Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 1 client • 10 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP -- BSC focuses on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm has 4296 career applications and a resolved allowance rate pct of 87.85. The avg office actions per allowance for these applications is 3.91. This average provides a metric for the typical length of prosecution for the firm's applications.
There are 9 pending office actions currently associated with this profile. This data provides a view of the firm's performance and current activity level within this technology sector. The resolved allowance rate pct of 87.85 and the 4296 career applications demonstrate the firm's prosecution history in this technology area. The 3.91 avg office actions per allowance and the 9 pending office actions offer a comprehensive view of the firm's current and historical patent office engagement. These metrics help define the firm's role in medical device patenting.
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 | 5 (42%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 | 72.7% | +15.7% |
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.5% | +15.9% |
| YANG, YI-SHAN | 1 | 70.6% | +53.3% |
| GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 1 | 80.5% | +21.9% |
| HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 1 | 50.4% | +53.3% |
| RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 1 | 64.1% | +56.9% |
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 71.6% | +34.4% |
| ROBERTS, ANNA L | 1 | 56.7% | +38.5% |
| MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 1 | 68.5% | +23.5% |
| TOWA, RENE T | 1 | 49.3% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079032 | ECHOGENIC PATTERN FOR COMPONENT DISTINGUISHABILITY | YANG, YI-SHAN | 79d |
| 18933685 | INTERNAL OSTOMY BAG | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 18626986 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING TISSUE USING A PATCH | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | — |
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 |
| 19228394 | WIDE HEMOSTASIS CLIP | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18954040 | REPOSITIONAL CLIP WITH EXTENSION | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | — |
| 18933685 | INTERNAL OSTOMY BAG | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 18902199 | NON-SHEDDING COUPLING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RELOADABLE HEMOSTASIS CLIP | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 12 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 4 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19228394 | WIDE HEMOSTASIS CLIP | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 | |
| 19079032 | ECHOGENIC PATTERN FOR COMPONENT DISTINGUISHABILITY | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | YANG, YI-SHAN | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19065709 | HEMOSTASIS CLIP WITH COLLAPSIBLE CAPSULE | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | §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 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 | |
| 18954040 | REPOSITIONAL CLIP WITH EXTENSION | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 3771 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18933685 | INTERNAL OSTOMY BAG | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | RASSAVONG, ERIC | §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 |
| 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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