Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gates & Cooper LLP - Minimed handles patent matters in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm is associated with 34213 career applications, reflecting a large historical volume of work. This scale of 34213 applications suggests institutional knowledge of the patent prosecution process. There are currently 5 pending office actions for this specific profile.
The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 84.55 percent. This rate is achieved with an average of 3.82 office actions per allowance. In the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, this 3.82 average indicates a prosecution process that often requires multiple rounds of negotiation and amendment to reach a grant. The 84.55 percent allowance rate shows an ability to eventually secure patent rights.
The 5 pending office actions represent the current active cases under this profile. The 34213 career applications provide a broad context for the firm's 84.55 percent success rate. Clients can evaluate the 3.82 average office actions per allowance as a measure of the persistence and effort typically required to overcome examiner rejections in this technical space.
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 | 31.5% | +30.3% |
| 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 |
IP Author helps law firms respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial