Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
55 pending office actions • 5 clients • 42 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 55 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 77 patents granted in the last 365 days
SLW - Olympus has 56 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Its record includes 26353 career applications, an 83.7% resolved allowance rate, and an average of 3.68 office actions per allowance. The profile therefore combines a current docket measure with substantial historical prosecution data.
The allowance rate shows the reported share of resolved matters reaching allowance, while the office-action average indicates repeated examination activity before allowance is typical in the record. For current matters, practitioners should use these figures as portfolio context and supplement them with claim-specific review and response histories.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 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. 16 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 | 20 (36%) |
| §102 only | 4 (7%) |
| §112 only | 2 (4%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 26 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | 5 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| LUAN, SCOTT | 3 | 65.6% | +12.2% |
| KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 2 | 71.3% | +32.9% |
| RHODES, NORA W | 2 | 54.9% | +24.8% |
| LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 2 | 53.3% | +21.5% |
| MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 2 | 66.6% | +23.0% |
| CLARK, RYAN T | 2 | 50.4% | +18.2% |
| DUBOSE, LAUREN | 2 | 59.1% | +46.2% |
| LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 2 | 47.9% | +40.6% |
| TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 1 | 63.9% | +48.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18364227 | SCOPE WITH EXPANDABLE WORKING CHANNEL | ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | 72d overdue |
| 17820953 | FORCEPS JAW FLANGES | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 66d overdue |
| 17125853 | PERCUTANEOUSLY ADMINISTERED THERAPEUTIC SUBSTANCE FOR TREATMENT OF TARGET TISSUE | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 36d overdue |
| 18046801 | ENDOSCOPIC ARTICULATION DEVICE | ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | 2d overdue |
| 18609204 | ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 14d |
| 18658231 | INSERTION SHEATH FOR MODULAR DISPOSABLE ENDOSCOPE COMPONENTS | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 20d |
| 18342223 | ELECTROSTATIC DELIVERY OF SURGICAL MATERIAL | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 60d |
| 19068380 | BIPOLAR ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENTS | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17820953 | FORCEPS JAW FLANGES | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 66d overdue |
| 17652959 | SEGMENTED SURGICAL FORCEPS | CLARK, RYAN T | 58d overdue |
| 17125853 | PERCUTANEOUSLY ADMINISTERED THERAPEUTIC SUBSTANCE FOR TREATMENT OF TARGET TISSUE | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 36d overdue |
| 18036532 | ULTRAHYDROPHOBIC LASER COATING AND METHOD | LUAN, SCOTT | 25d overdue |
| 17814645 | ENDOSCOPE HAVING ILLUMINATED HANDLE | LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 8d overdue |
| 17647047 | SURGICAL DEVICE WITH SEGMENTED END EFFECTOR | RHODES, NORA W | 27d |
| 17653486 | DISTAL WIRE ROUTING FOR STRAIGHT JAW FORCEPS | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 28d |
| 18342223 | ELECTROSTATIC DELIVERY OF SURGICAL MATERIAL | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 60d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 17 |
| 3794 | 12 |
| 3771 | 8 |
| 3791 | 6 |
| 3783 | 4 |
| 3792 | 3 |
| 2612 | 1 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19068380 | BIPOLAR ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENTS | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19035748 | COLLAPSIBLE HANDLE DESIGN FOR DEBRIDERS | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 3771 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18985520 | LUNG ANALYSIS AND REPORTING SYSTEM | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | CASCHERA, ANTONIO A | 2612 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18956243 | TERMINATING DRYING CYCLES BY MONITORING CURRENT IN ELECTROSURGICAL SYSTEMS | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 3794 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18905566 | TECHNIQUES FOR COMPOSITION IDENTIFICATION OF AN ANATOMICAL TARGET | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | WOO, JAE KYUN | 3795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18894685 | MEDICAL DEVICE REPAIR SUPPORT | Olympus Corporation | BARR, MARY EVANGELINE | 3682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18837670 | HEAT TRANSFER TECHNIQUES IN HEAT-GENERATING MEDICAL DEVICES | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | OUYANG, BO | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18799764 | VIBRATIONAL AND ROTATIONAL CALCULUS BASKET | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | MCGRATH, ERIN E | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18786865 | FORCEPS INCLUDING ROTATIONALLY LOCKED SHAFTS | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | MILLER, SERENITY A | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18729044 | ROTARY ARTICULATING CHOLANGIOSCOPE WITH STABILIZING OVERTUBE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18658231 | INSERTION SHEATH FOR MODULAR DISPOSABLE ENDOSCOPE COMPONENTS | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 3795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18703629 | MODULAR ENDOSCOPE IMAGING GUIDEWIRE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | 3795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18700815 | ENDOSCOPE WITH INTEGRATED STABILIZER AND CANNULATION ELEMENTS | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | WU, PAMELA F | 3795 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18699935 | SILICONE CONSTRUCTION VESSEL SEALING DEVICE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | RHODES, NORA W | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18609204 | ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18595956 | MEDICAL DEVICE WITH TURBIDITY MEASUREMENT SENSOR | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18590465 | SURGICAL PROTECTION SYSTEM | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | BRUCE, FAROUK A | 3797 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18417486 | MEDICANT DELIVERY DEVICE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18410979 | REAL-TIME SAMPLING DEVICE | Gyrus Acmi, Inc. D/B/A/ Olympus Surgical Technologies America | SHAH, JAY B | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18406596 | INTRAUTERINE MORCELLATION DEVICE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18523398 | ADJUSTABLE ACTUATION MECHANISMS FOR ENDOSCOPES | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18477062 | COAXIAL TIME-OF-FLIGHT OPTICAL FIBER DISTANCE MEASUREMENT USING DUAL COMB RANGING | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | LUAN, SCOTT | 3792 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18365502 | TWO-MODE MORCELLATION DEVICE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18364227 | SCOPE WITH EXPANDABLE WORKING CHANNEL | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | 3795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18350935 | MODULATING SURGICAL DEVICE SETTINGS BASED ON TISSUE WHITENING | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 3795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18346615 | ELONGATE ENDOSCOPIC COVERING | Gyrus Acmi, Inc. D/B/C Olympus Surgical Technologies America | MONAHAN, MEGAN ELIZABETH | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
| 18342223 | ELECTROSTATIC DELIVERY OF SURGICAL MATERIAL | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18257792 | DIRECT PERORAL CHOLANGIOSCOPE SYSTEM WITH GUIDE SHEATH | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | BOLER, RYNAE E | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18328253 | MEDICAL DEVICE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | CLARK, RYAN T | 3794 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18036532 | ULTRAHYDROPHOBIC LASER COATING AND METHOD | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | LUAN, SCOTT | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18313629 | FLEXIBLE AND/OR PUSHABLE TUBULAR DEVICE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | AHMED, TASNIM M | 3783 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18303732 | GUIDEWIRE LOCKING DEVICE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18032111 | COMPACT BIOLOGICAL MATTER COLLECTION SYSTEMS | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 18297719 | AUTOMATIC LASER SETTING ADJUSTMENT | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | NIU, XINNING | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 18166275 | SPECTROSCOPIC SIGNAL DETECTION DURING A LASER PROCEDURE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | LUAN, SCOTT | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2023 |
| 18047736 | ENDOLUMINAL VALVE PLACEMENT PATIENT OUTCOME PREDICTION | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
| 18047093 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISINFECTING SURGICAL SITE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2022 |
| 18046999 | ENDOSCOPIC ARTICULATION DEVICE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | 3795 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2022 |
| 18046801 | ENDOSCOPIC ARTICULATION DEVICE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17820953 | FORCEPS JAW FLANGES | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
| 17814645 | ENDOSCOPE HAVING ILLUMINATED HANDLE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2022 |
| 17813227 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME SAMPLING | Olympus Medical Systems Corporation | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Jul 18, 2022 |
| 17808325 | INTRA-KIDNEY STONE DISRUPTOR | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
| 17664784 | COATING MONITORING DEVICE AND METHOD | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | GUERRERO ROSARIO, ANA VERUSKA | 3794 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2022 |
| 17663292 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SETTING POSITION OF A SHEATH IN A SCOPE | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | ABBASI, ABDUL HADI | 3795 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 13, 2022 |
| 17653486 | DISTAL WIRE ROUTING FOR STRAIGHT JAW FORCEPS | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
| 17652959 | SEGMENTED SURGICAL FORCEPS | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | CLARK, RYAN T | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
| 17647047 | SURGICAL DEVICE WITH SEGMENTED END EFFECTOR | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | RHODES, NORA W | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jan 05, 2022 |
| 17646170 | ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ANATOMIC SITES | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | LUU, TIMOTHY TUAN | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2021 |
| 17541721 | LUMINESCENCE PROBE FOR IN VIVO TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL | Gyrus ACMI, Inc. D/B/A Olympus Surgical Technologies America | BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | 3796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial83.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Slw - Olympus were allowed, across 26,353 applications in USPTO records.
3.68 office actions per allowed application on average.
55 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 42 examiners in 11 art units.
