Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 2 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Augmedics Ltd. currently has 9 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated in only 2 distinct art units, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's patent filings. The 8 distinct examiners assigned to these cases mean that nearly every application is being reviewed by a different individual despite the narrow art unit focus, requiring a broad advocacy approach.
David H Chu is the busiest examiner for Augmedics Ltd., managing 2 pending office actions. This is the only instance of examiner overlap in the current portfolio of 9 pending office actions. The fact that 8 distinct examiners are working within just 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology is being reviewed by several different people within the same specialized groups, necessitating a strategy that accounts for the diverse perspectives of each of the 8 distinct examiners.
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 | 5 (56%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, DAVID H | 2 | 78.3% | +3.0% |
| SHIBRU, HELEN | 1 | 59.1% | +3.5% |
| BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 1 | 34.0% | +33.2% |
| MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 1 | 86.6% | +12.9% |
| BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | 1 | 63.3% | +43.2% |
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 1 | 65.0% | +33.4% |
| LHYMN, SARAH | 1 | 65.9% | +15.0% |
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 1 | 70.1% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18959270 | ROTATING MARKER | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18988285 | UNIVERSAL TOOL ADAPTER | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18631804 | FIDUCIAL MARKER | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 2d overdue |
| 18988285 | UNIVERSAL TOOL ADAPTER | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | — |
| 18959270 | ROTATING MARKER | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — |
| 18949164 | FIDUCIAL MARKER | BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | — |
| 18683680 | AUGMENTED REALITY ASSISTANCE FOR OSTEOTOMY AND DISCECTOMY | LHYMN, SARAH | — |
| 18437898 | ILIAC PIN AND ADAPTER | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19308011 | HEAD-MOUNTED STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE WITH DIGITAL LOUPES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | SHIBRU, HELEN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19028204 | COMBINING VIDEO-BASED AND OPTIC-BASED AUGMENTED REALITY IN A NEAR EYE DISPLAY | CHU, DAVID H | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18988285 | UNIVERSAL TOOL ADAPTER | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18970608 | COMBINING VIDEO-BASED AND OPTIC-BASED AUGMENTED REALITY IN A NEAR EYE DISPLAY | CHU, DAVID H | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18959270 | ROTATING MARKER | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18949164 | FIDUCIAL MARKER | BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18631804 | FIDUCIAL MARKER | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18683680 | AUGMENTED REALITY ASSISTANCE FOR OSTEOTOMY AND DISCECTOMY | LHYMN, SARAH | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18437898 | ILIAC PIN AND ADAPTER | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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