Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
PERKINS COIE LLP - Vektor Medical handles Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering matters and has 5 pending office actions. The firm reports 113 career applications, creating a defined historical basis for the active docket.
The resolved allowance rate is 96.43%, and the average office actions per allowance is 2.67. The allowance rate describes resolved outcomes, while the action average indicates the examination activity associated with allowed cases. Practitioners can consider these measures alongside the pending workload when assessing prosecution strategy for the client’s medical-device portfolio.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 1 | 83.4% | +10.1% |
| SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 1 | 83.7% | +8.2% |
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 60.0% | +23.6% |
| DEBNATH, NUPUR | 1 | 64.4% | +36.8% |
| BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1 | 31.6% | +15.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19342452 | COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES AND BODY SURFACE ELECTRODE POSITIONING | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17809521 | DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SIMULATION AND PACING | DEBNATH, NUPUR | 20d |
| 18612346 | HEART GRAPHIC DISPLAY SYSTEM | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 27d |
| 16042953 | GENERATING A MODEL LIBRARY OF MODELS OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SOURCE | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17809521 | DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SIMULATION AND PACING | DEBNATH, NUPUR | 20d |
| 19342452 | COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES AND BODY SURFACE ELECTRODE POSITIONING | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | — |
| 18559049 | GUIDING IMPLANTATION OF AN ENERGY DELIVERY COMPONENT IN A BODY | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| 16042953 | GENERATING A MODEL LIBRARY OF MODELS OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SOURCE | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Vektor Medical, Inc. | 3 |
| University of California | 1 |
| The Vektor Group Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19342452 | COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES AND BODY SURFACE ELECTRODE POSITIONING | The Regents of the University of California | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 3798 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 18612346 | HEART GRAPHIC DISPLAY SYSTEM | The Vektor Group Inc. | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 3796 | §101§102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18559049 | GUIDING IMPLANTATION OF AN ENERGY DELIVERY COMPONENT IN A BODY | Vektor Medical, Inc. | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2023 |
| 17809521 | DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SIMULATION AND PACING | Vektor Medical, Inc. | DEBNATH, NUPUR | 2186 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
| 16042953 | GENERATING A MODEL LIBRARY OF MODELS OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SOURCE | Vektor Medical, Inc. | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1687 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2018 |
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Start Free Trial96.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Perkins Coie LLP - Vektor Medical were allowed, across 113 applications in USPTO records.
2.67 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 3 clients, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.
