Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 client • 4 examiners • 2 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
PROCOPIO, CORY, HARGREAVES & SAVITCH LLP reports 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 11533 career applications. The active workload is limited relative to the extensive application record included here.
The resolved allowance rate is 84.87%, with an average of 2.88 office actions per allowance. These figures give practitioners a basis for considering both reported resolution outcomes and the examination activity associated with allowed matters. The metrics should be read alongside the current docket figure, which captures unresolved work rather than completed results.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 2 | 68.8% | +17.6% |
| RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 1 | 72.4% | +39.2% |
| MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 1 | 60.3% | +49.8% |
| KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 1 | 62.9% | +27.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18313305 | DEVICES FOR VASCULAR OCCLUSION | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 1d overdue |
| 18940268 | Implant Detachment | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 29d |
| 17179287 | Devices For Vascular Occlusion | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 76d |
| 18350641 | Clot Retrieval | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17935882 | Treatment For Hydrocephalus | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 49d overdue |
| 18313305 | DEVICES FOR VASCULAR OCCLUSION | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 1d overdue |
| 18940268 | Implant Detachment | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 29d |
| 17179287 | Devices For Vascular Occlusion | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 76d |
| 18350641 | Clot Retrieval | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Terumo | 5 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 4 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18940268 | Implant Detachment | Microvention, Inc. | RESTAINO, ANDREW PETER | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18350641 | Clot Retrieval | Microvention, Inc. | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18313305 | DEVICES FOR VASCULAR OCCLUSION | Microvention, Inc. | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 17935882 | Treatment For Hydrocephalus | Microvention, Inc. | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
| 17179287 | Devices For Vascular Occlusion | Microvention, Inc. | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Feb 18, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial84.9% of resolved applications prosecuted by Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP - were allowed, across 11,533 applications in USPTO records.
2.88 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 4 examiners in 2 art units.
