Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Acuity Surgical Devices LLC

2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

2
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
1
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (50%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§102 only1 (50%)
§112 only1 (50%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

20 h
Manual time on pending OAs
4 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
7 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RAMANA, ANURADHA 1 82.7% +22.5%
HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY 1 78.1% +18.9%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18967622 INSTRUMENT AND METHOD TO DETERMINE AN INTERVERTEBRAL LOAD RAMANA, ANURADHA 2d overdue

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18967622 INSTRUMENT AND METHOD TO DETERMINE AN INTERVERTEBRAL LOAD RAMANA, ANURADHA 2d overdue
18031307 Method and Apparatus for Reducing Human Vertebral Body Subsidence Using Variable Surface Area Interbody Cages Correlated to Localized Bone Density Measurements HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3775 1
3773 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18967622 INSTRUMENT AND METHOD TO DETERMINE AN INTERVERTEBRAL LOAD RAMANA, ANURADHA 3775 §112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 03, 2024
18031307 Method and Apparatus for Reducing Human Vertebral Body Subsidence Using Variable Surface Area Interbody Cages Correlated to Localized Bone Density Measurements HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY 3773 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 11, 2023

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