16913040 | OPTICAL SENSOR ASSEMBLY IN CATHETER-BASED MEDICAL DEVICES | Abiomed, Inc. | GHAND, JENNIFER LEIGH-STEWAR | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jun 26, 2020 |
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