Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 client • 3 examiners • 1 art unit • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gates & Cooper LLP - Minimed has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The associated career record includes 34332 applications, providing broad historical context for this technical segment.
The resolved allowance rate is 84.49%, with an average of 3.82 office actions per allowance. The pending figure describes the Minimed activity shown, while the outcome metrics describe the reported broader career record.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 3 | 60.5% | +20.7% |
| CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 31.7% | +30.6% |
| CHEN, TSE W | 1 | 55.0% | +25.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763620 | IMPLANTABLE POLYMER SURFACES EXHIBITING REDUCED IN VIVO INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18666596 | INTERFERENCE REJECTION MEMBRANES USEFUL WITH ANALYTE SENSORS | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 3d overdue |
| 18366299 | SENSORS FOR 3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE DETECTION | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 21d |
| 18763620 | IMPLANTABLE POLYMER SURFACES EXHIBITING REDUCED IN VIVO INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| 18344273 | ACRYLATE HYDROGEL MEMBRANE FOR DUAL FUNCTION OF DIFFUSION LIMITING MEMBRANE AS WELL AS ATTENUATION TO THE FOREIGN BODY RESPONSE | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | — |
| 18296198 | REDUCING SENSOR FOREIGN BODY RESPONSE VIA HIGH SURFACE AREA METAL STRUCTURES | CHEN, TSE W | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC. | 5 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763620 | IMPLANTABLE POLYMER SURFACES EXHIBITING REDUCED IN VIVO INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES | Medtronic Minimed, Inc. | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3791 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18666596 | INTERFERENCE REJECTION MEMBRANES USEFUL WITH ANALYTE SENSORS | Medtronic Minimed, Inc. | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18366299 | SENSORS FOR 3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE DETECTION | Medtronic Minimed, Inc. | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18344273 | ACRYLATE HYDROGEL MEMBRANE FOR DUAL FUNCTION OF DIFFUSION LIMITING MEMBRANE AS WELL AS ATTENUATION TO THE FOREIGN BODY RESPONSE | Medtronic Minimed, Inc. | ROZANSKI, GRACE NMN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18296198 | REDUCING SENSOR FOREIGN BODY RESPONSE VIA HIGH SURFACE AREA METAL STRUCTURES | Medtronic Minimed, Inc. | CHEN, TSE W | 3791 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial84.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Gates & Cooper LLP - Minimed were allowed, across 34,332 applications in USPTO records.
3.82 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 3 examiners in 1 art unit.
