Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 1 client • 9 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP -- BSC has 11 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 4323 career applications. The profile shows active prosecution alongside a broad application history for the firm.
The resolved allowance rate is 87.9%, and the average is 3.92 office actions per allowance. This historical combination indicates that allowances were common among resolved matters but generally followed multiple office-action exchanges. Counsel can use the figures to plan resources, while the BSC pending matters should be evaluated through their own prosecution records.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (55%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (27%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (9%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3 | 72.1% | +17.0% |
| YANG, YI-SHAN | 1 | 70.4% | +53.0% |
| GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 1 | 80.6% | +21.9% |
| HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 1 | 50.5% | +52.7% |
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 70.7% | +35.4% |
| ROBERTS, ANNA L | 1 | 55.7% | +39.8% |
| MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 1 | 68.3% | +24.0% |
| PRICE, NATHAN R | 1 | 53.4% | +38.7% |
| TOWA, RENE T | 1 | 49.5% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19065709 | HEMOSTASIS CLIP WITH COLLAPSIBLE CAPSULE | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18933685 | INTERNAL OSTOMY BAG | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 18626986 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING TISSUE USING A PATCH | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | — |
| 18485875 | VARIABLE EXPOSURE NEEDLE | PRICE, NATHAN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079032 | ECHOGENIC PATTERN FOR COMPONENT DISTINGUISHABILITY | YANG, YI-SHAN | 79d |
| 19065709 | HEMOSTASIS CLIP WITH COLLAPSIBLE CAPSULE | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | — |
| 19030671 | OVER THE SCOPE CLIP WITH REPOSITIONAL CAPABILITY | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | — |
| 18962980 | OVER THE SCOPE BIFURCATION ASSEMBLY WITH CLIP RELEASE MECHANISM | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — |
| 18933685 | INTERNAL OSTOMY BAG | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 18902199 | NON-SHEDDING COUPLING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RELOADABLE HEMOSTASIS CLIP | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — |
| 18819326 | CRIMP ATTACHMENT OF CLIP FOR RELOADABLE HEMOSTASIS DEVICE | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — |
| 18679019 | BIOPSY FORCEPS WITH TISSUE PIERCING MEMBER | ROBERTS, ANNA L | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 11 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 5 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079032 | ECHOGENIC PATTERN FOR COMPONENT DISTINGUISHABILITY | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | YANG, YI-SHAN | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19065709 | HEMOSTASIS CLIP WITH COLLAPSIBLE CAPSULE | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 3771 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19030671 | OVER THE SCOPE CLIP WITH REPOSITIONAL CAPABILITY | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18962980 | OVER THE SCOPE BIFURCATION ASSEMBLY WITH CLIP RELEASE MECHANISM | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18933685 | INTERNAL OSTOMY BAG | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18902199 | NON-SHEDDING COUPLING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RELOADABLE HEMOSTASIS CLIP | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18819326 | CRIMP ATTACHMENT OF CLIP FOR RELOADABLE HEMOSTASIS DEVICE | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18679019 | BIOPSY FORCEPS WITH TISSUE PIERCING MEMBER | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18626986 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING TISSUE USING A PATCH | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 3774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18485875 | VARIABLE EXPOSURE NEEDLE | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | PRICE, NATHAN R | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18065922 | Endoscopic Ultrasound Fine Needle Aspiration Device | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | TOWA, RENE T | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial87.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP -- Bsc were allowed, across 4,323 applications in USPTO records.
3.92 office actions per allowed application on average.
11 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 9 examiners in 6 art units.
