Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
61 pending office actions • 4 clients • 55 examiners • 22 art units • 0 of 61 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 73 patents granted in the last 365 days
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP - W.L. Gore has 63 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 37042 career applications. The active docket represents ongoing work in the listed technology area, and the application history supports a broad historical assessment.
The resolved allowance rate is 84.11%, and the average is 3.38 office actions per allowance. The rate supplies an outcome measure, while the average indicates that allowances generally involved multiple office-action exchanges. Those figures can inform staffing and prosecution planning, but they do not replace review of the pending claims and examiner objections.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 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. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (2%) |
| §103 only | 13 (21%) |
| §112 only | 4 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 36 (59%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (3%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OU, JING RUI | 4 | 53.5% | +51.6% |
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3 | 72.1% | +17.0% |
| NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA | 2 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
| HE, QIANPING | 1 | 66.2% | +15.8% |
| FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 1 | 80.0% | +22.1% |
| ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 65.4% | +26.9% |
| TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 1 | 62.3% | +34.4% |
| HURLEY, SHAUN R | 1 | 77.6% | +17.7% |
| LYNCH, ROBERT A | 1 | 80.3% | +12.9% |
| KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 1 | 71.3% | +32.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19069523 | BRANCHED GRAFT ASSEMBLY METHOD IN VIVO | LYNCH, ROBERT A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18206215 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AN ADJUSTABLE STIFFNESS CATHETER | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 264d overdue |
| 18388416 | SEAWEED CULTIVATION SYSTEM | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 134d overdue |
| 18720883 | PASTE-PROCESSED ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE EXPANDED INTO DENSE ARTICLES | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 9d |
| 18276149 | IMPLANTABLE CONDUIT WITH SELF-SEALING FENESTRATIONS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA | 12d |
| 17726362 | BRANCHED ENDOPROSTHESIS WITH TAIL FOR CONTROLLED BRANCH DEPLOYMENT | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 26d |
| 18287151 | AN IMPLANTABLE DEVICE FOR BRANCHED LUMENS WITH ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 30d |
| 17795099 | SUSTAINED-RELEASE MATRICES FOR ADVENTITIAL OR PERIADVENTITIAL NEURAL ABLATION AND USES THEREOF | MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE | 40d |
| 18547673 | GEOMETRICALLY DEFORMABLE IMPLANTABLE CONTAINMENT DEVICES FOR RETENTION OF BIOLOGICAL MOIETIES | SHAH, NILAY J | 61d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19089886 | COMPOSITE MATERIALS PROMOTING THE CATCHMENT AND ATTACHMENT OF SEAWEED HOLDFASTS | HURLEY, SHAUN R | 153d overdue |
| 18198656 | ENDOPROSTHESIS HAVING ALIGNED LEGS FOR EASE OF CANNULATION | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 14d |
| 18287151 | AN IMPLANTABLE DEVICE FOR BRANCHED LUMENS WITH ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 30d |
| 19291811 | Multilayer Coated Vent Assembly | HE, QIANPING | — |
| 19249426 | ANASTOMOTIC DEVICES AND METHODS | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — |
| 19233956 | SPACE FILLING DEVICES | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | — |
| 19204945 | MITRALLEAFLET TETHERING | OU, JING RUI | — |
| 19190216 | STEERING WIRE ATTACH FOR ANGULATION | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. | 56 |
| Gore | 3 |
| Pipeline Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 |
| UIM Pressure Implant Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 18 |
| 3774 | 10 |
| 3783 | 5 |
| 3781 | 4 |
| 1776 | 3 |
| 3732 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 1617 | 2 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19291811 | Multilayer Coated Vent Assembly | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | HE, QIANPING | 1776 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2025 |
| 19249426 | ANASTOMOTIC DEVICES AND METHODS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19233956 | SPACE FILLING DEVICES | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19204945 | MITRALLEAFLET TETHERING | Pipeline Medical Technologies, Inc. | OU, JING RUI | 3771 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19190216 | STEERING WIRE ATTACH FOR ANGULATION | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19089886 | COMPOSITE MATERIALS PROMOTING THE CATCHMENT AND ATTACHMENT OF SEAWEED HOLDFASTS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | HURLEY, SHAUN R | 3732 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 153d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19069523 | BRANCHED GRAFT ASSEMBLY METHOD IN VIVO | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | LYNCH, ROBERT A | 3771 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 18978206 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES AND RELATED DELIVERY SYSTEMS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18944489 | ARTICLES CONTAINING EXPANDED POLY (TETRAMETHYL-p-SILPHENYLENESILOXANE) AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | ROY, DEBJANI | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18937795 | BIFURCATED ENDOPROSTHESIS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | STEWART, ALVIN J | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18847383 | ACCESS GRAFT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18839618 | GAS SEPARATION DEVICE | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW | 3746 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18728207 | Moisture Removal Device and Method | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | KEYWORTH, PETER | 1776 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18767760 | SEPTAL CLOSURE DEVICE WITH CENTERING MECHANISM | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 3771 