Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 clients • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
HESLIN ROTHENBERG FARLEY & MESITI PC-Angiodynamics is associated with 9168 career applications in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm currently manages 4 pending office actions. The resolved allowance rate pct is 85.35, representing the success rate for its resolved applications. This history of 9168 applications provides a robust context for evaluating the firm's performance in the medical device sector.
The average office actions per allowance is 2.79. This figure indicates the amount of examiner interaction typically required to reach an allowance. With 9168 career applications and an 85.35 resolved allowance rate pct, the firm's performance metrics are established across its primary technology area. The average of 2.79 office actions per allowance provides a baseline for predicting prosecution timelines. The 4 pending office actions reflect the firm's current activity for this client relationship.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TANNER, JOCELIN C | 1 | 72.2% | +34.8% |
| CLARK, RYAN T | 1 | 50.4% | +18.2% |
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 71.6% | +34.4% |
| HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 1 | 45.6% | +35.8% |
| PYO, KEVIN K | 1 | 87.0% | +9.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18673430 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TESTING ABLATION SYSTEMS | PYO, KEVIN K | 20d |
| 19001686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOVING MATERIAL FROM A HOLLOW ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
| 18905204 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABLATING A TISSUE SITE BY ELECTROPORATION WITH REAL-TIME PULSE MONITORING | CLARK, RYAN T | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOVING MATERIAL FROM A HOLLOW ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
| 18905204 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABLATING A TISSUE SITE BY ELECTROPORATION WITH REAL-TIME PULSE MONITORING | CLARK, RYAN T | — |
| 18884248 | SMART ASPIRATION SYSTEM AND LASER ACTIVATION SYSTEM | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| 18675359 | HYBRID CATHETER FOR VASCULAR INTERVENTION | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| AngioDynamics | 2 |
| EXIMO MEDICAL LTD. | 2 |
| Eximo Medical Ltd. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001686 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOVING MATERIAL FROM A HOLLOW ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE | AngioDynamics, Inc. | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18905204 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABLATING A TISSUE SITE BY ELECTROPORATION WITH REAL-TIME PULSE MONITORING | AngioDynamics, Inc. | CLARK, RYAN T | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 | |
| 18884248 | SMART ASPIRATION SYSTEM AND LASER ACTIVATION SYSTEM | Eximo Medical Ltd. | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 3796 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18675359 | HYBRID CATHETER FOR VASCULAR INTERVENTION | Eximo Medical Ltd. | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 3796 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18673430 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TESTING ABLATION SYSTEMS | Eximo Medical Ltd. | PYO, KEVIN K | 2878 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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