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18750170 | Automated System for Assembling A Pre-Filled Syringe | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 3783 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18720883 | PASTE-PROCESSED ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE EXPANDED INTO DENSE ARTICLES | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18711329 | POLY(IONIC LIQUID)S COMPOSITE FOR ABSORPTION AND SEPARATION | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR | 1773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18698859 | DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFLOW / OUTFLOW CANNULAS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18686929 | ANCHORS AND WIRELESS SENSOR ATTACHMENT | UIM Pressure Implant Inc. | YOON, CHANEL J | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18686938 | INJECTOR DEVICE STOPPER WITH ACTIVATABLE LAYER | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | FAROOQ, MAHMOOD | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 | |
| 18686946 | FORMATION OF INJECTOR DEVICE STOPPER FEATURES | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18587717 | SPACE FILLING DEVICES | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | HIGHLAND, RACHEL S | 3774 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18686593 | CONFORMABLE COVER FOR MEDICAL DEVICES | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18421615 | BIOABSORBABLE MEDICAL DEVICES | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | BARIA, DINAH N | 3774 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18579788 | VENT ASSEMBLY | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | TIGHE, DANA K | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18568487 | POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY AND REDOX FLOW BATTERY | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | ORDUNA, TAMARA | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18562963 | DENSE PHOTOLUMINESCENT COMPOSITES AND PROCESSES FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE | 1734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18560554 | HIGH TEMPERATURE INSULATION COMPOSITE | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | SUN, MICHAEL Y | 1728 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18388416 | SEAWEED CULTIVATION SYSTEM | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 134d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18287907 | METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE COMPOSITE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | TUROCY, DAVID P | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18287282 | IMPROVED BATTERY | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | NGUYEN, HUY TRAM | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18287151 | AN IMPLANTABLE DEVICE FOR BRANCHED LUMENS WITH ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18286480 | SURGICAL SUCTION VENTING SYSTEM | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | FLYNN, TIMOTHY LEE | 3781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18547673 | GEOMETRICALLY DEFORMABLE IMPLANTABLE CONTAINMENT DEVICES FOR RETENTION OF BIOLOGICAL MOIETIES | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | SHAH, NILAY J | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18278213 | MULTI-COMPONENT DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | GHERBI, SUZETTE JAIME J | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18276149 | IMPLANTABLE CONDUIT WITH SELF-SEALING FENESTRATIONS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA | 3774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18272048 | EMBOLIC FILTER WITH FLEXION | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18215975 | DEPLOYMENT CONSTRAINING SHEATH THAT ENABLES STAGED DEPLOYMENT BY DEVICE SECTION | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18206215 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AN ADJUSTABLE STIFFNESS CATHETER | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 3993 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 264d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18198656 | ENDOPROSTHESIS HAVING ALIGNED LEGS FOR EASE OF CANNULATION | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | — | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 18037139 | FORMULATIONS, METHODS, AND PRE-FILLED INJECTION DEVICES WITHOUT FATTY ACID PARTICLES | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
| 18144649 | REMOVABLE COVERS FOR DRUG ELUTING MEDICAL DEVICES | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | PRICE, NATHAN R | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18032386 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING OCCLUSIONS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 3799 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 18024626 | AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY DEVICES CONTAINING A HEAT TREATED FIBRILLATED POLYMER MEMBRANE AND MANIFOLDS CONTAINING THE SAME | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | PATEL, PRANAV N | 1779 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
| 18022243 | COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 1724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2023 |
| 17797359 | INFLOW / OUTFLOW CANNULA | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
| 17795099 | SUSTAINED-RELEASE MATRICES FOR ADVENTITIAL OR PERIADVENTITIAL NEURAL ABLATION AND USES THEREOF | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE | 1617 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jul 25, 2022 |
| 17793499 | MEDICAL DEVICES FOR SHUNTS, OCCLUDERS, FENESTRATIONS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2022 |
| 17758351 | COMPOSITE MEMBRANE WITH NANOSELECTIVE SURFACE FOR ORGANIC SOLVENT NANOFILTRATION | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1777 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2022 |
| 17776292 | LIQUID COMPOSITION AND POROUS HARDENED MATERIAL COMPRISING TETRAFLUOROETHYLENE AND VINYL MOIETY CO-POLYMERS | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | HAGOPIAN, CASEY SHEA | 1617 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial84.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP - W.L. Gore were allowed, across 37,042 applications in USPTO records.
3.38 office actions per allowed application on average.
61 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 55 examiners in 22 art units.
